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Michael Wendelboe Hansen

Michael W. Hansen
Associate professor , Ph.D.
Michael Wendelboe Hansen

Department of Interculturel Communication and Management

Porcelænshaven 18A
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Tel.: +45 3815 3146
Fax:+45 3815 3840
E-mail: mwh.ikl@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with Center for Business and Development Studies

My research is focused around MNC strategy and developing countries and emerging markets, internationalization of Danish industry toward developing countries and emerging markets, linkages between MNCs and local firms in developing countries, outward foreign direct investment from developing countries, and foreign direct investment and the environment. Throughout, I focus my research on Asia and in particular India.
Observer at the Board for Danish Development Corporation (Danida)
Board member, Danida Fellowship Center

Primary research areas

  • MNC strategy in developing countries and emerging markets
  • Development effects of direct investment in developing countries
  • Internationalization of Danish industry toward developing countries and emerging markets
  • Linkages and foreign direct investment
  • The rise of challenger MNCs from developing countries
  • Foreign direct investment and the environment
  • Focus on MNCs in Asia, in particular India


Administrative functions

Koordinator, Business and Development Studies
Projektmanager “Outsourcing for Development Project”


Selected publications

  1. Hansen, M.W., Torben Pedersen and Bent Petersen, MNC Strategies and Linkage Effect in Developing Countries. Journal of World Business, 2009.
  2. Hansen, M.W. The rise of Indian Multinationals, in R. Kumar and M. Patibandla, Institutional dynamics and the Indian Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  3. Hansen, M.W., Wad, P., and Petersen, B., Change of subsidiary mandates in emerging markets: The case of Danish MNCs in India, Working paper CBDS, 2009.
  4. Hansen, M.W., Schaumburg-Muller, and Pottenger, E., Toward a developing country perspective on outsourcing, Strategic Outsourcing, An International Journal, 2008.
  5. Greve, Majbritt, Michael W. Hansen and Henrik Schaumburg-Müller, Container Shipping and Development; A case study of A.P. Moller - Maersk in South East Asia, Copenhagen: CBS Press, 2007
  6. Hansen, M.W. Udvikling gennem direkte investeringer, in Steen Folke og J. Heldgård, Den rige mus og den fattige elefant, Hovedland, 2006.
  7. Hansen, M.W., Torben Pedersen, Bent Petersen, Danish investment in developing countries: A global Value Chain Perspective, CBS Press, 2006.
  8. Hansen, M.W. and Henrik Schaumburg-Müller (ed), Transnational Corporations and Local Firms in Developing Countries - Linkages and Upgrading, Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006.
  9. Hansen, M.W. “Foreign direct investment and the environment: A transaction cost perspective”, in Journal of Transnational Management Development, Volume 8, Issue 4, 2004.
  10. Hansen, M.W. ‘Managing the environment across borders’, Journal of Transnational Corporations, Volume 12, no 1, 2003.


Last updated by Michael Wendelbo Hansen 07/04/2011