Professor Marina Papanastassiou and Professor Peter Buckley, Leeds University Business School, discuss different issues affecting multinational enterprises, global value chains, and the fractured global economy, in each episode of this series.

Globalisation

Dr Annina Kaltenbrunner and Dr Bianca Orsi talk about the implications different types of currency internationalization have, particularly in the context of emerging markets, and discuss their research on the Brazilian real. They highlight the strategy of currency regionalisation, rather than full currency internationalisation, and introduce the SML – a South American regional payment mechanisms – which could support such a currency regionalisation.    

You can read the reports on currency internationalisation and on the SML on the project webpage.

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in May 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.

 Dr Annina Kaltenbrunner is Associate Professor in the Economics of Globalisation and the International Economy at Leeds University Business School. Her research focuses on money, finance and macroeconomic policy in developing and emerging economies . Dr Bianca Orsi is a Teaching Fellow in the Economics division, with research interests in monetary policy, inflation, capital controls, currency internationalization and currency hierarchy.

What is currency internationalization and why does it matter?

Professor Marina Papanastassiou speaks to Professor Peter Buckley about Global Value Chains (GVC) and the role of emerging market multinationals. They discuss how recent phenomena – Brexit, the pandemic, and the semiconductor chip shortage – have affected Global Value Chains. Professors Papanastassiou and Buckley also talk about the role the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL) plays in International Business (IB) theory development. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in October 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.  

Visit the CIBUL website for further information. 

About the speakers: Marina Papanastassiou is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is a member of the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). Marina’s research interests include the global innovation strategies in multinationals (MNEs) and their network of overseas subsidiaries and R&D laboratories; the decision making process in MNEs and in particular the dynamics between HQs and subsidiaries; global value chains and the role of MNEs in SDGs such as food security; impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on growth and development; the internationalisation of start-ups, and the role of incubators in local systems of innovation. 

Peter Buckley OBE is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is the Founder/Director of CIBUL. His current research interests centre on the theory of the multinational firm; knowledge management in multinational firms; the international transfer of technology; the impact of foreign direct investment particularly in China; and outward direct investment from emerging countries: China and India.

Global Value Chains and the role of Emerging Market Multinationals

In this final episode of the “fashion supply chains and modern slavery” series, Drs Matthew Davis, Mark Sumner, Divya Singhal and Hinrich Voss discuss the findings from their research project. They talk about the uneven impacts of the pandemic, the increased empathy between brands and suppliers, past ethical trading experiences, and implications for the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. 



Read the full report and summary report. modernslaverypec.org/resources/india-fashion-supply-chains

Visit the webpage. business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/dir-record/research-projects/1799/impact-of-covid-19-on-management-to-eradicate-modern-slavery-from-global-supply-chains-a-case-study-of-indian-fashion-supply-chains

Listen to previous podcast episodes. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in April 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact  research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

This research project – Impact of Covid-19 on management to eradicate modern slavery from global supply chains: A case study of Indian fashion supply chains – is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is a collaboration between the School of Design at the University of Leeds, Leeds University Business School, The Goa Institute of Management, and HEC Montreal. 

About the speakers: Dr Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School. His research centres on how people interact with their environments, the impact of different office designs and how businesses engage in CSR, particularly to address sustainability and modern slavery. 

Dr Mark Sumner is a lecturer in the School of Design, focussing on sustainability within the textile, clothing and fashion industry. His research interests cover a diverse range of subjects such as textile technology, innovation, sustainability and consumer behaviour. 

Dr Divya Singhal is a Professor at the Goa Institute of Management, India. Her research interest focuses on responsible management. 

Dr Hinrich Voss is the Lallemand-Marcel et Roland-Chagnon Professor in International Business at HEC Montreal, Canada. His research investigates the interactions and dependencies between MNEs and institutions and focuses on emerging markets.

Fashion supply chains, modern slavery, and the Covid-19 pandemic

Professor Marina Papanastassiou and Professor Peter Buckley discuss the deep and growing fracture in the global economy, how it affects the Sustainable Development Goals, and how it may be changing the role of multinationals. 
 
