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Copenhagen Business School

The Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is the leading Danish business school – and due to its 15.000 students and 900 in permanent staff – one of the three largest business school in northern Europe. Built in 1917 as a privately financed institution, CBS became part of the national university system in 1965. Its fifteen specialised departments cover a broad range of fields on economics and business administration, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Department of Intercultural Communication and Development

The Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (DICM) at CBS was established in 1994 as a multidisciplinary research entity that focuses on international business and its social, political and cultural environment. Its 30+ academic staff has backgrounds in economics, political science, area studies, sociology, anthropology, communication, and management studies. A fall 2003 external evaluation resulted in a “very positive” assessment of the department’s research in terms of quality, quantity and societal relevance. Major research foci are the governance and management of economic, social and cultural processes at the global, regional and local levels, and the relationship between the different actors, be they international organizations, donor agencies, governments, TNC’s, trade associations, NGO’s or local firms in Third World development.

The DICM hosts the CBS Centre for Corporate Values and Responsibility and The Centre for Business and Development Studies, and it participates in the CBS Asia Research Centre. It is responsible for several study programmes run in cooperation with other CBS departments, among them the BA and Master Programmes in Intercultural Management and the recently created BSc programme in International Business and Politics. It has links with research institutions in Europe, the USA, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The department has received funding from the Danish Social Science Research Council for the Humanities, The Danish Council for Development Research, and private foundations and companies.

More information on CBS and DICM can be found under uk.cbs.dk and uk.cbs.dk/content/view/full/5638. For an overview of DICM’s main study programmes, e.g. the BSc and MSc in Business, Language and Culture and Asian Studies Programme please visit uk.cbs.dk/uddannelser/bachelor/bachelorudd/oekonomi/bsc_in_business_language_and_culture_blc, uk.cbs.dk/uddannelser/kandidat/kandidatudd/oekonomi/msc_in_business_language_culture_cand_merc_int and uk.cbs.dk/uddannelser/bachelor/bachelorudd/oekonomi/asian_studies_programme.