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An interpretation of the bicycle industryMikkola, Juliana Hsuan (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper aims at describing network dynamics through the lenses of modularity. Different types of networks exist as ways of coping with the dynamics of industry demands that are based on modular product architectures. In order to distinguish between different types of mechanisms in which networks (operating with modular product architectures may) evolve, two types of networks are introduced: ‘marketdriven product architecture network’ (i.e., when the industrial network is driven by product architecture that is controlled by the market) and ‘firm-driven product architecture network’ (when the industrial network is driven by product architecture that is controlled by the firm). The history of the technological development of bicycle, since 1890s to 1990s, illustrates how the bicycle industry survived two cycles of disaggregation-concentration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6286 Filer i denne post: 1
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Minbaeva, Dana; Park, Chansoo; Vertinsky, Ilan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by focusing on the influence of knowledge senders’ willingness to share knowledge, their disseminative capacities and the knowledge-transfer opportunities they create on the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. We develop a theoretical framework that examines the impacts of key knowledge-senders’ abilities and behaviors on the knowledge-transfer process. We test our theory using survey data collected from 199 South Korean IJVs. We find that the willingness of foreign parent firms to share knowledge is manifested in their efforts to increase their abilities to articulate and codify knowledge, and to apply those skills to the codification of knowledge relevant to their IJVs. A willingness to share knowledge also plays a role in increasing the opportunities for two-way interactions, especially face-to-face interactions between the parents and their IJVs. The impact of the abilities of foreign parent firms to articulate and codify knowledge for transfer is mediated by the efficacy of their organizational communication systems. We also find that the opportunities created for the transfer of explicit knowledge have a significant impact on such transfers. However, opportunities for transfer of tacit knowledge only have an impact when senders and receivers have similar products and technologies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8625 Filer i denne post: 1
Minbaeva_Park_Vertinsky_SMGWP2013_2.pdf (991.3Kb) -
A Relational ViewWieland, Andreas; Wallenburg, Carl Marcus (, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Purpose: This research explores the resilience domain, which is important in the field of supply chain management; it investigates the effects relational competencies have for resilience and the effect resilience, in turn, has on a supply chain’s customer value. Design/methodology/approach: The research is empirical in nature and employs a confirmatory approach that builds on the relational view as a primary theoretical foundation. It utilizes survey data collected from manufacturing firms from three countries, which is analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings: It is found that communicative and cooperative relationships have a positive effect on resilience, while integration does not have a significant effect. It is also found that improved resilience, obtained by investing in agility and robustness, enhances a supply chain’s customer value. Practical implications: Some findings contrast the expectations derived from theory. Particularly, practitioners can learn that integration has a limited role in enhancing resilience. Originality/value: The study distinguishes between a proactive and reactive dimension of resilience: robustness and agility. The relational view serves as the theoretical basis to explain the effects between three types of relational competencies (communication, cooperation, and integration) and the above-mentioned two dimensions of resilience. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9018 Filer i denne post: 1
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a crucial capability for value creation in the network economyFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper develops a four sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational at- tainments if informal employment opportunities mainly are available to low educated workers. More zealous enforcement policy will in this case improve educational incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low educated worker. Characterizing the optimal enforce- ment policies, we nd that relatively more audits should be targeted towards the sector employing low educated workers, elsewise a too low stock of educated workers is materialized. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8328 Filer i denne post: 1
Kolm_Larsen_WP_2-2011.pdf (309.1Kb) -
Understanding Romance and Germanic Compounding in a Lexico-typological PerspectiveMüller, Henrik Høeg (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The title of my talk is “Informational balance. Understanding Romance and Germanic Compounding in a lexico-typological perspective”. What I basically mean by informational balance is that semantic content is distributed systematically differently between nouns and verbs in the Romance and Germanic languages, and that this distribution is complementary. I shall explain that in detail in a minute, but first I shall introduce you to the problem, which I believe can be explained on the basis of this idea about “informational balance”. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8281 Filer i denne post: 1
Full Paper Berlin (sep 2010).pdf (110.5Kb) -
Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Juel Henrichsen, Peter (, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Modern hearing aids use a variety of advanced digital signal processing methods in order to improve speech intelligibility. These methods are based on knowledge about the acoustics outside the ear as well as psychoacoustics. We present a novel observation based on the fact that acoustic prominence is not equal to information prominence for time intervals at the syllabic and sub-syllabic levels. The idea is that speech elements with a high degree of information can be robustly identified based on basic acoustic properties. We evaluated the correlation of (information rich) content words in the DanPASS corpus with fundamental frequency (F0) and spectral tilt across four frequency bands. Our results show a correlation of certain band-level differences and the presence of content words. Similarly, but to a lesser extent, a correlation between F0 and the presence of content words was found. The principle described here has the potential to improve the “information-to-noise” ratio in hearing aids. In addition, this concept may also be applicable in automatic speech recognition systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8411 Filer i denne post: 1
Peter_Juel_Henrichsen_ISAAR2011.pdf (296.9Kb) -
Lorenzen, Mark (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this short paper, I put forward an argument about trust based upon an information cost perspective. I argue that, in different contexts, different origins of trust come to dominate. This is so, because different possible origins of trust have a different information cost, and different contexts have different information availability. Agents learn about this, and place their trust accordingly. I provide an empirical example, and list some traits of information availability between geographically proximate firms. The information cost argument explains why a particular way of trusting is prevalent in some proximate ‘communities’ of agents. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8096 Filer i denne post: 1
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Lessons from Co-operation and Higher-order Capabilities Amongst geographically proximate firmsLorenzen, Mark (Frederiksberg, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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A multi-method inquiry on online communitiesKorfiatis, Nikolaos Theodoros (, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This dissertation studies the behavioral characteristics of participants engaged in information exchange in the context of online communities. Online communities are defined as collectives of individuals that use computer mediated communication to facilitate interaction over a shared purpose and/or objective. It is argued that this interaction creates externalities, for example, in the form of codified information that others can use through web search tools. These externalities assemble a virtual form of social capital, a commonly shared resource. The research objective of this thesis is to examine how the behavioral tendencies of the participants in online communities are affected by the way this common resource is formatted, administered and shared. The dissertation consists of two parts: a theoretical part where the empirical background and the object of research inquiry is highlighted, and an empirical part which consists of four empirical studies carried out in the context of three online communities, namely, Google Answers, Yahoo!Answers and Amazon Online Reviews. The empirical part of this dissertation starts with a controlled experiment emulating a well known social dilemma: the public goods game. It provides substance as to whether and when participants in online communities behave (un) cooperatively. The next two studies focus on a special case of online communities where participants ask questions and other participants post answers conditionally on social and monetary incentives. The results of these two studies confirm that community participants do care about the contributions of others and engage in incentive compatible behavior. Yahoo!Answers participants exercise effort in the community by posting answers to questions conditionally on benefits provided by other participants. The empirical findings show that contributing participants in an online community receive answers faster, while those that do not contribute much effort are sanctioned in the form of longer response-time to their questions. In Google Answers this thesis, interactions can be observed that are based on monetary rewards (rather than social rewards in the form of a reputation index as in Yahoo Answers). Participants make use of voluntarily awarded payoffs (tips) along with stated rewards, in order to motivate those that provide answers (answerers) to provide better quality in their responses. The findings of this study confirm the symmetric effect between monetary rewards and quality. However, this study also identifies cases where social norms have a significant effect on response behavior. When participants seek to get better service with less effort (in terms of total cost), a reputation index which is constructed by the history of their previous interactions supports such an attempt. In other words, reputation history influences information sharing behavior in online communities. The last chapter of the empirical part focuses on another crucial aspect of information as a shared resource: Clarity and understandability. The study examines online product reviews on Amazon.com. The results suggest that participants do care about the clarity of this codified form of experience which increases a helpfulness index accordingly. The thesis overall finds symmetric effects between participation in online communities and output of interaction, but also identifies the ability of the participants to interact strategically as they seek to minimize the effort they provide in order to find the information they seek. The results underline the importance of signaling and quality evaluation mechanisms as counter-balancing control that can enhance activity on online communities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7797 Filer i denne post: 1
