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Research Communities: Centres and Clusters

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

All ICM researchers are attached to one or several of the six research communities listed below, which constitute their primary research anchorage at CBS.

While each of them pursue a distinct research agenda, they all explore different aspects of managing, organising and governing, investigating the manifestations of globalisation in specific, local contexts.

Research Communities:

CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility

  • cbsCSR is committed to critically investigating business in society issues and integrating the corporate citizen perspective into business theory and practice and into the CBS curriculum. Working across disciplinary boundaries, the centre constitutes an innovative space for interaction and reflections between academia and business, in Denmark and abroad.

Centre for Business and Development Studies

  • CBDS research revolves around the challenges conditioned by the switch in recent decades to more business and market-led development thinking and practices, notably:
    1) Business strategic reorientation in the wake of the gradual integration of developing countries into the global economy and the concomitant potential for e.g. global corporate restructuring and outsourcing
    2) Development strategy reorientation toward private sector development and international business partnerships.

Communication, Organisation, Management and Media (COMM) Cluster

  • COMM focuses on:
    1) organisational dynamics, management practices and types of communication and discourse in both private and public institutions
    2) media practices, and institutions, and the production and consumption of mediated discourses, images and representations
    3) the variety of social, cultural, economic and political contexts, in which these two sets of activities and institutions intersect and interact.

Business in Global Governance Cluster

  • This is an interdisciplinary researchcluster focusing on the role of business in global governance. The clusterworks with international political economy/ international relations approaches broadly defined. Its aim is to support individual and group research projectsand to provide a platform for guest researchers working on the role of businessin global governance.

Asia Research Centre

  • The ICM members of the Asia Research Centre's research focus primarily on Japan, India, Vietnam, Malaysia and China. They provide key insights into ARC’s two foci:
    1) International corporate strategy and management in Asia
    2) Current social, political, cultural, and economic developments in the region seen in a comparative and historical perspective.

Last updated by Lise Søstrøm 05/02/2010