nwnacc

Institut for Regnskab

  • Center for Corporate Governance
  • Center for Ejerledede Virksomheder
Niels
Westergård-Nielsen
Professor
,
Akademisk Leder


Kontor: SOL/C5.05
Tel:
+4538152378
E-mail: nwn.ccg@cbs.dk
Præsentation

Niels Westergård-Nielsen, MSc (Econ), Aarhus University, 1975, PhD (lic.polit), University of Copenhagen, 1982. Employed as associate professor at Aarhus School of Business Jan 1984,  Professor Sept. 1989 - May 2013. Visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin 1979-80, University of Chicago, 1983, NBER, Harvard University, 1997, Curtrin University, Perth, 1998, RSF-scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2007-2008. Director of Center for Labour and Social Studies (Grundforskningscenter), Aarhus University, 1992-2000, Director Center for Corporate Performance, Aarhus School of  Business, 2001-2013. Consulting for the OECD, 1986, 1993-97 and for the World Bank 1994-97 (Zambia) and 2003 (Namibia).

Niels Westergård-Nielsen has been member of several Danish Government Commissions on the labour Market and on Greenland, Chaired the Commission on Apprentices, 1993. The most recent commission was the wage commission. He has authored various textbooks on the Danish Labour Market, authored scientific books and articles in leading journals on issues on skills and education, wages, health factors, HR, satisfaction, data issues and productivity. Has served as chairman of several research and evaluation committees: (evaluation of Uppsala University, Norwegian Research Council, EU-projects) and taken part in several large international research projects.

The research started in labour market studies using register data (and was among the first doing that). This led to cooperation with psychiatrists and publications in the medical literature. Niels then turned register research into research on what happens inside firms concerning personnel and firm performance. Keywords in this research: job turnover, job satisfaction, wage policies of firms, firm specific human capital, costs of job turnover, intergenerational mobility.

Primære forskningsområder
  • Job creation and destruction
  • Personnel Economics
  • Corporate Governance, board composition
  • Creation of new firms
  • The financial system and firms, access to credit
Curriculum Vitae
Link til denne hjemmeside
www.cbs.dk/staff/nwnacc
Kurser
  • Labor Economics (Graduate Course)
  • Personnel Economics (graduate/executive)
  • Corporate Governanve (undergraduate/executive)
  • Macro 101 (undergraduate)
  • Micro 101 (undergraduate)

 

Udvalgte publikationer
Publications List
Publikationer sorteret efter:
2022
Thomas Poulsen; Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Ejer- og generationsskifte : Overdragelse til medarbejdereje.
I: Barrierer for demokratiske virksomhederFrederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2022, s. 177-202
Bidrag til rapport
Thomas Poulsen; Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Pengeinstitutfinansiering til og fra demokratiske virksomheder
I: Pengeinstitutfinansiering til og fra demokratiske virksomheder. red. /Thomas Poulsen. Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2022, s. 152-175
Bidrag til rapport
2021
Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Tab af arbejdspladser ved konkurser?
I: Erhvervsjuridisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 29, Nr. 4, 11.2021, s. 226-231
Tidsskriftartikel > peer review
Torben M. Andersen; Jan Bentzen; Svend E. Hougaard Jensen; Valdemar Smith; Niels Westergård-Nielsen / The Danish Economy in a Global Context
2.red.København : Djøf Forlag 2021, 275 s.
Bog
2020
Aleksandra Gregoric; Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Aflønning af eksterne bestyrelsesmedlemmer : Empirisk evidens om danske bestyrelser.
I: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . red. /Niels Westergård-Nielsen. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, s. 89-105
Bidrag til bog/antologi
Niels Westergård-Nielsen (Redaktør) / Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer : Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?.
Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, 134 s.
Antologi
Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Danske virksomheder, ejerformer og bestyrelser
I: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . red. /Niels Westergård-Nielsen. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, s. 9-26
Bidrag til bog/antologi
Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Ejerlederes betydning for hele økonomien og fordelt på kommuner
Frederiksberg : Center for Ejerledede Virksomheder. Copenhagen Business School 2020, 12 s.
Rapport
Steen Thomsen; Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Er det en fordel med eksterne bestyrelser?
I: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . red. /Niels Westergård-Nielsen. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, s. 106-119
Bidrag til bog/antologi
Therese Strand; Niels Westergård-Nielsen / Hvor mange virksomheder har en bestyrelse?
I: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . red. /Niels Westergård-Nielsen. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, s. 27-38
Bidrag til bog/antologi
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Forskningsprojekter
Bibeskæftigelse

Nordic Rebalance A/S; Member of executive board; 2010 - ongoing
Nordic Rebalance AB; Member of executive board; 2018 – ongoing
University of Zürich; Teaching doctoral courses; 2020
Jyske Bank; Teaching; 2018 - 2019