Jasper Hotho

I am an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School whose research focuses on how businesses engage meaningfully in humanitarian action and can be pressured to uphold human rights.

From 2020 to 2025, I led the HUMAC research initiative, generously funded by Velux Fonden, which examined how private firms and humanitarian organizations collaborate to deliver ethical and effective relief. More broadly, my research draws on in-depth qualitative methods and set-theoretic approaches to understand corporate conduct in extreme and contested contexts.

I am deeply committed to translating research insights into educational practice. Through the development of teaching cases and course modules, I aim to bring complex questions about the role of corporations in crisis contexts into the business school curriculum. Examples include teaching cases on the Mediterranean migrant crisis and on business–humanitarian partnerships for non-communicable disease care in conflict-affected settings.

My research has been published in leading journals in organization and management studies and business ethics. Earlier in my career, my research focused on comparative institutionalism and organizational learning, particularly in the context of multinational enterprises. From 2016 to 2022, I served as Senior Editor at Organization Studies, handling manuscripts on international and comparative management, organizational learning, extreme contexts, and manuscripts using unconventional or multidisciplinary methodologies.