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Institut for Business Humaniora og Jura
- Centre for Business History
- Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Leadership Unit

Christina Lubinski is professor at the Department of Business Humanities and Law at Copenhagen Business School. Her research and teaching focuses on entrepreneurship in national and global contexts. A historian by training, she uses historical reasoning to study early-stage startups, family businesses, entrepreneurial processes and organizations over time. She is a member of the Centre for Business History and the Centre for Organizational Time. Since 2023, she is academic director of the unit Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Leadership.
Christina has published in leading journals in both management (Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Family Business Review) and business history (Business History Review, Business History, Enterprise & Society). Her monograph Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise appeared with Cambridge University Press. She has won the Henrietta Larson and Oxford Journals Article Prizes as well as several teaching awards.
- Historical Entrepreneurship
- Venturing and Startup Organization
- Global Business and Emerging Markets
- Time and Organizations
- Family Business
Undergraduate
- Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipate and Avoid Startup Pitfalls (BSc in International Business)
- Google, Uber, Amazon – Management Challenges in Networked Businesses (BSc in Economics and Business Administration)
Graduate
- Entrepreneurial Processes (MSc in Social Sciences)
- Organizing Growth (MSc in Social Sciences)
PhD
- Using Historical Approaches in Management and Organizational Research (PhD School in Organization and Management Studies)
- Perspectives on Time and Organization (PhD School in Organization and Management Studies)
Editor of the Historical Entrepreneurship case series at Harvard Business School Publishing, including
- Lubinski, C., V. Giacomin and R. D. Wadhwani. "Module Note: Historical Entrepreneurship," Harvard Business School Publishing, 2020.
- Lubinski, C. and V. Giacomin. "Entrepreneurial Imagination: Ruth Handler and the Barbie Doll," Harvard Business School Publishing, 2020.
- Lubinski, C., K. Nørgaard Modvig and V. Giacomin "Danfoss and the Danish Variety of Capitalism," Harvard Business School Publishing, 2020.
- Lubinski, C. and C. Viebig "Business Model Challenges: The Electric Vehicle Company," Harvard Business School Publishing, 2020.
- Lubinski, C. "Gramophone: Reimagining Music," Harvard Business School Publishing, 2019. HBSP Editor’s Pick for Entrepreneurship (2020).
- Wadhwani, R.D., C. Lubinski and C. Viebig. "Platform Startups: Launching Online Marketplaces," Harvard Business School Publishing, 2020
- Christina Lubinski; William B. Gartner / Talking About (My) Generation: The Use of Generation as Rhetorical History in Family Business. In: Family Business Review (Forthcoming 2023).
- Morten Tinning; Christina Lubinski / Ego-Documents in Management and Organizational History. In: Management and Organizational History, Vol. 17, No. 3-4, 2022, pp. 166-188.
- Christina Lubinski; R. Daniel Wadhwani / Geopolitical jockeying : Economic nationalism and multinational strategy in historical perspective. In: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2020, pp. 400-421.
- Christina Lubinski / From ‘History as Told’ to ‘History as Experienced’ : Contextualizing the Uses of the Past. In: Organization Studies, Vol. 39, No. 12, 2018, pp. 1785-1809.
I: Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 40, Nr. 2, 3.2025
Abstract from The Business History Conference 2024, 2024
Paper presented at 7th Annual Reversing the Arrow Conference on Entrepreneurship and Society, 2024
Paper presented at 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024, 2024
Paper presented at Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, 2024
I: Business History, Vol. 66, Nr. 2, 2024, s. 347-363
Paper presented at Hype and Entrepreneurship Academic Conference, 2024
I: Business History, Vol. 66, Nr. 4, 14.3.2024, s. 773-792
I: Business History, 2024, 16 s.
I: British Journal of Management, Vol. 35, Nr. 1, 1.2024, s. 3-23
I: Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. red. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2024, 1 s. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
Paper presented at 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024, 2024
I: Business History, 16.3.2023
I: Business History, 24.11.2023
I: Business History, Vol. 66, Nr. 7, 6.2023, s. 1888-1915
I: Proceedings of the Eighty-third Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. red. /Sonia Taneja. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2023, 1 s. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2023, 286 s. (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)
I: Handbook of Historical Methods for Management. red. /Stephanie Decker; William M. Foster; Elena Giovannoni. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, s. 35–45 (Handbooks of Research Methods in Management series)
I: Family Business Review, Vol. 36, Nr. 1, 3.2023, s. 119-142
I: Die Entstehung der modernen Sparkasse: Von der “Ersparnisanstalt” zum marktorientierten Unternehmen (1950er bis 1980er Jahre). . red. /Günther Schulz. Stuttgart : S-Communication Services GmbH 2022, s. 137-164 (Sparkassen in der Geschichte, Forschung, Vol. 23)
I: Management & Organizational History, Vol. 17, Nr. 3-4, 2022, s. 166-188
I: Intellectual Property Strategies for Start-ups: A Practical Guide. . red. /Stefan Golkowsky. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, s. 191–214 (Elgar Practical Guides)
I: Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 20, Nr. 3, 2021, 7 s., s. 293-299
I: Enterprise & Society, Vol. 22, Nr. 3, 9.2021, s. 808-841
I: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 41, Nr. 3, 3.2020, s. 400-421
I: A Research Agenda for Family Business: A Way Ahead for the Field. . red. /Andrea Calabrò. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, s. 29-59 (Elgar Research Agendas)
