Peter D. Ørberg Jensen receives

Yesterday Postgraduate Fellow

from Center for Business and Development Studies, CBS, received one of the EliteForsk Travel grants from the Dansih Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The grant is given to very talented Ph.D. students and totals 250.000 DKK. The grant is given in order to make it possible to participate in top international research communities at an early time in the researcher's career.

Peter's project is entitled 'Offshoring
of advanced service activities in the firm value chain: Organizational learning, process and change in Danish and Indian firms'. The analysis will use a process perspective to analyze how offshoring of advanced services is implemented in different types of service firms and how this evolving process and the experiences gained along the way influence the organizational learning in the firms. During the study Peter collaborates with 6 large service sector firms from respectively India and Denmark, and the findings of the study will indicate how Danish and Indian firms respond to the challenges of globalization.

The grant will be used for a stay at University of California, Davis, in the fall/winter of 2007-08 where Peter will collaborate with Professor Martin Kenney. Professor Kenney has contributed with a number of innovative research publications on offshoring and cross-border location of business activities in recent years, including offshoring of service activities from US to India. Martin Kenney is one of the leading partners in a network of US researchers who focus on offshoring and similar international business activities.