Invitation for PhD Defence - Niels Hulgård
Invitation for PhD Defence
PhD Defence
Room: DH.V.1.01
Reception: Faculty Club (ground floor next to the canteen)
*The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence.
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In order to obtain the PhD degree, Niels Hulgård has submitted his thesis entitled: Conceiving the CompanyA Collection of Essays on the Nature and Purpose of the Basic Unit of Analysis in Business ResearchThis PhD thesis offers an inquiry into the nature and purpose of the basic unit of analysis in business research: the company. It employs multi-disciplinary modes of inquiry through quantitative analysis, conceptual history, and a theoretical conceptualisation of the company as an ‘unliving entity’. In doing so, it jointly presents and argues the relations between a set of core concepts – ‘company’, ‘firm’, ‘corporation’, ‘organization’, and ‘ownership – found to be crucial to understanding and delimiting the basic phenomenon. Thereby, the thesis empirically, epistemologically, and ontologically addresses the basic motivating question of what and why a company is. The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk |
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Primary Supervisor:
Department of Accounting Copenhagen Business School
Secondary Supervisor(s):
Associate Professor Kaspar Villadsen Department of Business Humanities and Law Copenhagen Business School
Professor Niels Westergård-Nielsen Department of Accounting Copenhagen Business School
Professor Steen Thomsen Department of Accounting Copenhagen Business School |
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Mathias Hein Jessen (Chair)
Department of Business Humanities and Law
Copenhagen Business School
Professor Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen
Department of Urban Studies
Malmö University
Professor Bonnie Buchanan
Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences.
University of Surrey