Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark

Governing Green Transition: Barriers and Enablers of Power Sector Reform in Indonesia

Research project Indonesia has committed to combatting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, yet impact far from matches intent. The power sector is overwhelmingly coal dependent with very little progress in renewable energy (RE) uptake. Studies identi ...

Period: 2023-07-1 to 2028-06-30 Countries: Indonesia Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: Universitas Indonesia (UI), Indonesia Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), Indonesia Bank Indonesia, Indonesia School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), Indonesia Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia Project code: 23-M03-CBS Total grant: 9,991,590 DKK

The paradoxes of climate-smart coffee (PACSMAC)

Research project Coffee, especially the valuable Arabica cultivar, is vulnerable to climate change. Warmer and wetter weather and spreading fungal disease have encouraged farmers to experiment with a variety of strategies, including shifting uphill, shade growing, ne ... First year report: The PACSMAC team would like to showcase the progress and status of the process. In doing so, we have broken down our assessment by summarising the key outcomes from the different work workpackages. WP1 is experiencing good pr ...

Period: 2021-04-1 to 2026-03-31 Countries: Ethiopia Tanzania Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania Jimma University (JU), Ethiopia Project code: 20-07-CBS Total grant: 11,984,425 DKK

Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia

Research project Sub-Saharan African (SSA) governments are looking for sectors that can drive inclusive growth in the context of large youth populations, high under- and unemployment, and previous growth trajectories that did not create enough jobs or catalyze econom ... First Year Report The fourth PhD was hired: Blen Telayneh Melesse; she is a lecturer in anthropology. Due to covid travel restrictions, we held a virtual inception workshop for the whole team on 12 June 2020. All contracts were signed. We procee ...

Period: 2020-01-1 to 2026-01-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: Mekelle University (MU), Ethiopia University of Vienna (UNIVIE), Austria London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Project code: 19-01-RUC Total grant: 10,314,166 DKK

Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (EveryHumanTZ)

Research project Since an upsurge of unrest in Burundi in 2015, 258,000 refugees have crossed into Tanzania, making it the largest recipient of Burundian refugees in the East African region. Tanzania currently hosts 317,000 refugees in three camps, which is an unprec ... Midterm report EHTZ is making good progress in meeting our Overall Objective--to understand how people interacting in everyday situations respond to crisis situations outside of the formal structures of humanitarian assistance. We have completed q ...

Period: 2019-11-1 to 2025-10-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Project code: 18-12-CBS Total grant: 12,000,000 DKK

Environmental Maritime Governance in Kenya (EMG-K): Policy, Practice and Prospects for the Abatement of Shipping Air Emissions

Research project Kenya faces the challenge of facilitating economic development via its growing maritime trades while protecting the global climate and local air quality. The EMG-K project explores Kenya’s environmental maritime governance for the abatement of emissi ... First year report During the first 10 months, we have focused on WP 1 (Kenya's IMO engagement). We have done observation studies in the IMO in London (in Dec., Feb. & June) and seven research interviews in Mombasa/Nairobi (in Mar.). Our work ...

Period: 2022-09-1 to 2025-08-31 Countries: Kenya Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Institute for Law and Environmental Governance (ILEG), Kenya Project code: 21-M12-CBS Total grant: 4,992,954 DKK

Climate change and global value chains in Bangladesh

Research project This research and capacity building project will investigate how the garment/textile value chains connecting Europe/Bangladesh are being reconfigured in response to climate change. Our research will answer the following questions: How are the garment ... First year report In terms of scientific results, it looks as if the project will exceed its original target of eight journal articles, eight book chapters, and eight working papers with the 3 PhD scholars to publish their own articles in addition ...

Period: 2021-07-1 to 2025-06-30 Countries: Bangladesh Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark BRAC University (BRACU), Bangladesh University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh The Danish Ethical Trading Initiative (DIEH), Denmark Danish Fashion and Textile (DMOGT), Denmark Project code: 20-10-CBS Total grant: 11,955,766 DKK

Crowdfunding for Youth Entrepreneurship in Tanzania

Research project The literature highlights some of the limitations of traditional debt financing as a response to the youth entrepreneurs’ financing needs. Funding becomes a matter of friends and family, and local dealers all represent a limited and expensive means o ... Midterm report Three doctoral students have completed their data analysis and are at different stages of writing the final drafts of their theses. They have also prepared drafts of papers and submitted them for publication. Notably, one of the Ph. ...

Period: 2019-02-1 to 2025-01-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: Mzumbe University (MU), Tanzania Partner institutions: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO), Tanzania Project code: 18-15-TAN Total grant: 11,812,788 DKK

Hotspot of multiple stressors (HOTSPOT2)

Research project The Gulf of Guinea suffers from activities including intense shipping, offshore oil exploration, discharge from mining and industry, infrastructure projects such as port expansions, and sewage from coastal communities. These create a hotspot of envir ... First year report The overall objective of HOTSPOT2 is to generate the environmental and socio-economic knowledge and expertise that can form the basis for the sustainable development of coastal communities, and use this knowledge to develop manag ...

Period: 2021-10-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana Zeal Environmental Technologies, Ghana Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark LITEHAUZ, Denmark Orbicon A/S, Denmark Loughborough University (LBORO), United Kingdom Project code: 20-M08DTU Total grant: 4,999,423 DKK

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