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Steen Andersen

Steen Andersen
Associate professor , PhD
Steen Andersen

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy

Porcelænshaven 18A
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2872
Cell phone: + 45 2873 3328
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: sa.lpf@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with Centre for Business History

20th century business history and the influence of political developments on the strategies and activities of companies. I have a special interest in the development of multinational Danish construction firms in the 20th century and the cross field between corporate interests and the political development. Particularly interesting in this context is the question of the companies’ handling of uncertainty and political risk. Furthermore I have an interest in the institutional frames which regulate company dispositions at the formal as well as informal level.
Danish foreign policy of the 20th century is also of great interest to me as well as the role Danish companies played on the international market.
Finally I am also interested in the relations between civil servants and politicians in a historical perspective with a special focus on the time of occupancy.

Primary research areas

  • Business history
  • Political risk
  • Companies in Danish Foreign Policy
  • Multinational Danish construction firms in the 20th century


Administrative functions

Programme Director of the bachelor of science in Business administration and Sociology


Selected publications

Books:
Sammen med Kurt Jacobsen: Foss. Børsens Forlag, 515 sider, 2008.
Sammen med Søren Federspiel: Nytænkning gennem 100 år – Teknologisk Instituts historie 1906-2006, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 298 sider, 2006.
De gjorde Danmark større… Danske entreprenører i krise og krig 1919-1947, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 573 sider, 2005.
Danmark i det tyske storrum – Dansk økonomisk tilpasning til Tysklands nyordning af Europa 1940-41, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 315 sider, 2003.
Building for the Axis and the Allies. Danish Multinational Construction Companies in Crisis and in War, 1919–1947, Cambridge University Press, 293 sider (forventes udgivet i 2009).
Articles:
”Building for the Shah: Market Entry, Political Reality and Risks on the Iranian Market, 1933-1939”, Enterprise and Society, Volume 9, Number 4, December 2008, 637-669.
“Between Imperative and Risk. The Case of Christiani & Nielsens market entry in Norway 1941-45”, kommende nummer af Scandinavian Economic History Review.
“Escaping “Safehaven”. The Case of Christiani & Nielsen’s Blacklisting in 1944”. Kommende nummer af Business History.
“Living Conditions and the Business Environment in Denmark, 1940-1945”, Europäische Volkswirtschaften unter deutscher Hegemonie 1938-1945, (ed.) Christoph Buchheim, Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009.
Sammen med Martin Jes Iversen: “Co-operative liberalism: Denmark from 1857 to 2007“, Creating Nordic Capitalism, (ed.) Fellman, Iversen, Sjögren and Thue, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008, 265-334.“


Last updated by Anje Schmidt 02/09/2009