Issue 1, 2011

In this issue, covering

activities from July

2015 to January 2016:

Guest Lectures at ARC

Conference on Foreign

Direct Investment in

India

Invited Talks

Delegations from Peo-

ples Republic of China

Staff News

Recent Publications

In the Media

ARC Newsletter

Febuary 2016

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www.cbs.dk/arc

Guest Lectures at ARC

On 2 September Ambassador Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller visited the Asia Research Centre

where he gave a lecture titled "Into the Age of Non-Economics" highlighting flaws and

shortcomings of current economic theory and models, and presenting recommendations to-

wards a more relevant model based on a cross-disciplinary approach that recognizes human

behavioral patterns and motivations and the implausability of continued exponential growth

in material wealth. Professor Ove Kaj Pedersen, Department of International Business and

Politics acted as discussant.

Dr. Nagesh Kumar of the UN Economic and Social Commission

for Asia and the Pacific gave a lecture on regional integration in

Asia on 1 October. He argued that in order to sustain the dynamics

of Asian and Pacific economies after the financial crises, a broad-

ening of regional economic integration is required.

Dr Kumar visited CBS in connection with the conference on FDI in

India held by ARC 2 and 3 October, where he was invited to give

the opening keynote address (see below).

Ass. Prof. Renuka Mahadevan from University of

Queensland visited on 7 October to lecture on the subject

of food security and its connection to poverty. Based in a

case study of Vietnam, she proposes a composite food se-

curity index to deal with the complex relations between

food security and poverty. Renuka Mahadevan is an ap-

plied economist and her work is mainly policy-oriented.

This study aims to help towards a targeted approach to ad-

dressing food security in developing countries.

28. October W.S. Schupf Professor Takao Kato from Col-

gate University and visiting Velux Professor at CBS, pre-

sented a paper on segmentation in the Japanese labour market.

Looking at the years 1982-2007 Kato examines the shifts between

’Good jobs’ and ’Bad jobs’, defined by whether a worker is defined as

’standard worker’ (seishain) in her workplace. The most notable fin-

dings are, first, that the improved conditions of employment for women

in Japanese work places that were achieved during the 1980’es, were

back to where they started by the end of the 1990’ies. Second, that the

popular narrative of a shift from Good Jobs to Bad Jobs, is rather a

shift from bad jobs to other Bad jobs. This is explained by the decrease in small family busi-

nesses. The staff of these businesses were typically older family members, registered as ”self

-employed”, while the younger generation comming into the labor market typically work in a

convenience store or other larger company, registered as ”non-standard worker”. Though

registered differently in the statistics, both have the characteristics of Bad Jobs.

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Conference on Foreign Direct Investment in India, 2-3 October 2015

Professor Aradhna Aggarwal of ARC was the main organizer of this conference titled ”Leveraging FDI for Sustainable

Economic Development in South Asia: Evidence, Challenges and Prospects”. The conference had participation from 25

researchers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, USA, Singapore and a number of European countries, as well as Danish

researchers, representatives from UN and Indian Ambassador to Denmark, H.E. Mr. Niraj Srivastava.

The subject was approached in several sessions with different focus areas: Key Challenges, Institutions and FDI, Intra

Regional Investment, FDI and Spillover Effects and FDI and Social Perspectives.

The two days offered insightful presentations and fruitful debates, as well as dinner at the old East Asian Trading Com-

pagny headquarters, known as Asia House. Each presented paper has undergone peer-review for the purpose of publicati-

on at a later stage. The conference was part of ARC’s increased focus on India that began in the beginning of 2015 and it

was supported by ØK Fonden. For further information, see http://sf.cbs.dk/fdi

Invited Talks

Guest– and Inaugural Lectures at ARC (cont..)

Associate Dean at Yenching Academy, Peking University John Holden gave a status of Xi Jin-

pings plans to reform China, three years into his tenure as state President of the Peoples Republic

of China. On the one hand there’s anti’corruption measures and on the other there are legal re-

forms and encouragement of private sector growth. Together they imply a restructuring of po-

wer, to which opposition has been fierce. Holden spoke on the challenges and chances of success

for Xi Jinping to se his agenda through.

From 1998 to 2005, Holden was president of the National Committee on United States–China

Relations, a member organization that has been at the forefront of bilateral relations since its founding in 1966. The

lecture was held on 11 november.

Nis Høyrup Christensen gave a lecture titled “China’s Five-Year Plan: Market Opportunities and Reforms for China’s

“New Normal” for Danish-Chinese Business Forum on December 8.

