Lasse Folke Henriksen

Lasse Folke Henriksen serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, where his research employs social network analysis to examine social and political dynamics in organizations, markets, and environmental governance systems.

His core research spans Economic Sociology, International Political Economy, and Stratification, with specialized focus on corporate elite networks, cross-national inequality patterns, and sustainability politics. He investigates how professional networks shape governance outcomes and how environmental conservation intersects with socio-economic structures, particularly through fieldwork in Tanzania.

Analysis of his 2022-2025 publications reveals three dominant trajectories: (1) Network-driven inequality mechanisms in labor markets (CEO compensation, gender/immigrant pay gaps), (2) Corporate elite power structures using network methodology, and (3) Sustainability governance in Global South contexts. These appear in premier journals including American Journal of Sociology, Nature Human Behaviour, and Global Environmental Change.

Henriksen actively supervises graduate projects aligned with his research themes and leads multiple collaborative initiatives including the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (COIN) and the New Partnerships for Sustainability project. His current research portfolio addresses workplace inequality documentation, skills transfer ethnographies, and transnational environmental governance networks.