Rasmus Koss Hart­mann

Rasmus Koss Hartmann is an associate professor of management and is an expert on the management and organization of innovation and technology.    

His research concentrates on three main themes. One concerns innovation by frontline workers and users within (seemingly) bureaucratic organizations, especially within law enforcement and armed forces. Based on this work, which has been supported by both the Danish Council for Independent Research’s EliteForsk program and the Carlsberg Foundation, he has been engaged by government bodies, security organizations and startups to advice on how best to engage with and leverage user innovators. Another theme deals with the nature and production of ideas surrounding entrepreneurship and how those ideas impact organizational practice. His research into this theme has been shortlisted for the Best Paper on Entrepreneurship Award from the Academy of Management and the That’s Interesting Award from the European Group on Organization Studies. It has also been featured in major global news outlets (e.g. the Wall Street Journal) and specialist outlets (e.g. HackerNews). A third examines the role and consequences of speed in managerial work, and he has been central to developing practice-oriented ideas around ‘slow management’ and management-as-craft.   

Rasmus’ teaching is concentrated in “Managing Innovation in Organizations” in the Digital Management bachelor program and “Qualitative Methods and Reasoning” in the General Management and Analytics master’s program, for which he won the 2024 Education Award from the Danish Society for Education in Business. He also organizes and teaches the biannual PhD course “Perspectives on Technology and Society”. He co-organizes the Technology&Society research cluster at the Department of Management, Society and Communication, serves as the teaching coordinator of the department, and is the vice-head of studies for the study board og Governance, Law, Accounting and Management Analytics.