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Department of International Economics, Government and Business

Since January 1, 2024, I have been professor emeritus at EGB and external lecturer at BHL. Except for five years as an economist at the Carlsberg Research center, I have been in various academic positions at CBS. I was post doc at HEC, France in 1993 and visiting scholar at University of Queensland, Australia (2000), University of Gothenburg (2008), and University of Southern Denmark (2011). I started as an international marketing researcher focusing on dynamics foreign operation and internationalization processes of firms. By the late 1990s my focus shifted from downstream to upstream processes (global sourcing). My original theoretical basis was transaction cost economics (which permeated my PhD thesis) but has since then spread to contractual economics in general (in addition to TCE, agency theory, and property right theory) with side jumps into the resource-dependence theory, resource-based perspective, real option theory, and value creation logics. All these different theoretical perspectives are brought together in my research and teaching in “strategic contracting”. I have worked with large-N survey data and databases as well as case studies.
The relatively limited research I am doing as professor emeritus is in two areas: (i) strategic contracting in a value chain perspective and (ii) global value chain (re)configuration in a geopolitical perspective.
- Together with my EGB colleague, Flladina Zilja, I am contact person to the Nord-IB network and coordinator of Module IV: “IB in a Political Perspective”.
- Together with Kim Østergaard (BHL) I am coordinating the cand. merc. jur. elective course “Strategisk kontrahering i et internationalt virksomhedsperspektiv”.
- Together with Peter Ørberg Jensen (SI) I am coordinating the cand. merc. elective course “Global Strategy: Managing Risks and Seizing Opportunities in a Turbulent World”.
- “Strategisk kontrahering I et internationalt virksomhedsperspektiv” (cand. merc. jur. elective course).
- “Global Strategy: Managing Risks and Seizing Opportunities in a Turbulent World” (cand. merc. elective course).
- Since 2019, I have taught a lecture, “The impact of new technologies on internationalization trajectories of manufacturing and service firms”, in the IBP course “International Business: Market and Non-market Strategies”.
In 2025 I will supervise and co-supervise a dozen students in connection to their master thesis. Most of the students have been enrolled in CBS’ Law and Economics program (cand. merc. jur.), and I am supervising these students in relation to the economic part of their thesis - supplementing the juridical supervisor. Since 2019 I have been supervising groups doing their business project in the CEMS program.
Since 2022 I have co-authored the following teaching cases:
Hansen, M.W., P.D.Ø. Jensen, S. Minkmar, T. Pedersen, & B. Petersen (2024): Too Good to Go: Bridging the Gap between Sustainability Objectives and Business Goals in the Global Food Industry. The Nordic Case House, Copenhagen Business School/Harvard Business Publishing. Product number CBS067.
Petersen, B. & M. Schrøder (2024): Maersk: Creating an Ecosystem for Green Shipping. The Nordic Case House, Copenhagen Business School/Harvard Business Publishing. Product number CBS065.
Jensen, P.D.Ø., B. Petersen, S. Minkmar, M.W. Hansen & T. Pedersen (2024): GN Audio and the Balancing of Supply Chain Resilience, Cost Efficiency, and Inimitability. The Nordic Case House, Copenhagen Business School/Harvard Business Publishing. Product number CBS049.
Petersen, B. & R.K. Hansen (2024): Maersk’s Business-model Transformation: Building a Bridge over Troubled Water?The Nordic Case House, Copenhagen Business School /Harvard Business Publishing, Boston. Product number CBS039.
Meyer, K. and B. Petersen (2022): Carlsberg Breweries A/S: Facing political risk in Russia. Ivey Publishing, Toronto. Product number W28541.
Petersen, B., T. Ueta, M.S Knauf and A.B. Lauritsen (2022): Maersk’s Non-Market Strategy towards State-Owned Chinese Rivals. Ivey Publishing, Toronto. Product number W25258.
- Petersen, B. & G.R.G. Benito (2024): ”Making switches: Key strategic decisions when moving from a local, independent operator to a wholly owned subsidiary”, Thunderbird International Business Review. 66(6): 643-653.
- Rodriguez, C., L. Ciravegna & B. Petersen (2022): “Geographical reconfigurations in global value chains: Search within limited space?” Global Strategy Journal, 13(2): 440-482.