Nis Høyrup Christensen presented a paper titled “Shaping China’s Renewable Energy Market: The Emergence of Or-

ganizational Fields in Authoritarian Settings” at the Academy of International Business NE chapter frontier conference

hosted by UMass Boston

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Invited talks (cont.)

On December 2, Ari Kokko gave a guest lecture at Sødertørn University outside Stockholm. The lecture and ensuing dis-

cussion focused on the trade and investment imbalances between the EU and China.

On December 1, Ari Kokko gave a speech on “Economic reform in North Korea” for the Dean’s Offife and Research Of-

fice of CBS.

On October 23, Ari Kokko presented a seminar on “EU-China relations” at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw.

On November 19, Ari Kokko presented a report coauthored with Sara Johansson and Hanna Norberg at Sida in Stock-

holm . The seminar was organized by Sida, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Expert Group for Aid Studies, and

the OECD-Development Assistance Committee. The report focuses on public-private partnerships in development aid.

In October, Xin Li and Ari Kokko gave a course on “Business and Government” at the SDC in Beijing. The course is part

of the MSc in Public Management and Social Development offered by SDC. SDC, or the Sino-Danish Center for Education

and Research, is a partnership between a consortium of Danish universities, including CBS, and the University of Chinese

Academy of Sciences (UCAS). For further information, see http://www.sinodanishcenter.com/.

On September 26, Ari Kokko participated as a panelist in a session on “Economic development in Hungary” at the Interna-

tional Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden.

On June 29, Ari Kokko presented a paper (co-authored with Sara Johansson de Silva and Hanna Norberg) discussing

”Swedish exports to South Asia” at the Agency for Growth Policy Studies in Stockholm.

Ari Kokko was one of the keynote speakers at the “Workshop on institutional and policy implications of VN-EU FTA” in

Hanoi, organized by the Central Institute for Economic Management and the Danish Embassy in Vietnam. His presentation

focused on “Trade barriers in the EU market”.

Aradhna Aggarwal presented "What went wrong with India's SEZs?: Politics, Bureaucracy or Economics”, at a conference

titled ‘The future of FTZs’ at Dauphine University Paris (Invited speaker).

Feature

Lisbeth Clausen and Can Seng

Oii with CBS colleagues presented

the opening spotlight panel: Nordic

Images, People, and Soft Power at

the regional conference of the

world largest International Com-

munication Assembly (ICA) held at

CBS 11-13 October, 2015 on Re-

sponsible communication and gov-

ernance. Lisbeth Clausen was

chairing the session with an intro-

duction on Happiness and work life

balance as soft power in the Nordic

countries where responsibility for

people planet and profit is a core

image. The Nordic countries score highly on the United Nations social parameters for happiness – which encompass safety

and trust in the (welfare) system. Esben Karmark presented Living the best of Danish values – the Case of Andersen Baker-

ies in Japan followed by Ana Alakovska on Nordic taboos in Crime fiction a regional economic blockbuster and finally Can

seng Ooi unpacked the packaged images of the Nordics. The conference was attended by a global audience of media and

communication scholars. The next ICA conference is in Fukuoka Japan

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Delegations from Peoples Republic of China

Four different delegations from China visited ARC in the Fall, all organized by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard:

On September 21, ARC received a delegation from the Enterprise Research Unit of China’s Development Research Council

(DRC). The meeting, included presentations on the Nordic models of enterprise governance by Niels Westergård-Nielsen,

Jens Gammeltoft, and Ari Kokko, as well as summary of recent SOE reforms presented by the DRC delegation.

On September 25 a delegation from China Education Press Agency visited, led by the President of the agency Mr. Yao-

sheng Li. They received presentations of CBS by Dorthe Salskov Iversen, Vice-President for International Affairs at CBS,

Sven Bislev, Vice Dean of Education, CBS and Carsten Boyer Thøgersen, Director of Copenhagen Business Confucius

Institute.

Mr. Yu Guilin, Member of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection .visited

on October 26 for a round table discussion on cooruption. Apart from Mr. Yu Guilin who gave a talk about Chinas effort to

curb corruption, Chief Editor of Politiken Bo Lidegaard talked on the role of the press in preventing political corruption,

while Director- General Jonas Bering Liisberg, The Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman, talked on the role of the Ombuds-

man institution in the Danish political institution.

Finally, on November 16, Copenhagen Business School had a visit by Vice President of China Central Party School Mr.

Zhao Changmao and his delegation. They participated in a seminar on the economic situations in China and Europe, also

with participation from Professors Ole Riisager, Finn Østrup and Ove Kaj Pedersen from CBS, before meeting for lunch

with CBS President Per Holten-Andersen.

