De­part­ment of Di­git­al­iz­a­tion

At the Department of Digitalization (DIGI), we explore how digital technologies reshape organisations, markets, and society. Our research engages with some of today’s most pressing challenges by examining how digital transformation influences work, decision-making, innovation, governance, and everyday life.

Our scholars investigate themes such as data-driven organisations, algorithmic decision-making, digital platforms and ecosystems, cybersecurity, digital sustainability, public-sector digitalisation, and the societal implications of emerging technologies. Across these areas, we aim to generate insights that help organisations navigate complexity and design responsible, resilient, and human-centred digital futures.

Collaboration is central to our work. We partner with companies, policymakers, public institutions, and international research communities to ensure that our findings support informed decisions and real-world impact. Through empirical studies and close engagement with practice, we contribute to debates on digital responsibility, inclusion, transparency, and the governance of new technologies.

Our ambition is clear: to produce knowledge that empowers organisations, guides policy, and supports society in making sense of digital transformation. We work to shape a digital future that is innovative and competitive, but also ethical, sustainable, and attentive to human and societal needs.

At the Department of Digitalization (DIGI), our research is organised around dynamic, medium-term themes—typically active for 3–7 years—that reflect emerging areas in which digital technologies reshape individual, organisational, and societal life. This flexible structure enables interdisciplinary collaboration and ensures that our research remains closely aligned with the evolving digital landscape. We take pride in contributing to the field’s leading journals; through the efforts of our faculty, CBS ranks #1 in Europe and #4 globally in publications within the “Basket of Eight” (Bo8) Information Systems journals.

Our current research is anchored in seven focused themes: Blockchain in Business & Society, Data Studies, Digital Ecosystems, Digital Government, Digital Sustainability, Digital Transformation of Work & Society, and Hybrid Threats & Defence Tech. Together, these themes reflect the breadth and depth of DIGI’s engagement with the digital transformation of business, public institutions, and society at large.

Teaching profile 
CBS is a teaching-heavy business university, where much of our time is dedicated to research-based teaching. Ideally, we teach what we research in, and research what we teach. At DIGI, we aim to be among the first departments to apply advanced IT and digital tools in the classroom—both for exploration and exploitation.

Programme responsibility 
The Department of Digitalization is responsible for a wide portfolio of programmes and courses across CBS, from bachelor to executive level. We coordinate two bachelor programmes, three master programmes, and contribute to a broad range of bachelor and master electives, graduate diplomas, and the Master of Business Development.

The Department of Digitalization runs a successful Ph.D. program with more than 20 Ph.D. fellows currently enrolled. Department of Digitalization (DIGI) focuses on digitalization in business and society. DIGI strives to collaborate with industry and society through engaged scholarship while pursuing rigorous research that explores the fast-moving pace and radical innovation and social change that characterizes digital phenomena.

The aim of our Ph.D. program is to produce Ph.D. candidates at a high international level. In addition to learning how to conduct research at an international level, students will acquire a broad theoretical and methodical insight into both the socio-technical and computational fields depending on the chosen research project. The socio-technical research projects draw mostly on the social sciences (information systems, management, economics, psychology, sociology, etc.). The computational research projects draw on data sciences, design science, and computer science.

DIGI is an interdisciplinary research environment at Copenhagen Business School that brings together scholars, PhD fellows and administrative staff around a shared interest in digital transformation.
We explore how digital technologies shape organizations, markets and society, and we do so in close collaboration across research areas and roles.

All DIGI members are located in the same building at CBS at Howitsvej 60 at Frederiksberg.
This proximity creates a strong sense of community and provides daily opportunities for collaboration, exchange and professional development.