njfsi

Department of Strategy and Innovation

Nicolai J.
Foss
Professor


Room: KIL/14.A-3.69
Tel:
+4538152562
E-mail: njf.si@cbs.dk
Nicolai Foss
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Nicolai J. Foss (b. 1964) is a Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, Southern Denmark University, and External Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, 2020-2025. He is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.

Trained as an economist at the Copenhagen University (M.Sc.,1989), Foss his received his PhD degree from the Copenhagen Business School in 1993, where he was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. From 2016-2019 he was the Rodolfo Debenedetti Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bocconi University, Milano. He has held part-time and visiting professorships at Norwegian School of Economics, Lund University, Luiss Guido Carli-Roma, ERC Rennes, and Agder University.

Foss founded the Center (later Department) of Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School in 2005, and served as its Director/HoD until 1 April, 2015. He managed two CBS “World Class Environment” programs at CBS (2008-2015; 2014-2016). Foss has served as a panel member of the European Research Council and on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society. Foss is a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He is the 2020 Chairperson of the Behavioral Strategy Interest Group.

Encompassing 224 articles in reviewed journals, 102 book chapters, 26 books (edited as well as monographs), and many op-eds, magazine pieces, etc. Fosswork has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and several other leading journals. His google scholar citations are above 37,500, and he is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. Foss was one of the founders of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics and a co-founderd of the  Center for Policy Studies. He was listed as the “best Danish economist” by the Danish newspaper, Børsen, in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Foss is a columnist at Berlingske.

 

Primary research areas
  • Strategic management (particularly the resource-based view and micro-foundations for strategic management)

  • Organizational design (particularly as it pertains to knowledge processes, including open innovation).

  • Entrepreneurship (cross-country analyses; strategic entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship theory).

  • The methodology of the social sciences

 

 

Curriculum Vitae
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Selected publications

Caleb Bernacchio, Nicolai J Foss, and Siegwart Lindenberg. 2022. “The Virtues of Joint Production: Foundations for Collaborative Organization.” Academy of Management Review (forthcoming).

Christian G. Asmussen, Kirsten Foss, Nicolai J. Foss, & Peter G. Klein. 2021. Economizing and Strategizing : How Coalitions and Transaction Costs Shape Value Creation and Appropriation.Strategic Management Journal, 42: 413-434.

Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Lasse B. Lien, Thomas Zellweger, & Todd Zenger. 2021. Ownership Competence. Strategic Management Journal,42: 302-328.

Libby Weber, Nicolai J Foss, & Siegwart Lindenberg. 2021. The role of cognition and motivation in understanding Internal governance and hierarchical failure: A discriminating alignment analysis. Academy of Management Review (forthcoming).

Nicholas S. Argyres, Alfredo De Massis, Nicolai J Foss, Federico Frattini, Geoffrey Jones, and Brian S. Silverman). 2020. “History-informed Strategy Research: The promise of History and Historical Research Methods in Advancing Strategy Scholarship.” Strategic Management Journal, 41: 343-368.
 
Jay Barney, Nicolai J Foss, and Jacob Lyngsie. 2018. “The Role of Senior Management in Opportunity Formation: Direct Involvement or Reactive Selection?” Strategic Management Journal, 39(5): 1325-49.
 
Jacob Lyngsie and Nicolai J Foss. 2017. “The More, the Merrier? The Role of Gender in Explaining Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Established Firms.” Strategic Management Journal, 38: 487-505.
 
Nicolai J Foss and Libby Weber. 2016. “Putting Opportunism in the Back Seat: Bounded Rationality, Costly Conflict and Hierarchical Forms.” Academy of Management Review, 41: 41-79.

 

Publications sorted by:
2024
Thomas A. Wright; Kyle Emich; Jone L. Pearce; Stratos Ramoglou; Neal M. Ashkanasy; Jean M. Bartunek; Sven Kunisch; David Denyer; Nicolai J. Foss; Peter G. Klein; Sophia Town; John Hollwitz; Chet E. Barney; Peter Harms; Timothy P. Munyon; Gerard Seijts; Erik W. K. Tsang / Advocacy and the Search for Truth in Management Scholarship : Can the Twain Ever Meet?.
In: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1.2024, p. 11-25
Journal article > peer review
2023
Nicolai J. Foss; Peter G. Klein / Why Managers Matter Matters : Replies and Reflections.
In: Journal of Organization Design, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, 6.2023, p. 51-57
Comment/debate > peer review
Matthew McCaffrey; Nicolai J. Foss; Peter G. Klein; Joseph T. Salerno / Breaking Out of the Kirznerian Box : A Reply to Sautet.
In: Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 36, No. 3, 9.2023, p. 1-21
Journal article > peer review
Kristin Ringvold; Tina Saebi; Nicolai J. Foss / Developing Sustainable Business Models : A Microfoundational Perspective.
In: Organization & Environment, Vol. 36, No. 2, 6.2023, p. 315-348
Journal article > peer review
Nicolai J. Foss; Jens Schmidt; David J. Teece / Ecosystem Leadership as a Dynamic Capability
In: Long Range Planning, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2.2023
Journal article > peer review
Jonathan D. Jensen; Rahul Anand; Nicolai J. Foss / Employment Externalisation in Response to a Temporary Exogenous Shock : An Adjustment Costs Perspective.
In: Industry and Innovation, 26.2.2023
Journal article > peer review
Teppo Felin; Nicolai J. Foss / Microfoundations of Ecosystems : The Theory-led Firm and Capability Growth.
In: Strategic Organization, Vol. 21, No. 2, 5.2023, p. 476-488
Journal article > peer review
Jens Schmidt; Nicolai J. Foss / Modularity, Adaptation Problems, and the Governance and Problem-solving Capabilities of Core Firms in Ecosystems
In: Journal of Management, 19.11.2023
Journal article > peer review
Nicolai J. Foss; Peter G. Klein / Nowe spojrzenie na służbową hierarchię
In: MIT Sloan Management Review Polska, No. 18 (June-July), 2023
Journal article > peer review
Nicolai J. Foss / Organisational Design Issues and the Proper Dimensionalisation of Business Model Innovation
In: Journal of Business Models, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2023, p. 13-17
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Research Projects
Outside activities

 

Year Name of contractual partner Type of activity
2014 - 2019 Warwick Business School Part-Time Professor
2020 - 2022 Berlingske Commentator
2020 - 2022 Norges Handelshøyskole Professor II
2021  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Visiting Virtual Professor
2023 CEPOS Advisory board member