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On the Operational Dynamics and Social Dimensions of Public-Private PartnershipsWeihe, Guri (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Drawing upon extant alliance literature, this article substantiates the argument that we need to look beyond mere structural and formative aspects of cooperation in order to fully understand the performance antecedents of public-private partnerships. Currently, scholarly work on operational processes and behavioural dimensions is practically non-existent. This article tries to remedy the current gap in the literature by reviewing research findings on interfirm collaboration (alliances). On that basis a conceptual framework for analyzing partnership processes is developed. Finally, the antecedents of collaborative advantage are theoretically examined, and the organizational competences contributing to collaborative success are identified. The conclusion is that operational processes and social dynamics are vital drivers of collaborative advantage. Another significant conclusion is that public management research can benefit from drawing upon existing alliance research. Alliance scholars have during the past couple of decades accumulated an impressive amount of knowledge on different aspects of inter-firm cooperation, and therefore the learning potential for public management scholars seems to be quite enormous. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7380 Files in this item: 1
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Buch-Kromann, Matthias (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: DTAG is a versatile annotation tool that supports manual and semi-automatic annotation of a wide range of linguistic phenomena, including the annotation of syntax, discourse, coreference, morphology, and word alignments. It includes commands for editing general labeled graphs and graph alignments, comparing annotations, managing annotation tasks, and interfacing with a revision control system. Its visualization component can display graphs and alignments for entire texts in a compact format, with a highly flexible and configurable formatting scheme. It also provides a powerful search-replace mechanism with queries based on full first-order logic, which can be used to search for linguistic constructions and automatically apply graph transformations to collections of annotated graphs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8222 Files in this item: 1
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Andersen, Steffen; Harrison, Glenn W.; Lau, Morten Igel; Rutström, Elisabet E. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The most popular models of decision making use a single criteria to evaluate projects or lotteries. However, decision makers may actually consider multiple criteria when evaluating projects. We consider a dual criteria model from psychology. This model integrates the familiar tradeoffs between risk and utility that economists traditionally assume, allowance for rank-dependent decision weights, and consideration of income thresholds. We examine the issues involved in full maximum likelihood estimation of the model using observed choice data. We propose a general method for integrating the multiple criteria, using the logic of mixture models, which we believe is attractive from a decision-theoretic and statistical perspective. The model is applied to observed choices from a major natural experiment involving intrinsically dynamic choices over highly skewed outcomes. The evidence points to the clear role that income thresholds play in such decision making, but does not rule out a role for tradeoffs between risk and utility or probability weighting. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7798 Files in this item: 1
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Böhm, Markus; Henningsson, Stefan; Yetton, Philip; Leimeister, Jan Marco; Krcmar, Helmut (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Acquisitions of new businesses and divestments of existing ones are frequently components of large organizations’ corporate strategies. In both acquisitions and divestments, corporate IT infrastructure plays a critical role for realizing business objectives. In this paper, we take a dual view of the IT-related challenges in divestment and acquisition strategies, studying them as a single integrated transaction between a buyer and a seller and investigating how the IT carve-out and IT integration strategies influence each other. The extant literature on the interaction between carve-outs and integration strategies is an empty set. Here, we begin to shed light to the limitations of the carve-out contract, the processes of carving out a business unit from one and integrating it into another multibusiness organization, asymmetries in both parties’ preferences for an IT transaction process and its influence on arising challenges and organization performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8631 Files in this item: 1
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Global Competition, Collective Efficiency, and Local DevelopmentLorentzen, Jochen; Robbins, Glen; Barnes, Justin (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper describes the formation of the Durban Auto Cluster in the context of trade liberalization. It argues that the improvement of operational competitiveness of firms in the cluster is prominently due to joint action. It tests this proposition by comparing the gains from cluster activities in the areas of supplier development, human resource development, logistics, and benchmarking, and by contrasting the impact of joint action against a host of other variables, notably international competition and technical assistance by foreign partners. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6598 Files in this item: 1