- Hanh, S.T.P. & Petersen, B. (2021): ”The bargaining power, value capture, and export performance of Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains”, International Business Review, 30(6): 101829 (1-13).
- Petersen, B., Benito, G.R.G. & Welch, L.S. (2021): “Foreign operation mode flexibility: Tradeoffs and managerial responses”, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 28(2): 281-307.
- Benito, G.R.G., B. Petersen & L.S. Welch (2019): “The global value chain and internalization theory”, Journal of International Business Studies 50(8): 1414-1423.
- Østergaard, K. & Petersen, B. (2018): “The application of hardship provisions in strategic contracting”, Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 4(4): 203-218 [DOI: 101177/2055563620907905].
- Petersen, B. & K. Østergaard (2018): ”Reconciling formal contracts and relational governance through strategic contracting”, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 33(3): 265-276.
- Laplume, A.O., B. Petersen and J.M. Pearce (2016): “Global value chains from a 3D printing perspective”. Journal of International Business Studies. 47(5): 595-609.
In: Business and Policy Challenges of Global Uncertainty: European Perspectives. . ed. /Torben Juul Andersen; Edward Ashbee; Bent Petersen. London : World Scientific 2025, p. 453–457
London : World Scientific 2025, 457 p.
In: Business and Policy Challenges of Global Uncertainty: European Perspectives. . ed. /Torben Juul Andersen; Edward Ashbee; Bent Petersen. London : World Scientific 2025, p. i–xxiii
In: Business and Policy Challenges of Global Uncertainty: European Perspectives. . ed. /Torben J Andersen; Edward Ashbee; Bent Petersen. London : World Scientific 2025, p. 311-355
In: Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management. ed. /Christian Geisler Asmussen; Niron Hashai; Dana Minbaeva. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, p. 78–86
In: Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management. ed. /Christian Geisler Asmussen; Niron Hashai; Dana Minbaeva. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, p. 87–94
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2024, 1 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
In: Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol. 66, No. 6, 11.2024, p. 643-653
In: European Journal of International Management, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, 23.5.2024, p. 322-343
In: Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business. AIB 2023: International Business Resilience under Global Disruptions. . ed. /Kazuhiro Asakawa; Tunga Kiyak. East Lansing, MI : Academy of International Business 2023, 1 p., p. 213 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business)
In: Transnational Corporations, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023, p. 103-133
In: Global Strategy Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, 5.2023, p. 440-482
In: Journal of World Business, Vol. 57, No. 3, 4.2022
In: Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 31, No. 3, 6.2022, p. 762-782
In: The New Frontiers of International Business. ed. /Hemant Merchant. New York : Springer 2022, p. 253-279 (Contributions to Management Science)
København : Ex Tuto Publishing 2022, 258 p.
In: The Oxford Handbook of International Business Strategy. ed. /Kamel Mellahi; Klaus Meyer; Rajneesh Narula; Irina Surdu; Alain Verbeke. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2021, p. 273-295
In: International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 28, No. 2, 5.2021, p. 281-307
In: International Business Review, Vol. 30, No. 6, 12.2021
In: International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1.2020, p. 111-130
In: Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol. 62, No. 2, 3.2020, p. 197-198
In: Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 5.3.2020
In: Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 50, No. 8, 10.2019, p. 1414-1423
In: Journal of Business Research, Vol. 95, 2.2019, p. 13-25
Paper presented at AIB 2018 Annual Meeting, 2018
In: Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2018, p. 265-276
In: International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 37, No. 9, 2017, p. 1246-1264
In: Handbook of Contemporary Research on Emerging Markets. ed. /Hemant Merchant. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2016, p. 223-248 (Research Handbooks in Business and Management)
In: Gränsöverskridande: Vänbok till Claes G. Alvstam. . ed. /Linda Berg; Inge Ivarsson; Rutger Lindahl; Patrik Ström. Göteborg : Göteborg Universitet 2016, p. 53-66 (Skrift / Centrum för Europaforskning vid Göteborgs universitet, No. 30)
In: Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 47, No. 5, 2016, p. 595-609
Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014, 2014
Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014, 2014
In: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business: Local Contexts in Global Business. . ed. /Klaus Meyer; Tunga Kiyak. East Lansing, MI : Academy of International Business 2014, p. 256 (Academy of International Business. Annual Meeting. Proceedings, Vol. 56)
