visiting scholars

Led by Center Director and Duke Professor of Sociology Gary Gereffi, the CGGC has brought together a team of full-time professional researchers,  adjunct faculty, outside consultants and a group of enormously talented graduate and undergraduate students to engage in its research projects."Everything we do, "says Gereffi," is a product of the team approach." We invite you to meet our growing team.

Visiting Scholars, 2012-2013
Stephanie Barrientos photo STEPHANIE BARRIENTOS
Stephanie Barrientos is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Development Policy and Management and Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at The University of Manchester. She has researched and published widely on gender, global production, employment, decent work, trade and labour standards, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and ethical trade. She has undertaken research in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the UK. She is co-coordinator with Professor Gary Gereffi, Director of CGGC, of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) funded international research network Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks that links researchers in US, Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America (www.capturingthegains.org).
Giulio Buciuni photo

GIULIO BUCIUNI
Giulio Buciuni is a Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration at the University of Verona, Italy, and visiting researcher at the Center on Globalization Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC) since 2011. Giulio's current research project focuses on the analysis of the upgrading processes undertaken by brand-name firms within the North Carolina furniture industry. His research interests include international management, value chain analysis, global production networks and innovation clusters. Giulio is currently lecturer in International Management at Venice International University (VIU).
Michelle Christians

MICHELLE CHRISTIAN
Michelle Christian is a postdoctoral fellow at he Social Science Research Institute at Duke University in the Center on Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness. She has published in the Annual Review of Sociology and several edited volumes.  She has also conducted studies for the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Michelle is a tourism sector team leader and coordinator for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded research project: Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks. Her research focus is on how racial and ethnic groups, women, and categories of workers are positioned in the global economy.
Jiangyong Lu JIANGYONG LU

Jiangyong received his PhD degree from School of Business at University of Hong Kong in 2004. He is currently a visiting scholar in CGGC at Duke University and an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Jiangyong’s current research interests include the roles of Returnees in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Venture Capital Investment in China, and outward FDI and trading strategies of Chinese firms, etc. Jiangyong has published 20 papers in international academic journals (SSCI index), 15 papers in leading Chinese academic journals, and three books (in Chinese). Jiangyong has also published several teaching cases through Harvard Business Publishing.
Dev Nathan DEV NATHAN

Studied economics at Bombay University, but works more broadly as a social scientist. Besides labour conditions in global production, he has also worked extensively on rural development, gender relations and indigenous peoples’ development. Some of his research is combined with consultancy for international organizations, such as IFAD, ADB, ILO, UNICEF, etc. Has been a columnist for the Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai. Designated an Honorary Professor by the Institute of Ethnology, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, China, he is also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development , New Delhi. Some of his recent publications include Labour in Global Production in India (2010, co-editor), Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Development and Development of Adivasis in India (2012, co-editor), and Markets and Development of Indigenous Peoples in Asia (2012, co-author).
Elisabetta Pasini ELISABETTA PASINI

Elisabetta Pasini, a Visiting Research Fellow at CGGC from September to December 2012, is a Master’s candidate in Environmental Economics at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. Her particular research focus is in carrying out an international comparative analysis of the rise and development of the craft beer industry in North Carolina and northeast Italy. This study will pay specific attention to the role of the entrepreneur and the set of inter-firm relationships initiated in the start-up phase as the new venture develops. By using the global value chain (GVC’s) approach, this research project will investigate the organizational structure of microbreweries’ value chains and the way these operate in two different geographic contexts.



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