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Og dens relevans i dagHull Kristensen, Peer (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Dette working paper er en mere omfattende udgave af et Kapitel om ”Den tidlige Organisationssociologi”, som jeg har skrevet til Peter Kjær og Signe Vikkelsøs bog om Klassisk og Moderne Organiationssociologi, der er planlagt til at udkomme på Hans Reitsels Forlag i efteråret 2013. Dette working paper er mere omfattende og fylder flere ord end der var plads til i ovennævnte bog. Da meget af det, der nødvendigvis måtte skæres bort, forekommer mig specielt vigtigt, har jeg valgt at gennemarbejde den oprindelige version endnu en gang og udsende kapitlet på denne måde. Specielt vigtigt for mig var det, at der efterhånden, som jeg gravede, fremkom en vidensarkæologi, som var langt mere sammenhængende og stærk end jeg før havde troet. Samtidig blev det efterhånden tydeligt for mig at elementerne fra de forskellige forfattere kunne sættes sammen, således er der blev formet en meget stærk form for organisatorisk analyse-måde, som der er et voldsomt behov for i dag, hvor organisationsforskningen nok står over for lige så store udfordringer, som de tidlige amerikanske organisationssociologer gjorde under den progressive periode. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8772 Filer i denne post: 1
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generationsskifte sætter værdier og praksis på spilChristensen, Søren (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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En analyse af daginstitutionslederens betydning for et frivilligt engagement i de selvejende daginstitutionerHjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde; Højlund, Holger (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: I 2010 blev forsøgsprojektet ”Netværksledelse i selvejende daginstitutioner. Et partnerskabsprojekt mellem kommunerne Svendborg, Århus og København” sat i gang. Deltagere var paraplyorganisation for selvejende daginstitutioner Menighedernes Daginstitutioner (MDI), de tre kommuner, 116 selvejende daginstitutioner og forskere fra Copenhagen Business School (CBS). I forsøgsprojektet var et væsentligt motiv at eksperimentere med ny partnerskabsorganisering. Projektet blev, som titlen indikerer, bygget op omkring tre kommuners samspil med sine selvejende daginstitutioner. En målsætning var at undersøge mulighederne for at formulere nye veje for selveje herunder at undersøge partnerskabet som en ny måde at organisere sig på med civile kræfter i de offentlige velfærdsydelser på daginstitutionsområdet. Projektets dagsorden var på denne vis udtryk for en både forskningsmæssig interesse i og en praktisk dagsorden om at engagere civile kræfter i de offentlige ydelser. I følgeforskningen har forskere fulgt udvalgte institutioner og gennemført undersøgelser af frivilligt engagement. Ønsket har været igennem interviews at få viden om brugen af frivillige bestyrelser og forventninger til bestyrelsesmedlemmer i daginstitutioner. En sådan viden om bestyrelser vil spille sammen med det overordnede forsøgsprojekts fokus på ledelse af frivilligt engagement på betingelse af nye samarbejdsformer, der folder sig ud på tværs af den offentlige og frivillige sektor. Det er et håb, at undersøgelsen kan bidrage til at forstå og problematisere betingelser for ledelse og ledelsespositioner i samspillet mellem det offentlige og frivillige. Datagrundlaget for undersøgelsen er forvaltningsdokumenter, kvalitative interviews med ledere og bestyrelsesmedlemmer i 31 selvejende daginstitutioner i tre kommuner samt udtræk fra kvalitative kommentarer i en spørgeskemaundersøgelse besvaret af 1.975 forældre. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9082 Filer i denne post: 1
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What Would it Mean to be an Artisan of Finance?Thompson, Grahame (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper confronts the question of what a revitalized financial sector might look like if this were to be reconfigured so as to reproduce first an artisanal like persona for the financial analyst and craft like organizational structure for financial businesses, and secondly if this were to be re-territorialized so that it acted like a partisan rather than, as at present, like a disembedded footloose structure of ‘global finance’. Initially the analysis is pitched at a rather abstract and theoretical level – pulling together artisans, nomads and partisans and tracing their intellectual lineages. But the chapter ends with three very concrete illustrations of actual financial relations in practice that meet some of the criteria for being both artisanal and partisanal. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8458 Filer i denne post: 1
Grahame_Thompson.pdf (1.310Mb) -
product differentiation in Indian durable consumer goods industrySanyal, Amal; Patibandla, Murali (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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on the Application of Three Techniques for Multivariate Data AnalysisJunghagen, Sven (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Nistrup Madsen, Bodil; Odgaard, Anna Elisabeth (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In order to develop a harmonised and efficient IT system, such as a database, it is important to be familiar with the underlying concept model (concept systems) for the relevant domain which the IT system should be designed to accommodate, as this forms the necessary firm foundation for designing the conceptual data model. Although there is no one-to-one correlation between concept and characteristic features in the concept model and classes and attributes in the conceptual data model, there are many similarities between concept modelling and conceptual data modelling, and by closely examining the relationship between the two models, we have strived to construct an algorithm for creating conceptual data models in Unified Modelling Language (UML) on the basis of concept models that adhere to the traditional principles and methods of terminology work. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8284 Filer i denne post: 1
