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Mette Morsing

Professor at Stockholm School of Economics

Professor, PhD at CBS Executive

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Stockholm School of Economics

Dr Mette Morsing is the Mistra Chair of Sustainable Markets and Scientific Director at Misum. She has been a professor at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) since 2007, where she was Founding Director of the CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility for 10 years. She also served as an Academic Director of the CBS Sustainability Platform.

Mette teaches sustainability management and corporate social responsibility in Executive Education at SSE and at PhD level.

Her research work is positioned in research traditions of governance, management scholarship and communication/media studies in the context of CSR and sustainability, drawing from research traditions of sociology, communication studies and management scholarship as well as other areas. 

She is a Member of the Board of Directors of the LEGO Foundation; the Claus Meyer Foundation: Melting Pot; Copenhagen Business School; and the International Advisory Board of the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at Amsterdam University. 

Her PhD in organization theory at Copenhagen Business School was awarded the Tietgen Gold Medal in 1993.

 

SELECTED LIST OF CURRENT AND PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

“Responsible business in the blogoshpere” (RBB) holds the official research title: “Measurement Systems for Ethical Capital in the Experience Economy. Socio-Economic Value of Online Communication” (2009-2014). 

“CSR in HR – an empirical investigation”  is a research project investigating how the financial sector applies CSR in their competence development to attract and retain highly qualified managers and employees. 

“Strategic CSR Communication”  is a research project exploring the corporate challenges as companies present themselves as ethical or moral entities towards external and internal audiences.  “CSR-driven innovation”  is one of the research projects in the Nordic Center for Corporate Responsibility. 

Chair of the research network “Nordic Center for Corporate Responsibility” (NCCR) - in collaboration with a network of Nordic academic partners from 5 business schools/universities: Stockholm School of Economics, Helsinki School of Management, Reykjavik University, BI Norwegian School of Management and CBS. 

Chair of the National Research Research Panel on  “CSR in SMEs in Denmark” , as part of the People and Profit project which is funded by EUs Social Foundation and Agency for Employment, and headed by the Danish Agency for Commerce and Companies under the Danish Ministry of Commerce and Trade.

“The European Platform for CSR Excellence”. From 2004 till 2007. In collaboration with The European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS), Cranfield School of Management, Warwick Business School, Insead, Esade, Leuven Gent, The Copenhagen Centre and efmd (European foundation for management development).

 

CBS Executive

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Professor Mette Morsing, PhD, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is the Co-Director of CBS Sustainability Platform since 2011 and a distinguishedvisiting professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2002 till 2012, she was the Founding Director of CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR) as well as a Founding Member of the Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) in Bruxelles, where she was elected as Board Member over ten years (2003-12).

Morsing’s research focuses on how identity is governed in the interplay of internal and external stakeholders, in particular in the context of CSR and sustainability. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Human Relations, Harvard-Deusto Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Communication Quarterly and Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society and in publishing houses such as SAGE, Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan and Oxford University Press. She is currently preparing an edited textbook with Andreas Rasche and Jeremy Moon on “Governance of CSR” commissioned by Cambridge University Press.

Morsing is often invited as speaker by universities, companies and other organizations on CSR and she has taught extensively at BA, MSc., MBA, Master Executive and Ph.D. level. Moreover she has supervised a number of PhD students and served on many national and international PhD committees. She has received awards for her research (Tietgen, Statoil, etc.) and served as research manager for research programs granted from for example the EU Commission, FP6, NOS, FSE, the Danish Strategic Research Council and the Villum Foundation.

Today she serves as a Board Member of the LEGO Foundation, Claus Meyer Melting Pot Foundation and Zahle Private Gymnasium, and International Advisory Board Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), Amsterdam University. She is also an invited member of “Mandag Morgens Wellfare Group”. Morsing currently serves on four editorial boards: Corporate Governance: An International Journal of Business in Society, Business Ethics: A European Review, Social Responsibility Journal and Corporate Communication: an International Journal and she serves as an associate editor of Scandinavian Journal of Management and is a series editor at Cambridge University Press.

Additionally, Morsing has recently completed the 16 full days CBS Executive Board Member Educational Program (including passing the exam!) as well as the CBS Executive Boardmembership program for Foundations. She is on her way to IMD for further board membership education in February 2016.

Academic Co-Director of CBS Sustainability Platform

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London

Board Member LEGO Foundation, Billund

Board Member Claus Meyer Foundation: Melting Pot, Copenhagen

Board Member Zahle Gymnasieskole, Copenhagen

Board Member International Advisory Board of the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), Amsterdam University.

Invited Member of Mandag Morgens Velfærdsgruppe

Primary research areas

Business and CSR/ Sustainability

Governance and CSR

Communication studies

Organization theory

Identity-image relations

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