Anders Krabbe
Anders Dahl Krabbe is an Assistant professor at the Department for Strategy and Innovation. He came to CBS in Autumn 2024 after being an assistant professor at King’s College London and before that Scancor postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He was awarded his PhD in Innovation Management at the University of Southern Denmark. Anders' research focuses on themes related to the social dynamics around technological change, often examined at the market or industry-level. In terms of methods, he opts for qualitative approaches, often drawing on archival material. Anders' work on aesthetic innovation in the hearing aid industry (with Stine Grodal) won the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Best Paper Award at the 2018 Academy of Management Conference. His work on entrepreneurship and socio-cultural consumption patterns (with Rasmus Koss Hartmann and Andre Spicer) was a finalist for the Organization and management Theory (OMT) Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award at the 2020 Academy of Management Conference and a finalist for the That’s Interesting Award at the 2019 European Group of Organization Studies Conference. His research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Research Policy, Academy of Management Annals and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Be Careful What You Wish For: How Means Displacement Drove the UK Open Access Movement to Backfire (1994-2021)
Social movements often seek the support of powerful stakeholders to help challenge incumbents. While recent scholarship has begun to explore the unintended consequences of such efforts, it has yet to fully account for how the realization of social movement goals may inadvertently backfire and strengthen incumbent interests. To address this gap, we conduct a longitudinal, qualitative study of the Open Access Movement in the UK academic publishing field. This movement successfully mobilized key regulatory actors—including government agencies and research funders—to challenge the dominance of commercial academic publishers. Initially perceived as a threat by the commercial publishers, we show how the publishers were able to turn a threat into an opportunity by realizing the movement’s goalsbut through very different means that espoused by the movement. We contribute to social movement theory by identifying means displacement—that is a change in the means through which the movement’s goal is achieved—as a central process through which the incumbents strengthen their interests.We also extend the theory of regulator mobilization by pointing to how this provide an opportunity for incumbents to powerfully co-opt social movement demands. Lastly, we point to how the market opportunities created by social movements can be reaped by incumbents rather than entrants that are oppositional to the status quo.