Lars Heide
Associate professor
, dr.merc.
Lars Heide
Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi
Cell phone: +45 2383 4840
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: heide.lpf@cbs.dk
Lars Heide
Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi
Porcelænshaven 18A
2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 30272000 Frederiksberg
Cell phone: +45 2383 4840
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: heide.lpf@cbs.dk
Link to this homepage:
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Affiliated with
Centre for Business History
Both Maersk Line, IBM, ISO, and the US Department of Justice contributed significantly to the international society’s formation. My main professional focus the development of business and public organizations and their role in societal change. I work on this through my research, project supervision, and teaching. I have particularly have studied the interaction between companies’ organizational and technical change in Denmark, Europe and North America. Social constructivism is my theoretical background.
I am now working on a comparative study of IT industry in the United States, Great Britain, (West) Germany, and France between the end of the nineteenth century and 1980. The main focus is the interaction between market and producers. I completed a book on the punched card industry between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War which will appear in 2009. I am now working on the history of the mainframe computer and machine tool industry. Also, I am working in an international consortium on the project "The Emergence and Governance of Critical Transnational Infrastructures (Eurocrit)". My contribution is the project "Air Traffic Control: Facilitating Transnational Trust trough Governance and Technology".
Primary research areas
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Company and leadership
- Regulation of markets, businesses and public organizations
- Interaction of organizational and technical change
- IT, transport and energy industry in a global world
Selected publications
Books
Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Historien om FORCE Technology 1940-2006 (FORCE Technology’s History), Copenhagen: Børsens Forlag, 2008
Hulkort og EDB i Danmark 1911-1970 (Punched Cards and Computers in Denmark, 1911-1970), Århus: Systime, 1996
Articles
"Facilitating and restricting a challenger: Patents and standards in the development of the Bull-Knutsen punched card system, 1919–1938, Business History, 51(2009), 28–44.
"Punched cards for professional European offices: revisiting the dynamics of information technology diffusion from the United States to Europe, 1889–1918, History and Technology, 24(2008), 307–320.
"The Danish Welding Institute and FORCE Technology, 1940-2005: Technical Standardization and the Shaping of Business", Entreprises et histoire, 51(2008), 57-68.
"Facilitating Technology Service: National and European Standards and the Shaping of FORCE Technology, 1940-2005", in Harm Schröter (ed), The European Firm, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2007.
"Between Parent and ‘Child’, IBM and its German Subsidiary, 1910-1945", p.149-173, in Multinationals in Dictatorships, eds. Per H. Hansen and Chris Kobrak, New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.
"Monitoring people: Dynamics and Hazards of Record Management in France, 1935-1944", Technology and Culture, vol.45 (2004), p.80-101.
"IBM Technology and the Third Reich", p.283-292, in Steven L.B. Jensen (ed), Genocide: Cases, Comparisons and Contemporary Debates, Copenhagen: Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2003.
Last updated by Anje Schmidt 25/03/2009