Invited talks (cont.)

Aradhna Aggarwal was invited as a discussant for a session on ‘Special Economic Zones, Clusters and Economic Corri-

dors Development’ scheduled on 22 May 2015, at the “Third Asia Think Tank Summit” on 21−22 May 2015 at ADB Head-

quarters, Manila

On August 12, 2015 Aradhna Aggarwal gave the talk “Success Drivers and Development outcomes of SEZs”, presented at

the workshop on Asian Economic Integration Report 2015, as invited speaker.

At the international conference organized at Asia Research Centre for the CBS 2015 PhD committee, Aradhna Aggarwal

presented “Do Foreign Firms Perform Better than their Domestic Counterparts in India? A Comparative Analysis of Tech-

nological efforts, Outward Orientation and Profitability”.

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard delivered the key note speech at the international conference on “The Chinese Communist Party in

Action,” held at the National University of Singapore, August 13-14, 2015. He participated in “The Party and the World

Dialogue”, arranged by the Center China for Contemporary World Studies, Beijing, September 7-10, where he gave a talk

on “Party and corruption”. He also gave a talk on “Capitalism with a Chinese Face” at the international conference “The

Governance of China,” Hong Kong University January 15-16, 2016.

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard presented a paper on “Social Organization and Mobility of China’s SOE Executives in the Reform

Era,” at the “Comparative Chinese and British Perspectives on Social and Administrative Modernization”, Beijing Normal

University, September 15-18, 2015. He also presented a paper on “The Chinese Business Environment” at the symposium

“China in Turbulence”, held at Fudan University in connection with Nordic-Centre Fudan University-Anniversary Celebra-

tion, Shanghai, October 21. He also participated in the “Copenhagen China Conference,” Schæffergården, Gentofte, Decem-

ber 10-11.

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard was invited to speak at the Danish University Extension and gave two talks in Danish:

“Kina en kommende supermagt - den politiske scene,” Folkeuniversitetet, Emdrup, 4. november.

And

“Historien om de dansk-kinesiske forbindelser,” Folkeuniversitet, Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus, 8. juni.

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From 18 August—10 September the

Asia Research Centre hosted Assi-

stant Professor Maitri Ghosh from

Bethune College in Kolkata, India.

During December, Ari Kokko visi-

ted the University of Perth, New-

castle University, and ANU in Au-

stralia. Among other activities, he

presented papers on Swedish Ex-

ports to South Asia

On December 3-4, Ari Kokko parti-

cipated in a conference on engage-

ment with North Korea organized by

the PRIO.

On November 26, Ari Kokko acted

as faculty opponent at a PhD defen-

se at Aarhus University. The thesis,

written by Yulia Muratova, focused

on “Firm acquisitions in China”.

On October 21-23, Verner Worm,

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Ari

Kokko represented CBS at the ce-

lebration of the 20th Anniversary of

the Nordic Center at Fudan Univer-

sity in Shanghai.

CBS hosted the Nord-IB PhD pro-

gram in International Business on

September 28-29. The lecturers in

the program included ARC members

Ari Kokko, Peter Gammeltoft,

Poul Schultz, and Ming Hua Li.

In early August, Ari Kokko partici-

pated at the Doctoral Summer

School in economics and business

studies organized by Tartu Universi-

ty and Tallinn Technical University.

This year, the Summer School was

held at Pühajärve in southern Esto-

nia August 3-6.

Since early fall Michael Jakobsen

has been in charge of initiating an

international research network on

economic zones in Southeast Asia

that is to result in research projects

that are to be externally funded at a

later stage. He am currently in Ma-

laysia to initiate the setup of this

network. In the fall Verner Worm,

Xin Li and Michael Jakobsen sub-

mitted a research project titled

'Beyond Sophisticated Stereotypes:

Understanding the Process of Cultu-

ral Learning in Context' to the Carls-

berg foundation and FSE. In No-

vember-December Michael Jakob-

sen participated together with Ver-

ner Worm in the annual EIBA con-

ference in Rio, where a poster and a

paper from the project was presen-

ted. The project is being carried out

in collaboration with Maersk Line

and covers their subsidiaries in

Shanghai, Tokyo and Singapore. At

a later stage the project is to be alig-

ned with the ARC economic zones

project due to the cross-cultural

component in the project.

