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Madsen, Dorte; Ho, Shuyuan Mary (, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Interdisciplinarity is in the DNA of the iSchools. This workshop invites you to discuss how inter-disciplinarity plays out in theory and practice. The workshop addresses the uniqueness of the iSchools, provides an interactive framework to discuss and reflect on interdisciplinary practice. It suggests some models and tools to describe relations between disciplines, while offering a venue to brainstorm and envision issues of interest with like-minded colleagues. The purpose of this workshop is to establish a setting for continuous dialogue among colleagues on how interdisciplinarity plays out in practice. The workshop aims to create a forum for reflection on local inter-disciplinary practice(s) and to consider the possibilities of forming research networks. The workshop opens with a panel presentation from iSchool deans and senior faculty discussing current interdisciplinarity practices in iSchools and with presentations that address theoretical frameworks of interdisciplinarity. These presentations will form the basis for small group discussions in the afternoon. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8897 Filer i denne post: 1
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Halskov Jensen, Elisabeth (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Dette Working Paper indeholder nogle foreløbige resultater af en analyse af den diskursive praksis som den kom til udtryk i de ansvarlige ministres kommunikation under kogalskabskrisen i Danmark og Spanien i 2000 og 2001. Working Paperet fokuserer på den daværende danske fødevareminister Ritt Bjerregaards interaktion med landmændene og tager sit metodiske udgangspunkt i den kritiske diskursanalyse. Analysen viser at på trods af de fremtrædende handelsøkonomiske og politiske promoveringsdiskurser kommer landbrugsreformer og etik til at fremstå som det man hæfter sig ved i talen. Dette hjælpes på vej retorisk via appeller til fælles sandheder og konstant inddragelse og iscenesættelse af landmændene som tilhørende et interessefællesskab hvor det handler om at skabe et bæredygtigt landbrug baseret bl.a. på dyrevelfærd, økologi og miljø. Denne artikel skal ses som et diskussionsoplæg, hvor jeg vil lægge op til refleksion over begreberne kohærens, diskurs og argumentation ved at vise en analyse foretaget inden for rammerne af Faircloughs version af den kritiske diskursanalyse (1992, 1995, 2000, 2003). Analysen er en del af en større undersøgelse af politisk kommunikation, men vil her fokusere på to aspekter af det Fairclough kalder ’diskursiv praksis’, nemlig 1) hvordan forskellige diskurser kommer ind i en tekst (interdiskursivitet) og 2) hvordan teksten lægger op til en bestemt fortolkning (kohærens). Den diskursive begivenhed denne artikel vil behandle er en tale Ritt Bjerregaard holdt på Landbrugsraadets Årsmøde i maj 2001. Tekstens kontekst er BSE-sagen, der involverede hele EU for et par år siden, og tidspunktet ligger efter at de værste kontroverser om kompensationsordninger mv. mellem den daværende landbrugsminister og landbrugets repræsentanter havde fundet sted. Talen tager således sit afsæt i fortiden, men dens formål er fremadskuende og handler mest om hvordan Danmark, Europa og især landmændene skal komme videre efter at have været sendt til tælling økonomisk og omdømmemæssigt af BSE, mund-og klovsyge og andre fødevarekriser. Historien her kommer dog ikke til at handle så meget om selve sagen og dens forløb; jeg har i stedet valgt at fokusere på de kommunikative aspekter i diskursanalysen. Mit formål er på længere sigt at videreudvikle Faircloughs analysebegreber ’interdiskursivitet’ og ’kohærens’, som jeg mener er områder han ikke har udfoldet helt i sin tilgang til kritisk diskursanalyse. Undersøgelsen skal på et tidspunkt ende med at fortælle noget om hvad henholdsvis Ritt Bjerregaard og den spanske landbrugsminister Miguel Arias Cañete fik ud af kogalskabskrisen. Indgik den fx som en kærkommen lejlighed til at forsøge at sætte ETISKE spørgsmål ved landbrugsproduktion, blev den brugt i et POLITISK ærinde til at argumentere for mere lovgivning, handlede den måske kun om at få ØKONOMIEN til at fungere igen, eller var det en blanding af alle tre (og flere med måske) synsvinkler? Og i givet fald, hvis alle disse rationaliteter var i spil samtidig, hvad lod ministeren så stå tilbage som den enkle konklusion borgeren og landmanden kunne drage? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6858 Filer i denne post: 1
nr.204-2003ny.pdf (350.5Kb) -
Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper examines the influence of European integration on the relationship between state administration and private interests in the four Nordic countries – Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. By private interests I mean interest organizations, private corporations and independent experts. The paper focuses exclusively on the national policy processes that are involved with managing European Union (EU) issues. More specifically, this paper discusses two aspects of multi-level governance. First is the important role of private interests in the coordination of decision making at the national level preceding their government’s representation of national interests in the European Council of Ministers and other EU organizations. Second is the effect of all this on national democratic systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7346 Filer i denne post: 1
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the case of ChinaGuoming, Xian; Cheng, Zhang; Yangui, Zhang; Shunqi, Ge; Zhan, James X. (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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implications for organizational changeMichailova, Snejina (København, 1997)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Sornn-Friese, Henrik; Jensen, Søren Henning (Frederiksberg, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper questions the overall role of interfirm linkages in industrial dynamics. Studying Danish trucking and congress tourism, the paper addresses a number of particular questions concerning how industry responds to changing conditions. In trucking, the important interfirm linkages are pecuniary and entails nontrivial exchange among multiple dispersed agents, while in congress tourism Inter-organizational linkages are more strategic, with the activities of multiple agents forming together into products, without direct exchange. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7874 Filer i denne post: 1
