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Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andres (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an allvolunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that rely on a military draft to recruit their army personnel. For OECD countries, we show that military conscription indeed has a statistically significantly negative impact on economic performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7714 Filer i denne post: 1
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Kritik og retfærdiggørelse mellem politik og professionHolsting, Vilhelm Stefan (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Siden den Kolde Krigs afslutning har det militære officersvirke været præget af vedvarende forandringer i den sikkerheds- og forvaltningspolitiske kontekst. Behovet for øget fleksibilitet på en stadigt mere kompleks kampplads og vedvarende moderniseringer af den militære organisation kombineret med strammere ressourcestyring stiller stadigt nye og ofte modstridende krav til den militære ledelse. Spørgsmålet er, hvordan disse forandringer og iboende spændinger sætter sig igennem i de militære aktørers professionelle selvforståelse. For at belyse dette spørgsmål undersøger afhandlingen, hvordan militære chefer retfærdiggør og reprofessionaliserer det militære chefvirke i mødet med postkoldkrigens stigende offentlige kritik af den militære ledelse. Det sker med en diskursiv analysestrategi, der kombinerer historiske analyser af chefvirkets retfærdiggørelse med samtidsanalyser af en aktuel strid om chefvirkets retfærdiggørelse. Hertil anvendes Luc Boltanskis, Laurent Thévenots og Eve Chiapellos konventionssociologiske analysebegreber i kombination med Reinhart Kosellecks begrebshistoriske analysebegreber. Med denne analysestrategi fremstilles forståelsen af chefvirket i et spændingsfelt mellem det professionelle erfaringsrum og den professionelle forventningshorisont. Afhandlingens empiriske grundlag hviler dels på en diakron undersøgelse af et historisk arkiv af personelbedømmelser af militære chefer, dels på en synkron undersøgelse af den aktuelle retfærdiggørelseskamp, der har udfoldet sig under implementeringen af Forsvarsforliget 2013-2017. Hermed danner analysestrategien grundlag for en samlet professionsdiagnose, der opsporer og anskueliggør de væsentligste tendenser og transformationer i chefvirkets retfærdiggørelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9514 Filer i denne post: 1
Vilhelm Holsting.pdf (6.767Mb) -
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En analyse af gevinster og omkostninger ved miljømærkningRahbek Pedersen, Esben; Neergaard, Peter; Andersen, Mette; Bech, Line; Olsson, Marie-Louise (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The overall objective of this project is to analyse how companies perceive the costs and benefits from environmental labelling. The project only covers two labels: - the Nordic ‘Swan’ and the European ‘Flower’. The majority of the companies have to high or some extent achieved their objectives regarding the labels. Moreover, most companies believe that environmental labelling improves image. One third of the companies state that the benefits from labelling exceed the costs they have encountered. However, more than half of the companies do not feel that they have gained important advantages from environmental labelling, e.g. from additional sales and earnings. With regards to the costs, environmental labelling does not necessitate high investments in new technology, recruitments, education etc. In other words, the cost barriers are in general small and most companies are able to defray the costs of environmental labelling. In conclusion, most companies have at least to some extent achieved their goals, whereas the economic impacts from environmental labelling have so far been limited. This does not necessarily imply that environmental labelling is without importance. On the contrary, environmental labels hold a number of potentials that make them attractive to companies. However, the prospects of environmental labelling depend on the values, attitudes and behaviour of all relevant stakeholders. Based on the results from the project, we have listed a number of recommendations for the companies, the customers and the administrators, which might stimulate the future development of environmentally labelled goods and services: * Companies. Even though companies in general do not experience substantial advantages from environmental labelling, the labels might have a number of indirect effects, which might increase the companies’ competitiveness in the long run. For instance, environmental labelling might improve the companies’ image and serve as a door opener for Side 5 Miljømærker og effekter new markets. Furthermore, the costs of environmental labelling are very limited. However, companies also have to realise that environmental labelling is not a panacea, which automatically generates a number of positive impacts. * Customers. It is often concluded that customers care about the environment and are willing to pay a price premium for environmentalfriendly goods and services. However, this is not always the case. The results indicate that the customers’ actual purchasing behaviour is not necessarily in accordance with ‘green’ purchasing policies. For instance, a number of companies have experienced that the public procurement practises are inconsistent with formal policies. Realising that the public sector is the driver of environmental labelling much has to be done in order to improve the public procurement: - e.g. through education, campaigns and political action. * Administrators. In general, companies are not pleased with the fee structure of the labelling schemes. They think it would be fairer to impose the fees on the companies who do not produce eco-labelled products. Moreover, when eco-labels in general do not increase profit of products and services, the fees inevitable become an impediment to the future growth of environmental labelling. In general, there is a need to align the fee structure as well as the administrative procedures to the actual costs and advantages of environmental labelling. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6288 Filer i denne post: 1
