Department of Organization

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark. I hold a master’s degree in European Ethnology and a PhD degree from the IT University of Denmark titled ‘Taxing assemblages’. Since my PhD in 2011, my research projects have evolved around the socialites of taxation – looking at tax compliance practices, discretion amongst tax inspectors, collaborative forms of governance, Cooperative Compliance and not least trust and transparency between tax authorities and taxpayers. My research is highly motivated by an interest for the socialites of taxation and for the anthropology of taxation. The anthropology of taxation is an emerging research area that I continuously seek to analyze and develop in order to understand day-to-day taxation practices and interactions between tax inspectors, tax advisers and taxpayers. 

 

My teaching focusses on organization theory. I appreciate the findings of the classics and I find it increasingly satisfying to see how business school students suddenly understand how Mintzberg, Taylor, Hirschman or Fayol are relevant theorists today. We can still use their thinking to make insightful analyses of contemporary challenges in organizations. 

 

My recent most important research project was a Horizon2020 project called “FairTax” (2015-2020). In this research project, I analyzed the Danish Tax Authority’s Cooperative Compliance program in Denmark. This was done together with a team of researchers focusing on the other Nordic countries’ experiences with Cooperative Compliance. The findings can be seen by following the link below.