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Professor, Strategisk Kommunikation

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PRESENT POSITION
• Professor (Since February 1st 2002 -) Department of Marketing & Management, University of Southern Denmark, Main Campus Odense.
• Adjunct professor (Da. Adjungeret professor) Center for Kommunikation, The Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (Since May 2004 - ) 


PREVIOUS POSITIONS
• Research Professor at Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, The Copenhagen Business School and Director of the CBS Center for Corporate Communication (September 1st 2000 – January 31st 2002)
• Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Odense University, Denmark (June 1995- August 2000)
• Department Chair, Department of Marketing, Odense University, Denmark (January 1, 1996 - December 31, 1999)
• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, Odense University, Denmark (February 1992 - June 1995)
• Research Fellow, Institute for Business Research, Southern Denmark Business School (1989 - 1992)
• Academic Assistant, Institute for Middle East Studies, Odense University, Denmark (1988)
• Teaching Assistant/Instructor in Mathematics and Economics, Department of Economics, Odense University, Denmark (1983-1988) 



EDUCATION
• Ph.D. (Danish:Lic. Merc.) in Communication and Marketing. Odense University, 1993.
• B.A. (Danish: Bifag) in History. Odense University, 1989.
• M.A. (Danish: Hovedfag) in Social and Political Sciences. Odense University, 1988. 


GRANTS AND AWARDS
• Awarded TEXTBOOK OF THE YEAR by National Communication Association, San Francisco, November 2010.
• OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD WINNER at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010.
• Forskningsbevilling fra SSF (LOK-puljen) på 2 mill. kroner til projektet “Integrated Communications – Analyzing the Organizational Implications of an Expanding Communication Perspective” (2002-2005)
• Statoil’s Forskningspris på 75.000 kroner for forskning i “Marketing som organisering og kommunikation.” (1995)
“Fleksibel kompetence. Nye muligheder og betingelser for organisering og markedsføring". Projektbeskrivelse præmieret med forskningsstipendium på SvKr. 50.000 af Stiftelsen Marknadstekniskt Centrum indenfor udviklingsprojektet “Marknaden 2019” (1994). 


ADMINSTRATIVE POSITIONS AT SDU
• Member of Academic Council, Faculty of Social Sciences
• Director of MBA-education
• Academic Board of PhD Studies
• Fagudvalget for Erhvervsøkonomi


REFEREE FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS
• Organization Studies
• Human Relations
• Consumption, Markets & Culture
• Management Communication Quarterly
• Corporate Reputation Review
• Corporate Communications: An International Journal
• European Journal of Marketing


EDITORIAL BOARDS
• Management Communication Quarterly
• Corporate Reputation Review
• Corporate Communications: An International Journal
• Consumption, Markets & Culture


ASSESMENT COMMITEES
• I have served on numerous committees for academic positions in Denmark as well as internationally (in UK, New Zealand and Norway) and at all academic levels, including full professor, associate professor and assistant professor positions.
• I have also served at multiple PhD-committees and senior doctorates (disputats) committees.
• I have supervised several PhD-students.

MEMBERSHIPS
• Member of International Communication Association (ICA)
• Member of European Communication research and Education Association (ECREA)
• Member of the board of Dansk Kommunikationsforening
• Member of Dansk Kommunikationsforenings Research-udvalg 


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
L.T. Christensen (forthcoming). Pure Self-Seduction? Toward a Critique of Georg Jensen's Branding Assumptions. Management Communication Quarterly.

J.P.Cornelissen, K. Kenuthia & L.T. Christensen (forthcoming). Corporate brands and identity: Developing stronger theory and a call for shifting the debate. European Journal of Marketing.

L.T. Christensen & J.P. Cornelissen (2011). Bridging corporate and organizational communication: Review, development and a look to the future. Management Communication Quarterly, 25 (3), 383-414.

L.T. Christensen & G Cheney, (2011). Interrogating the communicative dimensions of corporate social responsibility. In: Ihlen, Ø., Bartlett, J., & May, S. (Eds.). (2011). Handbook of communication and corporate social responsibility. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.491-504.

G. Cheney, L.T. Christensen, T. Zorn & S. Ganesh (2011). Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization: Issues, Reflections, Practices. Waveland Press, Inc., Chicago. 2nd. Ed. Awarded TEXTBOOK OF THE YEAR by National Communication Association, San Francisco, November 2010.

L.T. Christensen, M. Morsing & O. Thyssen, (2011). The Polyphony of Corporate Social Responsibility: Deconstructing Accountability and Transparency in the Context of Identity and Hypocrisy. In G. Cheney, S. May & D. Munshi (Eds.), Handbook of Communication Ethics. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, pp. 457-474.

L.T. Christensen & M. Morsing (2010). “Corporate communication: En udfordring om styring og fleksibilitet.” In H. Merkelsen (ed.), Håndbog i Strategisk Public Relations. København: Samfundslitteratur, pp. 47-66.

L.T. Christensen, A. F. Firat & J. Cornelissen (2009). “New Tensions and Challenges in Integrated Communications.” Corporate Communication: An International Journal, Vol. 14/2, pp.207-219. OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD WINNER at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010.

