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Peter D. Ørberg Jensen

Assistant professor , PhD
Peter D. Ørberg Jensen

Department of Strategic Management and Globalization

Kilevej 14, 2. floor
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Room 2.61
Tel.: +45 3815 2658
Fax:+45 3815 3035
E-mail: poe.smg@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with Centre for Business and Development Studies

Peter D. Ørberg Jensen’s research interests overall concern economic globalization and firm internationalization. His research specializes on the global sourcing of advanced and high-value services and technical functions.
Peter’s career track record includes 11 years in business consulting in the Danish firm Rambøll Management, during 2000-2006 as Chief Consultant, and a 3-year assignment at United Nations Development Programme’s HQ in New York (1996-99).
His research is published internationally and he serves as an academic reviewer for the Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Strategic Outsourcing Journal, the Academy of International Business, and the European Academy of International Business.

Primary research areas

  • Outsourcing
  • Offshoring
  • Global value chains
  • Knowledge-intensive services
  • Firms in emerging economies
  • Firm internationalization


Selected publications

Articles in peerreviewed journals
Jensen, P. D. Ø. (forthcoming 2012). A passage to India: A dual case study of activities, processes and resources in offshore outsourcing of advanced services. Journal of World Business.
Jensen, P. D. Ø. and B. Petersen. (forthcoming 2012). Global sourcing of services vs. manufacturing activities: Is it any different. The Service Industries Journal.
Jensen, P. D. Ø. and T. Pedersen. (forthcoming 2011). The economic geography of offshoring: The fit between activities and local context. Journal of Management Studies.
Jensen, P. D. Ø. 2009. A learning perspective on the offshoring of advanced services. Journal of International Management. 15(2): 181-193.
Jensen, P. D. Ø., J. F. Kirkegaard and N. S. Laugesen. 2009. Beyond job losses: The net effects of offshoring and inshoring on employment in the Danish economy. Strategic Outsourcing – An International Journal, 2(2): 123-144.
 
Books and book chapters 
Jensen, P. D. Ø. and T. Pedersen. 2010. The globalization of high-value activities: Why do firms offshore advanced tasks?. In Alegre, J. & Barber, J. P. (Eds.). Progress in International BusinessResearch (vol. 5) – Reshaping the Boundaries of the Firm in an Era of Global Interdependence. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Group.
Jensen, P. D. Ø. 2008. Offshoring of Advanced and High-Value Technical Services: Antecedents, Process Dynamics and Firm-Level Impacts (PhD series 23.2008). Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School.
Jensen, P. D. Ø., J. F. Kirkegaard and N. S. Laugesen. 2006. Offshoring in Europe - Evidence of a Two-Way Street from Denmark. Institute for International Economics Working Paper Series, WP 06-3. (In print April 2007 in “Working Papers: Volume II” by IIE; ISBN: 978-0-88132-404-4)
Jensen, P. D. Ø. and T. Bjørnkilde. 2004. New trend in evaluation: From evaluation studies to streams of evaluative knowledge in H. Machkova (ed.) "Companies and competitiveness in the European Union". University of Economics, Prague, and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, ISBN 80-245-0724-2.
Jensen, P. D. Ø., S.Winter, J. Haahr and Jens Henrik. 1995. The Labour Market Reform, Evaluation of Regionalization and Planning. The Danish Labour Market Agency, Copenhagen.
Jensen, P. D. Ø., S. Brøndum, P.T.  Madsen and J. Høstrup. 1995. Public Tenders and Business Opportunities, for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. The Danish Agency for Trade and Industry, 1995
Jensen, P. D. Ø., S. Winter, T. P.  Jensen and J. Manniche. 1991. Measures to combat long-term unemployment: Evaluation of job training and education for unemployed people. Local Governments Research Institute, Copenhagen.
 
Other publications
Jensen, P. D. Ø. and Rambøll Management Consulting. 2010. Evaluering af innovationscentre – Silicon Valley, Shanghai & München. Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsen & Eksportrådet.
Jensen, P. D. Ø. and Jens Vilstrup. 2001. 3 Stories from 2025, Scenarios for the Danish Welfare State and the Public Sector. Ministry of Finance of Denmark (awarded as winner of prize competition commissioned by the Ministry of Finance of Denmark).
 
Conference papers (peer reviewed)
Academy of International Business, Annual Meetings in 2007, 2008, 2009.
Strategic Management Society, Annual Conference, 2010.
3rd Annual Offshoring Research Conference and Paper Development Workshop, April 2009, Duke University, NC, USA
34th and 35th European International Business Academy, Annual Conference, 2008, 2009.
3rd Conference on Internationalization of Companies and Intercultural Management, Aalborg University, October 2008.
25th DRUID (Danish Research Unit on Industrial Dynamics) Conference, CBS, Copenhagen June 2008.
Conference on the Offshoring and Outsouring of High-Value Company Functions, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, April 2008.
9th International Business Research Forum & 2nd Offshoring Research Conference, April 2008, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), 2007, 2010.
European Academy of Management, 2007, 2010.
1st Annual Offshoring Research Conference and Paper Development Workshop, April 2007, Duke University, NC, USA.
 
Honours and Awards
2010: Winner of the Highly Commended Paper Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010 by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
2009: Nominated for Best Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (top 10 among 1000 submitted conference papers).
2007: Awarded the “Elite Researcher Travel Scholarship” (DKR 250,000/USD 48,000) from the Danish Research Council and Ministry for Science and Technology
2001: Winner of prize competition commissioned by the Ministry of Finance, Denmark on “Scenarios for the Danish public sector and welfare state in 2025”.
 
Guest Lectures
October 2009: University of Gothenburg, Sweden: “The Economic Geography of Offshoring”.
November 2008: The Franklin Center for Global Policy Exchange, 24th Transatlantic Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: “Competitiveness in a Global Market”.
October 2008: University of Gothenburg, Sweden: “Offshoring of Advanced Services”.
January 2007: Danske Bank, Bangalore, India: “Offshoring Trends”.
November 2006: Danish Agency for Governmental Management, Copenhagen: “Offshoring To and From Firms in Denmark – Current Status and Future Trends”.


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