External lecturer
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Thomas Roslyng Olesen is Project Manager for the Maritime Research Alliance, which is a collaboration between maritime researchers at Aalborg University, Aarhus University, Copenhagen Business School, Danish Institute for International Studies, the Technical University of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Roskilde University and the maritime schools SIMAC and MARTEC.
Thomas research has mainly focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and workforce mobility in the maritime industry. In 2016 he published a book on the transformation of Danish shipbuilding, where he examined how resources from the closed shipyards were put to new use after the closures. He has also published papers and reports on value creation in the maritime chain of transportation, workforce mobility, skill allocation and skill destruction, and offshore value chain characteristics.
Thomas teaches an elective course on Markets, Regulation and Security in the Maritime Sector.
Academic fields:
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Labour mobility
- Maritime History
- Maritime Economics
Thomas holds a MA in History from University of Copenhagen (2006) and a PhD in history from University of Southern Denmark (2012). He joined CBS as a postdoc in 2014. In 2016, he became Assistant Professor before joining the Maritime Research Alliance as Project Manager in 2020. He has previously been a visiting scholar at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Selected publications
Holm, J. R., Østergaard, C. R., & Olesen, T. R. (2017): Destruction and Reallocation of Skills Following Large Company Closures. Journal of Regional Science. Vol. 57, No. 2, 3.2017, p. 245-265.
Olesen, T.R. & Poulsen, R.T. (2017) En krise med muligheder? Kreativ destruktion i dansk værftsindustri 1980-2013. Økonomi & Politik, 6.2017, p. 59-70
Olesen, T.R. (2016): Da værfterne lukkede. Transformationen af den danske værftsindustri 1975-2015. Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 375 p.
Olesen, T.R. (2016): Offshore Supply Industry Dynamics. Business Strategies in the Offshore Supply Industry, CBS Maritime Report, Copenhagen Business School, 40 p.
Olesen, T.R. (2015): Value Creation in the Maritime Chain of Transportation. The role of carriers, ports and third parties in liner and bulk shipping, CBS Maritime Report, Copenhagen Business School, 37 p.
Olesen, T.R. (2015): Offshore Supply Industry Dynamics. The main drivers in the energy sector and the value chain characteristics for offshore oil and gas and offshore wind, CBS Maritime Report, Copenhagen Business School, 46 p.
Has attended teaching courses at CBS.
Teaching experience includes:
- Lectures (primarily one-way teaching)
- Classroom teaching (with student interaction)
- Case-based teaching
- Exercises (hands-on skills training)
- Supervision of smaller projects
- Supervision of bachelor thesis
- Supervision of master thesis
- Online teaching
- Supervision of groups.