arsbhl
Department of Business Humanities and Law
- Centre for Business History
- Governance, Culture & Learning Unit

I am associate professor at Copenhagen Business School, specializing in Danish business and cultural history. My research explores how organizations and institutions use history to shape identity, strategy, and legitimacy. I am particularly interested in the intersection of business history and cultural narratives, analyzing how historical storytelling influences organizations, industries, and national identities.
Since joining CBS in 2010, I have taught and coordinated courses across undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. levels. I am also an active public speaker and a frequent presenter at academic conferences. From 2021 to 2025, I served as editor-in-chief of Management & Organizational History.
My latest books include Børsen (2024), a historical account of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, and Maleriets forbandelse (2023), an exploration of autoethnography as historical method that blends personal reflection with traditional historical research.
- Uses of history in organizations (for branding, strategy, and legitimacy)
- Danish business- and cultural history
- National identity and economic institutions
- Autoethnography and historical method
- Instiutional theory (BA-level)
- The company in society (BA-level)
- Historical methods in organization studies (PhD-course)
- Communicating as a manager (Master of Public Governance)
Public lectures and presentations on organizational uses of the past and Danish maritime history.
- Børsen (Gads Forlag, 2024)
- Maleriets forbandelse (Gads Forlag, 2023)
- Sørensen, A. R. & R. Daniel Wadhwani, “Methods of Musement: Cultivating Serious Play in Research on Business and Organization,” Management & Organizational History, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023
Research
Communication
In the media
In: Management & Organizational History, 27.3.2025
In: Historisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 124, No. 2, 2024, p. 531–534
Paper presented at European Business History Association 27th Annual Conference. EBHA 2024, 2024
In: Business History, Vol. 66, No. 4, 2024, p. 799-801
In: Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol. 71, No. 3, 11.2023, p. 320-322
København : Gad 2023, 310 p.
In: Management & Organizational History, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023, p. 1-15
In: International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 35, No. 4, 11.2023, p. 532-547
In: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 4, 10.2022, p. 386-404
In: Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 21, No. 2, 5.2021, p. 200-218
In: Søfartshistorier: Danmarkshistorien til søs. . ed. /Jeppe Nevers; Anders Ravn Sørensen. København : Gad 2020, p. 6-31
København : Gad 2020, 304 p. (Årbog/ M/S Museet for Søfart, Vol. 79) (Maritim Kontakt, Vol. 42)
In: Søfartshistorier: Danmarkshistorien til søs. . ed. /Jeppe Nevers; Anders Ravn Sørensen. København : Gad 2020, p. 166-185
København : Gad 2020, 296 p.
In: The American Historical Review, Vol. 125, No. 5, 12.2019, p. 1814-1816
Paper presented at The 22nd Annual European Business History Association (EBHA) Conference, 2018
In: Kulturstudier, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2018, p. 81-109
In: Proceedings of the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Guclu Atinc. Briar Cliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2018, 1 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)
In: Kulturstudier, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2018, 4 p., p. 5-8
In: Økonomi & Politik, Vol. 90, No. 2, 6.2017, p. 26-35
Paper presented at The 2016 Business History Conference Annual Meeting, 2016
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2016, p. 173-185
In: A Global Game: Sport, Culture, Development and Foreign Policy. . ed. /William Billows; Sebastian Körber. Göttingen : Steidl 2016, p. 145-149 (Culture Report / EUNIC Yearbook, Vol. 8)
Paper presented at The 11th Global Conference of the Academy of Marketing's Brand, Corporate Identity and Reputation Special Interest Group 2016, 2016
Paper presented at Fußball als Instrument der Nationenbildung I: Deutschland, Westeuropa, Zentral- und (Süd-)Osteuropa, 2016
In: Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 2, 6.2016, p. 182-206
