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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
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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
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Kirkeby, Ole Fogh; Sletterød, Niels Arvid (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Lessons learned from testing a prototype combining talent development and leadership innovation in a Scandinavian hospital settingIngerslev, Karen; Bjørn, Kasper; Johansen, Jørgen (, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper addresses the potential clash between the “non-failure” culture of the hospital and the “fail-fast-forward” approach of innovation by sharing and analysing narratives from a field study of innovation processes. The case is a large university hospital in Scandinavia and the health care sector in general is outlined as context of the challenges addressed by the innovation processes. The narratives fall into three overlapping categories; the product, the process and the culture of innovation. Regarding the product of innovation, we outline the lessons learned about tensions created by ambitions of radical innovation in a public sector context, challenged by the idea of small-scale experiments and the participant’s feelings of inferiority. As for the process of innovation: we share the lessons learned about how linear and non-linear thinking affects the process of innovation. Addressing the culture of innovation, we discuss the lessons learned from working with a prototype testing approach in a system characterized by an evidence-based non-failure culture. Finally we summarize the lessons learned and share concluding perspectives. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8647 Filer i denne post: 1
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Final Project ReportCastellacci, Fulvio; Karpaty, Patrik; Laursen, Keld; Tingvall, Patrick G. (Oslo, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8190 Filer i denne post: 1
ICONS Report-Castellaci et al-1.pdf (1.209Mb) -
Lyck, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This article studies the theoretical and applied development of the creative economy. There exists many definitions of creative industries, creative economy and experience economy, all dealing with the same core problematic. It is why it is chosen in this article to talk about the creative economy complex. The ideas to the different elements in the complex have been developed over the last 20 years. A conclusion on experience economy and creative industries is presented on page 7. It is followed by a presentation of how the creative economy complex has been applied in the Baltic Sea Countries and by a section on the development of the creative economy complex after the financial crisis in 2008. It is found that the complex and its development has been closely related to the business cycle development, implying that the complex from being a general theory in times with positive business cycle development has changed to become more specific and integrated into marketing, regional economy and innovation theory when the business cycle changes to recession and when state debt becomes a main economic problem. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8735 Filer i denne post: 1
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A potential for local business development?Tetzschner, Helge; Herlau, Henrik (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Over the past few years, the tourist industry has come to be recognised as a way of providing strategic support for sustainable local business development. In this article we attempt to define an appropriate innovation concept in relation to tourism on the basis of an attractor principle. We then discuss the concept of entrepreneurship in connection with tourism, looking at its significance in its relationship with local business development, thereby positing the premise of social entrepreneurship. This frame of reference is used in five cases in the analysis. The analysis shows that it is possible to innovate and draw up plans for new attractors but that it is considerably more difficult to convert these plans into reality through social entrepreneurship. The conclusion is that we need to focus upon organisation of semi-public tourist organisations, if we want tourism to promote local business development. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6384 Filer i denne post: 1
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Technological-Integration Challenges – The Case of Digital-Technology CompaniesToppenberg, Gustav (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This research examines the technology-related integration challenges to acquisitions in digital industries and how these challenges can be managed. Historically, companies seeking to increase markets, products or customers have utilized the strategic growth process of mergers and acquisitions. Their motivation was primarily to utilize economies of scale and operational synergies to integrate acquisition targets that were similar in product, market, and customer demographics. The aim of these acquisitions was to scale the acquisition products to its own markets and customers while potentially gaining new markets and customers in the process. For companies in the digital-technology industry, the path to growth in these fast-paced markets is through the acquisition of innovation-based technologies from new and emerging companies to complement their current R&D strategies. The incumbent enterprises look for emerging technology companies as acquisition targets in order to stay ahead of the increasingly fast technology-development lifecycle. The acquisition and integration process for these types of companies present challenges to practitioners that are very different from what has been experienced in the past and will present new research opportunities for scholars researching the related domains. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9184 Filer i denne post: 1
