UNIDO/KCG Conference on Inclusive and Sustainable Global Value Chains in September in Kiel

22nd June 2017
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The Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will jointly organize a conference “Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Global Value Chains in the Digital Age” in September in Kiel, Germany. The Conference will be organized under the auspices of the T20 network – particularly the T20 Task Force on “Trade and Investment”. It builds on the Vienna Investment Conference: Quality FDI, Growth and Development which was jointly organized by UNIDO and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and held in Vienna last year. […]

Holger Görg: G20 May Support Developing Countries to Set up Functioning Investment Promotion Agencies

15th June 2017
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In a new “Süddeutsche” article, Holger Görg suggests that G20 may help developing countries set up functioning investment promotion agencies, in order to attract not just FDI but Quality FDI to foster economic development in these countries. Empirical studies show clearly that being integrated into global supply chains as parts of multinational enterprises (MNEs) or their suppliers is advantageous for developing countries. Local firms involved have a higher level of productivity and are more capable of paying higher wages compared to other local firms without global engagement[…]

Nils Christian Hoffmann Visited PhD Seminar on Cross-Cultural Research Methodology in Finland

8th June 2017
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With intensifying globalization over the past decades, there is an increasing interest in cross-cultural, cross-national and cross-disciplinary management research. Methods and methodology for such comparative studies require special knowledge and analytical skills. Researchers involved need to be familiar with these research methods and even need to be able to create novel methods and techniques on their own to carry out valid, reliable, and trustworthy cross-cultural research analyses. The empirical design is expected to be even more complicated, when transitional and developing economies are included for analysis[…]

Holger Görg Gave an Interview on Global Supply Chains and Developing Countries

1st June 2017
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When Labour Ministers of G20 countries met two weeks ago in Germany, they reached a consensus on the critical importance of jointly coping with labour market challenges, such as poor working conditions and unfair wage in particularly emerging and developing countries.

More and more emerging and developing countries as well as their economic agents have been increasingly integrated into the global supply chains through new and/or expanding investments of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from the developed countries. Many argue that these MNEs have invested in emerging and developing countries mainly to seek cost advantages supported by low-wage labour, low-cost resources and less strict environmental and labour market regulations on site.[…]

New KCG Study on South-South FDI in Africa

26th May 2017
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) was traditionally dominated by firms from developed countries. These countries were also popular FDI destination countries for a long while. Over the past decade, however, more and more developing economies became increasingly intensively integrated in the FDI engagement worldwide – as sourcing as well as destination countries. Driven by the expectation that determinants and effects of FDI from developing economies to developing countries (South-South FDI) may differ from those of traditional FDI both within developed countries (North-North FDI) and from developed countries to developing countries (North-South FDI), there has been an increasing amount of Studies on South-South FDI over time. One of the main research regions for such a specific form of FDI is East/South-East Asia. In contrast, empirical analyses on South-South FDI in Africa are very limited. This may be partially attributable to the lack of reliable representative datasets for the analysis.[…]

Second Local Coordinator Meeting in Kiel

18th May 2017
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To facilitate knowledge exchange and to share lessons and best practices in coordinating campus-related activities with each other, coordinators of the three Kiel Leibniz ScienceCampi “EvoLUNG”, “KCG”, and “KiSOC” initiated a Local Coordinator Meeting in Kiel in January, 2017. The second Local Coordinator Meeting took place at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a scientific founding institution of the KCG, on May 17, 2017[…]

Second KCG Team Meeting Took Place on May 11, 2017

12th May 2017
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The Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) is a joint initiative of Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Since its start in October 2016 and its kick-off team meeting in December 2016, the Centre has made progress in its research projects, its team-building and its administration development processes. In order to facilitate team-internal discussions, KCG team meetings are held regularly. The second KCG team meeting took place on May 11, 2017 at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.[…]

Holger Görg Gave a Talk on Globalization at the German Council of Economic Experts

28th April 2017
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Prof. Holger Görg Ph.D., KCG Managing Director, was invited to give a presentation on globalization at the German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung) on April 27, 2017 in Wiesbaden. His talk aimed at providing research-based evidence to an important question of whether globalization is rather a boon or a bane for Germany[…]

KCG Introduced in Recently Published IfW Highlights 2016

20th April 2017
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Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) is a project jointly initiated by the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). With its kick-off in October 2016, the research team has expanded to a 17-researcher team which has since intensively worked on four interrelated research projects dealing with different aspects of the global supply chains (https://www.kcg-kiel.org/research/). As one of the selected highlights of the IfW, KCG and its activities are introduced in the recently published issue of IfW Highlights. […]