Agnieszka Nowinska

Agnieszka Nowinska

Associate Professor

Aalborg University Business School • PhD Copenhagen Business School

My research focuses on networks, mobility, and relationships in business contexts. After 8 years in business development and trade diplomacy, I now apply that experience to academic inquiry into employee mobility, global supply chains, and organizational responses to disruption.

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Scientific Focus Areas

Careers & Mobility

Studying employees’ mobility and co-mobility worldwide, particularly following major organizational events like MNC failures, and examining novel global staffing strategies.

Networks

Investigating the formation, persistence, and drivers of networks at individual (employee co-mobility) and organizational (buyer-supplier) levels.

Change & Disruption

Using extreme contexts—like bankruptcy, crises, and new technology adoption—as a lens to study organizational effects and strategic responses.

Projects & Media

AI in Shipping
Role: Project Lead • Danish Maritime Fund

Starting a new project on the use of AI in shipping and chartering. Please reach out if you are interested in learning more or collaborating.

Doors & Walls

On physical barriers and knowledge sharing. From Industry and Innovation.

Traders Across Borders

On global mobility. Published in the Journal of Global Mobility.

Mobility and the Future of Mobility (AAU Play)

Short lecture on mobility trends and implications.

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Selected Publications

Careers & Mobility

All aboard! co-mobility, human capital, and labor market prospects after organizational failure.
Nowinska, A., Tartari, V., & Mudambi, R. (2025).
Industry and Innovation, 1–19.
Unpacking the influence of foreignness on employment prospects within a multinational enterprise.
Nowinska, A. U., & Solheim, M. (2024).
Journal of Global Mobility.
Scarce resources or damaged goods? On the legitimacy of laid‐off workers following MNC failure.
Andersen, K. V., Lorenzen, M., & Nowinska, A. U. (2023).
Global Strategy Journal.
Traders across borders: who and where?
Nowińska, A., Hennart, J. F., & Marinova, S. (2023).
Journal of Global Mobility, 11(3), 437-457.
Non-diverse Internal Mobility (expatriation) and External Hiring: Alternative Staffing Strategies at OW Bunker.
Nowinska, A. U. (2024).
Nordic Case House/Harvard Business Publishing.

Networks

The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation.
Kumar, A., Nowinska, A., & Zaheer, A. (2024).
Academy of Management Journal.
The signaling effect of supplier's customer network instability on service price.
Kumar, P., Nowinska, A., & Schramm, H. J. (2023).
Journal of Operations Management, 69(8), 1282-1319.
Doors and walls: physical barriers and knowledge sharing.
Nowinska, A., & Pedersen, T. (2023).
Industry and Innovation, 30(5), 585-606.
Uncertainty, status-based homophily, versatility, repeat exchange and social exchange in the container shipping industry.
Nowinska, A. U. & Schramm, H-J. (2021).
Journal of Business Research, 128, 524-536.
Together or Alone? Value Creation Logics in Internationalised Service Firms.
Nowinska, A. U. & Marinova, S. T. (2021).
In C. Nielsen, S. Marinova, & M. Marinov (Eds.), Business Models and Firm Internationalisation (pp. 190-212). Routledge.
Ships and relationships: Competition, geographical proximity, and relations in the shipping industry.
Nowińska, A. (2019).
Journal of Business Research, 101, 161-170.

Change & Disruption

Inter-state war dynamics and investment: insights from the Russia-Ukraine war.
Nowinska, A.U, & Olesen, T. (2024).
Journal of Business Research (upcoming).
Project managers and decision making: Conditional cognitive switching and rationally stepping up.
Nowińska, A., & Pedersen, T. (2024).
Long Range Planning, 57(1), 102414.
Trans-fur-able resources? Responses to a crisis in a Danish mink-related ecosystem.
Dahl, M., Kringelum, L., Nowinska, A., & Olesen, T. (2022).
In Reconfiguration of Business Models and Ecosystems: Decoupling and Resilience. Taylor and Francis.
What drives ports around the world to adopt air emissions abatement measures?
Sornn-Friese, H., Poulsen, R. T., Nowinska, A. U., & de Langen, P. (2021).
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 90, 102644.

Contact

Email
agnieszka.nowinska@gmail.com
Phone
+45 518 90 455
Office
Fibigerstræde 11, Room 44
DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark