Forskningsprojekter

Institut for Interkulturel Kommunikation og Ledelse

Herunder finder du en liste over større igangværende projekter på instituttet (sorteret efter projektnavn):

Projects at the Center for Corporate Social and Responsibility

For information on CSR projects, please visit CSR's website: CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

Projects in the Centre for Business and Development Studies

For information on CBDS projects, please visit CBDS' website: Centre for Business and Development Studies

I.Family project

You are what you eat and the way that you eat it! Investigate and report.
The EC-funded project I.Family will do just that, helping to identify the reasons why young people in Europe eat the way they do and how this influences lifelong health.

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Why do young people in Europe eat the way they do? What are the reasons behind their eating habits and choice of foods?

Many factors are at play. Family time and influence are challenged by modern independent lifestyles. Processed foods, drinks and snacks are readily available. Marketing and peer pressures, accompanied by screen-based distractions that can replace physical activity, all play their part, under-pinned by learnt taste preferences and genetic predispositions.

Building on data gained from over 10,000 children in the IDEFICS study, the EC funded project I.Family will provide further insight into the most important influences on Europe’s young people, their lifestyle behaviour and their eating habits. I.Family will do this by re-assessing families as their children move into adolescence, identifying those families that have adopted a healthy approach to food and eating habits and those who have not. The project will help us understand the biological, behavioural, social and environmental factors that drive dietary behaviour as children journey towards adulthood.

With nutrition-related diseases causing a loss of over 56 million years of healthy life of European citizens as reported in 2000, policy-makers and healthcare professionals need to be sure how they can best support families to achieve healthier lifestyles. Families and individuals themselves will also benefit from the clarity provided by I.Family’s results, helping them to establish the ground rules that will lead to enjoyment of a longer healthier life.

Prof. Lucia Reisch is chairing the Work Package 7 “Consumer health behaviour and environmental factors”. Here, wider factors of nearer and wider environment of children and adolescents and their families are investigated. The regarded age group of pre-teens (tweens) is particularly susceptible to external influences since consumer competence and health literacy in nutrition related behaviour is just being built up, family guidance is gradually losing its predominance and the external consumption environment is gaining importance.
Assistant Prof. Wencke Gwozdz is co-chairing the Work Package 8 “Consumer awareness, ethical acceptability and policy implications”. Here, based on existing research and theory on behavioural change, social marketing and health communication, effective and pragmatic strategies as well as long-term policies to overcome ‘resistance to intervention’ will be designed and tested.

MISTRA Future Fashion

The overall objective of the MISTRA Future Fashion project is to promote systemic change of the Swedish fashion industry that leads to sustainable development of the industry and wider society, while at the same time strengthening the competitiveness of this industry. Expected outcomes of the four-year research initiative (2011-2015) include e.g. novel textile fibers, educational materials for designers, innovative recycling solutions, new business models, toolboxes for communication, and recommendations for policy makers. The project is financed by Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning ( MISTRA ).

MISTRA Future Fashion is based on cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary collaboration between academia and industry. Participants include SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Chalmers University of Technology, Copenhagen Business School, College of Crafts, Arts and Design (Konstfack), Innventia, Malmö University, Stockholm School of Economics, Swerea IVF, and the University of the Arts London. In addition, the project also has participation of industry partners.

MISTRA Future Fashion is divided into 8 research projects. CBS will be responsible for the planning and implementation of two of these:

Associate Professor Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen is project leader of Project 1: Changing markets & business models: Towards sustainable innovation in the fashion industry. The objective of this research project is to identify, develop, and disseminate knowledge about new market and business models for sustainable fashion. Concerted action is needed to foster a tipping point for sustainable fashion since no single actor has the capital and power to restructure the entire fashion industry. Therefore, the study of new market and business models have to look beyond the individual company and take into account the factors within the institutional environment that play a role in transforming the fashion industry.

Assistant Professor Wencke Gwozdz leads Project 7 : Sustainable consumption and consumer behaviour. The project strives to identify, develop, and disseminate in-depth knowledge about the sustainable fashion system in general and the behavior of specified consumers in particular. The focus is on potential promising entry points to successfully induce behavioral change towards more sustainable fashion consumption. We will be looking for such entry points in the realm of fashion producers, retailers and consumers as well as in policy making.

Contact persons: Associate Professor Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen, erp.ikl@cbs.dk and Assistant Professor Wencke Gwozdz, wg.ikl@cbs.dk.