On November 12, Michael Jakob-

sen, representing INT, was co-

organiser together with IBC and IKL

of a one day international conferen-

ce titled 'Meetings across Mindsets:

Navigating Context of Culture and

Language as a key to International

Business Success'. The president of

CBS opened the conference and

invited international recognised re-

searchers in the field as well as CE-

Os from Arla, Huawei Denmark and

from a minor Danish consultancy

company together with a host of

CBS researchers (incl. Ari Kokko)

presented the audience of 150 plus

with the latest research and real stor-

ies from the corporate world on

cross-cultural issues and encounters.

The basic idea behind this conferen-

ce was to remind CBS of the impor-

tance on language and culture in

international business studies.

Aradhna Aggarwal served as a

“plenary doctoral committee” for a

Ph.D candidate, Zelalem Debebe at

International Institute of Social Sci-

ences, Erasmus University Rotter-

dam.

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard was appo-

inted member of the Prime Mi-

nister’s task force for developing

priorities and proposals for Danish

foreign, security and development

policies (the Taksøe Committee). He

participated in meetings on Septem-

ber 15, October 12 and January 28.

He also has participated in board

meetings in the Danish-Chinese

Business Forum, Sino-Danish Uni-

versity Centre for Research and De-

velopment, The Copenhagen Con-

fucius Business Institute, and the

Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foun-

dation.

In September Kjeld Erik Brøds-

gaard was appointed member of the

board of electors for the Chung Hua

Professorship of Chinese Develop-

ment at Cambridge University.

Nis Høyrup Christensen was a

member of the organising committee

for the Copenhagen China Confe-

rence hosted by University of Co-

penhagen on December 10 –11. He

also moderated two sessions and

presented a poster at the conference.

From 27 November Centre Coordi-

nator Nina Brandtoft Rasmussen

began her maternaty leave. Her posi-

tion will be covered by Anders

Weis Christiansen while she is

away.

Staff News

Recent Publications

Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies vol 33(2) was pub-

lished. This special issue was titled Beyond Borders:

Connectivity and Changed Identities in East Asia.

In ARC’s Copenhagen Discussion Papers series issues

51, 52 and 53 were published:

51: Chin Yee Whah Changes of Ownership and Identi-

ties of Malaysian Banks: Ethnicity, State and Globaliza-

tion.

52: Abdul Rahman Embong State, Development and

Inequality in Selected ASEAN Countries: Internal and

External Pressures and State Responses.

53: Verner Worm, Xin Li, Michael Jakobsen, Pei-

hong Xie, Culture studies in the field of international

business research: A tale of two paradigms.

Publications from ARC researchers:

Aggarwal A. and N. Kumar Structural Change , Indus-

trialisation and Poverty Reduction: The case of India in:

Structural Change and Industrial Development in the

BRICS. ed. /Wim Naudé; Adam Szirmai; Nobuya Hara-

guchi. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2015, p. 199-

243

Aggarwal A. and T. Sato / Identifying High Growth Firms in India : An Alternative Approach.

Frederiksberg : Asia Research Centre, CBS 2015, 47 p. (Copenhagen Discussion Papers, No. 47) (Discussion Paper

Series / RIEB, Kobe University, No. DP2015-14)

Aggarwal A. (2015) Special Economic Zones: A Conceptual Framework for Success Drivers and Development

Outcomes. Background paper for the Asian Development Bank for the ‘Asian Economic Integration Report 2015:

How Can Special Economic Zones Catalyze Economic Development?’ Special Chapter. Manila. December 2015.

Aggarwal A (Co-editing) A mini symposium on FDI in South Asia in a journal called ‘Asia Development Re-

view’ (ADR).

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, “Assessing the Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party: Personnel Management

and Corruption,” Asia Policy, Number 20 (July 2015), pp. 30-38.

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, “China’s 13th Five-Year Plan: A Draft Proposal,”Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies,

Vol. 33, No. 2 (2015), pp. 97-105

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, “Gaige shiqi guoqi gaoguan de shehui yu zhengzhi liudong: Zhongguo chaoji jingli ren de

jueqi” (Social and Political Mobility of SOE Executives in the Reform Era: The Rise of China’s Supermanagers), in

Zheng Yongnian (ed.), Gaige: Kunjing yu chulu (Reform: Predicament and Future) (Beijing: Dongfang chubanshe,

2015), pp. 111-125.

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, “Alfred M. Wu, Governing Civil Service Pay in China,” The China Journal, Vol. 75, Is-

sue 1 (January 2016), pp. 210-213.

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Recent Publications (cont.)

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, “John Wong, The Political Economy of Deng’s nanxun: Brakthrough in China’s Reform and Deve-

lopment,” Journal of Economics and Political Economy, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (June 2015), pp. 336-339.

