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Anne-Mar­ie Søder­berg

Emerita

Subjects
Culture Communication Mergers and acquisitions Identity Learning

Primary research areas

In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Stud­ies
Cross-Cul­tur­al Man­age­ment and Cul­tur­al Learn­ing
Private and Pub­lic Mer­gers and Ac­quis­i­tions
Glob­al Vir­tu­al Team­work
Cul­ture The­ory and Cul­ture Ana­lys­is
In­ter­na­tion­al and Cross-Cul­tur­al Busi­ness Com­mu­nic­a­tion

Present­a­tion

Since 2020 I have been a Professor emerita at the Department of Management, Society and Communication. 

With a research focus on cultures, identity constructions, communication and learning processes, I have created a bridge between my educational background in the humanities and my present position as an international business scholar. I have been involved in longitudinal case studies of socio-cultural integration processes following international mergers and acquisitions, and I have written extensively about how managers and employees make sense of and give sense to complex organizational changes.

I was director of the strategic research programme “Cultural Intelligence as a Strategic Resource” (2008-2011), where a major research team studied intercultural learning processes among managers and employees in globalizing Danish companies, as well as the organizational conditions for developing cultural awareness and sensitivity.

I was principal investigator in the ethnographic studies of global development teams conducted within the strategic research programme ‘Next Generation Technologies for Global Software Development’ (2011-2016). This project was a collaborative effort between CBS, the IT University of Copenhagen and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and some global IT companies.

 

Selected publications

Wilczewski, M., Wang, R., Du, J., Søderberg, A.-M., Guiri, P., Mughan, T., Puffer, Mark, J.J. (2023): Cultural Novelty and International Students´ Experience: A Five-country Study. Higher Education,  Vol. 86 (5), pp. 1107-28.

Søderberg, Anne-Marie (2017): Experience and Cultural Learning in Global Business Contexts. In Chen, L. (Ed.): Intercultural Communication. Handbooks of Communication Science. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 415-435.

Søderberg, A.-M. & Romani, L. (2017): Boundary-Spanners in Global Partnerships: A Case Study of an Indian Vendor´s Collaboration with Western Clients. Group & Organization Management  42, 237-278.

Søderberg, A.-M. (2014): Narrative Interviewing and Narrative Analysis in a Study of a Cross-border Merger. In Bell, E. &Willmott, H. (Eds.) Qualitative Research in Business and Management. Volume 1: Classical and Contemporary Studies. Sage, pp. 401-420.

Gertsen, M.C.; Søderberg, A.M. & Zølner, M. (2012): Global Collaboration: Intercultural Experiences and Learning. PalgraveMacmillan, New York.

Gertsen, M.C. & Søderberg, A.-M. (2011). Intercultural Collaboration Stories. On Narrative Inquiry and Analysis as Tools for Research in International Business.  Journal of International Business Studies, 42 (6), 765–786.

For my full publication list, please see my CV at the top of this page.