Thomas Roslyng Olesen

Assistant professor, CBS MARITIME at CBS Executive

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Thomas Roslyng Olesen is Assistant Professor at Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics at Copenhagen Business School. He is also part of CBS Maritime which is a maritime business in society platform at CBS.

Thomas research has mainly focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and workforce mobility in the maritime industry. In 2016 he published a book on the transformation of Danish shipbuilding, where he examined how the competencies and production facilities at the closed shipyards have been put to new use after the closures. He has also published papers and reports on value creation in the maritime chain of transportation, labor mobility, skill allocation and skill destruction, and offshore value chain characteristics. Thomas is currently involved in a 3-year research project on organizational innovation in the marine equipment industry in close collaboration with several industry participants and the industry organization Danish Maritime.  

Thomas teaches a BSc course on Logistic Clusters at the Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management program and an elective course on Markets, Regulation and Security in the Maritime Sector.

Thomas holds a MA in history from University of Copenhagen and a PhD in history from University of Southern Denmark. Thomas joined CBS as a postdoc in 2014, and has previously been a visiting scholar at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Primary research areas

  • Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Labour mobility
  • Maritime history
  • Maritime industry

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