Publications

Book: Danish boards and their members

2020.  By Niels Westergård Nielsen

85,000 people in Denmark are members of at least one board of directors. But what qualifications do they have? Why do some companies have boards while others do not?  What does a company really get out of having a board of directors? Get the answers to these questions and many more in Niels Westergård Nielsen´s book "Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer - hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?". 

Watch Niels Westergård Nielsen tell about the book here.

Please note that the book is in Danish.

Start-ups revisited: Are all start-ups true start-ups?

April 2021. By Niels Westergård Nielsen

The usual measure of start-ups counts the number of newly registered firms and concludes that these are the start-ups of a country. A careful study of these firms shows, however, that a large number of them had existed before their apparent start-up.

Nye virksomheder 

Maj 2021. By Niels Westergård Nielsen

Nye virksomheder giver et afgørende bidrag til jobvæksten i Danmark, idet jobskabelsen i de nye virksomheder udfylder det tab, der opstår, fordi de ældre virksomheder samlet nedlægger job.