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Jette Steen Knudsen

Associate professor , PhD
Jette Steen Knudsen

Department of International Economics and Management

Porcelænshaven 24, 2
DK - Frederiksberg 2000
Tel.: +45 3815 2378
Cell phone: +45 2120 9295
Fax:+45 3815 2500
E-mail: jsk.dbp@cbs.dk



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Jette is affiliated with the CBS Center for Corporate Governance and the CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility. 
Education and publications. In 2001 Jette received a PhD degree in Political Science from MIT. She also has a cand.scient.pol.degree (MA) from Aarhus University. Jette has written numerous scientific articles and newspaper articles, which have been published in journals such as Regulation and Governance, Journal of Business Ethics and European Journal of Industrial Relations.
Speaking engagements and work history. Jette is a frequent speaker in Denmark and internationally for companies, the Danish Globalization Council, the EU Commission, the European Parliament and national governments. Jette also has extensive consulting experience concerning CSR strategy. She has been a project leader at A.P. Moller-Maersk (CEO Office), director for four years of the think tank The Copenhagen Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a senior researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, and a consultant for PwC.
Consulting. Jette has consulted extensively for Danish and international firms on CSR strategy helping companies identify CSR threats and opportunities, perform gap analysis, set priorities, devise codes of conduct and engage with stakeholders. She is a founder of CSR-Strategy ApS, a consultancy ( www.csr-strategy.dk ).
Nominations and affiliations. Since 2009 Jette has been a member of a High Level Group that advices the EU Commission on sustainable production and consumption, and she has been a member of the Danish Council for Sustainable Business Development (background group). Jette has been affiliated with Harvard University, the London School of Economics and the Max Planck Institute in Cologne. She was a visiting scholar at MIT in the summer 2009 and summer 2010.
Research funding. Jette is a member of the steering committee of a large scale research project named Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR (IMPACT), which from 2010-2013 will examine the impact of corporate CSR initiatives. 17 research organizations, think tanks and consultancies will participate in the project, which has been awarded EUR 3.2 million from the EU Commission's FP7 Program for Research ( www.csr-impact.eu ). Jette is also responsible for the Work Package that highlights recommendations to business and the policy level. The project will ask and attempt to reply to questions such as: What benefits does CSR actually bring to the economy and society at large? How can managers, policy-makers and stakeholders better measure and analyze its outcomes? What does this mean for smart mixes of public policies and corporate strategy?
Upcoming conference presentations
 Jette Steen Knudsen and Jeremy Moon, “Business in Society – A Blind Spot for Social Scientists?” (University of Nottingham, ICCSR 10th Anniversary Conference: CSR Futures: Knowledge and Practice, April 26-27, 2012)
Jette Steen Knudsen, “The Growth of Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains: Mission Impossible for SMEs?” (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Conference, Boston, June 28 - 30, 2012)
Jette Steen Knudsen and Jeremy Moon, “CSR as Mutual Governance: Interactions of Government, Civil Society and Business across Borders” (Academy of Management Conference, Boston, 3-7 August, 2012)
Teaching: CSR strategy, EU regulation, globalization and business strategy, training, board diversity
Student recommendations:
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Masters theses:
I welcome new masters thesis students from May 1, 2012. Preference will be given to Business/Politics and IB students but all are welcome. If you are interested in writing your masters thesis with me please send a brief proposal and a recent transcript of your grades.

Primary research areas

  • The changing relationship between public and private regulation of CSR
  • Corporate social responsibility/sustainability (in particular how CSR is governed within the corporation and possible impact on corporate strategy)
  • Corporate governance (board diversity)
  • Divergent career patterns of highly skilled women in the UK, US, Germany, Sweden and Denmark
  • Globalization and new corporate strategies
  • Employment and skills creation
  • Mainstreaming of responsible (ethical) investment


Selected publications

Accepted articles
Dana Brown and Jette Steen Knudsen 2012. Managing CSR globally and locally:  Lessons from a CSR Leader.Business and Politics (special issue on “Corporate Responsibility, Multinational Corporations, and Nation States”). Forthcoming.
Jette Steen Knudsen 2011, Which Companies Benefit Most from UN Global Compact Membership? Forthcoming in European Business Review, October/November.
Jette Steen Knudsen 2011. Company Delistings from the UN Global Compact: Limited Business Demand or Domestic Governance Failure? Journal of Business Ethics. 103 (3): 331-349. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0875-0.
Jette Steen Knudsen 2011. Private Sector Career Trajectories for Women in Denmark and the US: Welfare State vs. Corporate Diversity Programs. European Journal of Industrial Relations 17 (3) 261–275.
Jette Steen Knudsen 2010. Women in Private Sector Management: A Comparison of State Regulation and Company Initiatives. Political Perspectives 40(2): 5-14.
Cathie Jo Martin and Jette Steen Knudsen 2010. Scenes from a Mall: Retail Training and the Social Exclusion of Low-skilled Workers. Regulation and Governance, 4(3): 345-364. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01085.x/abstract .
Allan Lerberg Jørgensen and Jette Steen Knudsen. 2006. Sustainable Competitiveness in Global Value Chains. How do Small Danish Firms Behave? Corporate Governance. The International Journal of Business in Society (special issue), summer: 449-462.
Jette Steen Knudsen. 2005. Is the Single European Market an Illusion? Obstacles to Reform of EU Takeover Regulation. European Law Journal 11(4): 507-524.
Jette Steen Knudsen. 2002. Germany’s Service Sector Reforms: Lessons for Policy-makers. Journal of Public Policy 22(1): 77-100.
Jette Steen Knudsen. 1998. Integrating West and East European Markets: Changing Trade Preferences in Traditional Manufacturing Sectors. Comparative Political Studies 31(2): 188-216.
 
Book chapters
Jette Steen Knudsen. Forthcoming, 2012. The Myth of Codes of Conducts as a Regulatory Instrument for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. In Sustainable Value Chain Management: Analyzing, Designing, Implementing, and Monitoring for Social and Environmental Responsibility, edited by Adam Lindgreen, Gower Publishing.
Jette Steen Knudsen. 2010. The Organization of CSR as a Means of Corporate Control: From Do-Gooding Sideshow to Mainstream? In Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities: Global Legal and Management Perspectives, edited by Karin Buhmann, Mette Morsing and Lynn Roseberry, Palgrave MacMillan: 175-200.
Jette Steen Knudsen. 2006. The Global Reporting Initiative in Denmark: Emperor’s New Clothes or Useful Reporting Tool? In Reconciling Governance Philosophies: 21st Century Challenges, edited by Mette Morsing and Andrew Kakabadse, Palgrave MacMillan: 129-140.
Jette Steen Knudsen. 2005. Liberalization of Services in the European Union: A Break with Tradition? In Institutional Challenges to the European Union in the Wake of Eastern Enlargement, edited by Amy Verdun and Osvaldo Groci, Manchester University Press: 72-91.
 
Working papers
Jeremy Moon, Rieneke Slager, Christoph Brunn, Peter Hardi and Jette Steen Knudsen. 2012. Analysis of the National and EU Policies Supporting Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact. Working Paper 2. Deliverable to “IMPACT Project” funded by Directorate General for Research, European Commission (Framework 7 Program). http://csr-impact.eu/documents/documents-detail.html?documentid=5


Last updated by Sofie Thaagaard Hyllested 20/04/2012