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Carsten Ørts Hansen

Associate professor
Carsten Ørts Hansen


Solbjerg Plads 3, 5. sal
2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2483
Cell phone: +45 2962 0286
Fax:+45 3815 2995
E-mail: ch.om@cbs.dk



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1) Research interests.
  • Managerial Economics
  • Performance Management
  • Accounting & Finance
  • Sociology & Institutional Theory
  • Maritime Industries
His research combines Managerial Economics, Accounting, Finance and Investment with Sociology and Institutional Theory. This interdisciplinary curiosity focuses on the ability to model, calculate and optimize various financial business issues and to debate and thoughtfully reflect upon their techno-logic and their role in organizations and society.
His research and teaching activities focus on the maritime industry and involve companies and organizations from the industry.
2) Positions.
  • Associate Professor, Department of Operations Management, CBS, 2009 - present
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Operations Management, CBS, 2006 - 2009
  • Senior Management Consultant /Industrial Researcher, KPMG Consulting/CBS 2000 - 2005
  • Management Consultant, Deloitte Consulting 1998 – 2000
3) Research visits and awards.
  • London School of Economics (LSE), visiting researcher for one year
  • Stanford University (Scancor) visiting researcher for one quarter.
  • Awarded the David Solomons Prize for best article in Management Accounting Research
4) Partnership with business community.
Carsten Ørts Hansen is an experienced organizer of co-operation between CBS and the business community, including funding and managing research projects.  He participates in the maritime research network at CBS focusing on the maritime industry. The network involves researchers across departments at CBS as well as participants in the industry. The research activities are funded by the industry, public organisations and CBS.
5) Research activities and publications
  • Fleet competitiveness and the regulation of the maritime sector - A visit in the Machiavellian kitchen. Hansen. Mercator. Maritime Innovation, Research and Education, p. 280-286. 2010/11
  •  The Blue Denmark: Is it a maritime labour mobility cluster?  Maritime Policy Research Paper (2012). Sornn-Friese & Hansen. INO; CBS
  •  Landlubbers and Sea Dogs. The Case of Labour Mobility in the Danish Maritime Sector in a Time of Accelerating Globalisation. Book. Sornn-Friese & Hansen (2012). Copenhagen: CBS Press and NFS (forthcoming).
  •  The significance and development of “The Blue Denmark”. Sornn-Friese & Hansen. Danish Maritime Magazine no. 5, 2011,
  •  “Short and Long Translations: Mobilizing Innovation via Management Accounting Calculations”. Mouritsen & Hansen & Hansen in Accounting, Organisation and Society, vol 34, Nr. 6-7, 2009, s. 738-754
  •  “Inter-Organizational Controls and organizational competencies: Episodes of Implementing Functional Analysis and Open Book Accounting“. Mouritsen & Hansen & Hansen in Management Accounting Research, 12, 2, 2001, p. 221-244
  •  ”Competitiveness, Flexibility and Management Control: mobilizing and managing flexibility in four SMEs”. Mouritsen & Hansen & Hansen in International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2, 1-7, 2001, p. 757-777
6) Teaching activities
  • Responsible for the course “International Shipping & Transport” at the diploma program (HD, Part 2) in Supply Chain Management. From fall 2012 the course will focus exclusively on international shipping, while the more general transportation issues will be separated out in an individual course.
  • Cand.Merc. course: Developments in International Shipping (part of the Minor in Maritime Business)
  • Responsible for the final project at the diploma program (HD, Part 1) with approx 520 students.
  • Counseling and supervise Diploma Theses and Master Degree theses with shipping and other maritime businesses as main focus.  Provides illustrative teaching case material, home assignments and exam cases about the maritime sector into various classes taught at CBS.
  • Responsible for the teaching in Management Accounting and Finance in the bachelor study programme Business Administration and Politics and in the bachelor study programme Business Administration and Communication.
7) Scandinavian publications.
  • ”Konstruktion af ledelsesteknologi og organisatorisk effektivitet”. Hansen: Ph.D. thesis, Copenhagen Business School, 2005, Forlaget Samfundslitteratur
  • ”Anvendt forskning – væk med skyklapperne”. Hansen & Larsen: in Ledelse i dag, nr. 59/04.
  • ”Inter-organisatorisk økonomistyring – om Open Book Accounting, Target Costing Management og styring af underleverandør-relationer”. Hansen, Hansen & Mouritsen: in Ledelse og Erhvervsøkonomi 1999
  • ”Fleksibilitetens Økonomi – fire cases om økonomistyring i fleksible, innovative virksomheder ”. Hansen, Hansen & Mouritsen, in Økonomistyring & Informatik, 1999, 2
  • "Ledelsesteknologi som begreb - rundt om begrebets meta-teoretiske karakteristika ". Hansen: WP-series, No. 104, ISBN 87-91757-03-7 , CVL, CBS, 2007
  • "Ledelsesvidens laboratorium", Hansen.  WP-series working paper, No105, ISBN 87-91757-04-5  CVL, CBS, 2007



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