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Department of Organization
- Centre for Public Organization, Value and Innovation (POVI)
- Pro&Con - Project Studies Group

Lene Tolstrup Christensen’s research is centered on State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and other hybrid organizations and their role in contemporary society and the public sector as such. Her research focuses on management and governance issues for these kind of organizations and is inspired by institutional theory.
Her current research project is an industrial postdoc on SOEs and other hybrid models in infrastructure governance. The project is an in-depth case study of the Danish state guarantee model and a comparative case study of transport infrastructure governance and hybrid models in Denmark, the Netherlands and Canada.
Her research on SOEs is published in international peer-reviewed outlets and she won the award ‘Best Paper by a New Researcher’ by International Research Society for Public Management in 2015.
State owned enterprises and hybrid organizations like Public Private Partnerships
Public management and governance
Infrastructure governance of network industries/utilities especially public transportation
Institutional theory
In: A Research Agenda for Public–private Partnerships and the Governance of Infrastructure. ed. /Graeme A. Hodge; Carsten Greve. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, p. 149-159 (Elgar Research Agendas)
In: Politica - Tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2.2022, p. 64-84
In: Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 28.1.2021
In: Public Administration, 26.12.2021
In: The Routledge Handbook of State-owned Enterprises. ed. /Luc Bernier; Massimo Florio; Philippe Bance. Abingdon : Routledge 2020, p. 239-255 (The Routledge Handbook of State-Owned Enterprises)
In: International Public Management Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2018, p. 137-161
In: International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2018, p. 128-141
In: Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2018, p. 35-51
In: Public Money and Management, Vol. 37, No. 6, 2017, p. 401-408
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [Phd] 2016, 176 p. (PhD series, No. 53.2016)
Paper presented at The 19th Annual Conference of International Research Society for Public Management. IRSPM 2015, 2015
In: International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, 2015, p. 307-321
Paper presented at The 13th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport. Thredbo 13 , 2013
Paper presented at Public-Private Partnership Conference Series CBS-Sauder-Monash 2013, 2013
Dansk infrastrukturstyring skaber stærke resultater
2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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