The Department of Organization wishes to promote collaboration between researchers – internally as well as with researchers at other departments and universities.

Therefore, the department prioritizes the organization of research in projects and groups – often with external funding.

The department's research projects have been financed by Realdania, the Danish Social Science Research Council, the National Directorate of Labour and the National Agency for Enterprise and Construction, among others.

Large-scale research projects have been organized as centres under a director of centre. They create a sound professional framework and a platform for collaboration and dissemination of research results.

"Research benefits from collaboration. That is the reason why we have established the Center for Health Management, which consists of researchers from different departments at CBS. Together, we are going to study the new patient role in society and examine how the different patient perceptions are at the core of management in the health sector."

Anne Reff Pedersen

ABC Research Network: Interpretive Approaches to Institutional Entrepreneurship

The formation of the ABC research network (Alberta, Boston and Copenhagen) is motivated by a growing interest in understanding how individuals and organizations influence organizational institutional change, including established organizational routines within an industry or a society. Exploring one of the black boxes of institutional theory, this cross-Atlantic network investigates how individual actors initiate institutional change through organizational sense-making and how institutions, in turn, shape the process of sense-making. The aim of the network is to carve a niche for interpretive approaches to institutional entrepreneurship and to build an academic infrastructure that favors the initiation of collaborative research projects in the future.

Center for Health Management focuses on the new conditions in terms of management and performance in the health sector.

A 2-year study of Carlsberg Group as it develops and implements a new corporate branding strategy in the context of both the recent acquisition of several major beer brands and existing subsidiaries. We intend to focus particular attention on the dynamics of organizational identity in relation to corporate history, subcultural dynamics, and management practice. On the basis of this study we will develop theory that links organizational identity to corporate brand and organizational subculture.

The project on Global branding and organizational identity will form part of the lead researchers’ ongoing work developing an identity based theory of corporate branding in the cultural contexts of business and society.

imagine .. Creative Industries Research examines the organization of creativity in businesses, projects and transnational networks. The centre has a multidisciplinary approach and focuses on the lasting connection between creativity and industry. The centre members disseminate research results for industry and society through publications, media, workshops and other presentations.

Et nyt samarbejde mellem CBS og Realdania muliggør, at brobygningen mellem forskning og praksis i relation til ledelse og byggeri fortsætter de kommende to og et halvt år.

I Netværket Ledelse i byggeriet føres Clibygs forskning videre i et mere uformelt regi - i et netværk, som er åbent for alle byggeriets aktører. Netværket skal dels fastholde den kontakt, som det nu lukkede forskningscenter har skabt mellem forskere og praktikere. Teori og praksis er nemlig dybt afhængige af hinanden, hvis byggeriet skal blive bedre til ledelse. Netværket skal desuden medvirke til at videreudvikle kontakten på tværs mellem aktører i alle dele af byggeriet.

What Makes Organization?

Resuscitating organization theory/revitalizing organizational life.

The programme aims to investigate the historical and contemporary ability of Organization Theory (OT) both to analyze and to intervene in the experience of organizational life. This aim will be pursued through two mutually related strands of research: a) an analysis of the changing relationship between organization theory as an intellectual and practical discipline and the problems besetting modern organizations b) an historical analysis of classic, albeit largely forgotten or ignored, organization theories in order to explore their potential for helping to address contemporary organizational and societal concerns. In so doing, a key objective of the programme is to revitalize Organization Theory as a practical enterprise centrally concerned with describing, analyzing and intervening in organizational life.