Christian Geisler Asmussen and Steen Andersen are award winners of the year
They are both involved in the global challenges faced by several companies and recipients of this year’s Tietgen Award on Thursday 2 April 2009.

Christian Geisler Asmussen from the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization conducts research on multinational companies with focus on the mutual impact of the competences of companies (such as technological knowledge) and their internationalisation.

Christian Geisler Asmussen has contributed to the debate on the globalisation’s impact on multinationals with new theoretical perspectives and innovative methods through, for instance, the development of more accurate ways to measure the globalisation of companies.

Awards are not new to Christian Geisler Asmussen who has won the Barry M. Richman Best Dissertation Award - an international business award, which he received for his PhD thesis at the Academy of Management conference last year. He was also nominated for the Carolyn Dexter Award for best international paper.

In addition, he was awarded Haynes Prize at the Academy of International Business for most promising young researcher.

Political risks and moral dilemmas at the global market
Steen Andersen from the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy primarily conducts research on the 20th century and the political development’s impact on the activities and strategies of companies.

Steen Andersen has in particular taken an interest in Danish international companies’ management of institutional uncertainty and political risks at the global market in a historical perspective. Such problems hold important experience and messages to those parts of the Danish business community that must relate to uncertainty, political risks and moral dilemmas in connection with their comportment at a global market.

In 2008, he was included in Business History for best paper at the 12th Annual European Business History Congress.