Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Emerging and developing countries have many distinctive features,
particularly with regard to the forms of social organisation of labour and
production. In this course, four researchers will offer you four different
perspectives, drawn from their own research, on specific aspects,
experiences and approaches to understand the socio-economics and
political economy of labour and organisation in some particular contexts
in developing countries.

The course provides detailed knowledge on emerging countries and the transition in the global economy.

The course will be organised in four thematic sessions (2x3h for each session).

Each session will be structured around the research of one of the academics involved in the course:
Session 1. Organizations and labor relation strategies in the context of macroeconomic dependence in oil and gas: the case of agri-food and software industries in Russia Pascal GROUIEZ
Session 2. Understanding Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in emerging countries: actors and processes Petia KOLEVA
Session 3. Revisiting labour markets in Latin America: What is a good job and how to get it? Quality of employment and relational embeddedness in Colombia Thibaud DEGUILHEM
Session 4. Cooperativism, peasant organizations and rural
development in Central America Renaud METEREAU

The teaching methods are in the form of lecture courses and flipped classroom.

The classes will be taught in English.

The evaluation will be in the form of a written report to be delivered by end of January 2023.

The expected date of final results is march 2023.

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The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 6(3), 163-;178.
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Gaddy, C., & Ickes, B. (2013). Russia’s dependence on Resources. In M.
Alexeev & S. Weber (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Russian
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Gimpelson, V., & Kapeliushnikov, R. (2016). Polarization or upgrading?
Evolution of employment in transitional Russia. Russian Journal of
Economics, 2(2), 192-;218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruje.2016.06.004
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Session 2.
Koleva, P., Rodet-Kroichvili, N., David, P. & Marasova, J. (2010). “Is
corporate social responsibility the privilege of developed market
economies? Some evidence from Central and Eastern Europe”,
International Journal of Human Resource Management 21 (2) 274-293.
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Developing Countries: An Embedded Multi-Layered Institutional Lens”,

Koleva, P.,Ben Rhouma A. (2019). "Corporate Social Responsibility
learning in a highly turbulent national context: some evidence from the
post-2011 Tunisia", International Social Sciences and Management
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Session 3.
Bian, Y. (1997). “Bringing strong ties back in: Indirect ties, network
bridges, and job searches in China”. American Sociological Review,
62(3): 366-385.
Deguilhem T, Berrou J-;P. & Combarnous F (2019). “Using your ties to get
a worse job? The differential effects of social networks on quality of
employment in Colombia.” Review of Social Economy, 77(4): 493-;522.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2019.1627573
Deguilhem, T., Vernot-López, M. & Delmas, B. (2021). “Quality of
Employment in Bogota (Colombia): Concept, Method and Evidence”.
Forum for Social Economics, forthcoming.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2020.1843515
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