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Niels Mygind


Niels Mygind

Department of International Economics and Management

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Affiliated with Center for International Business and Emerging Markets and Center for Corporate Governance

Niels Mygind earned his cand.polit./M.Sc. in 1980 from Department of Economics, Copenhagen University. The same year he enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the Department of Economics, CBS. In 1996, he was appointed Director of the Center for East European Studies, which moved in 2000 to the Department of International Economics and Management (INT). In 2004 he became Professor with special responsibilities in the research area “Corporate Governance and Restructuring in Eastern Europe”. Since the start of 2008 he has been Head of Department at INT.
Professor Mygind has an extensive list of international publications that spans the general analysis of societies in transition; privatization, restructuring and employee ownership in Eastern Europe, with emphasis on the Baltic Countries, and Corporate Governance – shareholder-stakeholder issues with focus on employee participation.

Primary research areas

  • Analysis of societies in transition
  • Emerging markets
  • Privatization, restructuring and employee ownership in Eastern Europe and China
  • Corporate Governance
  • Shareholder-stakeholder issues with focus on employee participation


Selected publications

"Are Self-Managed Firms Efficient? The experience of Danish Fully and partly Self-Managed Firms". in Advances in the Economic Analysis of participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Vol 2, 1987, JAI Press Inc.
"The choice of ownership", Journal of economic and industrial democracy, Vol. 13. no. 3. 1992.
"Omvæltning i Øst - fra plan til marked fra partidiktatur til demokrati, fra "socialis­me" til?" 300 pages, published by Sam­fundslitteratur, København, 1994. English translation:"Societies in Transi­tion", CBS, 1994
"Employee-ownership in the Baltic Countries" in D.Vaughan-Whitehead and M.Uvalic, eds.: "Workers´Share Ownership and Economic Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe", Edward Elgar, 1997, pp 49-79.
(with D. Jones) "The Nature and Determinants of Ownership Changes after Privatization: Evidence from Estonia", Journal of Comparative Economics, vol 27 no 3,1999, pp 422-441.
Privatisation, Governance and Restructuring of Enterprises in the Baltics,
OECD, Centre for Co-operation with non-members, working paper CCNM/BALT (2000)6, pp. 1-83, Paris,  
"Enterprise Governance in Transition - a Stakeholder Perspective", in Acta Oeconomica, no 3, 2001, pp. 315-342
(with D. Jones): Ownership and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from Estonia, Review of Development Economics, 6(2), 2002, 284-301
(with D. Jones and P. Kalmi) Choice of Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Estonia, Post-Communist Economies, Vol 17, no 1, 2005
(with D. Jones) Corporate governance cycles during transition: theory and evidence from the Baltics, ch 14 pp 253-286 in The Life Cycle of Corporate Governance, eds. Igor Filatotchev and Mike Wright, Edward Elgar Press, 2006
Virtuous circles in Chinese growth – can it continue, chapter 1, pp 11-39 in Chinese Business Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy, V. Worm ed.), CBS-press 2008. 
Stakeholder-ownership and maximization, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, Vol 9, no. 2, 2009
Trends in Employee Ownership in Eastern Europe, International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol 23, no 8, pp.1611-1642, 2012.



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