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 2024.

The expected date of final results is march 2024.

Session 1.
Belyi, A. V. (2013). Institutional trends in Russia’s oil and gas sectors.
The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 6(3), 163-;178.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jwelb/jwt007

Boyer, R., & Saillard, Y. (2001). Regulation Theory: The State of the Art (Routledge).

Gaddy, C., & Ickes, B. (2013). Russia’s dependence on Resources. In M. Alexeev & S. Weber (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy (pp. 309-;340). Oxford University Press.

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

Grouiez, P. (2018). Understanding Agro-Holdings in Russia: A Commonsian Analysis. Journal of Economic Issues, 52(4), 1010-;1035.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2018.1527583

Salter, W. E. G. (1959). Internal and External Balance: The Role Of Price and Expenditure Effects. Economic Record, 35(71), 226-;238.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.1959.tb00462.x

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.

Jamali D.& Neville B. (2011) “Convergence Versus Divergence of CSR in Developing Countries: An Embedded Multi-Layered Institutional Lens”, Journal of Business Ethics, 102:599-;621.

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
Journal, 1, 1-19. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02615858

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

Granovetter, M. (1983). “The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theor Revisited”. Sociological Theory, 1(1): 201-233.

Granovetter, M. (1985). “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness” American Journal of Sociology, 91(3): 481- 510.

Session 4.
Edelman, Marc. “Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America: histories, Challenges, Prospects.” Journal of Agrarian Change 8, no. 2-;3 (2008): 229-;257. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366. 2008.00169.x.

Metereau, Renaud. “Nicaraguan peasant cooperativism in tension: adaptive strategy or counter-movement.” Third World Quartely 42, issue 5 (2020): 801-821. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1722094

This course will be held in Paris.