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Research Profile

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

Research Profile
In different combinations, three sets of focuses organise our research: managing, organising, and governing; the local in the global, the global in the local; and the communication and cultural ‘moments’ of the social. It is the appetite for blending aspects of these three focuses that gives the department its particular edge.
ICM is distinguished by its embrace of cross-disciplinarity and a stimulating and enquiring research environment. Its international scholars are drawn from a wide range of academic fields, including business economics, politics, economics, sociology, geography, area studies, anthropology and communications and culture studies, working with multiple methodologies, including in-depth interviews, focus group sessions, observation, document analysis, ethnographic studies and survey research.

Five different platforms, characterised by partly overlapping membership and inter-related themes, constitute the primary internal anchorages for ICM’s researchers and their projects:
  1. The CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (Director: associate professor Esben Rahbek Pedersen)
  2. The Centre for Business and Development Studies (Director: associate professor Michael W. Hansen)
  3. The Communication, Organisation and Governance (COG) Cluster (Coordinator: professor Dan Kärreman)
  4. Creative Encounters (Director: professor Brian Moeran)
  5. RIME , Researchers in Management Education (Coordinator's associate professor Maribel Blasco and associate professor Charles T. Tackney) 
Research Strategy
ICM’s vision is:
  • to bring our multiple disciplines to bear on the understanding of managing, organising and governing the in conditions of globalisation – leveraging our unique position to capture the complexities and contexts of present day organisations and businesses.
To achieve this, we strive:
  • to develop and challenge the interfaces between our different research communities - be they centres or clusters - so that they serve as sources of mutual inspiration and innovation
  • to support each of these communities as they pursue their particular research agendas within their respective fields, often in collaboration with scholars and practitioners from outside CBS.
ICM communicates its research in international and national peer reviewed academic journals, anthologies and books; through participation in international and national research conferences. Our researchers, furthermore, regularly initiate and organise seminars, workshops and conferences with a view to enhance the dialogue between academia and practitioners, nationally as well as internationally.
ICM enjoys a strong position in Corporate and Organisational Communication, Intercultural Management, Organisation Studies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Branding, Consumer Studies, Creative Industries, Media Studies, Business and Development Studies, (Global) Governance, and Management Education Studies. The department’s cultural and communicative orientation often enables its researchers to pose research questions that take them into new terrain, across well-established disciplinary boundaries. Several ICM scholars have special regional research expertise on the USA, Latin America, France, Germany, Britain, India, China, Japan, South East Asia and Africa.
ICM and the overall CBS ‘Business in Society Strategy’
Most of ICM’s research explores – in some fashion or other - the broader social, economic and political dimensions of business. According to the international, external Peer Review of ICM’s research in 2009, “this makes it one of the largest ‘business and society’ clusters of any business school globally”, with each research group leveraging the business in society perspective from the vantage point of different disciplinary, thematic and empirical foci:

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Last updated by Lise Søstrøm 19/01/2012