DRUID_06_33.pdf (188.8Kb) -
a case of social capitalGeersbro, Jens; Hedaa, Laurids (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Harder, Mie (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This dissertation explores the internal antecedents of the phenomenon labeled management innovation. Management innovation refers to the implementation of new management practices, processes, techniques or structures that alter the way the work of management is performed. In other words, management innovation refers to changes in what managers do and how they do it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8295 Filer i denne post: 1
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The effect of diagnostic capability and implementation capabilityHarder, Mie (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Management innovation is the introduction of new management practices that significantly alter the way the work of management is performed. Building on behavioral theory of the firm, this paper explores the effect of firms’ diagnostic capability and implementation capability on the likelihood of adopting new‐to‐thefirm and new‐to‐the‐industry management innovations. The paper finds that formalized activities directed at developing and implementing management innovations as well as CEO novelty increases the likelihood of innovating in both categories. Also, top management team (TMT) diversity increases the likelihood of adopting new‐to‐the‐industry innovations. The paper does not find a direct effect of performance decline on the likelihood of implementing management innovation, but two variables, TMT diversity and previous experience, positively moderate the relationship between performance decline and new‐to‐the‐industry management innovation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8247 Filer i denne post: 1
SMG_WP_3_2011.pdf (1.199Mb) -
a study of how organisational identity influences the strategy-making processKjærgaard, Annemette (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Organisations have to deal with increasingly complex and turbulent environments, which demand that they continuously change and adapt to new circumstances or challenges. One way for organisations to cope with these challenges is to manage the strategy-making process in order to ensure that a continuous stream of new ideas and initiatives create new opportunities and ensure that the company stays viable by adapting to new internal and external challenges. This has been pursued in studies of strategy formation (Mintzberg, 1978), strategic change (Pettigrew, 1988) and internal corporate venturing (Burgelman, 1983b, 2002) and is still a central issue in the strategic management discourse. It is generally acknowledged that continuous change is important for organisations’ survival in a changing world. On the other hand the need for stability and continuity in form of a clear and strong corporate identity is also acknowledged to be critical for organisational success (Collins & Porras, 1994). Where the organisational identity works to ensure consistency in the company’s strategic action, the strategy making process works to renew the current concept of strategy (Burgelman, 1983b). Organisations thus face a dilemma when they engage in strategy-making to reconcile the perpetual tension between continuity and change (Burgelman, 2002). This challenge is far from new and has been discussed as e.g. the balance between exploration and exploitation (March, 1991). This article attempts to answer the question of how organisational actors’ perception of organisational identity influences the strategy-making process during organisational change. The study adopts an evolutionary approach to the unfolding of the strategy-making process, using the variation-selection-retention framework of cultural evolutionary theory (Aldrich, 1999; Campbell, 1969; Weick, 1979), which has been applied to the strategy-making process by Burgelman in several of his works (Burgelman, 1983a, 1983b, 1991, 2002, 2003). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6497 Filer i denne post: 1
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The Effect of Diagnostic Capability and Implementation CapabilityHarder, Mie (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper adopts a behavioral theory of the firm perspective in order to compare the antecedents of two types of innovation: Management innovation refers to the adoption of new management practices or organizational structures, whereas product innovation refers to the introduction of new products or services on the market. The study further distinguishes between two categories of innovation within each type: new to the firm and new to the industry innovations. The findings indicate that there are more differences than similarities between the antecedents of the two types of innovation. However, adopting either type of innovation increases the likelihood of simultaneously adopting the other. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8248 Filer i denne post: 1
SMG_WP_5_2011.pdf (393.8Kb) -
Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Spaghetti OrganizationFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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An Organizational Economics Interpretation of the Rise and Decline of the Spaghetti OrganizationFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: At the beginning of the 1990s, Danish hearing aid producer, Oticon became world famous for its radical empowerment and delegation experiment, popularly called the "spaghetti organization." Recent work has interpreted the spaghetti experiment as a radical attempt to foster dynamic capabilities by imposing structural ambiguity on the organization (Lovas and Ghoshal 2000; Verona and Ravasi 1999; Ravasi and Verona 2000). However, this work has neglected that about a decade later, many of the more radical elements of the spaghetti organization have been left. This paper presents an organizational economics interpretation of the spaghetti organization and its subsequent transformation. In such an interpretation, the spaghetti organization imposed significant organizational costs that could be tolerated as long as the benefits produced by the spaghetti organization dominated the costs. One source of organizational costs that the paper focuses on turn on the potential contradiction involved in combining a strong manager who possesses ultimate decision rights with widespread delegation. Apparently, Oticon management failed to solve, or didn’t even realize the nature of, the resulting commitment problem. A number of implications are developed, particularly with respect to the firm-market dichotomy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6887 Filer i denne post: 1
