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KCG Researchers Investigate Consumer Roles in Collaborative Consumption

9th August 2019
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The rapid development of new digital technologies has facilitated the formation of new e-business ideas. Many of these ideas can be seen as the implementation of a new collaborative form of consumption and production and are expected to have their potential economic impact beyond national boundaries. Here economic agents take both roles of consumers and suppliers. This makes them different from the traditional business models where the classic supplier-consumer dualism usually applies[…]

KCG Researchers Involved in a Recent Study on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

2nd August 2019
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims at, first of all, fostering economic, social and political interactions between China and the other BRI countries. It should, however, also help encourage more communications, mutual understandings and cooperation among all BRI countries involved. This is expected to stimulate economic growth, facilitate economic integrations and encourage global prosperity. Cross-country large-sized infrastructure projects clearly lie in the key policy focus area of BRI[…]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Second HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics

25th July 2019
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KCG Researchers Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ph.D., Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Dr. Birgit Meyer, Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich joined the second HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics, which took place on June 7, 2019 at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Kiel, Germany. The HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development Economics and Environmental Economics, which was co-organized by IfW and the Helmut Schmidt University[…]

KCG Researchers Joined 2019 Academy of International Business Conference in Denmark

11th July 2019
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KCG Fellow Nils Christian Hoffmann presented his recent research work “Chain of Blame: How Eastern and Western Consumers Account for Supplier Hypocrisy in Global Supply Chains” at the 2019 Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference on June 24-27 in Copenhagen, Denmark and received valuable feedback and suggestions. The paper is a joint work with Prof. Dr. Stefan Hoffmann (Kiel University and KCG) and Prof. Juelin Yin Ph.D. (Sun Yat-Sen University and KCG). Juelin Yin joined the workshop as well[…]

KCG Co-hosted the Consumer Social Responsibility Workshop in Kiel, Germany

2nd July 2019
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KCG was pleased to co-host the successful workshop “Consumer Social Responsibility” on May 23 – 24. At the workshop which took place at the Science Park (Wissenschaftspark) in Kiel, Germany, senior and junior scientists from Germany and abroad presented their ongoing related projects and discussed the scientific, social and political relevance of Consumer Social Responsibility (ConSR) and its relation to the very established concept of Corporate Social Responsibility[…]

KCG Seminar on Foreign Divestment and Innovation of Firms in China by Haiou Mao

25th June 2019
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Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) are usually considered to promote development. With their FDI projects multinational enterprises bring not only financial capital but also know-how and more advanced technologies into FDI host countries where these resources are relatively lacking. FDI also help individuals and firms in the FDI host countries to have better opportunities to be integrated into the global value chains and the world economy[…]

Guli-Sanam Karimova Presented at the 5th EIASM Workshop on Business Ethics in Brussels

20th June 2019
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KCG Researcher, Guli-Sanam Karimova, joined the 5th EIASM Workshop on Business Ethics where she also gave a presentation based on her recent paper “Global Standards and Philosophy of Consumption: Towards Consumer-Driven Governance of Global Value Chains”. This paper, an output of  the KCG Project “Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains”, is a joint research work with Prof. Dr. Ludger Heidbrink (KCG Senior Fellow; University of Kiel) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Brinkmann (KCG External Research Fellow; BI Norwegian Business School)[…]

IfW President Gabriel Felbermayr Joined KCG in June, 2019

14th June 2019
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 “Since its foundation, KCG has established itself as a centre of excellence for applied research on globalization issues. It bundles the expertise available in Kiel and acts as a forum for international cooperation. In a critical phase of history and with its unique setup, it contributes to a better public understanding of the manifestations, opportunities and risks of globalization processes[…]

KCG Seminar on Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade by Simon Galle

11th June 2019
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While it is widely recognised that international trade and globalization are supportive for economic growth in general, it is also clear that globalization does not only have winners but also losers and undesirable side effects. The argument that globalization intensifies inequality has been used by various stakeholders and countries to advocate more and intensive protectionist measures against international trade and globalization. The indeed strongly increasing protectionist tendency worldwide in the recent past shows that it is highly important to gain[…]