In: Multinational Enterprises, Markets and Institutional Diversity . ed. /Sarianna Lundan; Alain Verbeke; Rob Van Tulder. Bingham : Emerald Group Publishing 2014, p. 375-398 (Progress in International Business Research, Vol. 9)
In: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business: Local Contexts in Global Business. . ed. /Klaus Meyer; Tunga Kiyak. East Lansing, MI : Academy of International Business 2014, p. 200 (Academy of International Business. Annual Meeting. Proceedings, Vol. 56)
In: International Marketing Review, Vol. 31, No. 6, 2014, p. 557-575
In: Journal of International Management, Vol. 19, No. 3, 9.2013, p. 220-231
In: The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization. . ed. /Torben Pedersen; Lydia Bals; Peter D. Ørberg Jensen; Marcus Møller Larsen. London : Springer Science+Business Media 2013, p. 287-299
In: Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business. ed. /Patricia McDougall-Covin; Tunga Kiyak. East Lansing, MI : Academy of International Business 2013, p. 137-138 (Academy of International Business. Annual Meeting. Proceedings, Vol. 55)
In: Global Strategy Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2.2013, p. 67-87
In: Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2013, p. 211-222
Paper presented at Strategic Management Society 33rd Annual International Conference. SMS 2013, 2013
In: Proceedings of the 54rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business. ed. /Susan Feinberg; Tunga Kiyak. East Lansing, MI : Academy of International Business 2012, p. 206 (Academy of International Business. Annual Meeting. Proceedings, Vol. 54)
In: Internationalization of Emerging Economies and Firms. ed. /Marin Marinov; Svetla Marinova. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2012, p. 224-240
In: Handbook Of Research On International Strategic Management. ed. /Alain Verbeke ; Hemant Merchant. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2012, p. 93-115 (Elgar Original reference )
In: Service Industries Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2012, p. 591-604
In: Transnational Corporations Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2011, p. 104-116
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2011, 32 p. (SMG Working Paper)
Abstract from Strategic Management Society 31st Annual International Conference. SMS 2011, 2011
Abstract from The 27th EGOS Colloquium 2011, 2011
Frederiksberg : Institut for Strategic Management and Globalization 2011, 33 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 1/2011)
In: M I R: Management International Review, Vol. 51, No. 6, 2011, p. 803-820
In: Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business. ed. /Shige Makingo ; Tunga Kiyak. East Lansing, MI : Academy of International Business 2011, p. 122 (Academy of International Business. Annual Meeting. Proceedings, Vol. 53)
Frederiksberg : Institut for Strategic Management and Globalization 2011, 31 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 9/2011)
Paper presented at AIB 2010 Annual Meeting, 2010
Paper presented at The 20th Annual European Association for Research on Services Conference. RESER 2010, 2010
In: M I R: Management International Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2010, p. 137-154
Frederiksberg : Center for Strategic Management and Globalization 2010, 27 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 9/2010)
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School Press 2010, 185 p.
In: M I R: Management International Review, Vol. 50, No. 6, 2010, p. 659-681
Paper presented at Strategic Management Society 30th Annual International Conference. SMS 2010, 2010
In: Journal of International Management, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2009, p. 126-141
In: Journal of World Business, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2009, p. 121-130
In: International Business Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009, p. 145-155
In: Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 40, No. 9, 2009, p. 1455-1470
In: The New Asian Dragon: Internationalization of Firms in Vietnam. . ed. /Henrik Schaumburg-Müller; Pham Hong Chuong. Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School Press 2009, p. 39-60
Paper presented at The 3rd Nordic Outsourcing Workshop, 2008
In: Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 39, No. 7, 2008, p. 1097-1113
Frederiksberg : Center for Strategic Management and Globalization 2008, 49 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 24/2008)
Frederiksberg : Center for Strategic Management and Globalization 2008, 29 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 7/2008)
Paper presented at The 33rd EIBA Annual Conference 2007. European International Business Academy, 2008
In: Thought Leadership in Advancing International Business Research. ed. /Arie Y. Lewin; S. Tamer Cavusgil; G. Tomas M. Hult; David A. Griffith. Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan 2008, p. 57-78
In: M I R: Management International Review, Vol. 47, No. 6, 2007, p. 1-23
In: Industry and Innovation, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2007, p. 239-257
2007, 39 p.
Frederiksberg : Center for Strategic Management and Globalization 2007, 45 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 3/2007)
København : Copenhagen Business School Press 2006, 78 p.
In: Advances in International Marketing, Vol. 16, 2006, p. 317-339
København : Center for Strategic Management and Globalization 2005, 37 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 6/2005 )
In: International markedsføringsplanlægning. ed. /Troels Elgaard. 2005, p. 160-185
In: Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2005, p. 159-173
Frederiksberg : Institut for Strategic Management and Globalization 2005, 34 p. (SMG Working Paper, No. 7/2005)
Frederiksberg : DRUID - Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics 2005, 22 p.
In: Journal of International Marketing, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2004, p. 103-123
In: World Development, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2004, p. 561-566
København : Dansk Industri 2003, 63 p.
In: InternethåndbogenKøbenhavn : Dagbladet Boersen A/S 2003 (Børsen Ledelseshåndbøger)
In: M I R: Management International Review, No. 1, 2003, p. 7-29
København 2003, 31 p.
In: M I R: Management International Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2003, p. 69-90
København 2003, 28 p.
In: Learning in the internationalisation process of firms. ed. /Anders Blomstermo; D. Deo Sharma. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2003, p. 36-55 (New horizons in international business)
In: International Business Review, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2002, p. 325-345
In: Journal of International Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2002, p. 339-350
København : Dansk Industri 2002, 39 p.
In: International Studies of Management and Organisation, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2002, p. 16-35
In: Journal of Business Research, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2002, p. 157-162
København 2002, 33 p.
2002, 34 p.
Frederiksberg : The Link Program 2002, 25 p. (LINK Working Paper, No. 2002-17)
In: World Development, Vol. 30, No. 9, 2002, p. 1561-1577
In: Newsletter of The Asia Research Centre, No. 11, 2002, p. 16-19
In: M I R: Management International Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2002, p. 207-221
København 2002, 28 p.
København 2001, 32 p.
København 2001, 22 p.
In: LINK Conference on Governing Knowledge-Processes. Vol. 2. ed. /Volker Mahnke; Torben Pedersen. Copenhagen : The Link Program 2001, p. 416-451
København 2001, 27 p.
In: Asia-Pacific issues in international business. ed. /Sidney J. Gray; Sara L. McGaughey; William R. Purcell. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2001, p. 7-27 (Elgar monographs)
Frederiksberg : Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School 2001, 50 p. (Working Paper / Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, No. 5-2001)
Frederiksberg : Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School 2001, 24 p. (Working Paper / Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, No. 17-2001)
Frederiksberg : The Link Program 2000, 28 p. (LINK Working Paper, No. 2000-25)
In: Long Range Planning, Vol. 33, No. 5, 2000, p. 688-705
Frederiksberg : Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School 2000, 16 p. (Working Paper / Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, No. 7-2000)
In: Economic and Political Weekly, 8.4.2000, p. 1263-1270
In: International Business Review, No. 9, 2000, p. 479-496
Paper presented at The 26th EIBA Annual Conference 2000. European International Business Academy, 2000
In: International Studies of Management and Organisation, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2000, p. 45-62
Frederiksberg : Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School 1999, 28 p. (Working Paper / Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, No. 14-1999)
In: Journal of International Management, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999, p. 73-91
København : Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School 1999, 23 p. (Working Paper / Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, No. 6-1999)
In: Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1999, p. 213-229
Copenhagen : Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School 1999, 23 p. (Working Paper / Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, No. 5-1999)
København 1999, 23 p.
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2024, 9 p.
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2024, 10 p.
Cranfield : Case Centre 2024, 18 p.
Cranfield : Case Centre 2024, 7 p.
Cranfield : Case Centre 2024, 18 p.
Cranfield : Case Centre 2024, 10 p.
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2024, 14 p.
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2024, 14 p.
Toronto : Ivey Publishing 2022, 15 p.
Toronto : Ivey Publishing 2022, 10 p.
In: Berlingske, 28.7.2021, p. 20-21
2.ed.Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2018, 486 p.
In: Effektivitet, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2014, p. 10-13
London, ON : Ivey Publishing 2014, 17 p.
London, ON : Ivey Publishing 2014, 13 p.
London, ON : Ivey Publishing 2012, 19 p.
London : Ivey Publishing 2012, 15 p.
In: Information, 2007
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2007, 462 p.
In: DILF Orientering, Vol. 43, No. 7, 2006, p. 44-49
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