Paper presented at 2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting, 2015
Paper presented at The 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, 2015
In: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2015, p. 325-347
Paper presented at The 31st EGOS Colloquium 2015, 2015
Abstract from Everyday Nationhood, 2014
In: Ianus - Diritto e Finanza, No. Special Issue, 2014, p. 41-60
Paper presented at Building up a EU-based Payment System, 2014
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [Phd] 2014, 263 p. (PhD series, No. 22.2014)
In: Celebrity Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2014, p. 364-367
In: National Identities, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1.2014, p. 31-51
In: Kulturstudier, No. 1, 5.2013, p. 118-142
Paper presented at The 17th Annual European Business History Association (EBHA) Conference, 2013
Paper presented at The Association of Business Historians 21st Annual Conference 2013, 2013
In: Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2013, p. 209-232
In: Business History Review, Vol. 86, No. 4, 2012, p. 813-815
Paper presented at The 16th Annual European Business History Association (EBHA) Conference/ 1st Joint Conference with BHSJ (Business History Society of Japan), 2012
In: Grønlandsk kultur- og samfundsforskning 2010-12. ed. /Birgit Kleist Pedersen; Flemming A. J. Nielsen; Karen Langgård; Kenneth Pedersen; Jette Rygaard. Nuuk : Forlaget Atuagkat 2012, p. 129-146
Vejle : JFM Lyd 2025
: Saxo Podcast 2024
København : Saxo Podcast 2024
Hillerød : Frederiksborg Nationalhistorisk Museum 2024
In: Børsen, 26.9.2024, p. 22
Skovlunde : Radioplay 2024
In: Jyllands-Posten, 19.4.2024, p. 19
: Nexus Kommunikation A/S 2023
: Nexus Kommunikation A/S 2023
: Nexus Kommunikation A/S 2023
In: Weekendavisen, 11.2.2022, p. 13
In: Berlingske, 7.12.2022, p. 20-21
Aarhus : nordics.info 2020
Aarhus : nordics.info 2020
In: Berlingske Tidende, 6.5.2017, p. 15
In: Børsen, 7.3.2017, p. 5
2016
In: Boersen, 24.1.2016, p. 2-3
In: Weekendavisen, 24.6.2016, p. 11
In: Berlingske Tidende, 29.2.2016, p. 8
In: Berlingske Tidende, 22.3.2016, p. 12
In: Boersen, 18.2.2016, p. 4
Genopførelsen af Børsen skal rumme både fortid, nutid og fremtid
Boganmeldelse: BØRSEN
Børsen
#2 Børsen bliver genopført og Forsvaret skal ikke længere bruge penge på kunst
Der findes ingen bygning som Børsen - og det er der grund til at fejre
Radio 4 Nyhederne 26.09.2024
TV2 News - 26.9.2024 - kl 15.50
Go’ aften Live - 26.9.2024 - 17.35
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Børsen - Danmarkshistorie i flammer
Historiker var næsten færdig med den store bog om Børsen, da den brændte: Han kender alle hemmelighederne
Danmarkshistorien i flammer
Hvad med at give Børsen tilbage til folket?
Kronik: Er der en historiker til stede?
Spir!
Dragespir i flammer
TVA: Under halvdelen af historisk bygning er tilbage
TV2 News 17.4.2024 07:45
Gik nøgen gennem Børsen
TV 2 Newsroom 16.04.2024 22:15
TV2 News 16.4.2024
TV 2 Go’ aften Live 16.04.2024 17:20
Børsen brænder den kunst vi mister
BBC News 16.04.2024
Sag om mystisk maleri har fået forsker til at tvivle på sin egen fornuft
TVA: Historiske danske svindelsager
Lokal forfatter hitter med bog om et forbandet maleri
Sent om aftenen kommer tvivlen: Er maleriet alligevel forbandet?
Finansministeriet famler i økonomisk blinde om regeringens nyeste reformhug
Enernes historie
Kystnært: Det, vi kalder frihed
CBS gennem 100 år
Fortællingen om Danmark er skabt af skumsprøjt, kanonild og under fremmede himmelstrøg
Danmark som søfartsnation: En enøjet kritik af national identitet
Dansk søfartshistorie rummer både malere, digtere, entreprenører - og sømænd
Søfart er blevet kørt ud på et sidespor i danmarkshistorien
Fredericia ligger i top: Vi er produktive på jobbet
Fem kommuner har en eksplosiv produktivitet
Blogindlæg: Blog: Humanister er en gevinst
CBS gennem 100 år
CBS' 100 years in 40 minutes
Fysisk tilstedeværelse er vigtig
Fem nedslag i mønthistorien
Mønten mister sit tag i danskerne
Færre mønter i omløb i Danmark
Fewer coins in circulation
Valuta og Nationalfølelse
Historiske monumenter i lommeformat
Historiske monumenter i lommeformat
Nationalbanken sagde nej til pølser og øl på pengesedlerne
Pølse-pengeseddel forkastet af Nationalbanken
Pølse-pengeseddel forkastet af Nationalbanken
Bog for bog: Pengehistorie og hverdagsnationalisme
Konservative kroner
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