Department of Accounting

stint

Department of Accounting

  • Center for Corporate Governance
Steen
Thomsen
Professor
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cand.polit., Ph.D.


Room: SOL/C5.13
Tel:
+4538152590
E-mail: st.ccg@cbs.dk
Presentation

Steen Thomsen is Novo Nordisk Foundation Professor of Enterprise Foundations at CBS. He served as academic director of the Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School, which he founded in 2005. He specializes in corporate governance as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and commentator. His academic publications include more than 40 international journal articles and several books. His research is currently focused on enterprise foundations – foundations that own business firms. Steen has served as a non-executive director in several business companies and nonprofits. He is a founding board member of Boardmeter, which produces software-based board evaluations. He is  academic director of the Danish Board Leadership Society and the CBS board programs. He writes columns for the leading Danish business newspaper, Børsen, and has served as a consultant and lecturer to several large companies and government organizations. He has also contributed to best practice codes, public policy and legislation in the area of corporate governance and enterprise foundations.

Primary research areas
  • Enterprise Foundations
  • Corporate Governance
  • Sustainable Governance
Curriculum Vitae
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Social media
Links

Steen Thomsen home page

European Corporate Governance Institute

Social Science Research Network

Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/stint
Courses
  • Corporate Governance and Compliance, cand. merc. Finance and Strategic
  • Management.
  • Corporate Governance, CBS fulltime MBA.
  • Ph.D. Course in Corporate Governance

 

Supervision
  • Ph.D. and Master students
Other teaching activities
  • Academic director of the CBS board programs.
Selected publications

Thomsen, Steen, & Torben Pedersen: European Patterns of Corporate Ownership. Journal of International Business Thomsen, Steen, & Torben Pedersen: European Patterns of Corporate Ownership. Journal of International Business Studies. 28(4): 759-778. 1997.

Thomsen, Steen, & Torben Pedersen. Ownership Structure and Economic Performance in the Largest European Companies. The Strategic Management Journal. 21(6). 2000. 689-705.

Thomsen, Steen & Torben Pedersen and Hans Kurt Kvist. The Direction of Causality between Blockholder Ownership and Market Valuation. Journal of Corporate Finance, 2006.

Kronborg, Dorte, and Steen Thomsen. 2009. Foreign Ownership and Long Run Survival, Strategic Management Journal, 30:207-219, 2009.

Aleksandra Gregoric, Lars Oxelheim, Trond Randoy, and Steen Thomsen. On the Internationalization of Corporate Boards. The Case of Nordic Firms. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(3), 173-194.

Publications sorted by:

Research

Communication

In the media

2025
Steen Thomsen / Bestyrelsen og ejerne
In: BestyrelsesbogenKøbenhavn : Djøf Forlag 2025, p. 163-184
Book chapter
Steen Thomsen / Bestyrelsens vigtigste opgaver : De 4 esser.
In: BestyrelsesbogenKøbenhavn : Djøf Forlag 2025, p. 27-49
Book chapter
Steen Thomsen (Editor) / Bestyrelsesbogen
København : Djøf Forlag 2025, 394 p.
Anthology
Steen Thomsen / Bestyrelsesledelse : En oversigt.
In: BestyrelsesbogenKøbenhavn : Djøf Forlag 2025, p. 17-24
Book chapter
Martin J. Conyon; Juyeong Jeong; Hans Kleven; Steen Thomsen / Firm Environment and Employee’s Crime Rate : Evidence From Denmark.
In: Applied Economics Letters, 29.1.2025
Journal article > peer review
David Schröder; Steen Thomsen / Foundation Ownership and Sustainability
In: Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 91, 4.2025
Journal article > peer review
2024
Sirimon Treepongkaruna; Hue Hwa Au Yong; Steen Thomsen; Khine Kyaw / Greenwashing, Carbon Emission, and ESG
In: Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 33, No. 8, 12.2024, p. 8526-8539
Journal article > peer review
2023
Anne Sanders; Steen Thomsen / Enterprise Foundation Law : Introduction.
In: Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective. ed. /Anne Sanders; Steen Thomsen. Cambridge : Intersentia 2023, p. 1-6
Book chapter
Anne Sanders (Editor) ; Steen Thomsen (Editor) / Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective
Cambridge : Intersentia 2023, 254 p.
Anthology
Anne Sanders; Steen Thomsen / Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective : Concluding Observation.
In: Enterprise Foundation Law in a Comparative Perspective. ed. /Anne Sanders; Steen Thomsen. Cambridge : Intersentia 2023, p. 221-246
Book chapter
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Research Projects
Outside activities

Dagbladet Børsen; Columnist; 2010 – ongoing
CBS Executive; Academic Director and teacher; 2013 – ongoing
Bestyrelsesforeningen; Board member; 2013 – ongoing
Boardmeter APS/Boardmeter A/S; Board member; 2014 – ongoing
Steen Thomsen Enterprise; CEO; 2014 – ongoing (No activity)
International Corporate Governance Society; Board member; 2014 – ongoing
Dansk Forening for Selskabsret; Board member; 2014 – ongoing
Chulalongkorn University, Department of Banking and Finance, Thailand; Visiting Professor; 2014 – ongoing
Corporate Governance. An International Review; Editorial Advisory Board member; 2014 – ongoing
Finn Nørgaard Foreningen; Board member; 2015 – ongoing
The Danish Commercial Appeals Board; Member; 2018 – ongoing (No activity 2019 – 2020)
The Ownership project; Advisory Council member; 2018 – ongoing
Forenet Kredit; Project Leader; August 2018 – June 2019 (CBS project)
Stewardship Asia Center; Advisor for research project; 2019
Bestyrelsesforeningens Udviklingsselskab; Board member; 2019 – 2020
Novo Nordisk Foundation; Endowed professor; 2019 – ongoing (CBS fulltime professorship)
Pluto Foundation; Chairman; 2020 –