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Torben Juul An­der­sen

Professor

Subjects
Decision-making Boards Centralisation Decentralisation Leadership Strategy

Primary research areas

International Management and Leadership

International organizations operate in complex dynamic contexts that call for leadership induced structural flexibilities and collaborative response capabilities across hierarchies, functions, and geographies to enable restructuring around adaptive business strategies.

Global Strategic Responsiveness

The global strategic responsiveness (GSR) initiative is focused on the strategic adaptation and resilience of private enterprises and public institutions in complex unpredictable global contexts aimed at generating results of value for business practice and sustainable societies.

Strategic Risk Governance

Risk governance is focused on how organizations can manage major exposures and disruptive events to attain favorable risk-return outcomes as reflected in good risk leadership practices where many firms typically fall into a left-skewed tail of underperformers.

Identify ways to persevere under extreme uncertainty and many unknowns.

My primary research focus is on strategic renewal and adaptability as a reaction to the dynamic complex global business conditions that call for effective leadership of strategic response capabilities and resilient adaptation in the face of emergent risks in unstable evolving environments with many abrupt disruptions. 

This constitutes one of the major societal problems of our time that challenges how human activities are structured and arguably presents existential issues for humanity. 

Contemporary businesses and the societies they operate in are increasingly exposed to unpredicted developments, e.g., derivative effects of pandemic, military conflict, and geopolitical tension as well as extreme weather caused by global warming, with a potential for extreme outcomes that challenge international business. 

We need solutions to deal with these global developments that call for collaborative efforts as the consequences are born by private and public institutions alike and extend beyond national, regional, and continental borders.

Outside activities

Chôra Foundation, Chairman of Supervisory Board, Haarlem, Netherlands, 2018–2025

CHÔRA was founded with the intent to operate as a non-profit Dutch Stichting to help organizations generate strategic and transformative innovation in an increasingly complex world with the aim to promote environmental protection and the wellbeing of mankind in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Go to www.chora.space

Strategic Risk Leadership Association (SRLA), Board member, Antwerp, Belgium, 2024–present

The SRLA is a pan-European expert network aimed at advancing the knowledge and use of risk management for strategic decision-making in European national and local governments comprising the public sector at large and its links to private enterprise.
Go to srla.eu

Fondsmæglerselskabet Carbonwise A/S, Board member, Hellerup, Denmark, 2024–present

The main activities are consultancy and order execution with a focus on certificates under the EU trading emission system aimed at reducing emissions from the shipping sector.
Go to cbwise.com

Soransk Samfunds Boligfond, 2025–present

SSB is a commercial foundation whose purpose is to construct and operate dormitories for students and international exchange students as well as provide housing support to students.
Go to Soransksamfund.dk

Andersen Advisory Services, 2025–present

AAS carries out advisory activities on economic, financial, and strategic matters as well as other related activities.