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Maja Tampe

Assistant Professor at Ramon Llull University

About me

Maja Tampe is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences at ESADE Business School. In her research, she investigates private governance and sustainability, with a particular focus on work practices, managerial systems, and organizational change. Her work focuses on how transnational demands for more socially and environmentally responsible practices are mediated in local sites of action-often in, but not limited to, developing countries. In her research, she examines the implementation of sustainability standards with agricultural producers in Brazil, Ecuador, and Ghana, to advance our theoretical understanding of private governance and to inform the design of governance institutions and policies. At ESADE, Maja teaches courses on strategies and leadership for sustainable business. Her professional experience is in strategy consulting with McKinsey and in organizational development, where she worked with Fortune 100 and start-up companies. Maja holds a Master in Political Science from the University of Münster in Germany, a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.