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Sørensen, Carsten; Trolle, Anders Bjerre (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We derive an explicit solution to the portfolio problem of a power utility investor with preferences for wealth at a ¯nite investment horizon. The investor can invest in assets with return dynamics described as part of a general multivariate model. The modeling framework encompasses discrete-time VAR-models where some of the state-variables (e.g. expected excess returns) may not be directly observable. A realistic multivariate model is estimated and applied to analyze the portfolio implications of investment horizon and return predictability when real interest rates and expected excess returns on stock and bonds are not directly observed but must be estimated as part of the problem faced by the investor. The solution exhibits small variability in portfolio allocations over time compared to the case when excess returns are assumed observable. JEL Classification: G11 Keywords: Portfolio choice, predictability, VAR, unobserved state-variables, hedging demands URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7151 Files in this item: 1
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Lagrange versus the HamiltonianKleis Frederiksen, Niels (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
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Kallestrup, René (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The Global Financial Crisis which started in 2007 is a defining economic event of our lifetime. Recessions and public bailouts of banking systems have resulted in concerns about the solvency of sovereigns in recent years as many Eurozone countries face substantial fiscal pressures. The exact causes of the Global Financial Crisis are still debated but it is unlikely to be the outcome of one single event. In a review of the Global Financial Crisis based on 21 books on the topic, Lo (2011) summarises the underlying causes and policy prescriptions: ”there is still significant disagreement as to what the underlying causes of the crisis were, and even less agreement as to what to do about it ... Like World War II, no single account of this vast and complicated calamity is sufficient to describe it.” The listed causes range from global capital flows, poor regulation, regulatory capture, inequality, high leverage, skewed economic incentives of borrowers and lenders, etc. Gorton and Metrick (2012) also contain an interesting summary of the literature written in recent years and in ”Lessons from the Financial Crisis” edited by Berd (2010) several chapters from academic researchers analyse the ongoing crisis. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8450 Files in this item: 1
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in search of network performanceGeersbro, Jens; Hedaa, Laurids (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Insights for International Strategic ManagementBenito, Gabriel R.G.; Petersen, Bent; Welch, Lawrence S. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Companies’ choice of foreign operation modes (FOM) has been a core subject of international business studies basically from its beginning (Hymer, 1960 [1976]; Root, 1964). A halfcentury of research has brought us a set of established perspectives on companies’ foreign operation mode choices; the most important being the economics based approaches of internalisation and transaction cost theories (Anderson and Gatignon, 1986; Buckley and Casson, 1976; Hennart, 1982), evolutionary and resource based approaches (Andersen, 1997; Kogut and Zander, 1993; Madhok, 1997), institutional approaches (Kostova and Zaheer, 1999; Meyer and Peng, 2005), and process models based on learning and decision behaviour theories (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977, 2009).... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8363 Files in this item: 1
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The co-creation of worth, calculative devices and calculative agencies in the Danish wind power marketKarnøe, Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Wind power generated electricity offers a unique vantage point on the nature of markets and the specific organizing processes by which markets become constructed, configured, and contested. Modern Wind power generated electricity emerged in Denmark after the first oil supply crisis in 1974 when various entrepreneurial actors responded to that situation and saw wind power as one possible solution to ‘the’ problem. Today wind power is globally the fastest growing energy technology and supplies significant amounts of energy in countries like Denmark and Germany, in Denmark wind power generated electricity supplies 20% of annual electricity consumption. Although the trajectory of wind power institutionally and materially is much more robust today than 25 years ago very few thought that this technology had such a future. In the context of the 1970s with modernization and emerging nuclear power, many evaluated wind power as a relic from the past, some imagined opportunities (doomed as unrealistic), but nobody imagined that wind power should become one of the important ‘weapons’ against the CO2-related climate change at the turn of the century. However, confronted with emergent technologies outside the existing evaluative frames and institutionalised categories, it is not about being right or wrong from an objective epistemology, but about what epistemologies are used to frame the potential worth of a potential new energy technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6668 Files in this item: 1