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Marker-Larsen, Svend (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Tollin, Karin; Vej, Jesper (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Managers’ mindset about the sustainability construct and its triggers is the topic dealt with in the paper. The interviewed managers are all working in companies expressing a commitment on sustainability in their external communication. However, our findings reveal that their commitment is pursued from different business models, visions and ideas about the sustainability construct. We found that sustainability is not triggered, approached and practiced in accordance with one overall mindset. Four interrelated mindsets emerged - due to that sustainability is a learning process and thus formed and developed over time. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8321 Filer i denne post: 1
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Schaeffer, Moritz; Carl, Michael (Nagoya, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This study investigates the coordination of reading (input) and writing (output) activities in from-scratch translation and post-editing. We segment logged eye movements and keylogging data into minimal units of reading and writing activity and model the process of post-editing and from-scratch translation as a Markov model. We show that the time translators and post-editors spend on source or target text reading predicts with a high degree of accuracy how likely it is that they engage in successive typing. We further show that the typing probability is also conditioned by the degree to which source and target text share semantic and syntactic properties. The minimal cognitive Markov model describes very basic factors which play a role in the processes occurring between input (reading) and output (writing) during translation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9528 Filer i denne post: 1
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Anxiety and entrepreneurship in a bureaucracySigurdarson, Hallur Tor (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Since the early 1980s there has been a call for entrepreneurship and innovation in the public sector. The call became an international discourse with considerable implications for public administration. Accordingly, bureaucracy is a ubiquitous hindrance for entrepreneurial practices and many of the solutions proposed for public sector bureaucracy draw on research and practices in the private sector and are guided by economic rationality. Instead of adopting this common critique and its set of solutions, in this dissertation a different approach is developed to enquire into the capacity of a bureaucratically organised Ministerial Department to entrepreneur. The approach involves an emphasis on local practices, affects and movements in an ethnographically inspired study. The result is also an idea – local and contextual – of the relationship between entrepreneurship and bureaucracy, which is distant from the entrepreneurship/bureaucracy dichotomy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9377 Filer i denne post: 1
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Sensegiving and wind power developmentRisberg, Annette; Corvellec, Herve (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This article intends to contribute to the conceptualising of organisational sensegiving. Based upon a qualitative analysis of how Swedish wind farm developers manage the permit application process for their projects, we describe in a first order analysis how they contextualise and ontologise their projects and defend them against criticisms. To emphasise the precarious conditions of agency that govern the activity of sensegivers, we introduce in a second order analysis the notion of mise-en-sens, a neologism that borrows both from the performing sens art notion of mise-en-scene and the fact that ‘sens’ can in French mean both meaning and direction. Mise-en-sens underscores that stage-setting and direction providing are key activities of wind farm developers. In our concluding remarks we even suggest that mise-en-sens could serve to describe the activity of others involved in sensegiving, for example project managers or entrepreneurs. Keywords: Mise-en-sens, sensegiving, wind power, infrastructure development URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7030 Filer i denne post: 1
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The Case of the Knowledge EconomyFoss, Nicolai J. (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: I critically discuss a number of recent and increasingly influential claims about economic organization in the "knowledge economy." The relevant claims are that traditional authority relations will tend to disappear, the boundaries of the firm will blur, and coordination mechanisms will be very malleable (resulting in various "new organizational forms"). In order to get an analytical focus on the knowledge economy, I assume that it may be approximated by "Hayekian settings" (after Hayek 1945), that is, settings in which knowledge is distributed and where knowledge inputs are relatively more important in production than physical capital inputs. I then argue, drawing on organizational economics as well as Mises’ insights in property rights and comparative systems, that the presence of Hayekian settings does not mean that authority will disappear, etc. Thus, Misesian insights help to resurrect the Coasian firm against attacks inspired by Hayek’s writings on knowledge. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6869 Filer i denne post: 1
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Meglio, Olimpia; Risberg, Annette (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper seeks to provide a different explanation to the claimed inconsistency in M&A performance research findings. While many M&A scholars contend that the problem lies in the variety of M&A performance measures, we believe that the reason for multiple ways to measure performance is that performance, like most organizational constructs, lacks universality. The variety of measures reflects the variety of the scholars’ constructions of performance and of the measurement techniques adopted. The problem is not the variety of measure, but the comparison of different measures as if they were measuring the same feature of the organization. This could be a reason for the claimed inconsistency in M&A research findings. In this article, we therefore aim at answering “How do M&A scholars measure M&A performance”? To achieve this end we conduct a systematic literature review of empirical M&A research to understand how M&A scholars measure the M&A performance construct and how they construct this measure. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8068 Filer i denne post: 1