L.T. Christensen & R.Langer (2009). “Public Relations and the Strategic Use of Transparency. Consistency, Hypocrisy and Corporate Change”, in R.L. Heath, E. Toth & D. Waymer(eds.), Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations II. Hillsdale, New York: Routledge, pp. 129-153.

L.T. Christensen, A. F. Firat & S. Torp (2008). “The Organization of Integrated Communications: Toward Flexible Integration”. European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 42 No. 3/4, pp. 423-452.

J. Cornelissen, C. Oswick, Lars Thøger Christensen & N. Phillips (2008). “Metaphor in Organizational Research: An Introduction, a Synthesis and a Consideration of Implications for Research.” Organization Studies, 29 (01), pp. 7-22.

L.T. Christensen (2008). “Corporate and Organizational Identity.” In The Blackwell International Encyclopaedia of Communication, Wolfgang Donsbach (ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., pp. 1014-1019.

L.T. Christensen, M. Morsing & G. Cheney (2008). Corporate Communications. Convention, Complexity and Critique. London: Sage.

L.T. Christensen & M. Morsing (2008). Bagom Corporate Communication. 2. udg. København: Samfundslitteratur.

L.T. Christensen & M. Morsing (2008). “Fra produktbranding til corporate branding”. In K. Eiberg, E. Karsholt & S. Torp (eds), Integreret markedskommunikation. København: Samfundslitteratur, pp.29-40.

L.T. Christensen, J. Cornelissen & M. Morsing (2007). “Corporate Communication and its Receptions: A Comment on Llewellyn and Harrison.” Human Relations, 60 (4), pp. 653-661.

L.T. Christensen (2007). “The Discourse of Corporate Social Responsibility: Postmodern Remarks”. In May, Steve Cheney, George & Roper, Juliet (eds.), The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford University Press, pp. 448-458.

L.T. Christensen, L. P. Andersen & M. Marcussen (2007). “Being Montana: Et signalement af vor tids virksomhedskommunikation.” Mediekultur Vol. 41/42, pp. 101-115.

L.T. Christensen (2007). “Walk talks, talk walks …og shit happens.” Market, 21, pp. 16-22.

G. Cheney & L.T. Christensen (2006). “What Should Public Relations Theory Do, Practically Speaking?” Journal of Communication Management, Vol. 10 (1), pp.100-102.

J. Cornelissen, L.T. Christensen & P. Vijn (2006). “Understanding the Development and Diffusion of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC): A Metaphorical Perspective”. NRG Working Paper Series, no. 06-02 (January 2006).

L.T. Christensen, S. Torp & A. F. Firat (2005). “Integrated Marketing Communication and Postmodernity: An Odd Couple?” Corporate Communication: An International Journal, Vol. 10/2, May 2005, 156-167.

A. F. Firat & L.T. Christensen (2005). “Marketing Communications in a Postmodern World”. In Allan J. Kimmel (ed.), Marketing Communication: New Approaches, Technologies and Styles. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 215-235.

L.T. Christensen & M. Morsing (2005). Bagom Corporate Communication. København: Samfundslitteratur.

G. Cheney, L.T. Christensen, T. Zorn & S. Ganesh (2004). Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization: Issues, Reflections, Practices. Waveland Press, Inc., Chicago.

G. Cheney, L.T. Christensen, C. Conrad & D. Lair (2004). “Corporate Rhetoric as Organizational Discourse,” In D. Grant, C. Hardy, C. Oswick, N. Phillips and L. Putnam (eds.), Handbook of Organizational Discourse. London: Sage, pp.79-103.

G. Cheney and L.T. Christensen (2004). “Organizational Identity. Linkages between ‘Internal’ and ‘External’ Organizational Communication.” In Mary Jo Hatch & Majken Schultz (eds.), Organizational Identity. A Reader. Oxford University Press, pp. 510-557.

L.T. Christensen (2004). “Det forførende medie. Om autokommunikation i markedsføringen.” Mediekultur, Nr. 37 2004 (juni), pp.14-23.

L.T. Christensen & M. Morsing (2004). “Bagom corporate communication” Brandbase News, nr. 9, pp.8-9.

L.T. Christensen (2004). “Partnerskabernes demokratiske underskud”, Miljøsk, Nr. 34 (Januar ’04), pp.16-19.

L.T. Christensen (2003). Markedskommunikation som organiseringsmåde. En kulturteoretisk analyse. 2. Ed. København: Akademisk Forlag.

L.T. Christensen (2003). “Virksomhedens identitet som forførelse og selvforførelse”, In Bodil Kragh & Jørn Helder (eds.), Når virksomheden åbner sit vindue. Kommunikation og formidling – et corporate perspektiv. København: samfundslitteratur, pp. 87-100.

L.T. Christensen (2002). “Corporate Communication: The Challenge of Transparency.” Corporate Communication: An International Journal, Vol. 7/3, August 2002, 162-168.

L.T. Christensen (2001). Reklame i selvsving. København: Samfundslitteratur.

L.T. Christensen & S. Askegaard (2001). “Corporate Identity and Corporate Image Revisited. A Semiotic Perspective.” European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 35/4, pp.292-315.

