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Jette Steen Knudsen

Lektor , PhD
Jette Steen Knudsen

Institut for International Økonomi og Virksomhedsledelse

Porcelænshaven 24A, 2
2000 Frederiksberg

Tlf.: +45 3815 2378
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E-mail: jsk.int@cbs.dk



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Tilknyttet Center for Corporate Governance og CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility

Jette's areas of special interests are:

  • Corporate social responsibility/sustainability (in particular how CSR is governed within the corporation and possible impact on corporate strategy).
  • Corporate governance (board diversity)
  • Divergent career patterns of highly skilled women in the UK, US, Germany, Sweden and Denmark
  • Globalization and new corporate strategies
  • EU services liberalization (telecoms, insurance and the post)
  • Employment and skills creation
  • Mainstreaming of responsible (ethical) investment

Research funding. Jette is a member of the steering committee of a large scale research project named CSRIMPACT, which from 2010-2013 will examine the impact of corporate CSR initiatives. 17 research organizations, think tanks and consultancies will participate in the project, which has been awarded EUR 3.2 million from the EU Commission's FP7 Program for Research.

Education and publications. In 2001 Jette received a PhD degree in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also has a cand.scient.pol.degree (MA) from Aarhus University. Jette has written numerous scientific articles and newspaper articles, which have been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies and Journal of Public Policy.

Speaking engagements and work history. Jette is a frequent speaker in Denmark and internationally for companies, the Danish Globalization Council, the EU Commission, the European Parliament and national governments. Jette also has extensive consulting experience concerning CSR strategy. She has been a project leader at A.P. Moller-Maersk (CEO Office), director for four years of the think tank The Copenhagen Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a senior researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and a consultant for PwC.

Consulting. Jette has consulted extensively for Danish and international firms on CSR strategy helping companies identify CSR threats and opportunities, perform gap analysis, set priorities, devise codes of conduct and engage with stakeholders. She is a founder of CSR-Strategy, a consultancy.

Nominations and affiliations. Since 2009 Jette has been a member of a High Level Group that advices the EU Commission on sustainable production and consumption, and she has been a member of the Danish Council for Sustainable Business Development (background group). Jette has been affiliated with Harvard University, the London School of Economics and the Max Planck Institute in Cologne. She was a visiting scholar at MIT in the summer 2009.

Current research. Jette is currently working on four research projects titled:

1) The Organization of Corporate Control through CSR in Large Firms: From Do-Gooding Sideshow to Mainstream? This project focuses on how companies relate their CSR initiatives to wider corporate functions such as support functions and main business functions. To what extent are CSR initiatives embedded into strategic decision making? In November 2009 an exploratory workshop funded by the Carlsberg Foundation will also address this question.

2) The Universal Welfare State as a Career Stopper: Why Liberal Market Economies Offer Better Private Sector Career Prospects for High-Skilled Women? This project studies why women move further up the corporate ladder in the private sector in countries that are less willing to subsidize education and child support compared to Scandinavian welfare states.

3) Scenes from a Mall: How Does the Effectiveness of Retail Training Models Differ in Postindustrial UK and Denmark? (with Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University). This project examines why low-skill retail workers in Scandinavia seem to obtain fewer skills compared to workers in the UK.

4) Mainstreaming of Responsible Investment: Disentangling Social, Environmental and Governance factors (with Thomas Poulsen, Copenhagen Business School). This research project examines how the mainstream investment community seems to be adopting new strategies from the responsible investor community in the aftermath of corporate scandals and the financial crisis.

Teaching: CSR strategy, EU regulation, globalization and business strategy, training, board diversity

Primære forskningsområder

  • Corporate social responsibility/sustainability (in particular how CSR is governed within the corporation and possible impact on corporate strategy).
  • Corporate governance (board diversity)
  • Divergent career patterns of highly skilled women in the UK, US, Germany, Sweden and Denmark
  • Globalization and new corporate strategies
  • EU services liberalization (telecoms, insurance and the post)
  • Employment and skills creation
  • Mainstreaming of responsible (ethical) investment


Udvalgte publikationer

Articles

Allan Lerberg Jørgensen and Jette Steen Knudsen, Sustainable Competitiveness in Global Value Chains. How do Small Danish Firms Behave? In Corporate Governance. The International Journal of Business in Society (special issue), summer 2006.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2005. Is the Single European Market an Illusion? Obstacles to Reform of EU Takeover Regulation. In European Law Journal 11(4): 507-524.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2002. Germany's Service Sector Reforms: Lessons for Policy-makers. In Journal of Public Policy 22(1): 77-100.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 1998. Integrating West and East European Markets: Changing Trade Preferences in Traditional Manufacturing Sectors. In Comparative Political Studies 31(2): 188-216.

