Profile

Professor, PhD
Centre Director, DoGE

My background is in international business and for this reason, my research approach spans organization, marketing and strategy. My primary research field relates to the interfirm organization of activities. Some areas of application includes buyer-supplier market exchange, global sourcing, international strategic alliances and distributed innovation activities. Secondly, I focus on research methodology. In particular I am interested in qualitative research strategies, their validation and linkages to epistemology and ontology. Thirdly, I currently focus on Schumpeterian approaches to strategy and interfirm rivalry.

I teach on a) Master's level, b) Executive Management level and c) PhD-level. am responsible for or provide lectures on the following courses: Strategic collaboration, Internationalization of firms, Applied business research methods, Global sourcing, Qualitative Research strategies (PhD course), Strategy. International teachin experience from China and Australia. 

Research Areas

• Theoretical areas: International management, Theories on Internationalization and Export Behaviour; Resource-based Theory; Interorganizational Theory; Institutional Theory
• Empirical issues: Internationalization of Marketing Management and Marketing Organization in Relation to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Subcontractors. Industrial Marketing Management, Organization of Multinational Corporations. Network Dynamics, Industry studies

Teaching Areas 

• International Business, Marketing management, Strategy, Research methods, Global sourcing, interfirm collaboration
• Teaching at the Master’s level, Executive MBA level and Master’s level in Denmark, Asia and Australia

Academic Experience

• Guest Professor and lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, 2006
• Guest professor and lecturer at Ren Min University, Beijing, 2006 -
• Professor, Department of International Business, The Aarhus School of Business, 2000 -
• Associate Professor, Department of International Business, The Aarhus School of Business, 1996-2000
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Economics, Management Division, Aarhus University, 1996 -
• Assistant Professor, Department of Production, Aalborg University, 1995-1996
• Doctoral Research Student, Department of International Business, The Aarhus School of Business, 1992-1995

Administrative Experience

• Coordinator of Executive MBA in Change management (3rd and 4th semester)
• Member of the ASB coordination committee (Hovedsamarbejdsudvalget)
• Head of ASB China education project
• Associate Dean for Research (Prodekan for forskning), Aarhus School of Business, 2003-2005
• Member of the steering committee for Department of Maritime Research and Innovation (Institut for Maritim Forskning og Innovation - MFI) at the University of Southern Denmark. The department refers to the Danish Maritime Authority, 2005
• Coordinator of teaching programs at the International Technology Management Program at Aalborg University, 1995 and 1996
• Reviewer for Organization Science, California Management Review, Industrial Marketing Management
• Reader for Irwin Publishers, London, Pearson, Thomson and Prentice-Hall International
• Conductor of a study for the Danish Ministry of Industry, with Professor Poul Rind Christensen, Southern Denmark Business School, and Professor Peter Maskell, Copenhagen Business School, 1996-1997
• Conductor of a study on Strategic Supplier Relations in a Danish subcontractor perspective in relation to the Welfare Commission task group, 1994-1995

Other Professional Activities

Various consultancy work for industry, member of DRUID, member of cluster research committee, member of the Tietgen prize committee, member of the Maritime innovation prize committee

Academic Awards

• Best Presentation Award, LOK Conference, 2003
• The Reinholdt W. Jorck and Hustru's Foundation's Research Prize, 2002
• Registered in "Who’s who" (US) and in "Den blå bog" (Denmark)