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Overview

Bent Petersen is affiliated with Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Their research is focused primarily on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Bent Petersen's subfields of study include Strategy and Management, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Management Information Systems, Business and International Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's notable recent papers cover various aspects of global business and international trade. These include:

  • Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda (2022), published in the Journal of World Business
  • The bargaining power, value capture, and export performance of Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains (2021), published in International Business Review
  • Geographical reconfiguration in global value chains: Search within limited space? (2022), published in Global Strategy Journal
  • Internationalization, value-chain configuration, and the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies (2021), published in Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Drivers of R&D greenfield investment projects in the communications, software and IT service industries in developing countries (2023), published in Transnational corporations

Bent Petersen frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Torben Juul Andersen
  • Edward Ashbee
  • Gabriel R.G. Benito
  • Christian Geisler Asmussen
  • Peter D. Ørberg Jensen

The scientist publishes regularly in specific journals such as European Journal of International Management, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Global Strategy Journal, and Industrial and Corporate Change.

Key topics covered in Bent Petersen's work encompass:

  • International Business and FDI
  • Global trade and economics
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Global Trade and Competitiveness
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Bent Petersen has contributed to book publications as well, with a notable title being Business and Policy Challenges of Global Uncertainty (2024), published by WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing: From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking

    Peter Maskell;Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen;Jens Dick‐Nielsen

  • Global value chains from a 3D printing perspective

    André O Laplume;Bent Petersen;Joshua M Pearce

  • Role of Transnational Corporations in the Evolution of a High-Tech Industry: The Case of India's Software Industry

    Murali Patibandla;Bent Petersen

  • Closing knowledge gaps in foreign markets

    Bent Petersen;Torben Pedersen;Marjorie A Lyles

  • Towards more realistic conceptualisations of foreign operation modes

    Gabriel R. G. Benito;Bent Petersen;Lawrence S. Welch

  • Coping with liability of foreignness: Different learning engagements of entrant firms

    Bent Petersen;Torben Pedersen

  • The Internet and Foreign Market Expansion by Firms

    Bent Petersen;Lawrence S. Welch;Peter W. Liesch

  • Explaining gradually increasing resource commitment to a foreign market

    Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen

  • Foreign Operation Methods: Theory, Analysis, Strategy

    Lawrence S. Welch;Gabriel R. G. Benito;Bent Petersen

  • Foreign operation mode combinations and internationalization

    Bent Petersen;Lawrence Stephenson Welch

  • Learning about Foreign Markets: Are Entrant Firms Exposed to a “Shock Effect”?:

    Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen

  • Knowledge Transfer Performance of Multinational Companies

    Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen;D. Deo Sharma

  • Change of foreign operation method: impetus and switching costs

    Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen;Gabriel R. G. Benito

  • Closing the Knowledge Gap in Foreign Markets: A Learning Perspective

    Marjorie A. Lyles;Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen

  • MNC strategies and linkage effects in developing countries

    Michael Wendelboe Hansen;Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen

  • Knowledge Gaps: The Case of Knowledge about Foreign Entry

    Marjorie Lyles;Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen

  • Is there a trend towards global value chain specialization? — An examination of cross border sales of US foreign affiliates

    Sjoerd Beugelsdijk;Torben Pedersen;Bent Petersen

  • Creating Meaningful Switching Options in International Operations

    Bent Petersen;Denice Ellen Welch;Lawrence Stephenson Welch

  • Evolving Strands of Research on Firm Internationalization: An Australian-Nordic Perspective

    Peter W. Liesch;Lawrence S. Welch;Denice Welch;Sara L. McGaughey

  • The global value chain and internalization theory

    Gabriel R G Benito;Bent Petersen;Lawrence S. Welch

  • The Role of Knowledge in Firms' Internationalization Process: Wherefrom and Whereto?

    Bent Petersen;Torben Pedersen;D. Deo Sharma

Frequent Co-Authors

Torben Pedersen
Torben Pedersen Copenhagen Business School
Lawrence S. Welch
Lawrence S. Welch University of Melbourne
Gabriel R. G. Benito
Gabriel R. G. Benito BI Norwegian Business School
Marjorie A. Lyles
Marjorie A. Lyles Indiana University
Peter W. Liesch
Peter W. Liesch University of Queensland
Denice E. Welch
Denice E. Welch University of Melbourne
Thomas Ritter
Thomas Ritter Copenhagen Business School
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk University of South Carolina
Ulf Andersson
Ulf Andersson Mälardalen University
Joshua M. Pearce
Joshua M. Pearce University of Western Ontario

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