Book Chapters

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2009. Mice and elephants. New international demands for CSR constitute a challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises

(forthcoming in fourth edition of the Responsible and Sustainable Company Workbook 2009, a Spanish referent publication of CSR).

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2006. The Global Reporting Initiative in Denmark: Emperor's New Clothes or Useful Reporting Tool? In Reconciling Governance Philosophies: 21st Century Challenges edited by Mette Morsing and Andrew Kakabadse, Palgrave: 129-139.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2005. Liberalization of Services in the European Union: A Break with Tradition? In Institutional Challenges to the European Union in the Wake of Eastern Enlargement, edited by Amy Verdun and Osvaldo Groci, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Conference Papers

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2009. The Seemingly Inexorable Force of Business Driven CSR: From Do-Gooding Sideshow to Mainstream? Paper presented at the conference Globalization and Politics: A Conference in Honor of Suzanne Berger, May 8-10, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2008. Working Paper Corporate Social Responsibility: Assessing Triggers of Adoption of CSR Initiatives and their Impact on Wider Corporate Functions. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Rights organized by CBS and Copenhagen University, October.

Jette Steen Knudsen and Cathie Jo Martin. 2006. Varieties of Capitalism and Service Sector Training, Paper presented at the Council of Europeanists Conference in Chicago, IL, March.

Jette Steen Knudsen with Delia Ionascu and Steen Thomsen. 2004. What Determines Outsiders' Perception of how Socially Responsible a Company Is? Evidence from Denmark 1998-2003. Paper presented at the European Academy for Business in Society Colloquium Ghent, Belgium, 27-28 September.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2004. Corporate Philanthropy and Public-Private Partnerships: Do New Approaches to Business Constitute Pitfalls for Corporations and Society? Paper presented to the conference "The Ethical Wealth of Nations: Values and Social Development conference" Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona, Spain, July 24.

Jette Steen Knudsen and Bronwyn Dylla. 2002. Merger Clearance in the US and Europe: A Comparison, Working Paper 18 - 2002, INT, Copenhagen Business School.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2001. A Paradigm Shift: Services Trade Reform in the European Union, Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI), Working Paper 2001/9.

Books

Torben Pedersen, Jette Steen Knudsen, Ole Kirkelund, Rikke Kolbech and Jakob Pyndt. 2006. Globaliseringen starter i Danmark. Virksomhedernes udfordringer (Globalization begins in Denmark. New challenges for firms).

Additional Publications (selected)

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2009. Ansvarlige investeringer (Responsible Investments). In the Danish Newspaper Politiken 15 June.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2009. Undgå dårlige underleverandører (Avoiding bad suppliers). In the Danish Newspaper Jyllandsposten, 27 February.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2009. Transparens og ansvarlighed - det nye mantra i en finanskrisetid (transparency and responsibility - new trends during the financial crisis). In the Danish newspaper Børsen, 30 January.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2008. CSR - er danske virksomheder sociale nok? (Are Danish firms socially responsible?). In the Danish newspaper Politiken, 17 November.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2006. Rotteræset. Outsourcing betaler sig ikke altid (The rat race. Outsourcing does not always pay). In the Danish newspaper Politiken June 20.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2006. Det er ikke kun størrelsen, der tæller. MIT som forbillede for universitetsfusion (Size is not everything. Danish universities try to emulate MIT by merging), Commentary. In the Danish newspaper Børsen January 5.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2005. CSR og Konkurrenceevne (CSR and competitiveness). In Kommunikatøren, September.

Jette Steen Knudsen. 2004. Social Partnerships: A New Kind of Business. In The International Chamber of Commerce UK Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility, 2004.



Sidst opdateret af Tina Forsingdal 11.11.2009