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Department of International Economics, Government and Business

Niels
Mygind
Professor


Room: POR/24.A-3.70
Tel:
+4538153032
E-mail: nm.egb@cbs.dk
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Presentation

Niels Mygind is professor at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business. He was head of department 2008-2013. He was director of the Center for East European Studies 1996-2008. He has done research on the effects of different ownership structures, the economic transition and especially privatization, corporate governance and enterprise restructuring in Eastern Europe with focus on the Baltic Countries. His current research covers the development in politics, institutions and the economy in emerging markets with focus on the BRIC countries. He is also working on corporate governance with focus on employee ownership.

Primary research areas
  • Politics-Institutions-Economy of Emerging Markets
  • Employee ownership
  • Transition from command to market economy
Curriculum Vitae
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/nmegb
Courses

Niels Mygind has taught a variety of courses in the areas of: Micro- and macroeconomics, Economic behaviour of employee-owned firms, Comparative Economic Systems, The Transition in Eastern Europe and the (former) Soviet Union, Emerging Markets, Economics of Property Rights and Corporate Governance.
Niels Mygind supervises Ph.D. students and student master-theses on subjects concerning corporate governance, enterprise restructuring, privatization, and transition in general.
 

Supervision
  • International Business Environment
  • Emerging Markets
  • Employee Ownership
Selected publications

(1987) "Are Self-Managed Firms Efficient? The experience of Danish Fully and partly  Self-Managed Firms". in Advances in the Economic Analysis of participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Volume 2, 1987

(1992) "The choice of ownership", Journal of economic and industrial democracy, Vol. 13. No. 3.

(1999) (with D. Jones) “The Nature and Determinants of Ownership Changes after Privatization: Evidence from Estonia”, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol 27/3,1999, pp 422-441

(2009) Stakeholder ownership and maximization Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, Vol. 9 No. 2, 2009, pp. 158-174

(2012) ”Trends in Employee Ownership in Eastern Europe International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol 23, No 8, pp.1611-1642

(2021) (with T. Poulsen) "Employee Ownership: Pros and Cons - A Review” Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 136-173

(2023) "Overcoming Barriers of Employee Ownership in France, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US" Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2023, pp. 230-263

(2023) "Three Models of Employee Ownership : Worker Cooperative, EOT and ESOP – Overcoming Barriers – Important Choices – Pros and Cons", Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 6, No. 3, 11.2023, pp. 264-280

Publications sorted by:
2023
Niels Mygind; Joseph Blasi; Douglas Kruse / Guest Editorial : Introduction to Special Issue on Overcoming the Barriers for Employee Ownership - Part 1.
In: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2023, 4 p., p. 97-100
Editorial
Niels Mygind; Joseph Blasi; Douglas Kruse / Guest Editorial : Introduction to Special Issue of Overcoming the Barriers for Employee Ownership - Part 2.
In: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2023, 5 p., p. 189-193
Editorial
Niels Mygind / Overcoming Barriers of Employee Ownership in France, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US
In: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2023, p. 230-263
Journal article > peer review
Niels Mygind / Three Models of Employee Ownership : Worker Cooperative, EOT and ESOP – Overcoming Barriers – Important Choices – Pros and Cons.
In: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 6, No. 3, 11.2023, p. 264-280
Journal article > peer review
2022
Niels Mygind / Medarbejdereje i Frankrig, Italien, Spanien, UK og USA
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2022, 61 p.
Report
2021
Niels Mygind / Drivers and Barriers for Employee Ownership : Why Is the United States in a Positive Circle while Denmark is Not?.
In: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2021, p. 42-62
Journal article > peer review
Niels Mygind; Thomas Poulsen / Employee Ownership : Pros and Cons - A Review.
In: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 4, No. 2, 17.11.2021, p. 136-173
Review article > peer review
Benjamin Faigen; Niels Mygind; Olaf Sigurjonsson; Audur Arna Arnardottir / Three Dimensions of Employees Acquiring Shares in Their Firms : Personal Characteristics, Motives and Type of Ownership.
In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 42, No. 3, 8.2021, p. 737-765
Journal article > peer review
2020
Niels Mygind; Thomas Poulsen / Medarbejderejede virksomheder : Fordele og ulemper.
København : Fagbevægelsens Hovedorganisation 2020, 59 p.
Report
2019
Derek C. Jones; Niels Mygind; Patrick Sen / Employee Involvement, Financial Participation and Firm Performance : Evidence for the Emerging Market Economy of Estonia.
In: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2019, p. 115-132
Journal article > peer review
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Academic Interests
  • Politics-Institutions-Economy of Emerging Markets
  • Employee ownership
  • Transition from command to market economy
Research Projects
Outside activities

2018 - No outside activities to report
2019 - Expert report on employee ownership - Danish Trade Union Confederation 
2020 - No outside activities to report
2021 - No outside activities to report
2022 - No outside activities to report
2023 - No outside activities to report