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Gammelgaard, Jens; Kumar, Rajesh (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The relationship between multinational enterprises’ (MNE) headquarters and their subsidiaries has been of considerable interest to international business scholars (e.g., Dörrenbächer and Geppert, 2009). Although a subsidiary is an integral part of an MNE, its interests do not necessarily converge with those of headquarters. Many scholars note that relationships between headquarters and subsidiaries are characterized by the simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition (e.g., Bouquet and Birkinshaw, 2008; Otterbeck, 1981). On the one hand, the subsidiary and its managers are dependent on headquarters’ resources to fulfill its mandate. On the other hand, the subsidiary and its managers have their own particular goals, which may or may not coincide with the goals of headquarters and its managers. Subsidiary managers may also seek to develop the unit’s own sense of identity, which may be at variance with that of the MNE (e.g., Mudambi and Navarra, 2004). The potential for goal and identity conflict between headquarters and subsidiaries leads to the emergence of a mixed-motive relationship between the two units and their managers. A mixed-motive relationship generates conflict, but the mere existence of conflict is not necessarily detrimental to the relationship (Rahim and Bonoma, 1979). However, the emergence of a prolonged conflict and/or its ineffective management may create a dysfunctional relationship between the headquarters and the subsidiary. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9413 Filer i denne post: 1
The Legitimacy Dynamics EIBA.pdf (147.4Kb) -
Seabrooke, Leonard (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: 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 Filer i denne post: 1
legitimacy_gaps_british_eco_no14.pdf (211.7Kb) -
når topledelsen tilskriver rationaler til strukturerZeuthen Bentsen, Eva; Borum, Finn (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Bjerg, Ole (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9235 Filer i denne post: 1
Ole_Bjerg_Introduktion_Hvorfor.pdf (38.77Kb) -
Raffnsøe, Sverre (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: 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 Filer i denne post: 1
Sverre_Raffnsoe_WP_1-2010.pdf (178.5Kb) -
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Resume: 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 Filer i denne post: 1
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En undersøgelse af læringsprocesser mellem projekt og organisation på Aarhus TeaterDanneskiold-Samsøe, Ida (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Formålet med denne afhandling er at få en bedre forståelse af, hvordan læringsprocesser udvikler sig i en kunstnerisk projektbaseret organisation. Undersøgelsen er gennemført på et dansk institutionsteater, Aarhus Teater, fordi teatret har den specifikke organisering, at nye kunstnere, nye arbejdsledere i form af instruktører og scenografer kommer som eksterne projektansatte (næsten) hver gang en ny proces går i gang. Kombinationen mellem faste medarbejdere og freelanceansatte eksterne kunstneriske ledere skaber en spænding mellem det unikke (flygtige) projekt og den blivende organisation. Det specielle ved teatret er altså interaktionen mellem på den ene side regulær (rutinebaseret) organisering og projektbaseret organisering på den anden side. Denne afhandling bidrager med en bedre forståelse af, hvordan læring udvikles og udfordres i denne særlige form for organisering. Undersøgelsen tager sit udgangspunkt i ledelses- og evalueringsmøder, der omhandler de praktiske og ledelsesmæssige problemstillinger, der opstår undervejs i processerne. Det er den sociale dynamiske læringsproces i mødesamtaler, der er hovedgenstand for analysen, for at komme nærmere en forståelse af, hvordan betydninger udvikler sig undervejs i møderne, og hvordan disse betydninger kanaliserer spor til de næste mødedrøftelser og skaber retning eller handling i forbindelse med fremtidige forestillinger. Det er ved undersøgelsen af disse mødesamtaler, at forbindelsen mellem det unikke (flygtige) projekt og den blivende organisation er blevet analyseret. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9346 Filer i denne post: 1
Ida Danneskiold-Samsøe.pdf (1.770Mb) -
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: 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 Filer i denne post: 1
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Davis, Lee (Frederiksberg, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: 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 Filer i denne post: 1
DRUID_06_12.pdf (182.4Kb) -
Davis, Lee (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: 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 Filer i denne post: 1