G. Cheney & L.T. Christensen (2001). “Public Relations as Contested Terrain.” In Robert Heath & Gabriel Vasquez (eds.). Handbook of Public Relations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp.167-182.

G. Cheney and L.T. Christensen (2001). “Organizational Identity. Linkages between ‘Internal’ and ‘External’ Organizational Communication.” In Fred Jablin and Linda L. Putnam (eds.). The New Handbook of Organizational Communication, Sage 2000, pp.231-269.

L.T. Christensen (2001). “Intertextuality and Self-Reference in Contemporary Advertising.” In Flemming Hansen & Lotte Yssing Hansen (eds.). Advertising Research in the Nordic Countries. København: Samfundslitteratur, pp.351-356.

L.T. Christensen (2000). “Marketing as Communication Technology: Paradoxes and Dialogics.” Consumption, Markets and Culture, Vol. 4 (1). pp.1-21.

L.T. Christensen & G Cheney, (2000). “Self-Absorption and Self-Seduction in the Corporate Identity Game.” In Majken Schultz, Mary Jo Hatch & Mogens Holten Larsen (eds.). The Expressive Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.246-270.

L.T. Christensen & J-P. Peronard (2000). IT i fynske virksomheder og offentlige organisationer: Anvendelse og udvikling af kompetencer. Den Fynske Fond for Erhvervsøkonomisk Forskning/Odense Erhvervsråd. 2. delundersøgelse. August 2000.

L.T. Christensen & J-P. Peronard (2000). IT i fynske virksomheder og offentlige organisationer: Anvendelse og udvikling af kompetencer. Den Fynske Fond for Erhvervsøkonomisk Forskning/Odense Erhvervsråd. 1. delundersøgelse. Maj 2000.

T. Zorn, L.T. Christensen & G. Cheney (1999). Do We Really Want Constant Change? Beyond the Bottom Line. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler-Publishers.

L.T. Christensen (1999). “The Organization as Sender and Receiver: Carrying the Marketing Communication Process Full Circle.” In Yves Evrard, Wayne D. Hoyer & Alain Strazzieri (eds.). Proceedings of the Third International Research Seminar on Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior, 1999. Institut d'Administration des Entreprises d'Aix-en-Provence, pp.118-134.

L.T. Christensen (1998). “Reklamens selvstændiggørelse og den organiserede dialog.” Retorik Magasinet, Nr. 30, December 1998, pp.22-27.

L.T. Christensen (1997). “Marketing as Auto-Communication.” Consumption, Markets & Culture, Vol. 1 (3). pp.197-227.

L.T. Christensen and R. Jones (1996). “En symmetrisk dialog om miljøspørgsmålet? En kritisk analyse af nye dialogformer mellem virksomheder og forbrugere." In John Parm Ulhøi & Henning Madsen (Eds.). Miljøledelse - tanker, erfaringer og visioner. Børsens Forlag 1996, pp.151-167.

L.T Christensen and R. Jones (1996), "Towards a Symmetrical Dialogue on the Green Issue? A Critical Investigation of New Dialogical Forms between Organizations and Consumers." Industry and the Environment. Practical Applications of Environmental Management Approaches in Business. Proceedings of the The 3rd Conference of the Nordic Business Environmental Management Network, The Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark, March 28-30, 1996.

L.T. Christensen (1995). “Buffering Organizational Identity in the Marketing Culture.” Organization Studies, Vol. 16/4, 651-672.

L.T. Christensen (1995). “Fra kosmetisk markedsføring til integreret strategi. Refleksioner over den "grønne" kommunikation.” Virksomhedens miljøhåndbog. Nr.5 (8.4.) Oktober 1995, pp.1-10. Børsens Forlag.

L.T Christensen (1995), "Når virksomheden taler med sig selv. Auto-kommunikativ ledelse", Ledelse i dag, Nr. 20 (Winter 1995), pp.32-42.

Lars Thøger Christensen (1994), "Talking to Ourselves: Management through Auto-Communication." In MTC Kontakten, (Marknadstekniskt Centrum, Stockholm), Jubilæumstidsskrift 1994, pp.32-37.

Søren Askegaard & Lars Thøger Christensen (1994), "Macromarketing. An Enactment Perspective." In Proceedings from the 19th Annual Macromarketing Conference, Boulder, Colorado, USA, August 1994.

Lars Thøger Christensen (1994), Markedskommunikation som organiseringsmåde. En kulturteoretisk analyse. København: Akademisk Forlag.

Lars Thøger Christensen and George Cheney (1994), "Articulating Identity in an Organizational Age," in Stanley A. Deetz. (1994) (ed.), Communication Yearbook, 17, Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp.222-235.

Lars Thøger Christensen and Søren Askegaard (1993), "Innovation Beyond Change. A Macromarketing Perspective." In New Visions in a Time of Transition. Proceedings from the Eighteenth Macromarketing Conference, August 12-15, 1993, ed. A Fuat Firat and Annama Joy.

Lars Thøger Christensen (1989), Betydningsproduktion og symbol. [Meaning Production and the Symbol]. Published Odense Universitet.

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