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an analysis of Danish medium-sized firmsEriksen, Bo; Døjbak, Dorthe (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Industrial and institutional revolution in the district of Aachen (Aix‐la‐Chapelle), 1800‐1860Reckendrees, Alfred (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the first half of the 19th century, the industrial district of Aachen was a small dynamic economic region in the West of the Prussian Rhineland. It was a leading industrial region in terms of production and a region in which modern economic institutions advanced modern industrial organizations. The regional institutional arrangements were partly based on the French law:1 During the French Revolutionary Wars, the West of the Rhineland had been a part of France with the region of Aachen (see maps 1 and 2) forming the Département de la Roer. After the French defeat in 1814, the Rhineland was integrated as the Rhineprovince into the Prussian State, but with very few exceptions the French legal system continued. The French code de commerce rather than the Prussian civil law constructed the norms of business and commercial activities2 and institutional arrangements that had emerged in the ‘French period’ continued to influence regional economic development. Not only property rights and civil rights, also other institutions of French origin like chambers of trade and commerce, commercial courts, or collective institutions for the settlement of work related conflicts shaped economic behaviour. 3 New Prussian laws did not dramatically influence regional economic development; only the Railroad Law (1838) and the Prussian Joint Stock Companies Law (Preußisches Aktiengesetz) of 1843 had a certain impact. Just like the General German Trade Law (Allgemeines deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch) of 1861, the Joint Stock Company Law was based on French ideas and aimed at modernizing the Prussian economy. It perhaps helped developing the eastern parts of Prussia towards a more capitalistic economy; for the region of Aachen it mainly introduced more oversight from the Prussian State. The Prussian integration of the Rhineland did, of course, also induce some economically relevant change; this regards e.g. the introduction of the Prussian currency or the Prussian trade union. These aspects will be discussed later. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8615 Files in this item: 1
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A Complexity ApproachHolm Andreasen, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: “How can we understand the dynamics of procurement management?” An answer to this question has predominantly been explained by procurement management experiencing dissatisfaction with the status quo, where the procurement organisation was viewed from other entities in the company as an insignificant, reactive and an administrative part of the business. The potential, however, for the procurement organisation to be significant in the company was argued to be vast (Ammer 1989, Ellram & Carr 1994, Van Weele 2005). In order to change the situation of the procurement organisation, procurement management was informed that they should in gradual steps develop the procurement organisation towards more sophistication and significance (Reck & Long 1988) producing strategies that were aligned with the overall company strategy including the development of policies, procedures, systems, tools and processes (Cousins 2002, Cousins et al 2008). This process changed the perspective of the procurement organisation which among other things, allowed the procurement entity to contribute to the implementation of the concept of supply chain management (Freeman & Cavinato 1990). Ever since I first got familiar with the practices of procurement and its management, I have been puzzled by its complexity. At the same time, I have wondered about how the same space of complexity in the procurement management domain literature has explained the same practices by reductionism, smoothness and simplicity as just described. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8384 Files in this item: 1
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Jens, Frøslev Christensen (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper discusses 1) the generic forces that drive the evolution of diversified industrial corporations and their implications for the corporate technology base, 2) the changing role of the central R&D lab in the context of these forces, and 3) the role of management of technology in promoting dynamic coherence in diversified - and highly decentralized - corporations. The line of argument in the paper is illustrated by an indepth case-study of Danfoss, a Danish multi-divisional corporation operating within mechatronical markets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8109 Files in this item: 1
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Frøslev Christensen, Jens (Frederiksberg, 1998)[More information][Less information]
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- cases om videnprojekter og videndeling i danske virksomhederSiggaard Jensen, Sisse (Frederiksberg, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Viden, videnledelse og videndeling er nøgleord i den aktuelle diskussion af organisation og ledelse og af arbejdslivets vilkår i det, der ofte karakteriseres som vidensamfundets nye økonomi. I dette paper analyseres fænomenet viden derfor som baggrund for at belyse nogle af de samfundsmæssige perspek-tiver og problemer, der tegner sig, når vidensmedarbejdere fremover må lægge krop til produktionspro-cesser både som råstof og som arbejdskraft. Udgangspunktet er to konkrete cases fra danske virksomheder. Kapitel I behandler et case ”Viden-bank”. Det er et projekt om videndeling og en intranetbaseret databasearkitektur. Caset stammer fra en virksomhed med afdelinger i 11 forskellige lande. Den foreløbige konklusion på caset er, at viden ikke er ”noget”, som findes ”lagret i hukommelsen” eller i hovedet på det enkelte menneske. Noget, som blot skal hentes frem eller gøres eksplicit, så det kan deles og lagres i en organisation som en fælles hukommelse - for øjeblikket typisk forstået som et intranet. Viden kan derimod først iagttages som sådan i og med de dynamiske processer af social interaktion, der gør, at viden bliver anskuet som så-dan. Konklusionen understreger med andre ord, at fænomenet viden ikke er en ting, en repræsentation eller et ”noget”, der findes i sig selv og hævet over tid og sted, men at der snarere er tale om dynamiske processer, der udfolder sig i tid og sted. Denne konklusion er tillige et resultat af den teoretiske analyse i kapitel II. Den henter sit grundlag i kompleksitetsteori og i hypoteser om komplekse adaptive systemers egenskaber, sådan som formuleret af ledelsesteoretikeren Ralph D. Stacey i teorien om ”complex responsive processes of relating” (Sta-cey 2001). Stacey sammenholder tre teleologier: en rationel, en formativ og en transformativ som led i et opgør med den fremherskende tænkning indenfor organisatorisk læring og viden. Dermed introduce-res et opgør med den systemiske tænkning indenfor dette felt. Der er især tale om et opgør med de fo-restillinger om viden, der ser individuel og social viden som to forskellige former, der udfolder sig på forskellige ontologiske niveauer som henholdsvis individuelle ”mentale modeller” eller i sociale for-mer, som vi kender det fra organisationer. I kapitel III belyses den teoretiske analyse dernæst ud fra paperets andet case. Der tale om konkrete eksempler fra empiriske og deskriptive analyser af dynamiske vidensprocesser eller af viden, der bru-ges i praksis og ”in situ” i en dansk IT og multimedievirksomhed (Jensen 2001). De empiriske studier er baseret på et længerevarende og dybtgående casestudie, og de tre beretninger, der indgår, bygger på feltstudier og kvalitativ videoanalyse. Det er beretningerne: ”Når koden er knækket skal den tjekkes”, ”Når koden tænkes højt sammen” og ”Når kodeekvilibristen skal debriefes”. I det afsluttende kapitel IV analyseres beretningerne fra casestudiet i et perspektiv, hvor viden anskues som processer i meningskabende interaktion i det levede nu. Det danner afsæt for at introducere viden-kommunikation som et centralt videnfelt for kommende forskning. Et videnfelt der er baseret på den antagelse, at viden konstant må skabes og genskabes i videnbaserede virksomheder og organisationer. Den tese, der udkrystalliseres af analyserne, er således, at viden bedst kan holdes levende i kombinati-oner af dialog og samarbejde, der både udspiller sig face-to-face og face-to-interface. Eller sagt med andre ord i kommunikation som konstant veksler mellem nærvær i det fysiske rum og refleksion i net-baseret kommunikation. Videnkommunikation der udspiller sig i vidt forskellige relationer mellem tid og rum og mellem interaktion og identitet URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8072 Files in this item: 1
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Vintergaard, Christian (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Dette værk er indgivet til Ph.D. bedømmelse under Forskerskolen i Viden og Ledelse ved Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi ved Copenhagen Business School som en del af opfyldelse af kravene for at opnå graden Ph.D. Målet med denne afhandling er, at fremsætte en kombination af nye teoretisk perspektiver og ledelsesmetoder, som tilsammen vil give et bedre indblik i de tidlige stadier af corporate venturing. Dette vil inkludere nye perspektiver på corporate venturing, eftersom afhandlingen videreudvikler akademiske og praktiske værktøjer for beslutningsprocesser. Afhandling bidrager med to overordnede tilføjelser til den nuværende litteratur om corporate venture. For det første, sætter den fokus på de vigtige, men oversete, tidlige faser ved venture processen. Dette indebærer de forhold, nødvendige for udvikling af nye innovative venture muligheder (venture basen), opdagelse af investeringsmuligheder og endelig forberedelse til evaluering af investeringsmuligheder. Venture basen er de karakteristika og forhold der for et firma og dets miljø kan udgøre ressourcer til opstart af nye ventures. Grundet ventures innovative natur bliver det, at opdage entreprenelle muligheder en hovedudfordring der involverer en diversificeret gruppe af aktører. Den tidlige fase inkluderer også specifikke vidensskabende handlinger der skal udføres for at kunne evaluere de mange investeringsmuligheder. For det andet bibringer afhandlingen nye perspektiver til hvorledes aktiviteterne i de tidlige faser er forbundet i værdikæden. I modsætning til tidligere litteratur, hvor venture processer præsenteres som lineære og forudsigelige, demonstrerer dette værk, at en mere dynamisk tilgang er tiltrængt, en tilgang der er særlig fokuseret på hvordan vidensprocesser og læringsfremmende aktiviteter driver venture processen, lige fra udviklingen af nye ideer til deres betydning evalueres. Disse bidrag trækker på teoretiske perspektiver fra den nuværende corporate venture litteratur (såsom Block and MacMillan, 1993; Burgelman, 1984, 1996; Chesbrough, 2000; Zahra, 1991) og komplementerende litteratur der tilvejebringer et netværk og videns perspektiv (såsom Gibbons et al. 1994; Kline and Rosenberg, 1986; Powell et al., 1996). Disse perspektiver er særligt gennemslagskraftige i deres argumentation om innovations processer og evolutionær udvikling. De bringer også ny indsigt om den type læringsproces som corporate ventures er en del af når de udvikler og evaluerer nye venture muligheder. I modsætning til en traditionel monografisk Ph.D. afhandling, så præsenterer denne afhandling sine resultater i fem (5) uafhængige men forbundne undersøgelser, udgivet i internationale peerreviewed tidsskrifter og bog kapitler. Udover disse studier så indeholder afhandlingen også en teoretisk introduktion og metode, en litteratur gennemgang og en konklusion. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7133 Files in this item: 1
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2011 First Global Lonergan SurveyTackney, Charles T. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
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le Maire, Daniel; Schjerning, Bertel (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between self-employment choice, expected earnings, and uncertainty. Several interesting results emerge from our analysis on Danish longitudinal register data: Firstly, self-employed (taxable) personal income bunch at kink points in the tax system since self-employed can retain earnings and thereby transfer income across tax-years. Secondly, expected income level and income variance are important determinants in choice of occupation. Thirdly, men put more emphasis on expected earnings level, while women appears more risk averse, which contribute to explain why fewer women are self-employed. Finally, our results suggest that non-western immigrants are marginalized into self-employment. Occupational choice, self-employment, wage-dierentials, income uncertainty, risk aversion, overcon dence, self-selection, gender dierences. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7701 Files in this item: 1
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