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unusual lessons from the past for the post-Soviet marketHolden, Nigel (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Juridisk analyse af kvinders og mænds adgang til varer og tjenesteydelserNielsen, Ruth (København, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Formålet med denne rapport er at præcisere omfanget og rækkevidden af det forbud mod kønsdiskrimination ved adgang til varer og tjenesteydelser, der i Danmark siden vedtagelsen af ligestillingsloven i 2000 gælder for alle sælgere/tjenesteydere både i den private og offentlige sektor samt af den pligt til at indarbejde kønsligestilling i al planlægning og forvaltning, der gælder i den offentlige sektor (den såkaldte mainstreamingpligt). Det vil også blive diskuteret, i hvilken udstrækning der, hvis der ønskes mere kønsligestilling, kan og bør ske skærpelse af reglerne i dansk ret inden for rammerne af de nugældende EU-regler. Kønsligestilling og forbud mod diskrimination er grundlæggende rettigheder (menneskerettigheder). I de seneste år er der i stigende grad udviklet et samspil mellem elementer i dansk ret, der stammer fra EU-niveau, og elementer, der stammer fra folkeretligt eller nationalt niveau, hvilket gør det relevant at opfatte regler af national herkomst, folkeret og regler, der er blevet til i EU-regi, som ét stort system. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8666 Filer i denne post: 1
Ruth_Nielsen_2013.pdf (872.3Kb) -
Financial Literacy and the Corporate Governmentalization of the ‘Business of Life’Højbjerg, Erik (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper is a work-‐in-‐progress. The purpose of the paper is programmatic in the sense that it tries to formulate elements of a research agenda revolving around the issue of corporate governmentalization. By this term I intend to indicate ways in which companies seek to construe and mobilize consumer subjectivities whose consuming practices involve the self-‐ management of the individual along etho-‐political goals of good governance. The back-‐drop of this topic is the investigation of the forms of contemporary social and political transformation, with a focus on the transformative powers of ‘politicized private enterprises’ or the ‘political corporation’. The research question is: How do corporations seek to construe and mobilize responsible citizens by offering products and services, the consumption of which are assumed to transform the individual¹s self-‐relationship along proclaimed ethical and political goals? The research question will be discussed in the context of financial literacy educational initiatives. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, increasing the financial literacy of ordinary citizen-‐consumers has taken a prominent position among regulators and financial institutions alike. The logic seems to be that financially capable individuals will enjoy social and political inclusion as well as an ability to exercise a stronger influence in markets. The paper specifically contributes to our understanding of the governmentalization of the present by addressing how -‐ at least in part -‐ the corporate spread of financial literacy educational initiatives can be observed as a particular form of power at-‐a-‐distance. The focus is on the role of private enterprise in governmentalizing the ‘business of life’ by establishing and mobilizing specific conceptual forms around which the life skills of the entrepreneurial self involves a responsibilization of the individual citizen-‐consumer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9006 Filer i denne post: 1
Erik_Hojbjerg.pdf (253.1Kb) -
Authority under "Distributed Knowledge"Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We examine the argument, put forward by modern management writers and, in a somewhat different guise by Austrian economists, that authority is not a viable mechanism of coordination in the presence of "distributed knowledge" (which corresponds to Hayek’s treatment of the use of dispersed knowledge in society). We define authority and distributed knowledge and argue that authority is compatible with distributed knowledge. Moreover, it is not clear on theoretical grounds how distributed knowledge impacts on economic organization. An implication is that the Austrian argument that designed orders are strongly constrained by the Hayekian knowledge problem (Hayek, Kirzner, Sautet) is shaky. The positive flipside of this argument is that Austrians confront an exciting research agenda in theorizing how distributed knowledge impacts economic organization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7291 Filer i denne post: 1
the limits to designed orders.pdf (73.42Kb) -
Mahnke, Volker (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Although there is reason to expect that outsourcing plays an increasingly important role in world of commerce, theories of firm boundaries poorly address associated processes of governance change. This paper seeks to address this gap in the spirit of the evolutionary theory of the firm. This approach highlights the significance of outsourcing as a "process of shifting from internal to external procurement of activities." Adopting an evolutionary process perspective suggests limits to outsourcing due to governance inseparability and partly tacit complementarity of capabilities as well as related dis-aggregation costs, including the costs of knowledge codification in the specification of interfaces in supplier/buyer relations, loss of absorptive capacity and integrating capabilities in the supplier’s system. A key departure from earlier approaches to firm boundaries is an explanation of such limits to outsourcing and their impact on two interrelated sources of efficiency: incentives and capabilities. For instance, when limits to outsourcing obtain, governance change for particular activities involves compromises of capability- and/or incentive efficiency in the experimental determination of organizational boundaries. Also discussed are environmental dynamics that variously emphasise efficiency properties of dispersed or concentrated ownership and capability development. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6899 Filer i denne post: 1