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A Note on the Oticon Spaghette ExperimentFoss, Nicolai J. (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Lovas and Ghoshal (2000) developed the notion of "strategy as guided evolution," using the case of Oticon A/S. This note points out that the radical "spaghetti" organization described by Lovas and Ghoshal has been partially abandoned in Oticon. Developing an organizational economics interpretation of this episode, the present note argues that there are important implications for the understanding of the conditions under which internal hybrids may be viable and contribute to competitive advantage. The main focus in on the managerial commitment problem. Testable propositions are derived. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6926 Filer i denne post: 1
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the case of IndiaPatibandla, Murali (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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An Organizational Trade-OffGammelgaard, Jens; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: When building up competences, a subsidiary of a multinational corporation (MNC) may rely on external knowledge sources like customers, suppliers, competitors or local science centers. Internal sourcing is also available through knowledge offered by headquarters or other affiliates. The question is whether the two kinds of sources are mutual exclusive. A dilemma or organizational trade-off is foreseeable, since the more the subsidiary adapts its knowledge creation processes to host country institutions, the less it will be able to utilize internal knowledge sources due to the institutional distance between the external and internal networks. However, newer organizational forms, like the concept of the "differentiated MNC", imply a relatively smooth flow of knowledge inside the MNC, indicating that we should not expect an organizational trade-off between internal and external sources. The subsidiary’s ability to build on two knowledge networks depends on its scale of resources, absorptive capacity and the role it plays in the corporation. The relationship between internal and external sourcing is tested using a unique dataset that covers more than 2,000 subsidiaries located in seven different European countries (the Centre of Excellence Project). In fact, the results show that, to a certain extent, there is no dilemma between a subsidiary’s knowledge development based on both internal, and external knowledge sources. However, the results also show a bell-shaped relationship between the use of internal and external sources, where a heavily embedded use of internal sources excludes the use of external sources. Keywords: Internal sourcing, External sourcing, Institutional Isomorphism and Subsidiary knowledge. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7315 Filer i denne post: 1
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Petersen, Bent; Welch, Lawrence S. (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Meyer, Klaus (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Exploring the ‘Black Whole’ in Institutional TheoryJakobsen, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The aim of this article is to take a critical look at how to perceive informal institutions within institutional theory. Douglas North in his early works on institutional theory divided the national institutional framework into two main categories, formal and informal institution or constraints as he called them. The formal constraints consisted of political rules, judicial decisions and economic contracts, whereas informal constraints consisted of socially sanctioned norms of behaviour, which are embedded in culture and value systems. As formal constraints are straight forward to deal with the informal ones are much more vaguely defined and thus more difficult to grasp analytical. This imprecise perception of informal constraints is surprising as they basically constitute the foundation of the society in question, whereas formal constraints ‘only’ constitute the functional aspects of the state apparatus in that particular society. In order to, however, begin excavating what lies further behind the informal constraints and their impact on the functionality of the formal constraints it is important to take an overall critical look at the way in which institutional theory relate to a given societal context. This article suggest that this is done by first employing an overall international business (IB) approach to analyse a national economy, in this case the Malaysian economy. This will not, however, be done according to the generally accepted procedure in IB studies using either a firm specific or a generic market-based approach, but rather by employing a combination of selected IB theories and a ‘glocalised reading’ on how the relationship between the global economy and a national economy pan out and how this translate into impacting a given societal setup. In other words, IB theories are not only employed in the economic sphere, but also confronted with a variety of societal factors that have a positive or negative impact on the explanatory power of the individual IB theories employed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8869 Filer i denne post: 1
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the corporation, the agency, the anthropologist, and their friendsMoeran, Brian (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]