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, ”Kinas kamp mod korruption,” Berlingske Tidendes Kronik, 22. september 2015.

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, ”Den største udenrigspolitiske udfordring,” Jyllandspostens Kronik, 24. november 2015.

Clausen, Lisbeth; Kruuse, Mikkel, Securing the Workforce : Diversity Management in X-tech, a Japanese Organisation .

Cranfield : Case Centre. 2015, 17 s. Case.

Clausen, Lisbeth, Securing the Workforce : Diversity Management in X-tech, a Japanese Organisation. Cranfield : Case Cen-

tre. 2015, 15 s. Teaching note.

Clausen, Lisbeth, Building Trust in Diverse Teams During Times of Change. 2015. Paper presented at The 31st EGOS Collo-

quium 2015, Athen, Greece.

Clausen, Lisbeth, Team Dynamics and Diversity : Japanese Corporate Experiences. Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business

School Press, 2015. 253 s.

Clausen, Lisbeth; Friis Christensen, Jannick; Kruuse, Mikkel, Det gode teamwork : Diversitet eller samme verdensbille-

de?.I: Ledelseidag.dk, Nr. 5, 2015.

Kokko. A, P. Tingvall, and J. Videnord (2015), “The Growth Effects of R&D Spending in the EU: A Meta-Analysis”, Eco-

nomics, Vol. 9, No. 2015-40, November 2015, pp. 1-26.

Kokko, A. (2015), “The imbalances between the European Union and China”, in A. Bakardieva, M. Mårtensson, L. Oxelheim,

and T. Persson, eds. The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA,

USA, pp. 165-204. ISBN-978-1-78471-672-1.

Kokko, A., Johansson de Silva, S., and H. Norberg (2015), “Now Open for Business: Joint Development Initiatives between

the Private and Public Sectors in Development Cooperation”, Report 2015:06, The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA),

Stockholm, November.

Li, Ming Hua, Lin Cui; Jiangyong Lu, Marketized State Ownership and Foreign Expansion of Emerging Market Multinatio-

nals : Leveraging Institutional Competitive Advantages. In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 19.10.2015

Li, Xin (2016) ‘Modesty or overconfience: On the attitude of Chinese indigenous management research’ (谦虚谨慎或者骄傲

负：中国本土管理研究的心态问题), Chinese Journal of Management (管理学报 Guanli Xuebao), vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 40-48

Li, Xin& L. Ma (2015) ‘Management practices across countries: Converging in some aspects but diverging in others’, Mana-

gement and Organization Review, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 795-805

Li, Xin and Z. Cheng (2015) ‘Cross-border mergers and acquisitions: What you need to do right’, (跨国并购，你需要做对什

么), Business Review (商业评论), no. 10, pp. 88-102. http://www.ebusinessreview.cn/articledetail-278607.html

Worm, Verner; Li, Xin; Jakobsen, Michael; Peihong, Xie / The Culture Studies in International Business : A Tale of Two

Paradigms. 2015. Paper presented at The 41st EIBA Annual Conference 2015. European International Business Academy, Rio

de Janeiro, Brasilien.

Worm, Verner; Jakobsen, Michael; Li, Xin / Culture as Process : Navigating Cross-Cultural Business Landscapes. 2015.

Poster session presented at The 41st EIBA Annual Conference 2015. European International Business Academy, Rio de Janei-

ro, Brasilien.

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In the Media

Assistant Professor Nis Høyrup Christensen appeared several times on the radio and has been interviewed for

news articles in the papers Berlingske, Information, Kristligt Dagblad, Ekstrabladet and Dagbladenes Bureau on

Chinese affairs. He has also appeared on DR2 Morgen and DR2 Deadline.

Nis also wrote the following blogs in Danish for the media Mandag Morgen:

23.11.2015 Få handelspolitikken tilbage på sporet, Taksøe!

18.10.2015 Flagende demonstranter er under Kinas bagatelgrænse

Professor Aradhna Aggarwal had the following articles in international media:

“Union Budget must have an SEZ revival plan” Financial Express, India 27 February 2015

Budget Interview published in Budget Analysis 2015-16 February 28, 2015 by Rediffusion and Edelman

Professor Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard appeared on radio frequently to comment on current events in China, primari-

ly on DR P1 but also 16 January on China Radio International to talk about ”Development of Hainan”.

He had several articles in Danish newspapers incl. Berlingske, Jyllandsposten and Kristligt Dagblad and appeared

on TV on DR and TV2, especially in connection with the Chinese stock market crash in August and the historical

meeting between Taiwan and China in Singapore. (photo below from DR2 Deadline Nov. 4 2015).

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