Carsten Greve (born 1965 in Svendborg) is a Danish professor at Copenhagen Business School. He is Ph.D in Political Science and Cand.scient.pol. from University of Copenhagen.
Greve has been a professor since 2006. He received his master's degree in political science in 1992, and earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1997 from the University of Copenhagen. He has been at CBS since 2004 and a full professor since 2010. From 2006 to 2010 he was professor with special responsibilities. From 1998to 2004 he was at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. In 1996–1997, he was at the Institute of Economics, Politics and Public Administration in Aalborg University in Denmark.
His main research areas are public-private partnerships and public management reform from an international perspective, including performance management, contracting, privatization, corporatization, regulatory reform and governance, which he has done research on over more than fifteen years. Greve has published monographs in Danish and English. He has published in international journals such as Public Administration Review, Governance, Public Administration, International Public Management Review and Public Management Review. Greve's current research focuses on public management and governance reforms and public-private partnerships. Together with Graeme Hodge, Monash University, Australia, and Anthony Boardman, Canada, Greve published an International Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships in 26 chapters. He was the local organizer of the International Research Society for Public Management's conference held in Copenhagen in April 2009. He has been an advisor to the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish National Audit Office.
Greve is chairman of the CEMS Interfaculty Group on Public Management and Governance, a pan-European research and teaching group. His teaching responsibility is centered on courses on public management and governance. Since 2009, he has been the first academic director of the new flexible executive Master of Public Governance executive education program which Copenhagen Business School is offering together with the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University and other partners and that has 600+ public managers enrolled. He is Academic Director of the new CBS Public-Private Platform. He co-organizes an annual program for Danish public sector top executives that take them to Washington DC. He currently supervises Ph.D. projects on strategic governance andpublic-private partnerships in the service sector and municipal waste sector.
Books
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated 2010.
2. udg.ed.København : Djøf / Jurist- og Økonomforbundet 2009.
Amsterdam : IOS Press 2005
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated 2005.
Selected book chapters
In: Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships: Strategies for Turbulent Times. . ed. /Carsten Greve; Graeme Hodge. Abingdon : Routledge 2013, p. 211-222.
In: Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships: Strategies for Turbulent Times. . ed. /Carsten Greve; Graeme Hodge. Abingdon : Routledge 2013, p. 1-32.
In: Ledelse efter kommunalreformen: Sådan tackles de nye udfordringer. . ed. /Jacob Torfing. København : Djøf / Jurist- og Økonomforbundet 2012, p. 123-142.
Selected papers
Paper presented at 2011 NASPAA Annual Conference, Kansas, USA. 2011
Paper presented at The 11th Annual Public Management Research Conference. 2011, Syracuse, USA. 2011
Paper presented at 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research. 2011, Newark, USA. 2011
Paper presented at IRSPM Conference, København, Danmark. 2010
Paper presented at Danish Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2010, Vejle, Danmark. 2010
Paper presented at The International Research Society for Public Management Conference, Brisbane, Australien. 2008