Anders Sørensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Sørensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Sørensen |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8310-4221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What historians actually do - humanity in management and organizational history
In this anniversary essay, we argue that the traditional, often sterile methods of historical investigation in management- and organizational history have left out some of the most essential ingredients: creativity, empathy, emotions and collectivity. These human traits, we suggest, are not just nice to have. They are critical components of any serious historian’s toolkit. Far too often, historical analysis is seen as a purely rational exercise, …
Histories of entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship education often appears as a recent innovationshaped by contemporary challenges or zeitgeist. Historical evi-dence, however, shows it has deeper roots and greater complexitythan commonly assumed. This special issue adopts a ‘marketplace’metaphor to show how supply-push (academic initiatives and ped-agogical innovations) and demand-pull (policy agendas, practi-tioner needs) factors have shaped educational practices acrosstime and …
An exploratory qualitative interview study on grassroots esports in sports clubs
The grassroots esports initiatives in sports clubs are viewed by volunteer esports leaders to affect the local community positively. However, there are challenges tied to the operation of such initiatives, such as engaging volunteers and raising competence. Future research should investigate barriers to help develop strategies to support grassroots esports initiatives
Make peer review great (again?)
In this reply I comment on the editorial by Lubinski, Decker, and MacKenzie. I applaud the editors’ initiative to raise a discussion on peer-review, and point to the need for a new valuation of the taken-for-granted work and effort that reviewers generously avail for authors, journals and publishers. I also argue for the increasing need for real humans in peer-review, in a future where AI promises to deliver non-empathic readings, valuations and …
Methods of musement
We explicate the value and practices of ‘serious play’ in historical and organizational research. In particular, we draw on the philosophy of Charles Peirce to consider why and how playful methods are effective for abductive inference. Introducing the papers in this special issue, we highlight four playful practices: (a) creating and categorizing new sources, (b) seeing a new, (c) sensing connections, and (d) entertaining new representations. We …
Museet for Søfart, Elsinore, Denmark
In October 2013, the new building for the Museet for Søfart (Maritime Museum of Denmark) opened its doors in an old dry dock on the harbor front in Elsinore. The relocated museum was situated just four hundred feet from its former home in Kronborg Castle, where it had existed for almost one hundred years. The building itself was an architectural feat. Designed by renowned architect Bjarke Ingels and carved into the concrete walls of the old dry d…
The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs
Using panel data from Denmark from 2001 to 2013, the authors find that serial entrepreneurs-those who open more than one business-have higher sales and greater productivity than do novice entrepreneurs-those who open only one business. Specifically, serial entrepreneurs' firms have 98% higher sales than the novices' firms, and serial entrepreneurs utilize more initial capital and labor, and thus are 49% more productive. Further, certain subsets o…
Plato on Democracy and Political technē
In Plato on Democracy and Political technē Sørensen argues that the question of democracy's 'epistemic potential' was one that Plato took more seriously than is usually assumed. While he famously rejected democracy on the basis of its inherent inability to accommodate political expertise (technē), he did not think that this failure on democracy's part was necessarily inevitable but a concept that required further examination. Sørensen shows that …
Monetary organization and national identity
This article develops a detailed overview of literature on the relationship between monetary organization, understood as currencies and central banks, and issues of national identity and nationalism. It demonstrates how the literature on this subject for the past 20 years has developed into a distinct research field and the article sketches a set of different methodological approaches as well as geographical and thematical variations within the f…
Success in entrepreneurship
Too Weird for Banknotes
In this article I argue that questions of banknote design are closely related to ideas of the national collective. Using the Danish banknote design competitions from 1947 to 2007 as an exemplary case I show how the Danish central bank, Nationalbanken, continuously sought to balance banknote iconography between different and evolving perceptions of the national community in an attempt to underpin the legitimacy and authority of Danish banknotes. I…
Examining the efforts of a small, open economy to reduce carbon emissions
Superstar technocrats
Imagine a senior Princeton academic writing books on financial history: he is balding, grey bearded, and in his early sixties. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, dines at home, then takes out th
Monetary romanticism
Recurring debates on the common European currency illustrate that monetary organisation and issues of national identity and community are closely interlinked. National sentiments and ideas about the nation continuously inform public attitudes towards currencies. This article addresses the interrelation between monetary organisation and nationalism. In the conflict between the Danish state and the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein in the nineteenth ce…
The Danish euro
In this article, I analyse the political debate leading up to the Danish euro referendum in 2000. I show how the euro-positive government unintentionally reinforced the arguments of the euro-sceptics by framing the euro as something belonging to the nation-state. I argue that this paradoxical campaign strategy stems from the Danish conceptualisation of nation and state and from the close connection between national currencies and feelings of comm…
Entrepreneurship, job creation and wage growth
Backpacker ethnography
Backpacker ethnography
Too Weird for Banknotes
In this article I argue that questions of banknote design are closely related to ideas of the national collective. Using the Danish banknote design competitions from 1947 to 2007 as an exemplary case I show how the Danish central bank, Nationalbanken, continuously sought to balance banknote iconography between different and evolving perceptions of the national community in an attempt to underpin the legitimacy and authority of Danish banknotes. I…
Methods of musement
We explicate the value and practices of ‘serious play’ in historical and organizational research. In particular, we draw on the philosophy of Charles Peirce to consider why and how playful methods are effective for abductive inference. Introducing the papers in this special issue, we highlight four playful practices: (a) creating and categorizing new sources, (b) seeing a new, (c) sensing connections, and (d) entertaining new representations. We …