Nikolaos_Theodoros_Korfiatis.pdf (3.777Mb) -
Overgaard, Per Baltzer; Møllgaard, Peter (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In the economics literature, various views on the likely (efficiency) effects of information exchange, communication between firms and market transparency present themselves. Often these views on information flows are highly conflicting. On the one hand, it is argued that increased information dissemination improves firm planning to the benefit of society (including customers) and/or allows potential customers to make the right decisions given their preferences. On the other hand, the literature also suggests that increased information dissemination can have significant coordinating or collusive potential to the benefit of firms but at the expense of society at large (mainly, potential customers). In this chapter, we try to make sense of these views, with the aim of presenting some simple lessons for antitrust practice. In addition, the chapter presents some cases, from both sides of the Atlantic, where informational issues have played a significant role. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7533 Filer i denne post: 1
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How knowledge workers act as amateurs when using information at workConstantiou, Ioanna; Madsen, Sabine; Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia (, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The proliferation of Internet technologies in the workspace provides tremendous possibilities for knowledge workers to access vast amounts of information from a large number of sources. The information abundance offers new opportunities which empower the knowledge worker but at the same time may create information overload. This study explores academics’ information management practices, by applying a theoretical framework build on three theoretical perspectives. These involve mindfulness, sense-making, and decision-making heuristics. The theoretical framework is used to analyse diary data about three tasks: email management, communication with colleagues, and information search. Our findings show that the knowledge workers have developed their own relatively simple but seemingly suitable practices for dealing with information overload and being empowered from the abundant information available to them. The relative amateurism and professionalism of the participants are discussed and limitations of this study as well as areas for future research are delineated. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8524 Filer i denne post: 1
Constantiou_2011_3.pdf (112.8Kb) -
A Conceptualization Based on General Systems TheoryChatterjee, Sutirtha; Xiao, Xiao; Elbanna, Amany; Sarker, Suprateek (Big Island, HI, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Passionate debates regarding the defining characteristic of the “IT artifact” continue. Such debates, and also the lack of explicit consideration of the “information” element in the IT artifact, motivate us to propose a revised conception, drawing upon concepts from General Systems Theory (GST). Following a number of scholars [39], we name our reconceptualization as an IS artifact, which aims to provide a contemporary view of an IS that could accommodate the changing nature of both society and technology while at the same time maintain a clear definition of what we mean by an IS. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9441 Filer i denne post: 1
ChatterjeeXiaoAmanySarkerHICSS2017.pdf (382.9Kb) -
- Results from a survey.Moelbjerg Joergensen, Kenneth (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational change and information technology (IT) in Danish manufacturing and service companies. The data material is a survey covering 1900 Danish companies. In the paper it is shown that there in a three-year period are major correlations between introductions of IT´s and movements towards more integrative organizations. These moves are evident in companies which in the three-year period both have introduced IT and changed their organizations. However in organizations which have introduced IT but reported that they have not changed their organizations, there also seem to be this movement compared to companies which have not done anything. Accordingly moves towards integrative organizations seem to a high degree to go hand in hand with introductions of IT. Three conclusions are deduced from these results. First, that Danish companies apparently have learned the lesson from the mideighties, to think in terms of organization instead of technology when implementing IT. Second, that the word IT apparently comprises powerful technical systems that, when faced, pushes companies towards organizational change. Third I consider if the organizational changes reflect a new learning paradigm or another paradigm labelled reliability. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8107 Filer i denne post: 1
