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Department of Intercultural Communication and Management



Kulturel Intelligens som Strategisk Ressource (in Danish only)

Globaliseringsprocesserne skaber nye udfordringer for kulturforståelsen, når kommunikation og samarbejde i multikulturelle grupper bliver en del af hverdagen. De vilkår står både private virksomheder og offentlige organisationer i Danmark overfor, hvad enten den interkulturelle dialog finder sted på et hospital, på et universitet med mange udenlandske studerende eller i en virksomhed, der outsourcer sin produktion til fjerne vækstlande.

Formålet med projektet er:

  • at studere, hvordan ledere og medarbejdere i 9 danske virksomheder og 3 offentlige institutioner opfatter og taler om kultur, og hvordan de håndterer konkrete kulturmøder.

Projektet er tværfagligt og udføres af samfundsvidenskabelige og humanistiske forskere fra Copenhagen Business School og Aalborg Universitet.

Nogle casestudier vil finde sted i Danmark på offentlige arbejdspladser, i danske virksomheders HR-afdelinger og på uddannelsesinstitutioner, hvor fremtidens ledere og medarbejdere undervises i kultur. Andre casestudier vil sætte fokus på udfordringerne for et samarbejde i multinationale teams, hvad enten det primært foregår virtuelt, via e-mails og videokonferencer, eller det udfolder sig i danske virksomheders datterselskaber i Indien, Indonesien, Japan, Kina og Mexico.

Projektet sigter mod:

  • i dialog med de involverede virksomheder og organisationer – at bidrage konstruktivt til at udvikle ledere og medarbejderes kulturelle intelligens. Det indebærer, at de opnår viden om og forståelse for egen kultur og andre kulturer, engagerer sig mere helhjertet i kulturmøder og bliver i stand til at arbejde effektivt sammen ved at bygge bro over oplevede forskelligheder med det formål at udnytte den kulturelle diversitet som en ressource til mere kreativ problemløsning.

Fra CBS deltager: Anne-Marie Søderberg (IKL) (forskningsleder), Lisbeth Clausen (IKL), Michael Jacobsen (ARC), Carina Skovmøller (IKL og Velux), Verner Worm (ARC), Mette Zølner (IKL), Uffe Østergaard (ICBP)

Kontaktperson: Anne-Marie Søderberg


Creative Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organisation of Creative Industries

It is now widely recognised that different kinds of innovation and creativity are driving new production forms that give rise to goods and services with an added value: experience. For Denmark to operate as a high growth, competitive, global leader in the experience – or creative – economy, its government and business organisations need to develop a highly interconnected fabric of cultural and creative infrastructure.

Composed of nine dedicated senior researchers at CBS, plus PhD students, the programme examines at both macro- and micro-levels of analysis three Creative Industries' sectors: Fashion & Luxury; Film & Media; and Place Branding, Art & Culture. The programme is accordingly divided into three Research Streams.

Read the full description of the project here: Creative Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative Industries. Project description And the supplementary material: Creative Encounters: The Socio-Economic Organization of Creative Industries. Supplementary material .

Link to Creative Encounters
Contact: Research leader Professor Brian Moeran .


IDEFICSstudy - Work Activity 07 (Consumer Science)

IDEFICSstudy = Identification and prevention of Dietary- and lifestyle-induced health EFfects In Children and infantS

The IDEFICSstudy, financed by the EU 6th Framework Programme, is a major multidisciplinary, intercultural project with partners in 11 EU countries and focusing on children aged 2 to 10 years. The project is conducted from September 2006 until August 2011. Its strategic objectives are:

1. to enhance knowledge of health effects of an altered social environment & lifestyle of children in Europe

2. and to develop, implement & validate specific intervention approaches in order to reduce the prevalence of diet- & lifestyle-related diseases & disorders in the EU

Prof. Lucia Reisch is chairing the Work Activity 07 “Consumer science”. Here, consumer behaviour is put into the broader perspective of society, e.g., internal and external factors of health behaviour are identified. Children’s health behaviour is not only influenced by individual characteristics and the family environment, but also by communities and school and on a societal level by all actors involved, e.g., political actors, mass media, food industry etc. A special interest within this consumer working area is laid on the role of commercials where a qualitative toolbox provides an insight into the effects commercials exert on children’s food related behaviour.

Contact persons: Lucia A. Reischand Wencke Gwozdz


CORPUS

Enhancing connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable consumption - CORPUS -

FP7 Project, chaired by Prof. Lucia A. Reisch, cbsCSR (starts 2010)

The current EU Research Framework Programme (FP7) provides the unique opportunity to further improve knowledge transfer at the interface of policy-making and research on sustainable development. CORPUS is a research project within the work programme “Environment”. It aims to develop new and practical approaches in order to enhance the connectivity between research and policy-making. The aim of this activity in FP 7 is to experiment and develop new integrative modalities of linking research results to policy-making through 'secondary exploitation' of existing research. The project will focus on the policy issue of ‘sustainable consumption’ which is of great importance in the current and future strategic development of the EU. It is included, for instance, in the re-launched Lisbon Strategy and is one of the key challenges of renewed EU SDS.

The objectives of the project are:

  • Development and testing of a knowledge web-platform with in-built incentives attracting and matching researchers’ and policy-makers’ interests in knowledge exchange alike.
  • Development and testing of interactive tools of knowledge brokerage within different dialogue-oriented formats, such as scenario workshops and mapping exercises.
  • Initiation of learning processes among researchers and policy-makers involved in the specific trials in order to trigger self-sustaining processes of knowledge brokerage and community building.
  • Assessment of the capabilities and shortcomings of the knowledge brokerage tools under consideration in order to arrive at general recommendations for future methodologies aimed to enhance the connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable development.

Contact persons: Prof. Lucia A. Reisch


Japanese Companies in Denmark

The project is a joint research project between Japanese companies and researchers at Copenhagen Business School. The focus of the project is to explore how Japanese companies facilitate knowledge transfer and information exchange between headquarters and subsidiaries/alliances in Japan and how they successfully implement forthcoming ideas into general company/regional/local strategy.

Contact person: Lisbeth Clausen


International news study 10-2008

The international news project involves 23 countries worldwide. Each country contributes to the study with data gathering in three areas:

The initiator of the study is Akiba Cohen at the University of Tel Aviv. In close cooperation with the Danish School of Journalism in Århus, the study in Denmark is headed by Lisbeth Clausen, CBS.

Contact person: Lisbeth Clausen


Projects at the Center for Corporate Social and Responsibility

For information on CSR projects, please visit CSR's website: CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility


Projects in the Centre for Business and Development Studies

For information on CBDS projects, please visit CBDS' website: Centre for Business and Development Studies



Last updated by Lise Søstrøm 14/10/2009