SCAN­COR — The Scand­inavi­an Con­sor­ti­um for Or­gan­iz­a­tion­al Re­search

The Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) facilitates inquiry in organizational social science and leadership among a transnational network of scholars by enabling research visits to Stanford University and Harvard University and by providing PhD workshops and courses.

SCANCOR is a consortia of Scandinavian business schools and universities with faculties of business and social science collaborating with facilities at Stanford University (since 1988) and Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Studies (since 1996). 
CBS has been a founding member of SCANCOR since 1988. 

CBS hosts the legal home of SCANCOR and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Visiting scholar mobility program

The SCANCOR visiting scholar mobility program is open to scholars at all CBS departments, where CBS employees can apply for short or longer term stays at Stanford or Harvard. Success rates are high when applying, and over the last 10 years more than 50 CBS scholars have seized this opportunity.

SCANCOR is open to applicants from all disciplines and research fields who study organizations and leadership in a broader sense. This includes their internal workings, their relationship to their environment, their influence on their members or environments, change processes in organizations, and other related issues.

SCANCOR at Stanford is open to visitors at all stages of their careers, including PhDs, while SCANCOR at Harvard is only open to tenure-track or tenured academics. There are three application deadlines for visits to Stanford and two application deadlines for visits to Harvard each year. The application portal at [scancor.org/apply] usually opens six to eight weeks prior to the deadline.

Annual calls for visiting scholar stays and information on eligibility are advertised via CBS and the SCANCOR website.
 

PhD workshop in Institutional Theory

Every year in late August or early September, SCANCOR organizes the Institutional Analysis Workshop for PhDs. The workshop offers a one-week intense PhD course with leading international researchers, such as Professor Woody Powell, Stanford.

SCANCOR-Scandinavia

SCANCOR-Scandinavia aims to foster reciprocal scholarly exchange among researchers from the Nordic countries and leading institutions in the U.S. such as Harvard and Stanford, as well as SCANCOR associate members.

With initial locations in Copenhagen (Copenhagen Business School), Gothenburg (Gothenburg University), Helsinki (Aalto University), and Oslo (University of Oslo), and with associate members in Jena (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) and Vienna (WU-Wien), the hub will offer dedicated spaces for senior visiting fellows to pursue collaborative research and exchange across borders.

Our inaugural cohort of invited scholars will arrive in Fall 2025, and the first open call has an application deadline of 1 December 2025 for research stays planned to commence in Fall 2026. Stay tuned for updates as we begin this new chapter in expanding collaboration on organizational and leadership research across boundaries.

Danish SCANCOR partners

Southern Denmark University (SDU)
Aalborg University (AAU)
CBS