NeXGSD - Next Generation Technology for Global Software Development

The software development paradigm is changing with the rise of geographically distributed software development models. Increasingly, organizations shift all or part of their software development offshore. It is no longer debatable whether ICT companies – including the industry partners in this project – will develop software on a global scale; it is only a question of the degree to which they do it. Compared to co-located projects, GSD projects are, however, more likely to be unsuccessful, because geographical, temporal, cultural, organizational, and stakeholder distances can have negative impact on communication, coordination, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.

This project seeks to develop next generation technologies – infrastructure, tools, and methods – that bridge geographical, temporal, and cultural differences in Global Software Development (GSD).

We plan to;

conduct detailed studies of the collaborative distributed nature of GSD with a special emphasis on cultural discontinuities and opportunities,

design and prototype new collaborative technologies and infrastructures for GSD, and

develop new software engineering processes, practices, cultural norms, and practical guidelines for bridging distances in time, space, and culture

The two core ideas are; (i) to view cultural diversity not solely as a challenge but also as an opportunity for increased innovation; and (ii) to build technologies that help companies to move from an outsourcing to a collaborative model of GSD. Overall, the project aims at providing knowledge and tools for organization to excel in software development on a global scale.

The project is funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research in Denmark

Partners:

IT University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen Business School
NNIT
TATA
TEO

Contactperson at CBS: Professor Anne-Marie Søderberg, ams.ikl@cbs.dk

CORPUS

Enhancing connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable consumption - CORPUS -

FP7 Project, chaired by Prof. Lucia A. Reisch, cbsCSR (starts 2010)

The current EU Research Framework Programme (FP7) provides the unique opportunity to further improve knowledge transfer at the interface of policy-making and research on sustainable development. CORPUS is a research project within the work programme “Environment”. It aims to develop new and practical approaches in order to enhance the connectivity between research and policy-making. The aim of this activity in FP 7 is to experiment and develop new integrative modalities of linking research results to policy-making through 'secondary exploitation' of existing research. The project will focus on the policy issue of ‘sustainable consumption’ which is of great importance in the current and future strategic development of the EU. It is included, for instance, in the re-launched Lisbon Strategy and is one of the key challenges of renewed EU SDS.

The objectives of the project are:

Development and testing of a knowledge web-platform with in-built incentives attracting and matching researchers’ and policy-makers’ interests in knowledge exchange alike.
Development and testing of interactive tools of knowledge brokerage within different dialogue-oriented formats, such as scenario workshops and mapping exercises.
Initiation of learning processes among researchers and policy-makers involved in the specific trials in order to trigger self-sustaining processes of knowledge brokerage and community building.
Assessment of the capabilities and shortcomings of the knowledge brokerage tools under consideration in order to arrive at general recommendations for future methodologies aimed to enhance the connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable development.

You can download the brochure for the project here: Corpus Folder

Contact person: Professor Lucia A. Reisch

Kulturel Intelligens som Strategisk Ressource

Forskningsprojektet Kulturel Intelligens som Strategisk Ressource har til formål at studere, hvordan ledere og medarbejdere i ni danske virksomheder og tre offentlige institutioner oplever kulturforskelle og taler om kultur samt hvordan de håndterer konkrete kulturmøder på danske arbejdspladser, i udenlandske datterselskaber og i virtuelle multinationale teams. Det treårige projekt, som er støttet af Det Strategiske Forskningsråd, blev indledt den 1. april 2008.

Fra CBS deltager: Anne-Marie Søderberg (IKL) (forskningsleder), Lisbeth Clausen (IKL), Martine Cardel-Gertsen (IKL), Mette Zølner (IKL) Verner Worm (ARC).

Kontaktperson: Professor Anne-Marie Søderberg

Link: Kulturel Intelligens som Strategisk Ressource

Creative Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organisation of Creative Industries

It is now widely recognised that different kinds of innovation and creativity are driving new production forms that give rise to goods and services with an added value: experience. For Denmark to operate as a high growth, competitive, global leader in the experience – or creative – economy, its government and business organisations need to develop a highly interconnected fabric of cultural and creative infrastructure.

Composed of nine dedicated senior researchers at CBS, plus PhD students, the programme examines at both macro- and micro-levels of analysis three Creative Industries' sectors: Fashion & Luxury; Film & Media; and Place Branding, Art & Culture. The programme is accordingly divided into three Research Streams.

Read the full description of the project here: Creative Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative Industries. Project description And the supplementary material: Creative Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative Industries. Supplementary material .

Link to Creative Encounters
Contact: Research leader Professor Brian Moeran

Sidst opdateret af Lise Søstrøm 23.05.2012