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.
Publications
Books
Carsten Greve; Reformanalyse: Hvordan den offentlige sektor grundlæggende er blevet forandret i 00'erne, Djøf / Jurist- og Økonomforbundet 2012.
Graeme Hodge; Carsten Greve; Anthony Boardman / International Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships
Carsten Greve / Offentlig ledelse: Teorier og temaer i et politologisk perspektiv.
2. udg.ed.København : Djøf / Jurist- og Økonomforbundet 2009.
Carsten Greve / Contracting for Public Services, London : Routledge 2007
Carsten Greve; Niels Ejersbo / Contracts as Reinvented Institutions in the Public Sector : A Cross-Cultural Comparison. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers 2005.
Gavin Drewry; Carsten Greve; Thierry Tanquerel / Contracts, Performance Measurement and Accountability in the Public Sector
Amsterdam : IOS Press 2005
Niels Ejersbo; Carsten Greve / Moderniseringen af den offentlige sektor, København : Børsen 2005
Begivenhedsledelse og handlekraft. København: Børsens Forlag 2006.
Graeme Hodge; Carsten Greve / The Challenge of Public-Private Partnerships : Learning from International Experience.
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. 1-32.
Carsten Greve / Konkurrencereformen og ledelsesstrategier
In: Ledelse efter kommunalreformen: Sådan tackles de nye udfordringer.. ed. /Jacob Torfing. København : Djøf / Jurist- og Økonomforbundet 2012, p. 123-142. Selected papers
Carsten Greve / Innovative and Collaborative Partnerships Between Universities and Government : The Case of the Executive Master of Public Governance Program in Copenhagen, Denmark: A co-operation between University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School.
