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Mar­ie Louise Mors

Professor

Subjects
Boards Business development Leadership Strategy Network Gender

Primary research areas

Collaboration across boundaries

In my research, I examine the challenges associated with collaboration across formal boundaries, including organizational and geographic boundaries. My research also provides recommendations, for how to ease the coordination costs that come with cross-boundary collaboration.

Organization design for strategy implementation

A stream of my research looks at the challenges associated with strategy implementation and in particular the exploration, exploitation tradeoff ans well as the potential organization design solutions.

Board dynamics and gender stratification in leadership

Much of my recent work has dealt with gender stratification in leadership. In this stream of work, I have explored what happens to board dynamics when more women directors enter the boardroom, as well as how recruiting firms affect access to boards. In terms of corporate governance, my work also explores how family ties affect access to boards.

Social networks and performance

Several of my papers utilize social network theory to understand performance outcomes, including innovation. My work has also explored the individual networks that support the managerial ability to balance the tradeoff between exploration and exploitation, as well as how networks affect organizational change.

My research has implications for strategy implementation, as I seek to understand how firms and individuals optimize cross boundary collaboration.

Louise Mors is a Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Copenhagen Business School. Prior to joining CBS, she was on the faculty at the London Business School and spent time as a post-doc at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Louise Mors has a PhD in Management (Strategy) from INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France.  

Before pursuing her academic career, Professor Mors worked as an independent management consultant. She has served on the board of the Center for Leadership and is currently a faculty elected member of the CBS board. 

Professor Mors is actively involved in the academic community with the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. She recently served as division chair of the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management (2023 - 2024) and has served two terms as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives – a leading journal that addresses important issues concerning management and business.   

Professor Mors' research examines collaboration across boundaries and tries to untangle the relationship between senior managers’ informal networks, organization design, and performance. Recently her work has also examined issues related to corporate governance, including the role of women directors on corporate boards. Professor Mors’ work has been published in the top strategy and management journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Journal. 

The primary aim of my teaching is to help students understand business strategy. I teach strategy and global leadership primarily to Masters students and executives at CBS. 

 

Outside activities

Teaching CBS Executive, 2018–present

Teaching on various executive education courses including the board education.
https://cbs-executive.dk/en

External Board Member - Center for Leadership, 2015–2021

Served as an external board member on the board of the Center for Leadership
https://www.cfl.dk

Elected Officer Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2020–2025

Served as an elected officer of the second largest division of the Academy of Management and fulfilled the duties of Assistant Program Chair (2021), Program Chair (2022), Division Chair Elect (2023), Division Chair (2024), and Past Division Chair (2025). The division chair leads a team of more than 100 people, and the division has more than 5,000 members.
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