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Dissertation PaperWinkler, Till J. (Berlin, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The governance of information technology (IT) in organizations—understood as the locus of key IT decision rights—is shaped by the emergence of new IT innovations, and can also proactively be designed to influence an organization’s ability to innovate through IT. The research presented in this paper contributes to the Information Systems literature by addressing the neglected interrelationship of IT governance and organizational technology adoption. Following a multi-method research paradigm, four consecutive studies have been conducted each in two contemporary adoption scenarios: (1) the implementation of Mobile Government (M-Government) services by public sector agencies, and (2) the implementation of Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models for enterprise information systems. As a group the results of these studies extend the classic rationale of a strategy-structure fit underlying prior IT governance theory by demonstrating that (1) in public sector organizations more centralized governance can facilitate process and service innovations, and (2) for external delivery models such as SaaS efficiency strategies can favor a decentralization of IT decision rights. The eight studies provide relevant implications for IT decision makers in governmental and entrepreneurial contexts. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9474 Filer i denne post: 1
Winkler Dissertation Paper v14 final.pdf (214.9Kb) -
Carl, Michael; Hill, Robin (Edinburgh, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This WP lays the empirical foundations for the development of the CASMACAT workbench. A series of experiments will establish basic facts about translator behaviour in computer-aided translation, focusing on the use of visualisation option and input modalities. Another series of studies will deal with individual di erences in translation, in particular translator types and translation styles. The initial report deals with translation types and styles, text types and reading model adapted for machine translated texts. It covers the rst periode of Tasks 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5. The deliverable is structured into three sections which bie y summarize the work and an appendix which contains more detailed information about the produced material and a number of papers. An experimental setup (see section 2.1) and a questionnaire (see section 1.1) was designed to obtain consistent data from various translators in di erent languages under similar conditions. Translation data was collected in several locations (section 2.2) and assembled into a TPR database, as described in section 1.2. Preliminary studies were conducted to investigate post- editing and translation styles (section 1.3). Translation data was also collected in the rst casmacat eld trial. The assessment is provided in Deliverable d6.1. Section 3 describes the rst Edinburgh Eyetracking experiment while the Appendix contains furter material. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9064 Filer i denne post: 1
Michael Carl_d1.1.pdf (2.163Mb) -
Cao, Yangfeng (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Business model innovation plays a very important role in developing competitive advantage when multinational small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from developed country enter into emerging markets because of the large contextual distances or gaps between the emerging and developed economies. Many prior researches have shown that the foreign subsidiaries play important role in shaping the overall strategy of the parent company. However, little is known about how subsidiary specifically facilitates business model innovation (BMI) in emerging markets. Adopting the method of comparative and longitudinal case study, we tracked the BMI processes of four SMEs from Denmark operating in China. Using resource-based view (RBV), we develop one theoretical framework which indicates that initiative-taking and improvisational capability of subsidiary are the two primary facilitators of business model innovation in emerging markets. We find that high initiative-taking and strong improvisational capability can accelerate the business model innovation. Our research contributes to the literatures on international and strategic entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8814 Filer i denne post: 1
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Højlund, Holger (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: I velfærdsstaten kommunikeres borgerne i roller, som har betydning for deres indoptagelse. Der er hægtet forventninger til rollerne, og borgerne må leve op til bestemte normer og værdier. Nogle brugergrupper forventes aktivt deltagende andre mere afventende. Ofte vil der være vidt forskellige rolleforventninger rettet mod de samme borgere. I nærværende artikel stilles skarpt på de forventninger, der møder de ældre, når de træder ind i velfærdsstaten. Det vises, at to situationer er helt afgørende. Dels er der "det forebyggende hjemmebesøg", som er de ældres første møde med ældreområdet, dels visitationen, hvor der besluttes om de ældres behov. Artiklen diskuterer modsætninger i de to situationers krav til de ældre. På den ene side forstås de ældre som aktive og ansvarliggjorte dialogparter, på den anden side som passive aftagere udsat for benhård behovsvurdering. Optikken for artiklens analyser er systemteoretisk. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6358 Filer i denne post: 1
wp12-2005 (4).pdf (288.2Kb) -
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Resume: The dialectical aspect in the work of George Bataille is often neglected. At the suggestion of Foucault and Derrida, Bataille is most often even taken to be a non-dialectical thinker. But Bataille worked intensely with Hegel's ideas, his thought was expressed in Hegelian terms, and both his epistemology and his ontology can be considered a determinate negation of Hegel’s position in the Phenomenology. This is shown, first, by analyzing Bataille’s notions of ‘inner experience’, and, second, by showing how Bataille extends dialectics to the natural, non-human realm, and even conceives the link between the human and non-human as itself dialectical. However, once we see the dialectical nature of his theoretical stance, we are struck by a great vagueness in his practical conception of where society ought to be going. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6311 Filer i denne post: 1
wp2-2006.pdf (130.4Kb)