Global wealth chains: Asset strategies in the world economy | Australian Institute of International Affairs South Australia on Glue Up

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Venue Location

Law and Commerce Building Room 1.10

Flinders University
Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia

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Organizer

Organizer: AIIA South Australia, Flinders University

Contact Person: Julie Dover

Email: julie.dover@flinders.edu.au

Event Details

The world economy operates around the production of value and the protection of wealth. Firms use global value chains to make the most for the least cost, ideally also contributing to economic development. Firms and professionals use global wealth chains to create and protect wealth, strategically planning across multiple legal jurisdictions to control how assets are governed. The outcome of such planning often contributes to global inequality. While we know a great deal about value chains, we know much less about wealth chains.

In this seminar Professor Seabrooke outlines why the study of global wealth chains is necessary for understanding how firms and elites contribute to economic growth and economic inequality. They stress three elements in particular. The first is the importance of using ideal types to trace asset strategies. The second is to distinguish the firm from the corporation. The third is to theorize micro-level interactions between clients, professionals, and regulators in the articulation of global wealth chains.

This in-person event is co-hosted and supported by Flinders University. Light lunch will be provided.

Speakers

Leonard Seabrooke

https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-organization/staff/lsioa

Len Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Organization at the Copenhagen Business School, and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. His work is known for its interdisciplinarity – drawing on political economy, economic sociology, international relations, and organization studies.

Prof Seabrooke’s current research concentrates on transnational professionals across a range of cases, from finance and tax experts, to consultants, sustainability experts, and others. Prof Seabrooke’s work has appeared in leading journals, including American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Contemporary Accounting Research, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, Organization, Public Administration, Socio-Economic Review, Review of International Political Economy, and many others. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 6200 times (h index 41, i index 73). He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Professions and Organization, and was a Co-Editor of Review of International Political Economy (2006-2012) and an Associate Editor of International Studies Quarterly (2014-2018).

As Principal Investigator Prof Seabrooke is a recipient of grants from the European Research Council (x2), European Commission (x3), Independent Research Fund Denmark, the Norwegian Research Council, the Velux Foundation, the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Transparency International-EU. He was the Chief Scientist of the ENLIGHTEN project (2015-2018) funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. Prof Seabrooke currently co-leads a project for the Velux Foundation. Over his career he has raised approximately €8.73 million as the named Principal Investigator and €33.29 million as co-author on research grants (over €42 million in total). He has a long history of institution building, particularly in research capacity, as well as the development of interdisciplinary teaching programs.

Prof Seabrooke is the Program Director of the International Business and Politics BSc. and MSc. degrees at the Copenhagen Business School and Chairperson of the Study Board. The BSc. IBP has consistently been ranked the third most difficult degree for undergraduates to enter across all sciences in Denmark. He is also the Chairperson for the Ethics Council at the Copenhagen Business School.

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