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Morten Than­ning Vendelø

Associate Professor

Subjects
Decision-making Management Organisation Disaster Arctic

Primary research areas

The main con­cern in my re­search is how or­gan­iz­a­tions dis­cov­er, make sense of, re­spond to, and learn from in­nov­a­tions and un­ex­pec­ted events. I pur­sue these in­terests with­in the con­text of the five themes men­tioned be­low
- Crisis Man­age­ment

- Or­gan­iz­a­tion­al De­cision Mak­ing

- Or­gan­iz­a­tion­al Learn­ing and Ad­apt­a­tion

- Event Safety Man­age­ment

- Man­age­ment of In­nov­a­tion

Or­gan­iz­a­tion­al Safety and De­cision Mak­ing

My research focus on how organizations discover, make sense of, decide about, respond to, and learn from unexpected events, including how organizations prepare for and address emergencies. I pursue my research in qualitative and multidisciplinary studies of crowd safety at large music festivals, Arctic offshore emergencies, organizational adaptation during the Covid-19 crisis, and transgressive behavior in organizations. I am a co-founder of Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE), established in december 2012, in collaboration between Copenhagen Business School and University of Copenhagen. 

Publications

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2024

Managing When the Anticipated Future Constantly Slips Through Your Fingers

Affective Temporality During an Infinite Crisis

Mor­ten Than­ning Ven­de­lø, Associate Professor

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February 2023

Organisationers Verden: Skraldespandsmodellen

Mor­ten Than­ning Ven­de­lø, Associate Professor

Marianne Kellmann
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2023

Roskilde Festival and Transgressive Behaviour

An Emerging Safety Concern for Event Organisers

Mor­ten Than­ning Ven­de­lø, Associate Professor

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Recent research projects

Sexu­al Trans­gres­sions in Aid: Hu­man­it­ari­an Per­cep­tions and Re­sponses (STAid)

STAid ex­plores how hu­man­it­ari­an act­ors per­ceive and re­spond to sexu­al trans­gres­sions. Work­ing with two hu­man­it­ari­an or­gan­iz­a­tions, we fo­cus on the plur­al­ity of per­spect­ives about what ‘counts’ as trans­gress­ive be­ha­vi­or. We fo­cus on or­gan­iz­a­tion­al con­cepts of respons­ibility; ac­counts of un­safe spaces by in­ter­na­tion­al aid work­ers; and loc­al per­cep­tions of trans­gres­sions.

Nor­d­ic Centre of Ex­cel­lence on Re­si­li­ence and So­ci­et­al Se­cur­ity (NORDRESS)

The aim of NORDRESS was to carry out mul­tidiscip­lin­ary stud­ies to en­hance so­ci­et­al se­cur­ity and re­si­li­ence to dis­asters. Part­ners from 15 in­sti­tu­tions in all Nor­d­ic coun­tries joined forces to in­crease the re­si­li­ence of in­di­vidu­als, com­munit­ies, in­fra­struc­ture and in­sti­tu­tions.

Crowd Safety Or­gan­iz­ing

Links

Google Schol­ar Cita­tions for Morten Than­ning Vendelø
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Morten’s Pro­file on Re­search Gate
Here you find an up­dated ac­cess to my re­search pro­fuc­tion
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Copen­ha­gen Cen­ter for Dis­aster Re­search (COPE)
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Outside activities

Gurli og Poul Mad­sens Fond, Board Mem­ber, since July 1st 2023 , 2023 -

Par­ti­cip­a­tion in five board meet­ings per year

CBS Ex­ec­ut­ive Found­a­tion, since au­tumn 2018 , 2018 -

Lec­tur­ing at the Mas­ter i Kunnskapsledelse, Nord Uni­versitetet