What I do
My research focuses on the roles of institutions for global business, how AI influences business practice and research, and on the interface between geopolitics and business strategy. My research has appeared in some of the leading journals in business and management, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Management Science. I have
Textbook on International Business published
Together with Jonas Puck, I have co-authored a textbook for students of International Business. The book covers introductory materials, internationalization strategy, functional spotlights, and deeper insights into digitalization and sustainability topics. The book in suitable for introductory and advanced undergraduate classes in international business, as well as introductory classes on graduate level. Instructors can order
CV update 2025
My CV including additions in 2025.
New paper on how AI changes corporate decision-making
In this paper, we investigate theoretically how the use of AI for decision-making will change the mechanisms behind corporate decisions. In management research, we tend to exploit human biases to understand outcomes. Now if companies start using AI for decisions support, some of these biases will go away, some will change, and some new biases
Project website for Valpop online
For the Horizon Europe project on Valuing Public Goods in a Populist World, we now have an active project website: www.valpop-project.eu. The project started in March, and after the first half-year we had a lot of progress to discuss at our general meeting in Copenhagen.
New paper on inquiry-based learning
As a result of an Erasmus+ project financed by the EU Commission, we have now published a research paper on the benefits of inquiry-based learning. We investigate soft skill and hard skill development in students who participated in YPT-style physics competitions. There is a large group of co-authors, and you can find the paper here:
New paper on AI use published in Management Science
Together with Martin Wiernsperger, Georg Lintner, Philipp Grünwald, and Ben Greiner, I published a paper exploring when decision-maker use AI to support their decisions. The paper uses laboratory and online experiments, and finds that performance incentives and human-framing of AI advice helps with uptake. This is the link to the open-access paper: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.02777.
New paper on mergers and acquisitions in Global Strategy Journal
My paper with Harald Puhr and Jakob Müllner has now appeared in the latest issue of Global Strategy Journal: https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1494. In the paper, we investigate how ownership structure influence the completion of announced corporate acquisitions and test our conceptual model on a large dataset of global M&A.
CV update 2024
This is an updated CV, including the full year 2024.
New website for nonstandard errors project
The coordinators of the nonstandard errors project, which came out earlier this year in the Journal of Finance (the full paper is here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13337), have produced a short video explaining the main findings. The video is part of a website providing access to data and other materials that we used in the research project: https://nonstandarderrors.com/.