Histories of entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship education often appears as a recent innovationshaped by contemporary challenges or zeitgeist. Historical evi-dence, however, shows it has deeper roots and greater complexitythan commonly assumed. This special issue adopts a ‘marketplace’metaphor to show how supply-push (academic initiatives and ped-agogical innovations) and demand-pull (policy agendas, practi-tioner needs) factors have shaped educational practices acrosstime and …
Superstar technocrats
Imagine a senior Princeton academic writing books on financial history: he is balding, grey bearded, and in his early sixties. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, dines at home, then takes out th
The Danish euro
In this article, I analyse the political debate leading up to the Danish euro referendum in 2000. I show how the euro-positive government unintentionally reinforced the arguments of the euro-sceptics by framing the euro as something belonging to the nation-state. I argue that this paradoxical campaign strategy stems from the Danish conceptualisation of nation and state and from the close connection between national currencies and feelings of comm…
Backpacker ethnography
Entrepreneurship, job creation and wage growth
Monetary romanticism
Recurring debates on the common European currency illustrate that monetary organisation and issues of national identity and community are closely interlinked. National sentiments and ideas about the nation continuously inform public attitudes towards currencies. This article addresses the interrelation between monetary organisation and nationalism. In the conflict between the Danish state and the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein in the nineteenth ce…
The Danish euro
In this article, I analyse the political debate leading up to the Danish euro referendum in 2000. I show how the euro-positive government unintentionally reinforced the arguments of the euro-sceptics by framing the euro as something belonging to the nation-state. I argue that this paradoxical campaign strategy stems from the Danish conceptualisation of nation and state and from the close connection between national currencies and feelings of comm…
Superstar technocrats
Imagine a senior Princeton academic writing books on financial history: he is balding, grey bearded, and in his early sixties. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, dines at home, then takes out th
Examining the efforts of a small, open economy to reduce carbon emissions
Plato on Democracy and Political technē
In Plato on Democracy and Political technē Sørensen argues that the question of democracy's 'epistemic potential' was one that Plato took more seriously than is usually assumed. While he famously rejected democracy on the basis of its inherent inability to accommodate political expertise (technē), he did not think that this failure on democracy's part was necessarily inevitable but a concept that required further examination. Sørensen shows that …
Monetary organization and national identity
This article develops a detailed overview of literature on the relationship between monetary organization, understood as currencies and central banks, and issues of national identity and nationalism. It demonstrates how the literature on this subject for the past 20 years has developed into a distinct research field and the article sketches a set of different methodological approaches as well as geographical and thematical variations within the f…
Success in entrepreneurship
Too Weird for Banknotes
In this article I argue that questions of banknote design are closely related to ideas of the national collective. Using the Danish banknote design competitions from 1947 to 2007 as an exemplary case I show how the Danish central bank, Nationalbanken, continuously sought to balance banknote iconography between different and evolving perceptions of the national community in an attempt to underpin the legitimacy and authority of Danish banknotes. I…
Museet for Søfart, Elsinore, Denmark
In October 2013, the new building for the Museet for Søfart (Maritime Museum of Denmark) opened its doors in an old dry dock on the harbor front in Elsinore. The relocated museum was situated just four hundred feet from its former home in Kronborg Castle, where it had existed for almost one hundred years. The building itself was an architectural feat. Designed by renowned architect Bjarke Ingels and carved into the concrete walls of the old dry d…
The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs
Using panel data from Denmark from 2001 to 2013, the authors find that serial entrepreneurs-those who open more than one business-have higher sales and greater productivity than do novice entrepreneurs-those who open only one business. Specifically, serial entrepreneurs' firms have 98% higher sales than the novices' firms, and serial entrepreneurs utilize more initial capital and labor, and thus are 49% more productive. Further, certain subsets o…
Methods of musement
We explicate the value and practices of ‘serious play’ in historical and organizational research. In particular, we draw on the philosophy of Charles Peirce to consider why and how playful methods are effective for abductive inference. Introducing the papers in this special issue, we highlight four playful practices: (a) creating and categorizing new sources, (b) seeing a new, (c) sensing connections, and (d) entertaining new representations. We …
An exploratory qualitative interview study on grassroots esports in sports clubs
The grassroots esports initiatives in sports clubs are viewed by volunteer esports leaders to affect the local community positively. However, there are challenges tied to the operation of such initiatives, such as engaging volunteers and raising competence. Future research should investigate barriers to help develop strategies to support grassroots esports initiatives
Make peer review great (again?)
In this reply I comment on the editorial by Lubinski, Decker, and MacKenzie. I applaud the editors’ initiative to raise a discussion on peer-review, and point to the need for a new valuation of the taken-for-granted work and effort that reviewers generously avail for authors, journals and publishers. I also argue for the increasing need for real humans in peer-review, in a future where AI promises to deliver non-empathic readings, valuations and …
Histories of entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship education often appears as a recent innovationshaped by contemporary challenges or zeitgeist. Historical evi-dence, however, shows it has deeper roots and greater complexitythan commonly assumed. This special issue adopts a ‘marketplace’metaphor to show how supply-push (academic initiatives and ped-agogical innovations) and demand-pull (policy agendas, practi-tioner needs) factors have shaped educational practices acrosstime and …
What historians actually do - humanity in management and organizational history
In this anniversary essay, we argue that the traditional, often sterile methods of historical investigation in management- and organizational history have left out some of the most essential ingredients: creativity, empathy, emotions and collectivity. These human traits, we suggest, are not just nice to have. They are critical components of any serious historian’s toolkit. Far too often, historical analysis is seen as a purely rational exercise, …
Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Entrepreneurship (4 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 works) · Law (4 works) · National Identity and Symbolism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works)