Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen currently holds the Hanken Foundation assistant professorship in management and organisation, one of the first tenure track positions in Finland.

He has held a number of teaching and research positions at Hanken since 1999 and has twice been a visiting scholar at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research at Stanford University, CA.

His work experience also includes the academic directorship of Hanken & SSE Executive Education (www.hankensse.fi) and the planning and delivery of several tailored executive education programmes.

Barner-Rasmussen is the director of the Master's degree programme in International Management, MIM (http://www.hanken.fi/public/en/mim_homepage). He also runs the Swedish- and English-language research seminar courses at the Department of Management and Organization.

He has planned and taught courses in management and organisation at basic, intermediate and advanced levels at Hanken since 1999. He has also taught on Hanken's executive MBA programme and at the Aalto School of Economics (formerly Helsinki School of Economics, HSE), where he is an adjunct professor (docent) in International Business since 2007. He has also contributed to doctoral courses at both Hanken and the HSE, and supervised more than 50 Master's theses.

In 2006, he completed the International Teachers' Program at IMD, Lausanne.

Barner-Rasmussen defended his PhD in 2003 and has since pursued an active research career, with gratefully acknowledged financial support by a number of foundations including the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Foundation of the Helsinki School of Economics, the Hanken Foundation, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, and the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

Barner-Rasmussen's current academic interests focus on knowledge transfer in multinationals, specifically issues related to language, communication, the role of individuals in interunit relationships, and location of headquarters units.

His recent research include co-editing a special issue on ‘New perspectives on International Management Research’ in Scandinavian Journal of Management (together with Ingmar Björkman and Eero Vaara), and acting as the co-convenor of a subtheme on ‘Englishization and language diversity in contemporary organizational life’ at the 2010 annual colloquium of the European Group of Organisation Studies, EGOS (together with Rebecca Piekkari and Chris Steyaert).

In 2009, Barner-Rasmussen acted as the main organiser (together with Rebecca Piekkari and Chris Steyaert) of an international workshop on ‘Language and multilingualism in management’ at Hanken School of Economics. The workshop was supported by the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of Great Britain.

Barner-Rasmussen is a member of the Board of the Nordic Academy of Management since 2007.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

Barner-Rasmussen, W. and Aarnio, C. (2010): ‘Shifting the faultlines of language. A quantitative functional-level exploration of language use in MNC subsidiaries.’ Journal of World Business, special issue ‘A world of languages: Implications for international management research and practice’.

Barner-Rasmussen W., Piekkari R. and Björkman I. (2007): ‘Motives for relocation of MNC divisional headquarters’. European Journal of International Management, 1 (3): 260-274 (Special issue on corporate Europe).

Barner-Rasmussen W. and Björkman I. (2007): ‘Language fluency, socialization and inter-unit relationships in Chinese and Finnish subsidiaries’. Management and Organization Review, 3 (1): 105-128.

Li L., Björkman I. and Barner-Rasmussen W. (2007): ‘What difference does the location make? A social capital perspective on transfer of knowledge from MNC subsidiaries located in China and Finland’. Asia Pacific Business Review, 13 (2): 1-17.

Fredriksson R., Barner-Rasmussen W. and Piekkari R. (2006): ‘The multinational corporation as a multilingual organization: the notion of a common corporate language’. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 11 (4): 406-423.

Barner-Rasmussen W. and Björkman I. (2005): ‘Surmounting interunit barriers: Factors associated with interunit communication intensity in the multinational corporation’. International Studies in Management and Organisation, 35 (1): 28-46.

Björkman I., Barner-Rasmussen W. and Li L. (2004): ‘Managing knowledge transfer in MNCs. A comprehensive test of headquarters control mechanisms’. Journal of International Business Studies, 35 (5): 443-454.

ACADEMIC MONOGRAPHS

Barner-Rasmussen W., Björkman I., Ehrnrooth M., Koveshnikov A., Mäkelä K., Vaara E., and Zhang, L. (2009): Cross-Border Competence Management in Emerging Markets: Voices from China and Russia. Research reports of Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki. 91 p.

Barner-Rasmussen W. (2003): Knowledge Sharing in Multinational Corporations. A Social Capital Perspective. Doctoral dissertation. Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki. 169 p.

CHAPTERS IN REFEREED ACADEMIC BOOKS

Barner-Rasmussen, W., Piekkari, R., Scott-Kennel, J. and Welch, C. (2010): ‘Commander-in-chief or absentee landlord? Key perspectives on headquarters in multinational corporations.’ In Holm, U. and Andersson, U. (eds): Managing the Contemporary Multinational – the Role of Headquarters. Pp. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Björkman, I., Barner-Rasmussen, W., Ehrnrooth, M., and Mäkelä, K. (2009): ‘Performance Management Across Borders’. In Sparrow, P. (ed.): Handbook of International Human Resource Management: Integrating People, Process and Context. John Wiley. Pp. 229-250.

Mäkelä K., Barner-Rasmussen W. and Björkman I. (2008): ‘Drivers of interpersonal and inter-unit trust in multinational corporations’. In Feldman, M. and Santangelo, G. (eds): Progress in International Business Research, Vol. 3, Elsevier. Pp. 59-80.

Barner-Rasmussen W. and Björkman I. (2007): ’Social Capital and Knowledge Transfer Between Subsidiaries of Foreign MNCs and Local Organizations: Comparing the Cases of China and Finland’. In Clegg S., Wang K. and Berrell M. (eds): Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China. Edward Elgar. Pp. 77-98.