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Dorte Madsen

Associate professor , PhD
Dorte Madsen

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

Porcelænshaven 18A
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3332
Cell phone: +45 26214020
Fax:+45 3815 3840
E-mail: dma.ikl@cbs.dk



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My key research interest lies within information studies, and the intersection of information management, communication and information architecture.
With a background in International Business Communication, a PhD in translation/specialist communication, and cognitive linguistics, over the last 10 years I have gradually refocused my field of interest via practical experience (jobs outside university between 1997 and 2004) with knowledge communication, information architecture and information management.
My main research interest is to study how information can be managed so that it can be used optimally and strategically, and how information architectures can be developed to help people and organizations manage their information well. I am especially interested in the disciplinary and interdisciplinary foundations of the information field, and in the theoretical foundations of information architecture and information management.
I am currently involved in the Research and Education Group in Information Architecture, REG-iA . The group’s main purpose is to provide the basis to establish IA as a full-fledged academic discipline and bridge the two camps of professional practice and academia. REG-iA is the initiator of the Journal of Information Architecture .

Primary research areas

  • Information management
  • Information architecture
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • knowledge communication
  • curriculum development


Selected publications

  • New directions in information management education in Denmark. On the importance of partnerships with the business community and the role of interdisciplinary theory to create a coherent framework for information management. In Heinström and Spink (eds.): Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Europe. Emerald Library and Information Science Book Series 2012/forthcoming.
  • Shall we dance?.. In: Journal of information architecture 2009 ; Vol. 1, No. 1, 01.01.2009. p. 1-5. Publication: Research › Editorial
  • A. Resmini, K. Byström, & D. Madsen: IA Growing Roots - Concerning the Journal of IA . Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009, Volume 35, Number 3, p. 31-33.
  • Information Architecture Education in Europe. Med Heiko Haubitz, Boris Müller, Luca Rosati og Bernhard Thull. Proceedings of The 2006 Euro IA Summit, Berlin, September 30-October 1 2006.
  • How can complex knowledge, which may be scientific, be communicated to heterogeneous audiences? The 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 16-19, 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA. Proceedings, vol. VII. Nagib Callaos (m.fl.)(ed.). International Institute of Informatics and Systemics. Orlando, 2006
  • Kernefaglighed, praksisorientering og sammenhængskraft - refleksioner over sammenhænge og kompleksitet i BA in Information Management. Working paper, Center for Kommunikation/Fakultet for Sprog, Kommunikation og Kultur, CBS 2006, 20 sider.
  • Strategisk fokus på information som ressource - medarbejderportalens infrastruktur. I Knowledge Management Per Nikolaj Bukh (ed.). København: Børsen Forum. 2005


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