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Duncan Wigan serves as Professor with special responsibilities in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), where he directs the Masters Programme in Public Management and Social Development at the Sino-Danish Centre in Beijing. His academic profile centers on the international political economy, with institutional affiliations extending to research networks addressing global economic governance and sustainability challenges.
Wigan's research investigates emergent forms of capital in the global economy, specializing in global wealth chains, international taxation systems, financial innovations, and accounting mechanisms for the green transition. His work examines how multinational corporations and financial actors negotiate governance structures through legal arbitrage and spatial scaling, with particular focus on platform firms and offshore wealth management. This research trajectory has produced foundational contributions to understanding hidden control structures in global economic systems.
Analysis of his 2022-2025 publications reveals dominant themes in wealth-value chain entanglement, transnational activism for economic justice, and the political economy of environmental accounting. His collaborative works with Leonard Seabrooke establish theoretical frameworks for global wealth chains while empirical studies dissect corporate legal strategies and asset preservation mechanisms. Recent editorials highlight evolving methodologies for studying global economic governance amid sustainability transitions.
Wigan actively supervises political economy projects across global wealth chains, international finance, taxation regimes, green transition accounting, and economic justice activism. His research portfolio includes major grants such as the European Commission Horizon 2020 project 'COFFERS - Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators', ERC Advanced Grant 'CORPLINK - Corporate Arbitrage and CPL Maps', and Independent Research Fund Denmark grant 'Time Mirror – Accounting for the Green Transition', addressing critical gaps in regulatory frameworks for global capital flows.
He contributes to the 'Organizations, Markets and Governance (OMG)' research group at CBS and collaborates internationally through projects including 'Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks' and 'Wealth and Value in the Lithium ion Battery Chain', which extends his analytical framework to sustainable resource governance.
