Nicolai J. Foss - Biography#

A Danish citizen with residence in Denmark and Norway, Nicolai J(uul) Foss is a Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Copenhagen Business School, a part-time Professor of Knowledge-based Value Creation at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and the Head of Department of the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization at CBS. He also holds part-time and visiting professorships at the Lund University, Luiss Guido Carli-Roma, and Agder University. He founded the Center (now Department) of Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School in 2005, and served as its Director/HoD until 1 Febr. 2010, and again from August 2011, building it from a 5 faculty center to a 17 faculty department. Foss has served as a member of the Senate of the CBS, and is a panel member of the European Research Council.

Educated as an economist from the Copenhagen University (1989), Foss his received his PhD degree from the Copenhagen Business School in 1993, where he has been Assistant, Associate and Full Professor.

Encompassing 140 journal articles, 81 book chapters and 22 books (edited as well as monographs), his work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Organization Studies and several other leading journals, as well as published by leading publishers, such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.

Foss work has been cited by leading scholars in economics and management, including Mary Crossan, Giovanni Dosi, Kathleen Eisenhart, Robert Gibbons, Robert Grant, Geoff Hodgson, Richard Nelson, Ikujiro Nonaka, Brian Pentland, C.K. Prahalad, Richard Priem, Andrew Pettigrew, C. K. Prahalad, Richard Priem, Oliver Williamson, Sidney Winter, and many others. About a dozen of his papers have been reprinted in research handbooks, and several of his articles and books are translated into Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. His google scholar cites are above 10,000.

Foss was one of the founders of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics and a co-founder of the industry-funded Center for Policy Studies, the most influential privately-funded think tank in Denmark. He serves as a member of the three-person management group of the Norwegian Center for Service Innovation at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, which is supported by a 20 million Euros grant (over 8 years). Since 2000, Foss has raised approximately 2 million Euros in external funding as research leader, and has participated in several large research projects.