Gustav Toppenberg.pdf (4.582Mb) -
A Case Study of the Laundry Detergent Market in JapanFujiwara, Masatoshi (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper aims to describe how a commercially successful innovation occurs with the altering of the existing competitive structure in a market under environmental and competitive pressures. I study the history of the laundry detergent market in Japan and elucidate the manner in which Kao accomplished an innovation and increased their market share during the late 1980s. Kao introduced their new detergent Attack through a biotechnological innovation and dramatically changed the competitive structure to their advantage. The innovations introduced were of two kinds 1) fermentation engineering technologies to improve the cleaning performance of detergents by using alkaline cellulase, and 2) concentration of detergents to four times their earlier strength through changes in their powder processing technologies. This historical innovation that occurred in the laundry detergent market in Japan has a contemporary implication because combining firms’ activities and environmental sustainability has been one of the most crucial topics over recent years. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8440 Filer i denne post: 1
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For Økonomi- og ErhvervsministerietJunge, Martin; Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8275 Filer i denne post: 1
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Resume: An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the joint OECD/Eurostat workshop on innovation surveys, OECD, Paris, June 30th 1999. The paper addresses some issues about the nature of innovation surveys (particularly the new Community Innovation Surveys) and how they might be improved to take on board several crucial developments in contemporary advanced economies. In particular the following topics are discussed: the increased distribution of innovative activity across firms and networks; the problems of service sector innovation and the comparability of services and manufacturing firms; and the problems of labour in the innovation process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8078 Filer i denne post: 1
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The Case of the Executive Master of Public Governance Program in Copenhagen, Denmark: A co-operation between University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business SchoolGreve, Carsten (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper gives an introduction to the Executive Master of Public Governance degree program in Copenhagen, Denmark – a joint effort by University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School aided by Aalborg University. The degree program itself began its first intake of executive students in August 2009. The average age of participants is 45 years. By the summer of 2011, the Copenhagen MPG program had enrolled 500+ public managers from Denmark as executive master students. In order to understand the context of the program, the paper gives an introduction to the background of the establishment of the program which was a result of a government reform – the Quality Reform – agreed and also funded partly by the Danish Parliament in 2008. The second part of the paper describes the organization and purpose of the program. The third part presents the content of the degree program. The paper ends by pointing to some preliminary lessons learned and future directions for the program. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8571 Filer i denne post: 1
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A Reconstruction of Corporate Social ResponsibilityBoxenbaum, Eva; Battilana, Julie (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The notion of institutional entrepreneur (DiMaggio, 1988) has given rise to a controversy in neo-institutional theory around the ability of actors to distance themselves from institutional pressures, envision alternative institutional patterns, and act strategically to change institutions in which they are embedded. This paper empirically examines the ability of embedded actors to envision alternative institutional patterns, that is, their innovative capacity. We analyze the role that an individual played in the development of a new institutional logic of corporate social responsibility in Denmark between 2001 and 2002. Based on our empirical findings on the innovative capacity of this individual, we propose a new definition of institutional entrepreneurs that is more compatible with the premises of neo-institutional theory than the one proposed by DiMaggio (1988). We propose that institutional entrepreneurs are institutionally bounded agents who a) transpose an institutional logic across fields and introduce it as a deliberate alternative to the institutional logic in the focal field, or b) deliberately seek to diffuse an alternative logic within a field. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6719 Filer i denne post: 1
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Effects of Aligning Partner Types with the Firm's Science BaseValentin, Finn; Reichstein, Toke (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Using extensive patent data on Scandinavian Biotech firms together with associated firm level data, this paper explores factors that drive the innovative scope of biotech firms. Collaborating with pharmaceutical firms, universities and other dedicated biotech firms proves beneficiary in introducing innovations broadening the innovation scope of biotech firms. Contrasting large and small molecules research firms exhibit noteworthy differences in the type of collaboration partner that allows the firm to expand its innovative scope. This suggests that biotech firms need to align the partner type with its science base if the goal is to produce patents beyond the firms technological boundary. Additionally, we find that outsourcing and acquisition of innovations increase their scope, lending support to the view that outsourced R&D expands the boundary of the firm’s innovative search. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7205 Filer i denne post: 1