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New Adventures in the Public Management of Pay ScalesRennison, Betina Wolfgang (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Communication makes a difference. The manner in which we communicate creates the phenomena we communicate about. It can seem obvious, but we are nevertheless seldom aware of the complexity this constructivist assumption implies. Through an analysis of a new salary system in the public sector of Denmark (called New Wage), this paper theorizes this complexity in terms of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. It identifies four wholly different ‘codes’ of communication: legal, economic, pedagogical and intimate. Each of them shapes the phenomena of ‘pay’, the construal of the employee and the form of management differently. In this chaos of codes the managerial challenge is to take a second order position in order to strategically manage the communication that manages management itself. Key words: Management; personnel management; human-relations; pay-system; communication; system-theory; discursive epistemology URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6381 Filer i denne post: 1
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Larsen, Øjvind (Akureyri, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: From their beginning in the 1930s, critical theory and the Frankfurt school had their focus on a critique of disturbed social relations in western society dominated by totalitarian political regimes like Stalinism, Fascism, Nazism, and by capitalism as an oppressive and destructive economic system and culture. Now, 80 years later, this has all become history and thus it is time to leave the concept of critical theory behind us, and instead bring the concept of critique to a broader theoretical framework like hermeneutics. This allows the possibility of retaining the theoretical intentions of the old Frankfurt school and at the same time there will be no boundaries by specific dominant theoretical perspectives. In this paper, such a framework for a critical hermeneutics is discussed on the basis of Weber’s, Gadamer’s, and Habermas’ theories on hermeneutics within the social sciences. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8998 Filer i denne post: 1
Ojvind_Larsen.pdf (56.98Kb) -
a redefinition of the strategies of local adaptation and global standardizationKragh, Simon (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Towards Relational Leadership In the Cultural SectorFriis Møller, Søren (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The thesis is an inquiry into how leadership is performed narratively in the cultural sector. Chapter 1 draws the cultural sector as a narrative landscape, and the reader is invited on a tour around this narrative landscape as seen through the eyes of some of the top guns in the cultural sector. Seen from this vantage, leadership in the cultural sector seems to be predominantly performed by relating narratives with reference to the metanarrative of the Enlightenment. The inquiry, however, draws on Lyotard (1984) to argue that such extralinguistic legitimization is in a crisis of legitimacy, wherefore the inquiry embarks on a problematization of the dominant understanding of leadership in the cultural sector with the activist aspiration of suggesting a postmoderning understanding of leadership in the cultural sector being performatively legitimized. Chapter 2 argues in favor of a relational, non-entitative understanding of narratives and it points to emplotment as a process of finding the best fit. This relational understanding of narratives allows the project to inquire into leadership performed narratively in all kinds of empirical settings, not confining itself to formal leadership contexts. Chapter 3 offers a genealogic approach to what the project has defined as the dominant narrative in the cultural sector, the narrative of art for art’s sake (the AFAS narrative), which the project argues function as an implicit standard. This includes notions of aesthetic autonomy such as suggested by Kant in 1790, artistic freedom and art for its own sake such as claimed by artists in the Romantic era, and the arm’s length principle as the ‘constitution of cultural policies’ in the post WW2 Western world. Chapter 4 provides an overview of alternative voices which have challenged the dominant narrative. These include post colonial studies, cultural entrepreneurial studies and consumer behavior studies which in various ways propose alternative ways to lead and support the cultural sector. Chapter 5 links the discussions in chapter 3 and chapter 4 to leadership studies, notably to discussions of leader-centered orientations versus leading relationally orientations. The chapter concludes by suggesting a new sensibility towards understanding leadership and meditates on how this might be achieved, paying attentions to the possibilities of overcoming the putative crisis of legitimacy the inquiry is placed in. Chapter 6 relates a case-study of Malmoe City Library which endeavors into a difficult, yet very promising process of reformulating what a library may become in a contemporary context. This process challenges the dominant narrative and thus the current understanding of what a library should