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An understanding anchored in pragmatismBang Mathiasen, John (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The subject matter chosen for this PhD, learning within a Product Development (PD) working practice, might give rise to wonder given that I have a theoretical education within supply chain management, achieved practical experience as senior supply chain manager and finally, conducted a great many lectures dealing with supply chain management. Offhand, it may seem an odd choice, but my practical experience, briefly illustrated in the below, triggered the decision to study learning within a PD working practice. PD implies design of components and clarifications of the assembly process. A side effect of these activities is a routing, which establishes the supply chain; that is, the total journey, which all components must undertake before the product is saleable. Hence, seen from the perspective of the operation, the supply chain to be managed throughout the life cycle of the product is created during the PD phase. Changing a supply chain later on is possible, but it requires a significant effort. When managing a supply chain area, in which a large part of the products had a life cycle of more than 10 years, I realised the critical importance of influencing the PD process. Thus, employees from the supply chain department were often engaged in intense exchanges of views with the PD engineers and substantial resources were devoted to improving the awareness of supply chain considerations during the PD process. Nevertheless, in my firm conviction, these efforts only managed to exert minor influence and consequently, the established supply chains were difficult to handle. Ever since then, I have wondered why we were unsuccessful in influencing the supply chain of a new product. The involved supply chain engineers had a highly theoretical background as well as practical experience, but it was not possible to initiate learning among the PD engineers as regards the establishment of a more suitable supply chain. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8509 Files in this item: 1
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Raffnsøe, Sverre (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: On dit souvent que Foucault a renoncé à toute philosophie de l’histoire ce qu'on peut bien admettre en constatant l'impatience de Foucault de mettre de la distance avec l’histoire universelle qui explique l'histoire en la rapportant à quelque chose qui oblige universellement et qui est en train de se faire valoir à l'époque. Dans ses Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte Hegel se réconciliait avec les antithèses de L’histoire du monde en les voyant comme l'expression d'une raison qui se faisait conscience d'elle-même à l'époque et qui cherchait à se manifester aux différents niveaux. Dans sa Zur Genealogie der Moral Nietzsche pensait se trouver en pleine réouverture d'une guerre universelle indissoluble entre "Rome" et "Judée", entre une culture aristocratique qui donnait libre cours à nos épanouissements et une culture de ressentiment qui cherchait à réprimer nos activités plus que de besoin. Dans Die Idee der Naturgeschichte Adorno essayait de faire éclater le continuum historique et ses truismes en montrant comment une nature en elle-même indéfinisable est toujours présent concrètement dans l'histoire et dans la culture sans y être réductible. Au contraire Foucault renonce à ordonner l'histoire en la mettrant à distance dans une retrospection totalisante qui se réfère à une raison synthétisante, à une conflictualité générale ou à une transcendance née de l'histoire mais oubliée URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6400 Files in this item: 1
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Hartmann, Stig (København, 1997)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: artikel falder i tre afsnit. Første afsnit arbejder på at vise hvordan den nuværende ledelsespraksis nødvendigvis må bevæge sig mellem to helt fundamentale orienteringer som giver ’ledelse’, lederen og den ledede en grundlæggende mening med sin tilblivelse. Dette afsnit slutter i håbet om at der må være en overensstemmelse mellem den retoriske logos, etos og patos for at undgå at blive forført af et usædvanligt raffineret kunstværk som kan betegnes som et liv der lykkes. Andet afsnit udvikler på baggrund af en historisk læsning af værdibegrebets indholdsmæssige forskydning et begreb om eksistentielle værdier, som på den ene side udtrykker menneskets grundlæggende livsvilkår og på den anden side signalerer de tavse værdier der sikrer virksomhedens bæredygtighed. Artiklen afslutter med et afsnit omkring den praktiske integration af etiske fortællinger baseret i en forudsætning om at forståelse og ånd kan være de bærende komponenter i det organisatoriske fællesskab. Herved gives et bud på, hvordan etikken bør realiseres i organisationen gennem den autonome fortælling, der har sans for det gode liv. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6387 Files in this item: 1
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En problemformuleringHøjbjerg, Erik (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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Rundt om begrebets meta-teoretiske karakteristikaØrts Hansen, Carsten (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Det er relativt let at konstatere, at ledelsesteknologier indtager en stadig større rolle i virksomheder og organisationer. De gode historier om ledelsesteknologi kommer i en lind strøm fra forskningsinstitutioner, konsulenter samt virksomheder og organisationer, der med succes anvender en ledelsesteknologi. Balanced Scorecard, Videnregnskaber, Capability Maturity Model, Activity Based Costning, Benchmarking m. fl. er således velkendte og udbredte ledelsesteknologier i såvel offentlige som private organisationer. På trods heraf, er forståelse af hvad der er teknologi ofte en diffus størrelse, ikke mindst fordi tilgangene til, hvad der menes med teknologi, er meget forskellige. Med andre ord kræver spørgsmålet om, hvad der egentlig forstås ved en ledelsesteknologi, en nærmere analyse, og i denne artikel introduceres forskellige måder at betragte en ledelsesteknologi på, og det tydeliggøres, hvilke meta-teoretiske antagelser der kan anlægges og diskuteres ud når vi tager om ledelsesteknolgier. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6764 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: Denne artikel handler om internationalisering af ledelsesteknologier/viden gennem casestudier. Med klare budskaber og empirske beviser, udgør casestudier ofte nutidens sande og autoriserede viden om, hvordan virksomhedsledere skal opfatte verden og hvad de skal indrette deres handlinger efter. Arbejdet med at skabe casestudier kan sammenlignes med at putte skibe i flasker; vores autoriserede og sande ledelsesviden er som skibene, fordi, når først vores viden er inde i flasken som en vedtaget sandhed ser det ud som om den altid har været der og altid vil blive der. Imidlertid er arbejdet med at skabe casestudier et minutiøst og fantasifuldt arbejde, der får arbejdet med at bygge skibe i flasker til at blegne. Det skyldes ikke mindst at arbejdet ikke sker på et hyggeligt bord med lup og pincet som man måske kender det fra scenen med Poul Reichardt i ”Olsenbanden”, men derimod udfolder sig i en kompleks videnskabelig arena med forskere, tekster og praktikere. I artiklen bliver casen SoftCorp betragtet som et laboratorium, hvilket længe har været et feltråb blandt forskere, når talen falder på refleksion omkring videns skabelse (Hacking 1992, Latour 1983, Latour & Woolgar 1979). Interessen kan også siges netop at baseres på den kendsgerning, at laboratoriet i sig selv er en central notation i vores forståelse af objektiv/sand viden og af forskningen og dens udvikling. I denne artikel er argumentet således at casestudiet er center for selv samme mekanismer og processer som laboratoriet, der skaber sand og objektiv viden og det netop er dette element der gør casestudiet til en vigtig aktør i internationaliseringen af (erhvervs-)forskningens videns skabelse. På baggrund af artiklen kan læseren derfor forvente at lære to ting: forvent at lære noget af forskere og ledelsespraktikere og forvent at lære meget om forskere og ledelsespraktikere. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6767 Files in this item: 1
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brudstykker af 27 lederes livRy Nielsen, Jens Carl; Ry, Morten (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne artikel er et uddrag af endnu ikke publiceret bog om lederes hverdagsliv. Bogen bygger i meget høj grad på interviews. Vi har således interviewet 27 ledere to gange i perioden maj 2005 oktober 2006. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6684 Files in this item: 1
ledere i aktion og udvikling.pdf (189.6Kb) -
Et oversættelsesteoretisk perspektiv på strategisk arbejdeObed Madsen, Søren (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
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Lando, Henrik (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: How should a court set the negligence standard in a given area of activity when future (potential) injurers or victims are unlikely to know the standard set by the court? In particular, how should the standard be set in the oft-occurring case where one of the future parties is a professional actor who is likely to know the legal standard of negligence, while the other is an amateur, who is unlikely to know it? In this case, it may be optimal for the court to set the standards at the first-best level despite the amateur's ignorance of the law. The amateur may be able to infer the standards, either from the situation itself (from his knowledge of the costs and benefits of precautions), or from the act performed by the professional party. Moreover, the amateur may take due care because he realizes that the professional party will have an incentive to live up to the standard, and that the risk of a loss will therefore be on the amateur. However, when the ignorance of the amateur is "large," involving not only the legal standards but also the risks inherent in the activity, it may well be optimal for the court to depart from first best standards. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7239 Files in this item: 1
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Møller, Michael; Rose, Caspar (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Seabrooke, Leonard (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Who drives domestic institutional change in the face of international economic crisis? For rationalists the answer is powerful self-interested actors who struggle for material gains during an exogenously generated crisis. For economic constructivists it is ideational entrepreneurs who use ideas as weapons to establish paths for institutional change during crisis-driven uncertainty. Both approaches are elite-centric and conceive legitimacy as established by command or proclamation. This article establishes why domestic institutional change in response to international economic constraints must be legitimated by non-elites and how their everyday actions alter policy paths established in crisis. This is illustrated by re-examining a case frequently associated with punctuated equilibrium theories of crisis and institutional change: interwar Britain. In contrast to conventional explanations, I argue that the "legitimacy gap" between elite and broader public understandings about how the economy should work informed institutional experimentation during the 1920s and 1930s and fertilized the "Keynesian Revolution" of the 1940s. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7381 Files in this item: 1