This podcast episode was recorded remotely in April 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact  research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.   
Visit the CIBUL website for further information. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cibul
 
About the speakers: Marina Papanastassiou is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is a member of the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). Marina’s research interests include the global innovation strategies in multinationals (MNEs) and their network of overseas subsidiaries and R&D laboratories; the decision making process in MNEs and in particular the dynamics between HQs and subsidiaries; global value chains and the role of MNEs in SDGs such as food security; impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on growth and development; the internationalisation of start-ups, and the role of incubators in local systems of innovation. 
 
Peter Buckley OBE is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is the Founder/Director of CIBUL. His current research interests centre on the theory of the multinational firm; knowledge management in multinational firms; the international transfer of technology; the impact of foreign direct investment particularly in China; and outward direct investment from emerging countries: China and India.

A fractured global economy

Professor Chris Forde speaks to Professor Jonathan Winterton about Jonathan’s work exploring Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) in Malaysia. They discuss the motives for Filipinos to become migrant workers, the role of the regulatory framework and agents, and the multiple trajectories of exploitation.  

Professor Winterton is one of the many CERIC members who presented at the 40th International Labour Process Conference held on 21-23 April 2022 in Padua, Italy. This podcast episode focuses on the presentation he gave at the conference on his work with Lizel Nacua. 

This episode was recorded in May 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this research, contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this recording is available. 

About the speakers: 

Chris Forde is Professor of Employment Studies and Co-Director of the Centre of Employment Relations Innovation and Change at the University of Leeds, and co-ordinator of the Q Step Programme at the University of Leeds, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. He is also Deputy Director of Digit and co-lead of the Digit Data Observatory. His principal research interest is in temporary agency working, but he also conducts research into migration. 

Jonathan Winterton is Professor of Work and Employment and Head of the Work and Employment Relations Department. His principal research interests centre on human capital, including work along two axes: one concerned with the quality of work and the other with how human capital is developed, deployed, and retained.

Filipino migrant workers in Malaysia: trajectories of undocumented labour

Dr Danat Valizade and Dr Manhal Ali discuss their paper on the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for global inequalities in work and employment. 
This podcast episode was recorded remotely in May 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact  research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/276/podcast_episode_52_-_transcript

Read the paper: “Inequalities in the disruption of paid work during the Covid-19 pandemic: A world systems analysis of core, semi-periphery, and periphery states.” Industrial Relations: A journal of Economy and Society. Danat Valizade, Manhal Ali, Mark Stuart https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12310 
 
About the speakers:  
Dr Danat Valizade is an Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods in the Work and Employment Relations Department. His research interests coalesce around the changing nature of work with a specific focus on the quality of working lives, inequalities and digital futures at work. 
Dr Manhal Ali is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the same department. His areas of expertise include Organisational Economics; Managerial Economics; Health Economics; Digital Economy; Data Science.

How the Covid-19 pandemic has affected global inequalities in work and employment

Dr Marketa Dolezalova is joined by Ewa Jamroz and Ewa Lelontko from Migration Yorkshire. Following on from the previous episode with Migration Yorkshire, Marketa, Ewa and Ewa talk about the main barriers for migrants entering the UK workforce, as well as examples of good practice from organisations.  

Visit the project webpage. This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

This episode was recorded on Wednesday 10th August 2022. If you would like to get in touch regarding this episode, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. 

About the speakers: Dr Marketa Dolezalova is a Research Fellow in Labour Migration at Leeds University Business School. Her research interests revolve around migration, mobility, and the economic strategies of migrants, including mobility as both an economic strategy and as migrants’ social capital. 

Ewa Jamroz is a policy, data and development officer at Migration Yorkshire. She is the project lead for the Hong Kong Welcome Programme for BN(O) status holders coming to the UK through a new BN(O) visa route and policy lead for EU nationals (including Roma communities). 

Ewa Lelontko is an employer engagement manager at Migration Yorkshire. Her role focuses on the economic integration of refugees and other migrants in Yorkshire & Humber.

The barriers migrants face when entering the UK workforce

Professor Marina Papanastassiou is joined by Professor Peter Buckley to discuss new challenges for multinationals in the fractured global economy, including political challenges, governance issues, and resilience in Global Value Chains. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in March 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.   