be, and this deviation from the dominant narrative challenges leadership. Chapter 7 assembles three different approaches to challenges the dominant narrative and to make new interpretive resources available to the understanding of leadership in the cultural sector. First, givrum.nu, a social movement working with arts, second, Mogens Holm, a leader in the cultural sector in a transition phase, and third, Copenhagen Phil, a classical symphony orchestra striving to avoid becoming a parallel society phenomenon. These case studies are conducted as written interviews with the cases, in an attempted un-edited form to also introduce relational processes informed by a power with relation to my own research project. Chapter 8 reflects on the case-studies in chapter 6 and chapter 7 in light of the two approaches to leadership discussed in chapter 5. It does so by linking my study to relational leadership theory in order to see how this theoretical field might inform my inquiry and how my inquiry might inform this field. It equally offers five possible reconstructions of the cases before concluding the research project by summing up contributions to the empirical field and the research fields, as well as by pointing to areas which could be further developed in future research. In line with the aspirations of the relational constructionist framework of the project, the inquiry does not offer a conclusion. Instead it encourages further reconstructions, thus submitting itself to the performative legitimization it argues in favor of. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8590 Filer i denne post: 1
Søren_Friis_Møller.pdf (1.809Mb) -
Qualifying OthernessJanssens, Maddy; Steyaert, Chris (k, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The diversity domain seems currently in a struggle, having critical debates about the future direction of diversity studies as well as diversity programs and actions. It seems to have neglected theoretical reflections on notions of ‘diversity,’ ‘difference,’ or the ‘other.’ The purpose of this paper is to think theoretically about diversity, arguing that it is the thinking itself that has to become different and that a different thinking will make a difference in addressing policies and actions. The main point we try to make is that diversity is not a matter of constructing identities but of a moving alterity. We will depart from the current debates in diversity management, in which we identify mainly four issues: a narrow or broad definition of diversity, a stable or dynamic conception of identity, the role of power, and the importance of the socio-historical context. With the discussion of these four issues, we will try to indicate the implicit ‘theoretical’ choices prioritizing the concept of ‘identity’, turning the issues of diversity into a managing of individuals and ‘their’ identities. Rather than pursuing the route of identity, we try to explore another route, paving a possible way of conceiving the other from the position of the other and not from fixed norms and possibilities. We therefor turn to the concept of ‘alterity.’ The aim of the paper is then to develop an alterity-thinking by connecting and relating to the philosophical work of Deleuze and Guattari, and Serres; the writings of Collins on the Black-feminist standpoint, and recent political studies on democracy. The qualifications that we connect and associate to alterity, are: its relation to an ontology of becoming, its crossing out of the identifiable into becoming anonymous, its dependence on safe, social-cultural spaces, and on open, empty public spaces. To conclude, we reflect on the different ways in which this alterity-thinking is related to the four critical issues of the diversity literature and discuss its qualifications as possible conditions for what we might sum up as an ‘alterity politics.’ URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8127 Filer i denne post: 1
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Extending the UN Framework to connect Political CSR with Business Responsibilities for Human RightsJonsson, Jonas; Fisker, Mette; Buhmann, Karin (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The literature on Political CSR (PCSR) outlines the political role of corporations, but fails to offer concrete suggestions for businesses to fill governance gaps through provision of public goods . Conversely, the political role of Multi - National Enterpris es (MN E s) plays a limited part in the UN Framework on Business and Human Rights , which was adopted by the UN in 2008 and forms the basis for the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights . Th is paper contributes to connecting the two approache s by drawing on insights from the PCSR literature to theorize on the extent of human rights responsibilities of MN E s , and combining this with the human rights focus of the UN Framework . Drawing on existing literature's coverage of MN E s operating in develop ing countries, we discuss how businesses can improve the respect and fulfilment of human rights. We propose an 'Extended UN Framework' to help attribute political responsibilities to MN E s that reflect their political power. The Extended Framework combines the original UN Framework’s ‘do no harm’ approach with a leverage - based approach for firms to contribute to delivering public goods that are human rights. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9432 Filer i denne post: 1
Jonsson_Fisker_Buhmann_CBDS WP 26.pdf (567.3Kb) -
