Jane Bjørn Vedel

Jane Bjørn Vedel is an Associate Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, and a member of the Center for Organizational Research on Impact (CORI). Her research explores the organizational and societal effects of large-scale donations to research, dynamic capabilities in interorganizational relationships, and the role of time and temporality in innovation management.

Her recent work investigates how transformative innovation policy reshapes universities’ organizational structures and how spatial scale influences institutional processes. She has secured significant funding (1.72M EUR) as a Principal Investigator and collaborates with institutions like Stanford University.

• Key Research Themes:
  • Organizational adaptation to financial shifts
  • Temporal tensions in dynamic capabilities
  • Interorganizational collaboration in mission-oriented research
  • Isomorphic differences in science policy
  • Micro-foundations of resource integration

Her publications appear in top journals like Research Policy and Journal of Management Studies, with recent articles focusing on resilience in goal-complex environments and ethical disruptions in organizations. She has mentored PhD candidates and postdocs, including Vera Simoneit and Søren Lund Frandsen.