Visit the CIBUL website for further information about the research discussed in this episode. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cibul

About the speakers: Marina Papanastassiou is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is a member of the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). Marina’s research interests include the global innovation strategies in multinationals (MNEs) and their network of overseas subsidiaries and R&D laboratories; the decision making process in MNEs and in particular the dynamics between HQs and subsidiaries; global value chains and the role of MNEs in SDGs such as food security; impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on growth and development; the internationalisation of start-ups, and the role of incubators in local systems of innovation. 

Peter Buckley OBE is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is the Founder/Director of CIBUL. His current research interests centre on the theory of the multinational firm; knowledge management in multinational firms; the international transfer of technology; the impact of foreign direct investment particularly in China; and outward direct investment from emerging countries: China and India.

New challenges for MNEs within fractures of the global economy

Professor Annina Kaltenbrunner is joined by Dr Bianca Orsi and Dr Sophia Kuehnlenz to discuss Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and whether CBDCs alone are enough to change the hierarchical nature of the international monetary system. The team also talk about what effect CBDCs could have on the US dollar. 

Read the journal article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0275531922002203

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in March 2023. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.   

About the speakers: Annina Kaltenbrunner is Professor of Global Economics at Leeds University Business School. She is a pluralist Macro-Development Economist with an interest in financial and monetary dynamics in developing and emerging economies. 

Dr Bianca Orsi is a lecturer in the Economics department at Leeds University Business School. Her main research interests are on monetary policy, monetary policy transmission mechanism, inflation, capital controls, interest rate, exchange rate, currency internationalization and currency hierarchy, and financial integration. 

Dr Sophia Kuehnlenz is a lecturer in Economics at the Manchester Metropolitan Business School.  Her research aims to establish an improved Minsky – inspired theory and an overhaul of methodology (mainstream and heterodox) with regard to modelling crisis episodes specifically and capitalist production economies more generally.

Central Bank Digital Currencies and the potential demise of the US dollar

Professor Vera Trappmann, Dr Janina Myrczik and Dr Justyna Kajta discuss their paper - “Becoming a young radical right activist, biographical pathways of the members of radical right organizations in Poland and Germany”. 

Read the paper here. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00113921241239644

“Becoming a young radical right activist, biographical pathways of the members of radical right organizations in Poland and Germany.”, Current Sociology, Janina Myrczik, Justyna Kajta, Arthur Buckenleib, Mateusz Karolak, Marius Liedtke, Adam Mrozowicki and Vera Trappmann. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in May 2024. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available.  https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/328/transcript---becoming-a-young-radical-right-activist   

About the speakers:  

Vera Trappmann is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. Her research engages with the comparison of labour relations across Europe, focusing on the dynamics of economic and organisational restructuring and its impact on working biographies, and organized labour.   

Justyna Kajta is a Professor Assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences, SWPS University (Warsaw, Poland). Her main research interests concern youth, social movements, class (im)mobilities, and social and political changes in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of several publications, including the book (in Polish) Young Radicals? On the Identity of the Polish Nationalist Movement and Its Participants (Nomos, 2020). 

Janina Myrczik is a Lecturer in Qualitative Methods and a Researcher at Medical School Berlin. Her research centres on rehabilitation, ageing, and the radical right. She is particularly interested in qualitative research, social inequality and political sociology.

Becoming a young radical right activist - an analysis of Poland and Germany

Often modern slavery is thought of as an issue that happens overseas, yet it occurs in a number of sectors within the UK too. In this episode, Dr Matthew Davis and Professor Hinrich Voss discuss what businesses need to know about modern slavery. 

This podcast episode was recorded in February 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk.

About the presenters: Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research centres on how people interact with their environments, the impact of different office designs and how businesses engage in CSR, particularly to address sustainability and modern slavery.
Hinrich Voss is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School and member of the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL). He is interested in the relationship and interaction between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and institutions. This interest is manifested in a research strand on Chinese and emerging market MNEs (EMNEs), and one on the interplay between international business, sustainability and ethics.

A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/164/podcast_episode_3_-_transcript

Modern slavery and business

Platform work is often controversial and contested, and as such there have been numerous studies of platform labour protest. However, these have tended to be single or small comparative case studies. Professor Mark Stuart and Denis Neumann talk about why there is a pressing need to explore platform worker protest on a global scale. 