I: IP-Strategien für Start-ups: Grundlagen, Aufbau und Umsetzung von Schutzrechten. . red. /Stefan Golkowsky. Stuttgart : Schäffer Poeschel 2020, s. 177-200
I: Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, Vol. 5, Nr. 1, 2020, s. 221-264
I: The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. red. /Teresa da Silva Lopes; Christina Lubinski; Heidi J. S. Tworek. Abingdon : Routledge 2019, s. 55-68 (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)
I: The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. red. /Teresa da Silva Lopes; Christina Lubinski; Heidi J. S. Tworek. Abingdon : Routledge 2019, s. 3-16 (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)
Abingdon : Routledge 2019, 614 s. (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)
I: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 41, Nr. 3, 2018, s. 621-641
Boston, USA : Harvard Business School 2018, 47 s. (Harvard Business School Working Paper, Vol. 18-090)
I: Organization Studies, Vol. 39, Nr. 12, 2018, s. 1785-1809
I: Business History, Vol. 63, Nr. 1, 13.4.2018, s. 72-97
I: Business History Review, Vol. 92, Nr. 1, 1.2018, s. 171-173
Paper presented at The 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, 2017
I: Business History Review, Vol. 91, Nr. 4, 1.2017, s. 767-799
Paper presented at 44th AIB (UKI) and 6th Reading Conference 2017, 2017
I: Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Vol. 41, Nr. 2, 2017, s. 275-303
I: Historische Anthropologie, Vol. 24, Nr. 1, 2016, s. 27-49
I: Family Businesses as a Phenomenon: Vol. 2. Overview. . red. /Maria Spitz; Kai Bosecker; Andrea Kambartel; Nicole Roth. Mettingen : Draiflessen Collection 2016, s. 43-50
Paper presented at Harvard Business School, Seminar Strategy Unit, 2016
Paper presented at Penn Economic History Forum , 2016
I: Business History Review, Vol. 89, Nr. 3, 2015, s. 503-530
I: Management & Organizational History, Vol. 10, Nr. 2, 2015, s. 93-102
I: Studienbuch institutionelle Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte. red. /Clemens Wischermann; Katja Patzel-Mattern; Martin Lutz; Thilo Jungkind. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag 2015, s. 180-191 (Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Nr. 6)
I: Management & Organizational History, Vol. 10, Nr. 2, 2015, s. 170-188
Paper presented at 2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting, 2015
I: Economic History Review, Vol. 67, Nr. 3, 8.2014, s. 883-884
I: Enterprise & Society, Vol. 15, Nr. 4, 2014, s. 722-758
I: Business History, Vol. 56, Nr. 4, 7.2014, s. 623-649
Paper presented at European Business Association 18th Annual Congress. EBHA 2014, 2014
Paper presented at Informal and Everyday Markets, 2014
I: Enterprise & Society, Vol. 13, Nr. 1, 2012, s. 85-119
I: Bulletin of the GHI, Vol. 51, 2012, s. 67-85
I: Hamburger Wirtschafts-Chronik (HWC): Neue Folge Band 9 (2010). Vol. 9, Hamburg : Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur 2012 (Hamburger Wirtschafts-Chronik, Vol. 9)
I: Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 2, Nr. 3, 2011, s. 117-127
2011
I: Business History Review, Vol. 85, Nr. 4, 2011, s. 699-724
I: Electronic Journal of Family Business Studies, Vol. 5, Nr. 1-2, 2011, s. 4-25
Munchen : Verlag C.H. Beck 2010, 316 s. (Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Vol. 21)
I: Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Vol. 55, Nr. 2, 2010, s. 204-229
I: AKKUMULATION, Vol. 28, 2009, s. 1-6
I: Familienunternehmen im Rheinland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Netzwerke- Nachfolge - soziales Kapital. . red. /Susanne Hilger; Ulrich S. Soénius. Köln : Stiftung Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv 2009, s. 238-251
I: Generation als Erzählung: Neue Perspektiven auf ein kulturelles Deutungsmuster. . red. /Björn Bohnenkamp; Till Manning; Eva-Maria Silies. Vol. 1, Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag 2009, s. 151-168 (Goettinger Studien zur Generationsforschung, Vol. 1)
I: V S W G - Vierteljahrschrift fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 94, Nr. 3, 2007, s. 285-308
I: AKKUMULATION, Vol. 24, 2007, s. 1-9
Minneapolis : EIX - Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange 18.9.2024
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2023, 9 s.
Frederiksberg : The Nordic Case House 2023, 7 s.
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 11 s. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 14 s. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
: USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 11 s.
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 11 s. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 13 s. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
: USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 18 s.
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 21 s. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
: USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 10 s.
: USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 12 s.
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 15 s.
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2020, 10 s. (Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series)
Boston, MA : Harvard Business Publishing 2020, 13 s.
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2019, 16 s.
Los Angeles, CA : USC-Marshall/Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 2019, 17 s.
I: Enterprise & Society, Vol. 20, Nr. 4, 12.2019, s. 1090-1092
I: Guide to Courses in Business History, Volume 2 : Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, South & Southeast Asia. . red. /Walter A. Friedman; Geoffrey Jones. Boston : Harvard Business School Press 2014, s. 134-151
I: Teaching Business History: Insights and Debates: Papers Delivered at Harvard Business School. . red. /Walter A. Friedman; Geoffrey Jones. Vol. 1, Boston : Harvard Business School Press 2012, s. 83-94
I: German American Trade Magazine , Vol. 22, Nr. 6, 2011, s. 20-22
Boston : Harvard Business School Press 2011, 25 s.
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- Two-week summer school course, Escuela Internacional de Verano, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, June 2019 and June 2023