Morten Thanning Vendelø

Professor with special responsibilities, ph.d at CBS Executive

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  • CBS Executive

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Biography

CBS Executive

Presentation

Organizational learning and adaptation are running themes in my research focusing on; a) sensemaking and sensegiving in organizations, as exemplified in my research on crowd safety management, and b) organizational improvisation. Another research interest is innovation and knowledge processes in organizations. This research formed the basis for my position as lead-developer of the executive program - Master in Leadership and Innovation in Complex Systems (LAICS), which took off in 2006.

I am the co-founder and CBS-coordinator of Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE), established in the autumn of 2012, in collaboration between Copenhagen Business School and University of Copenhagen.

From September 1. to November 30., my office hours are Wednesday from 2 pm. to 4 pm. This will usually also be the hours where I answer incoming mails regarding administrative issues and handled inquiries about supervision.

Primary research areas

  • Breakdown and Recreation of Meaning in Organizations
  • Crisis Management
  • Crowd Safety Management
  • Improvisation in Organizations
  • Management of Innovation
  • Organizational Learning and Adaptation
  • Sensemaking and Sensegiving in Organizations

 

Courses

2017 -
Crisis Management, CBS Global Executive MBA program
2012 -
Perspectives in Organizational Analysis. Doctoral School of Organization and Management Studies.
2006 -
Organization and Environment. B.Sc. program in Business Administration and Psychology.
2006 -
Creating Space for Innovation. Master in Leadership and Innovation in Complex Systems.

Supervision

PhD supervision:

2016-

Signe Bruskin (Per Darmer act as primary supervisor) Project title: Making Sense of Organizational Change.

2016-

Katharina Christiane Jeschke (Pete Kiness and Johnny Dyreborg, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, act as secondary supervisors) Project title: Safety Cultures in Organizations: How the Management influence Safety in Construction Industry.

2011-2015:
Michael Simon Nixon (John Sahl Andersen, University of Copenhagen, acted as primary supervisor). Thesis title: Organising Medication Discontinuation – The Decision Making Processes of GPs when Discontinuing Statins. Thesis defended February 6th 2015.

2010-2014:
Peter Holm Jacobsen (Erik Axel, Roskilde University, acted as primary supervisor). Thesis title: Situated Learning in Design Projects - An Ethnographic Study of a Process Competition at Carlsberg. Thesis defended February 7th 2014.

2008-2010:
Christine Secher (Peter Kjær acted as secondary supervisor). Thesis title: E-participation in Practice – the politicians’ and the administrators’ co-construction and its consequences. Thesis defended February 4. 2010.

2004-2008:
Frederikke Krogh-Meibom (Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen acted as secondary supervisor). Thesis title: The Co-Evolution of Institutions and Technology – A Neo-Institutional Understanding of Change Processes within the Business Press - the Case of Financial Times. Thesis defended on December 22. 2008.

2002–2004:
Annemette Leonhardt Kjærgaard (Niels Bjørn-Andersen acted as secondary supervisor). Thesis title: Knowledge Management as Internal Corporate Venturing – a Field Study of the Rise and Fall of a Bottom-Up Process. Thesis defended on May 11. 2004.

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