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Schneider, Cedric (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper analyzes the effects of mixed public-private R&D incentives and empirically tests whether patents that were publicly sponsored are more important than non-subsidized ones. Blending patents and public subsidies will allow the funding agency to subsidize inventions that would otherwise not elicit investment because the private incentive will not fully cover the cost of the invention. Thus, the policy maker will only subsidize inventions that have a high social value. The empirical analysis shows that subsidized inventions result in more important patents, as measured by the number of forward citations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7662 Filer i denne post: 1
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subsidiary technology embeddedness and performanceAndersson, Ulf; Forsgren, Mats; Pedersen, Torben (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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The Roles of Knowledge Sources and Organizational Instruments in MNC Knowledge ManagementFoss, Nicolai J; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Recent research on the differentiated MNC has concerned knowledge flows between MNC units. While linking up with this literature, we extend in two directions. First, we argue that conceptualizing the MNC as a knowledge structure furthers the understanding of intra-MNC knowledge flows. Thus, we see MNC knowledge elements as being structured along such dimensions as their type and degree of complementarity to other knowledge elements, and their sources, for example, whether they are mainly developed from external or internal knowledge sources. These dimensions matter in terms of knowledge flows, because they influence the costs and benefits of knowledge transfer and, hence, the actual level of knowledge transferred. Second, based on this conceptualization, we argue that MNC management can influence the development, characteristics and transfer of knowledge through choices regarding organizational instruments (control, motivation and context). We test six hypotheses derived from these arguments against a unique dataset on subsidiary knowledge development. The dataset includes information on organizational instruments, sources of subsidiary knowledge, and the extent of knowledge transfer to other MNC units. It covers more than 2,000 subsidiaries located in seven different European countries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7317 Filer i denne post: 1
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the roles of knowledge sources and organizational instruments for knowledge creation and transferFoss, Nicolai Juul; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Björkman, Ingmar; Fey, Carl F.; Minbaeva, Dana; Park, Hyeon Jeong; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Minbaeva, Dana; Pedersen, Torben; Björkman, Ingmar; Fey, Carl F.; Park, H.J. (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Controlling Intervention Hazards in the Network MNCFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J.; Nell, Phillip C. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The MNC literature treats the (parent) HQ as entirely benevolent with respect to their perceived and actual intentions when they intervene at lower levels of the MNC. However, HQ may intervene in subsidiaries in ways that demotivate subsidiary employees and managers (and therefore harm value-creation). This may happen even if such intervention is benevolent in its intentions. We argue that the movement away from more traditional hierarchical forms of the MNC and towards network MNCs placed in more dynamic environments gives rise to more occasions for potentially harmful intervention by HQ. Network MNCs should therefore be particularly careful to anticipate and take precautions against “intervention hazards.” Following earlier research, we point to the role of normative integration and procedural justice, but argue that they also serve to control harmful HQ intervention (and not just subsidiary opportunism). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8380 Filer i denne post: 1
Kirsten Foss_SMG WP13_2011.pdf (634.1Kb) -
Hansen, Michael W.; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The paper addresses the question of which implications MNC strategies have to FDI linkage effects in developing countries. Two contrasting MNC strategies reflecting an integration-responsiveness dichotomy are scrutinized as to their job effects on local linkage partners in developing countries. It is hypothesized that compared to investments undertaken by MNCs following strategies of global integration, investments of MNCs pursuing local responsiveness create more jobs but imply less job upgrading in developing countries. The hypotheses are tested on a sample of Danish MNCs with extensive investments in developing countries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7468 Filer i denne post: 1
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Resume: The research motivation for this study is to improve the understanding, scholarly and my own, of wireless service adoption as services enters and leaves users’ hands and minds. Wireless devices and services are enabling an unprecedented intertwinement of human actions and information systems in everyday life. Current IS research has so far paid scant attention to studying technologies which transcends the organizational domain. Little emphasis has also been provided beyond the absolute point of acceptance and adoption of artifacts. Nevertheless, many new wireless services transcend traditional use spheres. With this emerges the strong need to follow the shaping of user engagements with new mobile data services. This is the key phenomenon of interest in this dissertation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7804 Filer i denne post: 1
lars_andreas_knutsen.pdf (4.838Mb)