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Research Programme and Project Leaders 
The Socio-Economic Organisation of Creative Industries is run by a research director, Brian Moeran, and three research stream or project leaders: Lise Skov, Jesper Strandgaard and Can-Seng Ooi.
Brian Moeran is Professor of Business Anthropology at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (IKL) at Copenhagen Business School. His administrative and research experience is extremely long-standing and wide-ranging. He has been Chair Professor at the Universities of London and Hong Kong, where he has reformed/established undergraduate degree programmes in Japanese Studies. He has also been Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong, where he was charged with faculty research programmes and budget administration. Thus, as a social scientist he has already had extensive experience of administering humanities research and teaching programmes. Moeran is an anthropologist whose research has over two and a half decades covered various aspects of creativity and innovation - from folk art pottery in Japan through to incense manufacture, by way of department store art exhibitions, the production of advertising campaigns, and fashion magazine publishing. He is thus uniquely qualified to guide the proposed research programme, since he has experience in all three research projects proposed, and has broad knowledge of Japan and Hong Kong as a comparative basis for research.
 
Lise Skov is Associate Professor of Creative Industries in IKL. A cultural sociologist by training, she has extensive experience of long-term field research in the fashion and fur industries - first, in Hong Kong, where she completed her PhD on the Hong Kong fashion world, and later in Copenhagen, where she is conducting ongoing research on fur production, trading and auctions. She has been co-founder, with Brian Moeran, of both Imagine.. and ConsumAsiaN (the Consumption in Asia Network), for which she has organised at least four workshops and edited one book series (18 volumes). She leads the research project on Fashion & Lifestyles, in association with Fabian Czaba (IKL) and Bo Christensen (Marketing).
Jesper Strandgaard is Professor of Organising and Managing Creative and Innovative enterprises in the Department of Organization at CBS. He is the current Director of Imagine.., he has conducted extensive research on film and media, in conjunction with colleagues in Italy and Spain, as well as publishing organisational forms in creative industries. He is uniquely qualified to lead the research project on Film and Media, together with John Chris Mathieu (IOA), Trine Bille and Mark Lorenzen (IVS).
Can-Seng Ooi is Associate Professor of International Business in the Department of International Economics and Management at CBS. A Board member of  Imagine.., he has written widely on cultural tourism and art museums, and done important comparative studies of Denmark and Singapore. He is thus uniquely qualified to lead the research stream on Art, Place & Culture, in association with Birgit Stoeber (IKL).
The Research Team’s Profiles 
  • Trine Bille is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, at CBS. An economist by training, her main research interests lie in the field of cultural economics, the experience economy and valuation of non-market goods. She has been involved in a large number of research projects and has great experience in project management
  • Bo Christensen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing at CBS. He received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Aarhus for a dissertation on the creative cognitive processes involved in product development. Trained as a psychologist, his area of expertise concerns cognitive approaches to the study of creativity and innovation using both ethnographic data and psychological experiments
  • Fabian Csaba is Post Doctoral Researcher in IKL at Copenhagen Business School. He received his PhD in Marketing and Consumer Studies from Southern Denmark University in 1999 for his dissertation on the commercial and cultural significance of the American shopping mall. His current research includes the building of global luxury brands (Georg Jensen) and branding of places and non-profit organisations.
  • Chris John Mathieu is Associate Professor at the Department of Organization (IOA) at CBS. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Lund University and a Masters Degree from the University of London. His recent research has focused on organisational, career and cooperation issues at the IT sectors in Sweden and Ireland and the Danish film industry. Recent publications have explored various aspects of the integration of the Danish film field
  • Birgit Stöber is Associate Professor of Cultural Geography at IKL, CBS. A geographer by training, her main research interests lie in mass media as a creative industry and in how creative industries participate in placing branding processes (in particular, in Berlin, but also in Copenhagen and the Øresund Region). She has recently initiated academic cooperation with the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin
  • Ana Alacovska is a PhD student and has a background in media and communication. As an UNESCO Research Fellow at La Sapienza University in Rome she was conducting research on the Italian publishing industry and post-colonial literature. She was engaged as research assistant on two international research projects at University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia and Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III in the domain of hermeneutics and intertextuality. Her current research interests revolve around the intercultural communication, experience economy and global travel industry. The focus of her work is on the cultural production/consumption of travel guidebooks and place branding in the context of the experience economy
  • Kristina Vaarst Andersen holds a degree in Sociology, University of Copenhagen. She is currently working on her PhD project with the title Social Networks in the Movie Industry – An Analysis of Industry Ecologies, Project Based Innovation, and the Effects of Institutional Contexts: Due to uncertainty and pressure for innovation, the production of movies is organised in project networks. The accumulation of these creates an industry ecology, which in turn affects formation of future project networks and project performance. Nevertheless, the existing literature does not encompass the effect of the institutional context on this process. Using unique data from the movie industries in Denmark and Bollywood along with existing data from Hollywood, the project sets out to fill this research gap.
  • Nina Poulsen is a PhD student working on a project with the preliminary title "Cultural economics and socio-spatial organisations". Holding an MA in ethnography and anthropology from University of Aarhus, she has done ethnographic fieldworks in Papua New Guinea and Havana. Her present focus is on production and consumption of contemporary art in Copenhagen. Primary interests are contemporary art, cultural economy, exchange, value, art markets, aesthetics and museology.
  • Janne Meier is a PhD student with a background in anthropology. She is working on a study of the construction of CSR and ethical business ideals in the fashion industry. The aim of the project is to critically address the issues of CSR in the global fashion industry and offer a cross cultural perspective which will shed light on the processes by which ethical issues and business practices get temporarily framed/stabilized and presented at fashion fairs and industry events. Fieldwork will be carried out at such events in Western Europe, America and India. Longer periods of fieldwork will take place in India where she will examine the field of CSR in the fashion industry and zoom in on the negotiations taking place between western buyers and Indian designers/ suppliers/manufactures in the fashion/garment industry.

Sidst opdateret af Carsten Yssing 18.01.2012