This episode was recorded remotely on 22 July 2020. A transcript of the episode is available here: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/195/podcast_episode_12_-_transcript

Professor Mark Stuart is Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation at Leeds University Business School, founder of the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change, and Co-Director of the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre. His current research focuses on the wide-ranging effects of digitalisation on the future of work; restructuring and displacement in the steel sector; and union modernisation, skills and learning. 
Denis Neumann, M.A. is employed as a research assistant at CERIC. He is concerned with questions of the imbalance of power between capital and labour in the gig economy and worker´s strategies to counteract the informalisation of labour with a special focus on the food delivery sector. 

The Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest has received funding from Leeds University Business School, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, and The International Labour Organization.

Introducing the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest

In this episode, Dr Vera Trappmann and Alexandra Seehaus give a summary of their insights into young precarious workers in Poland and Germany. This podcast episode is related to PREWORK - a project funded by the German Science Foundation and National Science Centre. Funding scheme: Beethoven | Project: TR1378/1-1; UMO-2014/15/G/HS4/04476. The project was carried out in cooperation with Free University Berlin, Warsaw School of Economics (Professor Juliusz Gardawski) and the University of Wrocław (Dr habil. Adam Mrozowicki).
The episode was recorded remotely in August 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/201/podcast_episode_14_-_transcript

About the speakers: Dr Vera Trappmann is an Associate Professor in Work and Employment Relations and PI of PREWORK. Her research engages with the comparison of labour relations across Europe. Vera’s main research interests focus on the dynamics of organisational restructuring and its impact on working biographies, and organised labour. 
Alexandra Seehaus is a doctoral candidate in Work and Employment Relations, studying the working conditions and class consciousness of logistic and service workers in Germany and the UK. Prior to starting her PhD, Alexandra was a researcher in the PREWORK project at Free University of Berlin, which examines social consciousness, life strategies and civic activism of young precarious workers in Poland and Germany.

Precarious workers in Poland and Germany

Dr Matthew Davis, Leeds University Business School, and Rishi Sher Singh, Business and Human Rights specialist, talk about the effect COVID-19 has had on the garment industry in India and the vulnerability and impact on human rights within the sector. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in December 2020. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/205/podcast_episode_16_-_transcript

This research project – Impact of Covid-19 on management to eradicate modern slavery from global supply chains: A case study of Indian fashion supply chains – is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and led by Dr Mark Sumner, School of Design, University of Leeds. 

About the speakers:  
Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research centres on how people interact with their environments, the impact of different office designs and how businesses engage in CSR, particularly to address sustainability and modern slavery. 

Rishi Sher Singh is a Business and Human Rights specialist with an extensive body of work in supply chain management, implementation of sustainability projects, and manufacturing. For over two decades, Rishi has been working on developing innovative business solutions, with a strong commitment towards respecting and promoting human rights in the value chains.

What impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had on human rights within the garment industry in India?

The fashion industry and its global supply chains are complex. The COVID-19 pandemic has added to this complexity, leaving managers making decisions quickly and with little knowledge of both the short and long-term fallout from the virus. In this episode, Dr Matthew Davis, Dr Mark Sumner and Fergus Dowling discuss how this pandemic compares to other crises that have hit the fashion industry, and what it means for their supply chains. 

This podcast episode was recorded remotely in January 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk.  A transcript of this episode is available here: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/208/podcast_episode_18_-_transcript.

This research project – Impact of Covid-19 on management to eradicate modern slavery from global supply chains: A case study of Indian fashion supply chains – is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is a collaboration between the School of Design at the University of Leeds and Leeds University Business School. 
 
About the speakers: Dr Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research centres on how people interact with their environments, the impact of different office designs and how businesses engage in CSR, particularly to address sustainability and modern slavery. 
Dr Mark Sumner is a lecturer in the School of Design, focussing on sustainability within the textile, clothing and fashion industry, having spent over 15 years working in retail for a major international retailer. His research interests cover a diverse range of subjects such as textile technology, innovation, sustainability and consumer behaviour. 
Fergus Dowling is a Research Assistant on the project “Impact of Covid-19 on management to eradicate modern slavery from global supply chains: A case study of Indian fashion supply chains”.

How COVID-19 has increased the complexity of the fashion industry and its supply chains

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