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Department of Business Humanities and Law
- Centre for Business History
I am researching and teaching innovation and industrial dynamics. I study the mechanisms of technology and social innovation. Why and how does performance in innovation vary between countries and companies? What is role of different institutional and individual innovation actors in companies, universities and government?
I have studied dynamics in several industries, including air transportation, communication, engineering consultancy, energy, and information technology. My research encompasses comparative studies of innovation in Germany, Great Britain, France, and the United States. Studies of industrial dynamics in Denmark. I study innovation in networks of industry, government, and university. My current research opens innovation systems black box in order to provide a better basis for understating innovation processes. It is based upon comparison of dynamics of innovation in Great Britain, United States, and Germany.
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Company and leadership
- Regulation of markets, businesses and public organizations
- Interaction of organizational and technological change
- IT, communication, transport, and energy industry in a global world
Books
Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Historien om FORCE Technology 1940-2006 (FORCE Technology’s History), Copenhagen: Børsens Forlag, 2008
Hulkort og EDB i Danmark 1911-1970 (Punched Cards and Computers in Denmark, 1911-1970), Århus: Systime, 1996
Articles
“Retail Banking and the Dynamics of Information Technology in Business Organizations”, 275-285, in Technological Innovation in Retail Finance, International Historical Perspectives, ed. by Bernado Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes, London: Routlege, 2011.
"Facilitating and restricting a challenger: Patents and standards in the development of the Bull-Knutsen punched card system, 1919–1938, Business History, 51(2009), 28–44.
"Punched cards for professional European offices: revisiting the dynamics of information technology diffusion from the United States to Europe, 1889–1918, History and Technology, 24(2008), 307–320.
"The Danish Welding Institute and FORCE Technology, 1940-2005: Technical Standardization and the Shaping of Business", Entreprises et histoire, 51(2008), 57-68.
"Facilitating Technology Service: National and European Standards and the Shaping of FORCE Technology, 1940-2005", in Harm Schröter (ed), The European Firm, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2007.
"Between Parent and ‘Child’, IBM and its German Subsidiary, 1910-1945", p.149-173, in Multinationals in Dictatorships, eds. Per H. Hansen and Chris Kobrak, New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.
"Monitoring people: Dynamics and Hazards of Record Management in France, 1935-1944", Technology and Culture, vol.45 (2004), p.80-101.
"IBM Technology and the Third Reich", p.283-292, in Steven L.B. Jensen (ed), Genocide: Cases, Comparisons and Contemporary Debates, Copenhagen: Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2003.
In: Nordeuropa: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. . ed. /Bernd Henningsen. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2023, p. 479-481
In: Historisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 122, No. 1, 2022, p. 268-270
In: Historisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 122, No. 1, 2022, p. 268-270
In: Technology and Culture, Vol. 61, No. 3, 7.2020, p. 978-979
In: Business History Review, Vol. 93, No. 1, 1.2019, p. 177-179
In: Enterprise & Society, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2019, p. 728-730
Paper presented at 2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting, 2015
In: Technology and Culture, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2015, p. 263-265
In: Entreprises et Histoire, Vol. 2014/2, No. 75, 2014, p. 57-72
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2014, 2 p., p. 2-3
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2014, 2 p., p. 2-3
In: Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 101, No. 2, 2.2013, p. 546-552
In: The Making of Europe’s Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities. . ed. /Per Högselius; Anique Hommels; Arne Kaijser; Erik van der Vleuten. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2013, p. 191-212
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2013, 2 p., p. 2-3
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2013, 2 p., p. 2-3
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2013, 2 p., p. 2-3
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2013, 2 p., p. 2-3
In: Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, 1.7.2013, p. 316-318
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2012, 2 p., p. 2-3
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2012, p. 2-3
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2012, p. 2-3
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2012, p. 2-3
Paper presented at The 16th Annual European Business History Association (EBHA) Conference/ 1st Joint Conference with BHSJ (Business History Society of Japan), 2012
In: History of Nordic Computing 3: Third IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC 3 Stockholm, Sweden, October 18-20, 2010 Revised Selected Papers. . ed. /John Impagliazzo; Per Lundin; Benkt Wangler. Heidelberg : Springer Science+Business Media 2011, p. 207-214 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, No. 350)
In: Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives. . ed. /Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo; J. Charles Maixé-Altés; Paul Thomas. New York : Routledge 2011, p. 275-285
In: I E E E Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2011, p. 22-31
In: Trangen til vækst: Danske erhvervsledere 1870-2010. . ed. /Per H. Hansen; Kurt Jacobsen. Odense : Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2011, p. 279-293
In: The European Firm. ed. /Harm G. Schröter. New York : Springer 2009, p. 127-135
In: Business History, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2009, p. 28-44
København : Dagbladet Boersen A/S 2009, 261 p.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2009, 269 p. (Studies in Industry and Society)
In: History and Technology, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2008, p. 307 - 320
In: Entreprises et Histoire, No. 51, 2008, p. 57-68
In: Enterprise & Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2007, p. 194-196
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2007, 318 p.
Paper presented at Careras, Albert and Matthias Kipping (ed.): Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the European Business History Association, 17-19 September, 2004, 2005
In: European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945. ed. /Christopher Kobrak; Per H. Hansen. Oxford : Berghahn Books 2004, p. 149-173
In: Technology and Culture, Vol. 45, 2004, p. 80-101
In: Passato e Presente, Vol. 20, No. 55, 2002, p. 169-175
Paper presented at The 5th European Business History Assocation (EBHA) Conference, 2001
Paper presented at Multinationals and Dictatorship, 2001