Political Culture and History in the Nordic CountriesØstergaard, Uffe (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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A Study of CWA Raters' Decision-Making BehavioursLindhardsen, Vivian (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The present maps study maps the decision-making behaviors of experienced raters in a well-established Communal Writing Assessment (CWA) context, tracing their behaviors all the way from the independent rating sessions, where the initial images and judgments are formed, to the communal rating sessions, where the final scores are assigned on the basis of collaboration between two rates. Results from think-aloud protocols, recorded discussions, retrespective reports and reported scores from 20 raters rating 15 ESL essays show that when moving from the independent ratings to the communal ratings, there is little, if any, increase in rater agreement levels and the raters' attention to the textual features corresponding to the official criteria become more evenly distributed. However, rather than consulting the scale descriptors directly in resolving insecurities about score assignment, the raters seemed to rely heavily on each others' expertise, thereby reducing the importance of the scale and emphasizing the value of the community of raters. In validating their scores in the communal rating discussions the raters appeared to be critically and equally engaged in the discussions, and through deliberating and refining their assessments the raters believed that CWA practices produce more accurate scores than in independent ratings and lead to professional development. These interpretations support a hermeneutic rather than a psychometric approach to establishing the validity of the present CWA practices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7743 Filer i denne post: 1
Vivian_Lindhardsen.pdf (8.523Mb) -
Anthropology, Fieldwork and Organizational EthnographyMoeran, Brian (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper looks at the relationship between anthropology, fieldwork and what is referred to as ‘organizational ethnography’. It starts by distinguishing between fieldwork, which is a method of conducting qualitative research, initially in the discipline of anthropology, and ethnography, which is the writing up of that research. The paper makes use of the author’s fieldwork experiences in a Japanese advertising agency to illustrate a number of features that define fieldwork as a methodology. It argues that it is the shift from participant observation to observant participation that enables the fieldworker to move from front stage to back stage in the study of an organization, and thereby to gain information and knowledge that is otherwise available only to insiders. Fieldwork, Anthropology, Organizational Ethnography, Observant Participation URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7038 Filer i denne post: 1
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Hemlin, Sven; Wenneberg, Søren Barlebo (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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New Challenges and Opportunities for RegulatorsGoldberg, Lawrence G.; Sweeney, Richard J.; Wihlborg, Clas (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Nordea is the first major international bank planning to operate important host country activities in branches as the Second European banking directive envisions rather than as subsidiaries. Nordea is the result of mergers of roughly equal-size universal banks in four Nordic countries with the intention to reap economies of scale and scope by providing services in an integrated organization. Nordea has so far operated under a legal structure with subsidiaries in the host countries. When the new branch organization is implemented, EU directives specify that the home country is responsible for supervision, regulation as well as deposit insurance. Supervisors in all involved countries are challenged by this prospect and they are negotiating to obtain an acceptable division of responsibilities. We argue that the Nordea case offers an opportunity to implement the EU's vision and to develop institutional foundations for substantial market discipline in banking. In particular, distress resolution and insolvency procedures for banks must be made rule based and credible for host country authorities to accept home country control. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6783 Filer i denne post: 1
wplefic042005.pdf (209.7Kb) -
An Explorative DiscussionFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Inter-Ethnic Relations and Economic Development in Penang, MalaysiaJacobsen, Michael (, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Identity formation is probably one of the most discussed aspects of strategic positioning within anthropology, sociology and political science. In general notions of identity have been based on either an absolutist or primordial understanding of belonging or a constructionalist view in which social and political positioning in terms of identity formation are governed by a given societal context. This paper bases its understanding of identity formation on the latter approach. This means that depending of context individuals have several different although related identities to choose between when manoeuvring in a complex and dynamic social environment. Identity formation, achieved or ascribed, and its various forms of externalisation are thus negotiated and not absolute. The dynamic behind this notion of identity formation is individual agency strategically manipulating social, economic and political positioning in a given societal setup. To illustrate the complexities and in this case negative ramifications of social engineering the article focuses on inter-ethnic relations and industrial development in Penang, Malaysia. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7909 Filer i denne post: 1
CDP 2009-030.pdf (164.5Kb)