Dalgas Have 15
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Head of Department: Sven Bislev
Telefon: +45 3815 3815
Fax: +45 3815 3840
E-mail: ad.ikl@cbs.dk

The Department of Intercultural Communication and Management has as its point of departure the globalization of businesses, cultures and societies. Research at the Department adresses various aspects of that process, with a theoretical emphasis on the integration and development of cultural analysis into communication and management research

IKL does not operate a formal division into separate research areas - issues and problems are addressed by researchers individually or in groups, constellations that change in composition, size and financial background. For a descriptive overview, however, the following headlines point to the major fields of research:

IKL does not operate a formal division into separate research areas - issues and problems are addressed by researchers individually or in groups, constellations that change in composition, size and financial background. For a descriptive overview, however, the following headlines point to the major fields of research:

1. Organization, Culture, Identity and Strategy
ganizational culture, branding, organizational strategy and identity, value-based management, management discourses and theories, comparative and intercultural management.

The field of Organization Studies has become extremely broad in recent years, spanning most of the social science spectrum. IKL's perspective on the field emphasizes in several ways the cultural angle: culture understood as sets of meanings and values, and as collective identity and community. Methods of cultural analysis are also important: communication analysis, ethnographic analysis, discourse analysis, etc. Projects at IKL have been concerned with the corporate branding process, intercultural management, public management discourse, corporate values and responsibility, etc.

Publication examples:
Mary Jo Hatch og Majken Schultz, Are the strategic stars aligned for your corporate brand? Harvard Business Review, 2001, vol. 79, no. 2, S. 129-134 Mette Morsing og Jan Kristensen, The question of coherence in corporate branding -Over time and across stakeholders- Journal of Communication Management, vol. 6, no. 1, S. 24-40

2. Communication
Organizational communication, political communication, business communication, intercultural communication, mass media.

A confluence of several trends has brought communication into focus of social science and business studies: the development of the internet as the new communicative medium, the linguistic turn in sociology, interpretative perspectives in social science, discourse analysis, the integration of branding and strategy, etc. At IKL, research projects have addressed a broad range of communication issues from advertizing (hidden advertizing in mass media), via political communication (local governments' image communication) to organizational communication (net-based communication, writing professional texts).

Publication examples:
Brian Moeran, Asian Media Productions, Curzon Press. Hans Krause Hansen og Roy Langer og Dorte Salskov-Iversen, Managing Political Communications, Corporate Reputation Review, vol. 4, no. 2, S. 167-184

3. Globalization
International and intercultural business, globalization of management, business and development, national culture and internationalization.

The Departments focus on international business and organization has been emphasized by the contemporary discussion of 'globalization', pointing to both economic, political, business and communicative aspects of a very broad phenomenon.

Publication examples:
Peter Wad, Making and unmaking viable national auto manufacturers in South Korea and Malaysia - the net holder approach. pp. 24-55 Business and Society, vol 2, no. 1, 2001 Nigel J. Holden og Dorte Salskov-Iversen, Managing Globalization, The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, 2001, S. 429-448 There is considerable overlap, in terms of substance and perspective, between the three categories. Several IKL researchers participate in projects under two or even three of the headings. Below, some indications of the level of activity and accomplishments in the three areas are attempted.

The department has 3 professorial positions. One professor has been on 25% leave, another on 50% leave and the third on 100% leave. 1 visiting professor has been active most of the year, and 2 temporary positions have been filled for minor parts of the year.

17 positions exist for associate professors, 4 are on leave of which one is temporarily replaced, making the number of active 14.

7 assistant professors have been working in the department most of the year.

6 research scholars have been employed at IKL, and 5 PhD dissertations produced (mostly by scholars whose employment terminated earlier).

Altogether, professors (all categories) have had 9 and a half years of research time, corresponding to a little more than 5 mill. DKK. Research scholars have had 5 years research time, of which 2 ½ years have been externally funded.

External funds: The department received DKK 2.449.703 in external research funding in 2001. During the year professors at the department participated in aprox. 10 applications for new funding of which 5 were granted. Most new projects are to start in 2002.

1. Organization, Culture, Identity and Strategy:
Most of the department's researchers did work that falls in this category. 6 researchers dedicated all or most of their time to branding, value management, intercultural or comparative management.

One new project on cultural aspects of mergers and acquisitions was initiated, in co-operation with researchers from other Nordic countries.

One new professor has been appointed in international business strategy - she is on leave until mid-2002. A research professor left after the end of his externally financed project, to take on new tasks at the CBS. Negotiations about two important new initiatives were initiated and going well around the end of the year: a LOK-project on branding and organizational identity, and a Centre for Corporate Values and Responsibility.

Of the 33 articles in - mainly foreign - journal articles and books published in 2001, 17 were in this category: articles on value management, branding, knowledge management, strategy, and comparative management.

2. Communication:
IKL took an active part in the establishment of the CBS Centre for Corporate Communication, appointing the research professor and the administrator that were to be organizing the effort. Two IKL professors were on the board, at least 10 IKL researchers did regularly partake in various CCC activities.

Much IKL research has a strong communicative aspect - including much work done relating to organizational culture, values and identity - but some is also more concretely focussed on communicative processes. Papers have been published on fashion magazines, on political communication and on internet communication, and a report on the communications profession and the need for new qualifications was produced, to pave the wave for the new Organizational Communication study programme.

Two researchers are part of a major new, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional project on network governance and information technology. Applications were entered and the competition won in 2001, the project is to start in 2002.

7 IKL articles in - mainly foreign - research periodicals and books were published in 2001 that belonged to this category.

3. Globalization:
Three IKL researchers, in cooperation with two from Aalborg University acquired a major grant for a project on Business in Development, studying the role and possible contribution of Transnational Companies in relation to Third World development of competitiveness and sustainable business. Another research grant was acquired for a project on Economic Crisis and Enterprise Unions in East Asia.

A project on the Internationalisation of small and medium size enterprises was started by IKL and INT researchers with professors from two Vietnamese universities and Aalborg University, funded by the Danida Enreca programme.

In co-operation with the Organization Department, IKL participates in the Danish University Consortium on the Environment and Development, which just acquired a large grant for the next three years.

The inter-institutional globalization project - on globalization, statehood and world order - in which five IKL researchers took part, was finished. This year, the publication output was 2 articles in international journals, two books, and a number of papers and articles fed into the pipeline.

Other researchers worked on national cultures and business systems, on the internationalization of management discourse, and on governance and globalization.

9 IKL articles of the 33 published in - mainly foreign - research periodicals and books were in this category.