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Charles Tack­ney

Emeritus

Present­a­tion
I am an Associate Professor emeritus at the Department of Management, Society and Communication.

My doctoral research developed from field work in a Nagoya, Japan, machine-tools factory, resulting in a 1995 dissertation on the institutionalization of lifetime employment in post-World War II Japan (UW-Madison). With an interdisciplinary degree in comparative industrial relations, my research and teaching at CBS has centered on:

  • interdisciplinary research methods
  • comparative employment ecology modelling
  • Japanese management practice and comparative HRM
  • project management, with a focus on lean management adaptations
  • a theology of the workplace research construct

Administrative tasks and teaching
I initially served as Program Director and Study Board Chair of the Japan Studies Program (JAPØK), which later became the Asia Studies Program, when the Chinese language was added to the curriculum and the curriculum was revised with a broader Asian focus. Over the course of the following years, I have been Coordinator for First Year and Third Year Projects in the undergraduate BLC Program. At the graduate level, I served as the BLC Master’s thesis Coordinator over the same period.

Mandatory courses:
Over the course of active teaching, I was a coordinator and instructor for a number of interdisciplinary research methods courses designed to ensure undergraduate and graduate student level competencies in qualitative and quantitative research methods for academic success in project / thesis development.

Elective courses: taught over many years

  • Project Management: Lean and strategic. Master’s course: International Summer University Program.
  • Applied Quantitative Methods for Non-quantitative Doctoral Researchers in Organization and Management Studies. Doctoral course: PhD School in Organization and Management Studies.


Selected publications
Charles T. Tackney / Authenticity in Employment Relations: A Theology of the Workplace Analysis. Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2018, p. 82-104

Charles T. Tackney; Imran Shah / Authenticity/لصحة as a Criterion Variable for Islam and Roman Catholic Theology of the Workplace Analysis. Management Research Review, Vol. 40, No. 8, 2017, p. 907-932

Charles T. Tackney: Insight-based Critical Realism: A Trans-cultural Epistemology for a European Higher Education Area. In Charles T. Tackney (Editor); Mette Zølner (Editor) / Curriculum at the Interface: The European Higher Education Area and Copenhagen Business School. Symposium presentation to the Academy of Management on the CBS Centenary. Briar Cliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management 2017, 53 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)

Charles T. Tackney; Stacie F. Chappell; Toyoko Sato / MSR Founders Narrative and Content Analysis of Scholarly Papers: 2000–2015. Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2017, p. 135-159

Charles Thomas Tackney; Stacie F. Chappell; Dan Harris; Kathryn Pavlovich; Eleftheria Egel; Richard J. Major; Mary Finney; James Stoner / Management, Spirituality, and Religion (MSR) Ways and Means : A Paper to Encourage Quality Research. Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, Vol. 14, No. 3, 3.7.2017, p. 245-254

Charles T. Tackney; Wencke Gwozdz / Teaching Statistics to Doctoral Students with Lonergan's Insight-Based Critical Realism. International Journal of Management in Education, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2014, p. 1-21

Maribel Blasco; Charles Tackney / "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It": Internationalisation and the Erosion of the Positive Hidden Curriculum in Danish Higher Education. International Journal of Management in Education, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2013, p. 341-359

Charles T. Tackney; Ole Strømgren; Toyoko Sato / Assessing Knowledge in Dialogue: Undergraduate Synopsis–based Oral Examinations at a Scandinavian Business School. International Journal of Management in Education, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2013, p. 417-436

Charles T. Tackney; Toyoko Sato; Ole Strømgren / Benchmarks in Tacit Knowledge Skills Instruction: The European Union-Research Oriented Participatory Education (EU-ROPE) model of Copenhagen Business School. International Journal of Management in Education, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2010, p. 463-485