Department of Strategy and Innovation

Nicolai J. Foss is a Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, Southern Denmark University, External Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, 2020-2025, and a Professor II at the Norwegian School of Economics. He is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.

Trained as an economist at the Copenhagen University (M.Sc.,1989), Foss his received his PhD degree from the Copenhagen Business School in 1993, where he was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, before he moved to Bocconi University 1 September 2016. From 2016-2019 he was the Rodolfo Debenedetti Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bocconi University, Milano. He has held part-time and visiting professorships at the Warwick Business School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Norwegian School of Economics, Lund University, Luiss Guido Carli-Roma, ERC Rennes, and Agder University.

Foss founded the Center (later Department) of Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School in 2005, and served as its Director/HoD until 1 April, 2015. He managed two CBS “World Class Environment” programs at CBS (2008-2015; 2014-2016). Foss has served as a panel member of the European Research Council and on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society. Foss is a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He was the 2020 Chairperson of the Behavioral Strategy Interest Group.

Encompassing 264 journal articles, 109 book chapters and 26 books (edited as well as monographs), his work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and several other leading journals. He has published books with leading publishers, such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Many of his papers have been reprinted in research handbooks, and several of his articles and books are translated into Chinese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, and Spanish. His research has been discussed in such outlets as Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune, as well as on leading podcasts and talkshows.

His google scholar citations are 55,200, and his H-index is 113. He has been listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2018. He is currently the 11th most cited living business administration scholar worldwide. Foss was one of the founders of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics and a co-founder of the industry-funded Center for Policy Studies, the most influential privately-funded think tank in DK. He was listed as the “best Danish economist” by the newspaper, Børsen, in 2013, 2014, and 2015. He has been a regular columnist at newspapers Børsen and Berlingske.