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Careers & Mobility
Employee mobility and co-mobility across borders, particularly after major organizational events such as multinational failure, alongside emerging global staffing strategies.
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Agnieszka Nowinska
Associate Professor at Aalborg University Business School
My research examines how people and organizations move, connect, and adapt when established structures are disrupted.
After eight years in business development and trade diplomacy, I now bring that experience to research on employee mobility, global supply chains, and organizational responses to failure, crisis, and technological change.
- 3
- connected research streams
- 8
- years in business and diplomacy
- Global
- empirical perspective
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Research agenda
Behavior under pressure reveals how actors really work.
Across careers, firms, and supply chains, my work examines how people move, adapt, and make decisions when established relationships are placed under pressure.
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Networks
How networks form, persist, and restart at both the individual level, through employee co-mobility, and the organizational level, through buyer-supplier relationships.
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Change & Disruption
Extreme contexts, including bankruptcy, crisis, war, and technology adoption, as lenses for understanding strategic responses and organizational consequences.
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AI & knowledge production
AI is becoming part of how knowledge is made.
My current AI work connects shipping, qualitative research, and the wider question of how artificial intelligence changes expertise, interpretation, and decision-making.
CAISA Fellow, Center for AI in Society
CAISA is Denmark's National Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society, an interdisciplinary consortium with AAU, UCPH, AU, ITU, DTU, and the Pioneer Centre for AI. My fellowship connects AI in society with knowledge production and qualitative research practice.
About CAISAAI in inductive qualitative research
Seed-funded work on generative AI and qualitative research, connected to questions about how AI reshapes immersion, interpretation, and access to empirical material.
View MASSHINEAI in shipping and chartering
Funding from the Danish Maritime Fund supports work on how artificial intelligence is reshaping shipping, chartering, and maritime decision-making.
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Current work & media
Research in motion.
Projects, short films, and lectures that connect academic questions with the people and industries living through them.
AI in Shipping
A new project investigating the use of artificial intelligence in shipping and chartering. I welcome conversations with researchers and industry partners interested in collaborating.
Get in touchDoors & Walls
Physical barriers, organizational space, and knowledge sharing, based on research published in Industry and Innovation.
The Future of Mobility
A concise lecture on mobility trends, their organizational implications, and the questions they raise for future research.
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Publications & research outputs
Networks, mobility, AI, and disruption.
A curated list of journal articles, book chapters, reports, cases, and working papers, with DOI or source links on every title.
Networks
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2025
The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation
Pankaj Kumar, Agnieszka Nowinska, & Akbar Zaheer
Academy of Management Journal, 68(1), 81-107. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2022.1143 -
2025
Entrepreneurial Embedded Expanders and Triggered Explorers: Multiple Paths to Spatial Expansion by Service Intermediaries
Ram Mudambi & Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska
The Oxford Handbook of Spatial Diversity and Business Economics, pp. 293-314. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198866190.013.0011 -
2023
The signaling effect of supplier's customer network instability on service price: Insights from the container shipping charter market
Pankaj Kumar, Agnieszka Nowinska, & Hans-Joachim Schramm
Journal of Operations Management, 69(8), 1282-1319. DOI: 10.1002/joom.1254 -
2023
Doors and walls: physical barriers and knowledge sharing
Agnieszka Nowinska & Torben Pedersen
Industry and Innovation, 30(5), 585-606. DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2141611 -
2021
Uncertainty, status-based homophily, versatility, repeat exchange and social exchange in the container shipping industry
Agnieszka Nowinska & Hans-Joachim Schramm
Journal of Business Research, 128, 524-536. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.02.021 -
2021
Together or Alone? Value Creation Logics in Internationalised Services Firms
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska & Svetla Trifonova Marinova
Business Models and Firm Internationalisation, pp. 172-199. DOI: 10.4324/9781003204268-10 -
2019
Ships and relationships: Competition, geographical proximity, and relations in the shipping industry
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska
Journal of Business Research, 101, 161-170. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.04.021
Mobility
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2025
All aboard! co-mobility, human capital, and labor market prospects after organizational failure
Agnieszka Nowinska, Valentina Tartari, & Ram Mudambi
Industry and Innovation, 32(8), 946-964. DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2025.2493079 -
2025
From solo to social: Understanding pathways to comobility
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska, Marta K. Dowejko, & Minna Paunova
SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5381459 -
2025
The truth about immigration: why successful societies welcome newcomers: Zeke Hernandez, St. Martin's Press, 2024, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1250288240
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska
Journal of International Business Policy, 8, 474-478. DOI: 10.1057/s42214-024-00206-2 -
2024
Unpacking the influence of foreignness on employment prospects within a multinational enterprise: an examination of gender, professional experience and duration of stay
Agnieszka Nowinska & Marte C. W. Solheim
Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, 12(2), 288-312. DOI: 10.1108/JGM-08-2023-0053 -
2024
Scarce resources or damaged goods? On the legitimacy of laid-off workers following MNC failure
Kristina Vaarst Andersen, Mark Lorenzen, & Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska
Global Strategy Journal, 14(3), 604-634. DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1497 -
2024
Non-diverse Internal Mobility (expatriation) and External Hiring: Alternative Staffing Strategies at OW Bunker
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska
Nordic Case House / Harvard Business Publishing -
2024
Job-search strategies: Is there life after death (of one's organization)
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska
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2023
Traders across borders: who and where?
Agnieszka Nowinska, Jean-Francois Hennart, & Svetla Marinova
Journal of Global Mobility, 11(3), 437-457. DOI: 10.1108/JGM-11-2022-0063
AI
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2026
Signals at Sea: Traditional Shipbroking and Digital Transformation
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska & Gisele Msann
Harvard Business School Publishing -
2025
AI disruption in chartering in Danish Shipping
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska & Gisele Msann
AAU OPEN Bridging Knowledge - A Dissemination Report Series. DOI: 10.54337/aau.bk2_2025 -
2025
From Keel to Cloud: AI Adoption in Shipping Chartering, Hurdles and Horizons
Gisele Msann & Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska
Transforming A Maritime Future: Digitalization and Decarbonization, pp. 232-247. DOI: 10.21677/250911
Disruption
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2025
Inter-state war dynamics and investment: Insights from the Russia-Ukraine war
Agnieszka Nowinska & Thomas Roslyng Olesen
Journal of Business Research, 186, 114911. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114911 -
2024
Project managers and decision making: Conditional cognitive switching and rationally stepping up
Agnieszka Nowinska & Torben Pedersen
Long Range Planning, 57(1), 102414. DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102414 -
2025
Eco-Friendliness: Signals, Proprietary Insights into Behavior, and Buyer-Supplier Relationship Persistence in the U.S. Import Market
Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska & Chris Dirzka
SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5209244 -
2023
Trans-fur-able resources? Strategic responses to a crisis in the Danish mink-related ecosystem
Michael S. Dahl, Louise Brons Kringelum, Agnieszka Nowinska, & Thomas Roslyng Olesen
Reconfiguration of Business Models and Ecosystems, pp. 294-314. DOI: 10.4324/9781003326731-16 -
2021
What drives ports around the world to adopt air emissions abatement measures?
Henrik Sornn-Friese, Rene Taudal Poulsen, Agnieszka Urszula Nowinska, & Peter de Langen
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 90, 102644. DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2020.102644
05 · Contact
Let us compare notes.
I welcome research collaborations, industry conversations, and invitations related to mobility, networks, and organizational change.
Email
aun@business.aau.dk
Phone
+45 9940 2530
Office
Fibigerstraede 11
DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark