Centres and Units
Research Environments at CBS
CBS hosts a wide range of research centres, units, and clusters that advance knowledge across disciplines and address key societal and business challenges. These environments bring together researchers who collaborate on long-term agendas, external partnerships, and high-impact academic work.
The list includes department-based centres, research units, and thematic clusters that reflect the breadth of research taking place across CBS.
Cross-Cutting Initiatives
Most research environments are anchored in one or more departments. A few are cross-cutting initiatives that connect expertise across CBS:
Department of Accounting (ACC)
Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL)
- CBS Geopolitics & Business Security
- CBS Law
- Centre for Business History
- Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Leadership Unit
- Governance, Culture & Learning Unit
Department of Digitalization (DIGI)
Department of Economics (ECON)
Department of Finance (FI)
Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
- Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)
- Centre for Sustainability
- CogLab
- Communication, Organisation and Governance (COG) cluster
- Critical Digital Methods Lab
- The BHRights Initiative
- Technology and Society cluster
Department of Marketing (MARKTG)
- Center for Tourism and Culture Management (TCM)
- Advances in Branding Research Cluster (ABRC)
- B2B Marketing Research Cluster (B2BMRC)
- Consumer Research Cluster (CRC)
- Digital Marketing Research Cluster (DMRC)
Department of Organization (IOA)
- Centre for Organizational Research on Impact (CORI)
- Centre for Organization and Time (COT)
- imagine .. Creative Industries Research
- Organization Theory at IOA (OT@IOA)
- Organizations, Markets and Governance (OMG)
- People and Organizing (PnO)
- Research, Innovation and Organization (RIO) Group
- WETO – Work, Expertise, Technology and Organization