Two Post Doc­tor­al po­s­i­tions on the drivers of green cap­it­al ac­cu­mu­la­tion in glob­al value chains – Green­Worlds ERC Ad­vanced pro­ject

Apply now Unit Department of Management, Society and Communication Application deadline 6 November 2026 Copenhagen Business School (CBS) invites applications for two 3-year Post Doctoral positions on the drivers of green capital accumulation in global value chains, located at the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC).

The selected candidates will contribute to the ERC Advanced research project Green Worlds:

The material and normative drivers of green capital accumulation in global value chains (GreenWorlds), led by Professor Stefano Ponte. Overall Project Focus The GreenWorlds project investigates a core tension in the global economy: how capitalism adapts to ecological pressures and normatively legitimizes itself while maintaining its core logic of capital accumulation alongside the carbon economy.

To explore this, the project examines how a variety of ‘green worlds’ of value and valuation emerge, consolidate and decline. Green worlds are different sets of internally coherent principles that are drawn upon by value chain actors to deal with challenges and critiques1 …