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når topledelsen tilskriver rationaler til strukturerZeuthen Bentsen, Eva; Borum, Finn (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Raffnsøe, Sverre (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: L’événement joue un rôle central peut-être un peu sous-estimé chez Michel Foucault. Dans cet article on essaierait de combler cette lacune, en rendant compte du rôle de l’événement dans la pensée de Foucault pour jeter un jour nouveau sur les traits de l’événement en général et le rôle de l’événement dans le livre The Music of Chance de Paul Auster en particulier. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8176 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: Co-creation has emerged today as a concept which thinkers across otherwise largely opposed traditions have come to embrace. This dissertation substantiates how the concept of co-creation, from proponents of Strategic Management Thought to thinkers coming out of Autonomist Marxism and Critical Management Studies, appears as designating either: (1) a new win-win mode of value creation where businesses co-create value with various sorts of outsiders; (2) a new social, commons-based value creation autonomous from business interests; or (3) a mode of value creation intimately intertwined with new modes of management capable of harnessing and exploiting productive capacities outside established organizations. Behind these contemporary differences, the dissertation discloses a more encompassing history. Through this, the emergence of a widely shared co-creation vocabulary is brought forth. While this vocabulary is used persistently to express a whole new mode of value creation, in whatever form, the dissertation argues that the co-creation vocabulary actually undermines the very possibility of speaking about value creation in a consistent manner. At the same time, however, it is not a vocabulary which can just be dispensed with, since its emergence is intimately intertwined with an accelerated emphatic injunction; an injunction advanced by a reformulated managementality that throughout the twentieth century has tempted management ‘to go outside’. Accounting for this history, the dissertation claims that a complex experience has been born, an experience of the outside. Through this experience, the outside has emerged not merely as a source of value creation and an object of management; it has also emerged as an obligation that has to be met, an obligation which is forcefully expressed today through the co-creation vocabulary. In order to inquire into contemporary accounts of co-creation, as well as the historical trajectories through which this phenomenon has come to emerge, the dissertation develops what is designated as the historical problematization analysis, inspired by and reconstructed from the very late work of Michel Foucault. By utilizing this mode of analysis, it becomes possible to bring together otherwise separate accounts of co-creation on the same level of analysis, to inquire into central historical conditions of possibility through which the phenomenon of cocreation has come to emerge and to take stock of what difference the arrival of cocreation introduces in relation to yesterday. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8701 Files in this item: 1
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Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation, which results in costly re-adjustments for production workers. In response, the production department tries to resist change by improving the existing technology. We show that firms balancing the strengths of the two departments perform better. This principle is employed to derive several implications concerning the hiring of talents, monetary incentives, and technology investment policies. As a negative effect, resistance to change might distort the R&D department’s effort away from radical innovations. The firm can solve this problem by implementing the so-called ”skunk works model” of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization. Resistance to change, innovation, skunk works model, contest. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7691 Files in this item: 1
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Davis, Lee (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since they do not engage in production or commercialization, but focus solely on invention. While considerable anecdotal evidence exists about these IP vendors, there has been no systematic investigation of how they use licensing to appropriate value from their investments in R&D. In this paper, we suggest that the licensing strategies they pursue can be differentiated along two main dimensions: whether the driving force behind the inventive process is “technology push” or “market pull”, and the degree to which the innovative activities carried out by the IP vendor are mutually dependent upon the innovative activities of the other relevant market players. On this basis, four main licensing strategies are identified. We investigate the relative benefits and costs of these four strategies, and the factors affecting licensing choices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7878 Files in this item: 1
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Davis, Lee (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since they do not engage in production or commercialization, but focus solely on invention. While considerable anecdotal evidence exists about these IP vendors, there has been no systematic investigation of how they use licensing to appropriate value from their investments in R&D. In this paper, we suggest that the licensing strategies they pursue can be differentiated along two main dimensions: whether the driving force behind the inventive process is "technology push" or "market pull", and the degree to which the innovative activities carried out by the IP vendor are mutually dependent upon the innovative activities of the other relevant market players. On this basis, four main licensing strategies are identified. We investigate the relative benefits and costs of these four strategies, and the factors affecting licensing choices. Key words: Intellectual property, licensing, strategy JEL Codes: O31, O32, O34 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7266 Files in this item: 1
wp06-12.pdf (182.4Kb)