Department of Economics and Business Economics

Associate Professor

Member of section: Accounting and Finance
Research Secretaries: Solveig Nygaard Sørensen and Malene Vindfeldt Skals

Education: MSc (Econ.), 2002, PhD, 2008
Position: Associate Professor, 2010, Assistant Professor, 2007

Karina Skovvang Christensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. She received her PhD from the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark in 2008, and holds an MSc (econ) from Aarhus University, 2002. She has been a visiting scholar at University of St.Gallen, Switzerland (2003) and Stanford University (2003-2004). Her main research and teaching interests are organizational behavior and knowledge management. Karina has published books e.g. Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital (Palgrave Macmillan) and articles in both Danish and international journals.

Teaching Interests

• Organisational Behaviour

Research Interests

• Motives and Behavior
• Work and Motivation
• Knowledge Management
• Corporate Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship

Selected Publications

• Bukh, Per Nikolaj og Karina Skovvang Christensen. 2013. Succes med balanced scorecard. København: Gyldendal Business.
• Christensen, K.S & P.N. Bukh (2009). Knowledge Management in Projects: Insights from two Perspectives. International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3/4, pp. 313-220.
• Christensen, K.S. (2006). Losing Innovativeness: The Challenge of being acquired. Management Decision, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 1161-1182.
• Christensen, K.S. (2005). Enabling intrapreneurship: The case of a knowledge-intensive industrial company. European Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 305-322.
• Bukh, P.N., Christensen, K.S & Mouritsen, J. (eds.). (2005). Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital: Establishing a Field of Practice. Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Christensen, K.S. & Bang, H.K. (2003). Knowledge Management in a Project Oriented Organization: Three Perspectives. Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 116-128.