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Some Preliminary Thoughts on Entering the FieldMoeran, Brian (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The theoretical discourses devoted to smell reflect a maze of fascinating taboos and mysterious attractions. In present-day Western societies, the sense of smell is undervalued. Scents are highly elusive and often cannot be directly named. Many languages have virtually no vocabulary to describe them, except in terms of the other senses of sight, sound, touch and taste. Scents are communicated primarily through metaphors. What are these linguistic and visual metaphors, and what do they tell us about the societies and cultures in which they are used? How do we know what scents ‘mean’? Is smell a universal form of semiotic communication (as global advertising campaigns suggest), or does it vary in different social and cultural contexts (as anthropological and other literature asserts)? Are there specific ‘scent cultures’? If so, in what do they consist? And how do these affect the creation, appraisal and use of fragrances in the three countries – Japan, France and the USA – in which I intend to conduct my research? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6973 Filer i denne post: 1
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the case of the Øresund medi-tech plastic industrySornn-Friese, Henrik; Simoni Sørensen, Janne (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper investigates barriers to the process of regional economic development from a linkage perspective. It develops the concepts of linkage lock-in and switching costs as fundamental factors explaining some of the social dynamics of the process. The overall claim of the paper is that different types of costs and their determinants may lock firms in to existing linkages, creating a probable barrier to successful regional economic development. The paper defines linkage lock-in as the difficulty in switching to alternative linkage partners, even if this is desirable. Switching costs are the costs involved in terminating and forming linkages. The extent of transaction costs, dynamic transaction costs and opportunity costs delineate switching costs in interfirm linkages. The paper further elaborates on the concept of opportunity costs; it states that in dynamically competitive environments a class of opportunity costs, namely learning opportunity costs might arise as a result of the relative importance of learning and innovation. Learning opportunity costs are defined as the costs of missing key possibilities to learn in dynamically competitive environments. They are furthermore seen as being constituted by cognitive costs, which in turn are influenced by the existence of information costs. The theoretical argument is illustrated by a case study of the medical part of the Øresund medi-tech plastic industry. Key words: Regional economic development; interfirm linkages and switching costs; lock-in and learning; cross-border business; medi-tech plastic industry. JEL classifications: D83, L14, L22, L68, R58 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7240 Filer i denne post: 1
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Om udvikling af medarbejdernes brandorienterede dømmekraftHermansen, Dorte (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: How can service companies get their employees to ‘live the brand’? This thesis answers this question through a dialogue between practice and theory. It investigates the potential of philosophical-dialogical methods to transform abstract brand values into action in corporate branding praxis at TDC and explores opportunities to apply the methods in context of service companies in general. It develops an understanding of corporate branding as an organisational and cultural project in which collective dialogue-processes serve as the main sensemaking process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7813 Filer i denne post: 1
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the effect of the vote of confidence procedureBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Delegation and Influence Under Alternative Political StructuresBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper studies how interest group lobbying of the bureaucracy affects policy outcomes and how it changes the legislature’s willingness to delegate decision-making authority to the bureaucracy. We extend the standard model of delegation to account for interest group influence during the implementation stage of policy and apply it to different institutional structures of government. The paper addresses the following questions: First, how does the decision to delegate change when the bureaucratic agent is subject to external influence? What cost does this influence impose on the legislative principal? Finally, how susceptible are policy choices to bureaucratic lobbying under different government structures? In answering these questions, the paper seeks to provide a comparative theory of lobbying and to explain the different patterns of interest group activity across political systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7561 Filer i denne post: 1
wpec042004.pdf (256.8Kb)