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Anne-Marie Søderberg

Anne-Marie Søderberg
Professor
Anne-Marie Søderberg

Department of Interculturel Communication and Management

Porcelænshaven 18A
DK 2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Tel.: +45 3815 3204
Fax:+45 3815 3840
E-mail: ams.ikl@cbs.dk



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My research has a focus on multiple cultures, identity constructions and communication in organizational change processes. I have been involved in longitudinal case studies of international mergers and acquisitions, and in recent years I have extended my focus on private corporations to include mergers of public institutions. My main research interest is to study how managers and employees make sense of and give sense to complex organizational changes. I am also concerned about the strategic roles of HR and Communications in post-merger integration processes and take an interest in studying how communication tasks and activities are organized across staff functions and business areas to serve strategic functions.
In the interdisciplinary research project ’Cultural Intelligence as a Strategic Resource’ (2008-2011) we study intercultural learning processes among managers and employees in globalizing companies, as well as the organizational conditions for developing cultural intelligence.
I am main responsible for ethnographic studies of global development teams in the interdisciplinary research programme ‘Next Generation Technology for Global Software Development’. This project, which is funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council 2011-2015, is a collaborative effort between the IT University of Denmark, CBS and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and some global IT companies.
Conceptually, my work is drawing mainly on discourse, identity and culture theories, and on critical approaches to organization and management studies.

Primary research areas

  • Cross-Cultural Management and Competence Training
  • International Business Studies (Mergers and Acquisitions)
  • Organizational Communication
  • Cross-Cultural Business Communication
  • Culture Theory and Culture Analysis
  • Critical Discourse Analysis


Administrative functions

Director of the research programme 'Cultural Intelligence as a Strategic Resource' (2008-2011)
General Co-chair of the 4th International Conference of Intercultural Collaboration 
Member of the board of European Academy of Management 
Project Manager of ethnographic studies  Next Generation of Global Software Development 
 


Selected publications

 
  1. Anne-Marie Søderberg & Verner D. Worm (2011): Communication and collaboration in subsidiaries in China - Chinese and expatriate accounts. European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, vol. 2(1), pp. 54-76.
  2. Martine Cardel Gertsen & Anne-Marie Søderberg (2011): Intercultural Collaboration Stories. On Narrative Inquiry and Analysis as Tools for Research in International Business. Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 42 (6), pp. 765–786.
  3. Gertsen, M.C. & Søderberg, A.-M: Expatriate stories about cultural encounters - a narrative approach to cultural learning processes in multinational companies, Scandinavian Journal of Management 2010, 26, pp. 248-257.
  4. Annette Risberg & Anne-Marie Søderberg: Translating a Management Concept: Diversity Management in Denmark. Gender in Management Review. An International Journal. Vol. 23, (6) 2008, pp. 426-441 in Special issue 'Critical perspectives in diversity and equality management'.
  5. Anne-Marie Søderberg & Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg: The Formation of the Global Soldier. Managing Identities in Multinational Military Units. In Manigart, P. & Soeters, J. (Eds.): Military Cooperation during Multinational Peace Operations. Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response. London & New York: Routledge 2008, pp. 180-197.
  6. Anne-Marie Søderberg: Narrative Interviewing and Narrative Analysis in a Study of a Cross-border Merger. Management International Review, 2006, 46 (4), pp. 397-416.
  7. Ingmar Björkman & Anne-Marie Søderberg: The HR function in Large-Scale Mergers and Acquisitions: The case of Nordea. Personnel Review, 2006, 35 (6), pp. 609-617.
  8. Janne Tienari, Anne-Marie Søderberg, Charlotte Holgersson & Eero Vaara: Gender and National Identity Constructions in a Cross-Border Merger Context. In Gender, Work and Organizations, 2005, Vol. 12 (3), pp. 217-241.
  9. Anne-Marie Søderberg & Eero Vaara (Eds.): Merging across Borders. People, Cultures and Politics. Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen 2003.
  10. Anne-Marie Søderberg: Sensegiving and sensemaking in an integration process. A narrative approach to the study of an international acquisition. In Czarniawska, Barbara & Gagliardi, Pasquale (Eds.): Narratives we organize by. Narrative approaches in organization studies. Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2003: John Benjamins, pp. 3-35. (Re-printed in Risberg, Annette (Ed.): Mergers and Acquisitions. A Reader. London & New York: Routledge 2006, pp. 121-142)
  11. Anne-Marie Søderberg & Nigel J. Holden: Rethinking cross-cultural management in a globalising business world. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2002, Vol. l2 (1), pp.103-121.
  12. Martine Cardel Gertsen, Anne-Marie Søderberg & Jens Erik Torp (Eds.): Cultural Dimensions of International Acquisitions. Walther de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1998.
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Last updated by Anne-Marie Søderberg 30/09/2011