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  • 28.03.2017

    Breitbart News is not the media world’s Uber

    Assistant professor Anders Ravn Sørensen engages in a debate in the newspaper Børsen with Professor Nicolai Juul Foss on the pros and cons of disruptive news outlets and media-platforms:

  • 27.02.2017

    “Academic Swap” – Why a Change of Perspective Triggers Creative Ideas

    Wife Swap was a US reality TV series which aired for the first time in 2004 on ABC. Christina Lubinski, Associate Professor at MPP, and Anna Spadavecchia, Associate Professor at Henley Business School in Reading, UK, decided to transfer the concept and “swap” their academic lives for three months in the spring of 2017.

  • 21.06.2016

    CfP The Nationality of the Company, Conference Frankfurt, Nov. 2017, deadline 30. Sept. 2016

    The relationship between nation states and the companies based in their respective territories is often ambiguous. Companies provide employment and they pay taxes, they contribute to national income and frequently to “national identity” (Disney, Dior, Daimler). Companies and businessmen engage in bilateral and international diplomacy, e.g. as door-openers for new relationships of the West to the Soviet Union in the 1950s or to China in the late 1970s. At other times, companies supported national policies of war and crimes against humanity. The histories of Chrysler, Krupp, or Rolls-Royce – to name just a few examples – pro-vide abundant evidence of embeddedness and dependence on state capacity. Time and again, even companies describing themselves as multi- or trans-national seem to appreciate the security net of a nation state with its government and constituency of taxpayers, who act as lenders of last resort. In times of financial crisis there is no dearth of companies that claim to be citizens of a nation state for the sake of access to the respective state’s resources. At the same time the modern state has developed towards a ‘competition state’ acting like a company in a market of countries vying for investments. Nation states brand themselves; they try to attract customers and to ser-vice international markets.

  • 13.04.2016

    Call For Papers Workshop Series: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Theory & Research, 24.5.2016

    The purpose of this workshop is to provide scholars with developmental feedback on work-in-progress related to historical approaches to entrepreneurship and strategy, broadly construed. Our aim is to support the development of historical research on entrepreneurship for publication in leading journals, including for the special issue of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (see, http://sej.strategicmanagement.net/conf-dl/sej-historical-approaches-to-entrepreneurship-research.pdf). In addition to providing feedback and suggestions for specific topics, the workshop will address the commonly faced challenges of writing for a double-audience of historians and entrepreneurship/management scholars, engaging entrepreneurship theory and constructs, and identifying the most valuable historical sources and methods in studying entrepreneurial phenomena. We welcome work-in-progress at all stages of development. Interested scholars may submit two types of submissions for discussion: full research papers (8,000 words) or paper ideas (1,000 to 3,000 words).

  • 13.04.2016

    Doctoral and Emerging Scholar Colloquium: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Theory & Research, 23.5.2016

    The purpose of this colloquium is to provide interested doctoral students and emerging scholars with an introduction to historical approaches in entrepreneurship research and an opportunity to receive developmental feedback on work-in-progress. Our aim is to support the development of historical research on entrepreneurship and to build a community of scholars interested in the topic.

  • 10.01.2016

    Paper development workshop. Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Theory & Research, application deadline: 22.1.2016

    In recent years, both business historians and entrepreneurship scholars have grown increasingly interested in the promise of using historical sources, methods and reasoning in entrepreneurship research. History, it has been argued, can be valuable in addressing a number of limitations in traditional approaches to studying entrepreneurship, including in accounting for contexts and institutions, in understanding the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic change, in providing multi‐level perspectives on the entrepreneurial process and in situating entrepreneurial behavior and cognition within the flow of time. Support for historical research on entrepreneurship has grown, with both leading entrepreneurship researchers calling for the use of historical perspectives and with Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal announcing a call for papers for a special issue devoted to history and entrepreneurship.

  • 21.09.2015

    Re-thinking History at Business Schools. Workshop: Uses of the Past: History and Memory in Organizations and Organizing, 9.12.2015

    The Centre for Business History at Copenhagen Business School will host a paper development workshop for scholars conducting research on the uses of history and memory in organizations and organizing on Wednesday, December 9, 2015. We welcome applications from scholars of all backgrounds conducting research on the question of why, how, and what affects the past is used by managers and organizations. For details see the CfP, below.

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