Copenhagen Business School

Exit, voice, and adaptive livelihood diversification: Reframing coffee abandonment as transformative climate adaptation in East Africa

Climate change adaptation discourse has a habit of casting smallholder farmers as passive recipients of interventions designed to keep them producing for global market demand. This framing obscures both farmer agency and the power relations embedded in sustainability governance....

How Strategic Leaders Drive Firms in Ecosystems: Envisioning Value, Orchestrating Knowledge, and Shifting Roles

Abstract Research on business ecosystems has illuminated how ecosystems emerge, evolve, and transform, revealing ecosystem‐level dynamics and the central actors that orchestrate them. Yet, it is individual firms that continuously attempt to establish and shift the roles they play...

The evolution of relationship management from remote to hybrid work

Purpose This study explores how first-line managers adapt relationship management practices during the transition from onsite to remote and hybrid work amid prolonged uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal case study using temporal bracketing analyzed 49 intervie...

Are Higher Suspicious Transaction Report Volumes Associated with More Future Money-Laundering Convictions?

Abstract Almost all countries require banks to file suspicious transaction reports (STRs) to help authorities detect and prosecute money laundering. The number of STRs filed in a country is an often-cited metric in international anti-money laundering (AML) compliance evaluations....

In the beginning was the name: naming and framing sustainable cultural tourism destinations in peripheral areas

Early-stage tourism development in peripheral areas often takes place under ‘below-zero’ conditions, where tourism is weakly established, place identities fragmented, and conventional branding strategies premature. In such contexts, the name of a place and its associated communic...

The unequal flight: Policy design and public support for carbon taxation of air travel

Air travel is a rapidly growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, yet policies to curb demand have remained politically contentious. We examine how policy designs and individual characteristics shape support for a carbon tax on air travel in Denmark. Using a preregistered discr...

Adaptive management control systems in operations: the reconfiguration of control mechanisms on the shop floor

Purpose This paper investigates the complexity and dynamics of assembly line managers' management control systems. It examines which mechanisms comprise these systems and how their relevance and configuration change as managers tackle different productivity-related control proble...

Impact pathway: beyond automation and augmentation – a relational ontology of AI in operations and supply chain management

Purpose As companies deploy increasingly agentic forms of AI to coordinate and manage workflows, AI can no longer be understood as a discrete technological tool added to existing operations and supply chains. We propose a relational ontology as an alternative theoretical foundati...

Effects of Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction of Biofractions from Yellow Mealworm Larvae Fed a Probiotic-Enriched Diet

The increasing demand for sustainable protein sources has stimulated interest in edible insects such as Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm) larvae. While probiotics supplementation has been explored to improve insect growth performance, its impact on protein quality and downstream...

Organizational change, decision premises, and persistent misconduct: the Danske Bank money laundering scandal

Purpose Although the drivers of corporate misconduct are widely discussed in the literature, the organizational conditions that enable misconduct to persist are rarely analyzed. This article addresses this gap by using Luhmann's organizational theory to explore how inadequate res...

Business in Acute Crisis: A Humanitarian Impact Value Chain for Assessing Cross-Sector Partnerships

Abstract Business–humanitarian partnerships are increasingly mobilised to respond to acute crises, yet in these extreme contexts even well-intentioned collaborations can harm crisis-affected populations and distort humanitarian action. In such settings, generic, outcome-focussed...

The Lost Futures of Gender Diversity in STEM: Developing a diffractive methodology to study acts of disappearance

Gender segregation in STEM labour markets remains a problem despite the immense attention to the issue in recent years. This article studies diversity initiatives aiming to amend the lack of women in STEM by helping girls and young women to develop STEM career aspirations. Inspir...

Comparing the effect of faecal microbiota and faecal filtrate transplantations on intestinal health in weaned piglets

<title>Abstract</title> Background Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and faecal filtrate transplantation (FFT) have emerged as promising methods to prevent intestinal dysbiosis and diarrhoea in piglets after weaning. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of FMT a...

European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) guidelines for antimicrobial and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in bovine respiratory disease

<ns5:p> Background Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, impaired welfare, production loss, and antimicrobial use in cattle. These European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) guidelines provide evidence-based...

Discipline and justify: Ideas and the making of economic hierarchy

Abstract Debates about the social and political foundations of capitalism have a long lineage, stretching back to classic critiques of market society. In recent years, this tradition has been renewed by scholars examining the evolving institutional and political conditions that u...

Strengthening the engagement of mass media stakeholders in community-based health promotion interventions - the Danish Project SoL

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background</bold>: The potential positive effects of mass media stakeholders in health promotion have long been recognized. Health promotion interventions may benefit from exposure in mass media by attracting public attention and political support. M...

Labor Market Rigidity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence

Abstract We examine the effect of labor market rigidity on firms’ employment decisions in OECD countries using a rich firm-level panel dataset covering 164,048 firm-year observations. Exploiting intertemporal variation in country-level employment protection legislation (EPL), we...

The Moment of Delivery in Online Retailing: How Courier Types and Inoculation Messages Affect Reactions to the Last-Mile Experience

Online customers’ journeys span several touchpoints, which typically do not involve any interpersonal interactions with online retailers—except at the moment of delivery (MoD). When retailers use third-party courier services to fulfill orders, they relinquish control over this cr...

The Role of Energy Market Uncertainties in Forecasting US State-Level Stock Market Volatility: A GARCH-MIDAS Approach

Abstract In this paper, we employ the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity-mixed data sampling (GARCH-MIDAS) framework to forecast the daily volatility of state-level stock returns in the United States based on monthly metrics of oil price uncertainty (OPU) a...

Ocean Governance and Marine Conservation: Institutional Work as a Lever for Ocean Sustainability

ABSTRACT Ocean governance presents one of the most complex environmental policy challenges of our time, requiring coordinated action across multiple scales, sectors and stakeholder groups. This paper applies institutional work theory to systematically examine how actors create, m...