⚠️ 🔊 Join us on Friday 25 July 2025 (8am CEST) at the Academy of Management in Copenhagen for our PDW on 🌳 🌲 Greening State Capitalism 🌴 🌵 (abstract below).
We have five fantastic speakers:
Douglas Fuller (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
Professor Anna Grosman (Loughborough University London, UK)
Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London, UK)
Valentina Marano (Northeastern University, USA)
Elizabeth Thurbon (UNSW, AUS – pre-recorded)
We will then have four thematic roundtables where attendees get a chance to discuss their research with our speakers. If you would like feedback on a paper/idea related to one of the roundtable themes, please send an abstract (max. 500 words) to G.Schnyder@lboro.ac.uk
🎓🪑 Roundtables:
1. 🏭 Non-market Strategies & Industrial Policy - Douglas B. Fuller (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
2. 🌦️ State Ownership and Climate Change: A curse or a blessing? - Anna Grosman (Loughborough University London, UK)
3. 🌊 Greenwashing. Government Action, and Corporate Responses - Valentina Marano (Northeastern University, USA)
4. 💥 The Greening of Startup Policy? - Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London, UK)
Abstract:
Western observers coined the phrase "return of state capitalism" to describe the more openly and confident state-interventionist economic policies emerging economies like China, Brazil, and Russia have adopted during a time when such open state interventionism was in retreat in the Global North. Yet, features of so-called 'state capitalist' systems have become more evident once again in the Global North too, not just due to the need to tackle the COVID-19 recovery, the transition to a "net zero" economy, but also due to national security concerns and the striving for techno-supremacy. Even traditionally market-based economies like the USA and the UK have reintroduced state tools – most importantly state-owned enterprises (SOEs), sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and industrial policy (IP) – to pursue industrial transformation with a view of achieving net zero. Political science literature has begun analyzing the formulation and effectiveness of industrial policies in this regard, but management scholarship lags behind. Yet, management scholarship on international business, organizations, innovation, and the state and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have a great deal to contribute to our understanding of the state's role in greening the economy. The PDW brings together experts from diverse regions and disciplines to explore how state intervention either aids or hinders green transitions. It aims to deepen understanding of state capitalism's role in climate action, particularly in international contexts where local political pressures are diminished.
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Gerhard Schnyder
Loughborough University
London
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