Welcome to CAMS-COPENHAGEN

Center for Applied Management Studies – CAMS-COPENHAGEN – was established in 1998 at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) with the objective of researching into the characteristics of Danish managerial behaviour and processes.

A rich source of knowledge and experience of how managership has been practised in Denmark has been more or less neglected until recently. People who have lived an active life exercising managerial processes form this inexhaustible source of experience. Which were the problems of management that these executives were facing and solving during their business career? Which situations were critical, and how have the problems been tackled?

There are as many answers to these questions as the number of ex-executives being asked. When sufficient documentation is at hand, CAMS-COPENHAGEN will find the invariables characterising managerial behaviour.

We are looking for the answers through examples and actual cases to be described so as to form a basis for an exchange of experiences, resulting in a diagnosis. Such diagnosis is the platform for projects of research aiming at formulating better answers to the problems managers are constantly facing.

Erik Johnsen, professor, oecon.dr., who took the initiative to and is the leader of the Center, has a background of life-long researching and teaching in managerial behaviour and processes both in Denmark and internationally. He is convinced that ex-executives (the so-called "grey gold") represent a vast potential of managerial experience which ought to be made common knowledge to present and future managers.

As a road to this objective CAMS-COPENHAGEN has gathered around 50 executives-in-residence in about 15 mutually independent working groups. The individual groups co-operate on writing manuscripts for publications each describing one or several questions or situations of management which have had a specific significance and interest during the careers of the authors, and which are supposed to be of interest to a wider public, to students of managerial behaviour, and to managers in the 21st century.

The results of the working groups are published as books or compendia and presented at public conferences held at CBS.

Center for Applied Management Studies
Copenhagen Business School
Room SV029
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg