Inaugural lecture - Hans Krause Hansen

Transnational bribery and corruption

In his inaugural lecture as Professor MSO at Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Hans Krause Hansen will explore why and how public, private and civil society actors, as exemplified by governments, international organizations, corporations and NGOs, have become involved in the fight against transnational bribery and other forms of corruption over the past few decades.

Governance

Building on his own research and insights from criminology, governance and culture studies, as well as other disciplines, he will discuss the intersections of hard and soft modes of governance in this area. He will especially consider the growing role of non-state actors including corporations as proactive agents in the politics of preventing boundary-crossing phenomena like corruption, which are characterized by a high degree of complexity, hiddenness and secrecy. One important feature of contemporary governance processes is the growing emphasis on transparency, which, according to some observers, to a large extent can anticipate the need for traditional government regulation of bad things. In this regard Hans Krause Hansen will also pay critical attention to the widespread belief in transparency and organizational disclosure as a panacea to the cure of a whole raft of societal and organizational problems, and he will discuss the limits of transparency as a governing ideal and practice.

Hans Krause Hansen and his work

Hans Krause Hansen works at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management and is Head of the Doctoral School of Organization and Management Studies at Copenhagen Business School. He holds a PhD and MA/BA degrees in Latin American and Spanish Studies, and Political Science, from University of Copenhagen. He has published widely in leading international journals and books on the changing nature and modes of public and private governance transnationally and in different societal and cultural contexts, just as he has participated in several larger research projects on these matters. His more recent work revolves around the issue of transnational corruption control, the political role of corporations, governance by numbers and the emergence of transparency and surveillance regimes.

Programme

15.00-15.05 – Welcome by Head of Department Dorte Salskov-Iversen
15.05-15.15 – Welcome by Alan Irwin, Dean of Research at CBS
15.15-16.00 – Inaugural lecture by Hans Krause Hansen
16.00-17.00 – Department of Intercultural Communication and Management hosts a reception