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Stjernholm Madsen, Arne; P. Ulhøi, John (Aarhus, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The case described in this article is based on an innovation project at Ericsson Denmark. The project has been called the home communication concept (HCC), and represents the response of a major ICT manufacturer to the reshaping of the telecom market, paved by internet technology. The project is described from its start in summer 1997 to the end of 2001. This is a unique case study in more than one respect. The first author followed the project very closely during his employment in a new business development department (BDD) at Ericsson Denmark. Secondly, the study covers all phases and aspects, from inception to field trials. Thirdly, it represents a radical innovation based on a disruptive technology (Internet technology), which transcends the traditional business of the company in question. The paper describes the entire project, and tries to present it within a framework capable of analysing the actual events. In this respect, it not only demonstrates the classical dilemma of management during disruptive technological development, but also illustrates the internal problem of allowing a creative BDD to become 'sectarian’, i.e. blindly believing in itself and suspicious of the rest of the world. Using the framework presented in this paper, several fundamental concerns regarding existing research are identified and discussed. In closing, implications for research and management are addressed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8135 Filer i denne post: 1
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a study of the dynamics inherent in the relationship between innovation and diversityLamdahl Justesen, Susanne (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Strand, Robert Gavin (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this dissertation I examine the establishment of corporate social responsibility (CSR) bureaucracies at corporations and I come to consider the CSR bureaucracy as a space for reflection within the corporation. In the face of charges that bureaucracies are inherently unethical and devoid of consideration for humanistic concerns, I argue that within the large bureaucracy that is the corporation, the CSR bureaucracy can create a space in which tensions that arise from conflicting values and purposes can be identified, negotiated, and actions coordinated. I position this dissertation within the field of CSR, to which I introduce the Weberian distinction between formal and substantive rationality as means through which to identify and describe tensions that become apparent with the CSR agenda. This dissertation contains four articles, two of which draw from the engaged scholarship approach. One includes findings from a study I conducted as an action/intervention researcher with a U.S. corporation during the period in which a CSR bureaucracy was established. The other includes findings from a study of CSR focused MBA courses I instruct in which reflection is a primary learning objective. The other two articles include findings from studies I conducted to explore the establishment of a CSR position to the top management teams of U.S. and Scandinavian corporations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8462 Filer i denne post: 1
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An actor-Network perpectivePiihl, Jesper (Frederiksberg, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Towards a Relational Perspective on Incubating PracticesHenriques, Christine Thalsgård (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The world wants more entrepreneurs so badly, that it has become a major priority of governments all over the world trying to produce them. Based on Industrial PhD collaboration between the Danish Science Park, Symbion A/S and Copenhagen Business School, this dissertation presents a unique opportunity to study how the interactions between technology-based entrepreneurs and an Accelerator programme may lead to increased entrepreneurial capacity, learning and growth. The Industrial PhD setting offers privileged access to entrepreneurs, advisors, incubator management and investors, and we get to listen to stories seldom told in this field. As follows, the write-up of the ethnographic fieldwork is a narrative multi-voiced analysis in search of entrepreneurial learning in an incubator context. The phenomenon of business incubation – in this dissertation referred to as incubating activities - is originally intended as a forum that is shielded off from the everydayness of things, with the purpose of adding resources and removing barriers to venture creation. The idea is that entrepreneuring actors will be offered complementary resources and forced to spend time on planning and strategies in a helicopter perspective, which in the end will benefit the process and make venture success more likely. Policy makers together with researchers of entrepreneurship policy and incubation, to a large degree assume that entrepreneurial actors somehow lack skills and resources and cannot easily acquire these themselves, and furthermore that it is possible to affect the resources, behaviour and skills of entrepreneurs. It has nevertheless been shown that enhancing entrepreneurial growth from support activities is not as easy, even if the intentions are good and the resources invested considerable (Blackburn and Schaper 2012, Bruneel et al. 2012, Mason and Brown 2013). It is also taken for granted that entrepreneurs are open to learning and foreign intervention (help and support). This study shows that this is not always the case. Hence, the dissertation explores a highly political and delicate matter touching upon the legitimacy of business incubation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9305 Filer i denne post: 1
Christine_Thalsgård_Henriques.pdf (2.056Mb)