Kristoffer Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristoffer Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristoffer |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8980-1220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system
In business history, it has become a well-accepted fact that engineers have lost territory to business school candidates in the most recent phases of modern capitalism. This article puts up for debate whether business historians studying Northern Europe have perhaps been too willing to accept this diminishing role of the engineer in the understanding of national business systems? What we find, looking at three successful Danish businesses since t…
The non-globalisation of modern food retailing
By discussing the creation and subsequent failure of Coop Norden, set up by the Scandinavian consumer co-operatives in 2002 as a common wholesale and food retail enterprise, this article provides insights into the nature of the Scandinavian food retail sector and co-operative enterprises in an era of globalisation. The article combines recent research on the globalisation of retailing with the academic literature on the economic position and deve…
Corporate Strategies and Global Competition
This article analyzes the competitive strategies of Odense Steel Shipyard between 1918 and 2012 and challenges existing scholarship on competition in global industries. Until the 1980s, the yard adopted typical strategies in shipbuilding, starting with cost leadership and subsequently adopting global segmentation and differentiation strategies. From the mid-1980s, however, it successfully followed a unique national responsiveness strategy, which …
Appropriate reactions to globalisation? Interest group theory and trade associations in clothing between 1970 and 2000 – a comparison between Denmark and Sweden
Today both Denmark and Sweden are successful fashion exporters due to the re-export of clothing designed in Scandinavia and produced in low-wage countries, while domestic clothing manufacturing has become almost non-existent over the past 20 years. This article compares the strategies of Danish and Swedish trade associations in clothing manufacturing and discusses whether or not the associations encouraged the abandonment of local manufacturing a…
Successful strategy leading to lock-in – lessons from the Danish garment industry, 1960 to 2000
The article analyses the development of two prominent Danish clothing producers in the years after 1960, Tage Vanggaard's dressmaking factory and the slacks manufacturer Brandtex, during which period each had their success despite the general trend within the industry. The article has as its point of departure an evaluation of the companies' strategies and the difficulties they encountered when the need arose for strategic change. It concludes th…
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Successful strategy leading to lock-in – lessons from the Danish garment industry, 1960 to 2000
The article analyses the development of two prominent Danish clothing producers in the years after 1960, Tage Vanggaard's dressmaking factory and the slacks manufacturer Brandtex, during which period each had their success despite the general trend within the industry. The article has as its point of departure an evaluation of the companies' strategies and the difficulties they encountered when the need arose for strategic change. It concludes th…
Appropriate reactions to globalisation? Interest group theory and trade associations in clothing between 1970 and 2000 – a comparison between Denmark and Sweden
Today both Denmark and Sweden are successful fashion exporters due to the re-export of clothing designed in Scandinavia and produced in low-wage countries, while domestic clothing manufacturing has become almost non-existent over the past 20 years. This article compares the strategies of Danish and Swedish trade associations in clothing manufacturing and discusses whether or not the associations encouraged the abandonment of local manufacturing a…
Corporate Strategies and Global Competition
This article analyzes the competitive strategies of Odense Steel Shipyard between 1918 and 2012 and challenges existing scholarship on competition in global industries. Until the 1980s, the yard adopted typical strategies in shipbuilding, starting with cost leadership and subsequently adopting global segmentation and differentiation strategies. From the mid-1980s, however, it successfully followed a unique national responsiveness strategy, which …
The non-globalisation of modern food retailing
By discussing the creation and subsequent failure of Coop Norden, set up by the Scandinavian consumer co-operatives in 2002 as a common wholesale and food retail enterprise, this article provides insights into the nature of the Scandinavian food retail sector and co-operative enterprises in an era of globalisation. The article combines recent research on the globalisation of retailing with the academic literature on the economic position and deve…
Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system
In business history, it has become a well-accepted fact that engineers have lost territory to business school candidates in the most recent phases of modern capitalism. This article puts up for debate whether business historians studying Northern Europe have perhaps been too willing to accept this diminishing role of the engineer in the understanding of national business systems? What we find, looking at three successful Danish businesses since t…
Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Danish (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Clothing (2 works) · Clothing industry (2 works) · Global Trade and Competitiveness (2 works) · Globalization (2 works) · History (2 works)