Research

I am interested in management, organization, and competency development in relation to the Twin Transition (sustainability and digitalization). This interest stems from many years of management experience in both the public and private sectors. My research and teaching are thus energized and inspired by my practical experience.

My research often takes place in networks where academia and practice collaborate.

I am focused on systemic processes and typically use a theoretical approach based on Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory.

I am currently writing a book on Regenerative Leadership from the perspective of social systems theory. Additionally, I am the project manager for an Interreg project in the South Baltic region, CONSIDERATION, which develops and researches an intervention method based on a digital learning platform designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises in digital and sustainable transformation. I am also the sub-project leader for a Denmark-Germany Interreg project, The Fehmarn Belt Learning Region, where we are developing new facilitation methods to support the management of Danish-German collaboration between organizations. Here, we use social systems theory to develop a Fehmarn Belt Compass and a facilitation method to promote multifunctional collaboration in the border region.

Examples of what my research has focused on in recent years:

• How leadership research can support the development of next-era management semantics
• Circular economy: restructuring of structural couplings
• Measuring companies' multi-contextual contributions to sustainable development
• Regenerative leadership and structural coupling between non-social and social systems
• Navigating the Twin Transition (sustainability and digitalization) – from second-order to third-order science