Ann Westenholz

Presentation

Ann Westenholz is professor emeritus of Management and Strategy at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her long standing research interest is in workplace democracy and she has, in the last 30 years, been involved in research concerning semi-autonomous working groups, workers'' representative on boards of directors, worker-managed and worker-owned firms. She has recently investigated commercial open source software communities, and she is currently investigating management and organizations in Chinese companies settled in Denmark.

Primary research areas

• Participative Management, Strategy and Change
• Neo-institutional organizational analysis and sensemaking in organizations
• Commercial open source software communities
• Temporary and scattered work practices
• Chinese companies settled in Denmark