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Henrik Sornn-Friese

Henrik Sohn-Friese
Associate professor , MSc. in Economics and Business Administration, Ph.D in Business Economics
Henrik Sornn-Friese

Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics

Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics
Kilevej 14a, 3th floor
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2932
Fax:+45 3815 2540
E-mail: hsf.ino@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics) and Blue Denmark.dk - Research on Maritime Industries

My current research interests cover interfirm linkages, industrial dynamics, organizational evolution, industrial clusters, innovation systems and economic globalization. My empirical interests cover particularly the Danish maritime cluster (including such industries as water transport, maritime services, shipbuilding, maritime equipment and offshore oil and gas extraction) and the Danish trucking industry.

Primary research areas

  • Industrial dynamics
  • Interfirm linkages
  • Organizational evolution
  • Industrial clusters and innovation systems
  • Economic globalization
  • The Danish maritime cluster
  • The Danish trucking industry

Administrative functions

Academic Director of the MSc. Programme in Economics and Business Administration (Cand.merc.), chairman of the Cand.merc. Study Board. Member of the Study Board for HA(Kom).


Selected publications

Poulsen, René Taudal and Henrik Sornn-Friese. Downfall Delayed. Danish Shipbuilding and Industrial Dislocation. Business History, August 2011, 53(4): 557-582.
Sornn-Friese, Henrik and Martin Jes Iversen. Incentives, Capability and Opportunity. Exploring the Sources of Danish Maritime Leadership. International Journal of Maritime History, June 2011, 23(1): 193-220.
Poulsen, René Taudal and Henrik Sornn-Friese. Out of the Blue: Exploring the Unanticipated Endurance of the Danish Maritime Supply Industry. Paper presented at the International Association of Maritime Economists’ (IAME) annual conference (”Understanding Shipping Markets”) held in Copenhagen June 24-26, 2009.
Sornn-Friese, Henrik. Problemet om økonomiens sociale indlejring. Refleksioner over Mark Granovetters embeddedness-begreb. Samfundsøkonomen, 2008, No. 3: 4-8.
Henrik Sornn-Friese: Managing cyclical changes in the European shipbuilding and ship repairing industries: Evidence from Denmark. Dublin, Ireland: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 2007 (to be published on the EMCC website http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int ).
Henrik Sornn-Friese. Hvad er en virksomhed? Erhvervsøkonomisk Teori og Analyse. [What is a Firm? Economic Theory and Analysis]. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur, 2007, 238 pages.
Henrik Sornn-Friese and Søren H. Jensen. Interfirm Linkages and the Vertical Structure and Dynamics of the Danish Trucking and Congress Tourism Industries. DRUID Working Paper No. 06-33, 2006.
Henrik Sornn-Friese: Interfirm Linkages and the Structure and Evolution of the Danish Trucking Industry. Transportation Journal, Fall 2005, vol. 44, No. 4: 10-26.
Peter Gammeltoft and Henrik Sornn-Friese: National Embeddedness of Economic Activities: Industrial and Technology Policy in Korea and Taiwan. Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2005, vol. 13, No. 2, p. 1-22.
Henrik Sornn-Friese and Janne Simoni Sørensen: Linkage lock-in and regional economic development. The case of the Øresund medi-tech plastic industry. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2005, vol. 17, No. 4 (July), p. 267-291.
Henrik Sornn-Friese: Navigating Blue Denmark. The Structural Dynamics and Evolution of the Danish Maritime Cluster. Copenhagen: Danish Maritime Authority, 2003, 147 pages.
Esben Sloth Andersen, Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Henrik Sornn-Friese: Editorial. In: Research Policy, 2002, vol. 31, p. 185-190.
Henrik Sornn-Friese: Learning in Firms and Markets. Organizational Adaptation and Industry Dynamics in the Road Haulage Industry in Denmark in the 1990s. Ph.D. Series 23.2001. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School, Faculty of Economics, 2001, 340 pages.
Henrik Sornn-Friese: Frontiers of Research in Industrial Dynamics and National Systems of Innovation. In: Industry and Innovation, 2000, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 1-13.


Last updated by Tuyala Bernardo Rasmussen 23/11/2011