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Meyer, Klaus E.; Jensen, Camilla (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The 1990s have been a period of extraordinary politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This chapter discusses how the transition from state to market has created bureaucratic barriers to entry, but also windows of opportunity for foreign direct investment (FDI). The high costs and high investment risks associated with FDI in CEE are a reflection the institutional development. Thus, inflows of FDI have been largest in those countries that made most progress in establishing a market-oriented institutional framework. After outlining trends of institutional change and their impact on FDI, this chapter discusses how aspects of the institutional framework and FDI policy affect diverse types of investment projects. Acquisition and Greenfield investors are concerned with different aspects of government policy: privatization and regulatory policies for acquirers and investment incentives, regional policy and special economic zones for Greenfield investors. The shifting policy priorities have thus changed the types of projects undertaken by foreign investors in the region. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7106 Files in this item: 1
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a transaction cost perspectiveHansen, Michael W. (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Searching for impact in Mali and South AfricaJeppesen, Soeren; Mainguy, Claire (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Little is known about impact of FDI on economic development in Africa compared to other developing countries, which the paper seeks to address by focusing on examples of impact in Mali and South Africa. The arugment put forward is that the impact has to be identified at the level of the industry or sector and the level of the firm with regard to employment effect, income generation and skills development. The mining and electricity and railway sectors in Mali are investigated and compared to the automobile industry in South Africa. The paper ends with suggestions for future investigations which can shed more light on the pertinent issues about impact of FDI in Africa. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6760 Files in this item: 1
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Do We Observe “Creative Destruction” in China?Deng, Poul; Jefferson, Gary (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We adopt the framework of Schumpeterian creative destruction formalized by Aghion et al. (2009) to analyze the impact of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit heterogeneous patterns of growth depending on their technological distance from foreign firms. Domestic firms with smaller technological distance from their foreign counterparts tend to experience faster productivity growth, while firms with larger technological distance tend to lag further behind. We test this hypothesis using a unique firm-level data of Chinese manufacturing. Our empirical results confirm that foreign entry indeed generates strong heterogeneous growth patterns among domestic firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8594 Files in this item: 1
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a study of post-reform Indian industryPatibandla, Murali; Sanyal, Amal (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Entry timing and mode choiceJakobsen, Kristian (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation consists of an introduction followed by four papers on issues related to the choice of entry timing and entry mode in transition economies. Below is a list of the papers that is included in the dissertation with information about their current publication status and coauthorships. * Jakobsen, K. 2007. First mover advantages in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparative analysis of performance measures, Journal of East-West Business, 13(1), 35-61. * Jakobsen, K. 2008. Competition for Markets in the Brewing Industry in Central and Eastern Europe. In J. Larimo (Ed.) Perspectives on Internationalization and International Management, Vassan Yliopiston Julkaisuja, p. 299-316. ISBN 978-952-476-228-1 * Jakobsen, K., & Meyer, K. E. 2008. Partial Acquisition: The overlooked entry mode. In J. H. Dunning and P. Gugler (eds.) Progress in International Business Research 2, Elsevier Science, p. 203-226. ISBN 978-0-7623-1475-1. * Jakobsen, K., & Meyer, K. E. 2007. Negotiating entry modes: Partial acquisitions in transition economies. Revise and resubmit at International Business Review URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7681 Files in this item: 1
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Petersen, Bent; Welch, Lawrence S. (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
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Thomsen, Steen; Kronborg, Dorte (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Does foreign ownership enhance or decrease a firm’s chances of survival? Over the 100 year period 1895-2001 this paper compares the survival of foreign subsidiaries in Denmark to a control sample matched by industry and firm size. We find that foreign-owned companies have higher survival probability. On average exit risk for domestic companies is 2.3 times higher than for foreign companies. First movers like Siemens, Philips, Kodak, Ford, GM or Goodyear have been active in the country for almost a century. Relative foreign survival increases with company age. However, the foreign survival advantage appears to be eroded by globalization, it decreases over time and disappears at the end of the century. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6624 Files in this item: 1
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Skabelse af forestillinger i læge- og plejegrupperne angående relevans af nye idéer om kvalitetsudvikling gennem tolkningsprocesserAlbæk, Jens (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this dissertation is to identify how ideas of organisational development are incorporated into and employed in hospital departments. The dissertation focuses on the conceptions of professional identity among doctors and nurses, their conceptions of clinical practice and the ideas of development they are introduced to. The health professionals’ conceptions of development and practice are connected to their perception of ‘professional relevance’ in the dissertation. This conception of ‘professional relevance’ thereby forms a recurring expression of conceptions among the actors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7806 Files in this item: 1
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Nielsen, Søren Bo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Schjelderup, Guttorm (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Nielsen, Søren Bo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Munich, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Langberg, Kamma; Sørensen, Claus (Aarhus, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Lund, Lars (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper defines a base model of the airborne passenger traffic to and in Greenland showing the number of passengers on every non-stop connection. The type of airplane is defined for each route, and that determines the flying time. The number of connections and capacity utilization are fixed with due regard to the timetable of Air Greenland and the density of traffic on each route. Assumptions as to the cost per hour as a function of the duration of the flight are made for each aircraft. Applying this to different investment scenarios for airports and landing strips an index for the costs of supply of air traffic is found. Using this index the supplier’s cost savings in the scenarios are found as a percentage of the relevant sale. A number of reports from recent years have information about the necessary investments in the scenarios, and matching these with the changes in costs permits the calculation of present values for the different projects. Apart from direct savings there are derived benefits in some of the scenarios the most prominent being the possibility to abandon Kangerlussuaq. The calculations include these indirect effects. Two scenarios have high present values: the use of Keflavik as hub, and the construction of a new airport with a 3000 meter runway south of Nuuk: two rather different scenarios, the first dominated by current savings, and the second dependent on a large fixed investment. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7526 Files in this item: 1
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Bjørn-Andersen, Niels; Mørup-Petersen, Anders (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Fire cases om forskningsevaluering og kvalitetssikring i industriel forskning og sektorforskningHansson, Finn (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Hansson, Finn; Frederiksen, Frode (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Storytelling i ledelse og virksomhedskommunikationNiss, Hanne (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Humle, Didde Maria (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling er en artikelbaseret afhandling bestående af fire artikler og en kappe. Afhandlingen er et narrativt og etnografisk casestudie af, hvordan job- og personalekonsulenter i en specifik konsulentvirksomhed gennem arbejdspraksisfortællinger om selv, arbejde og organisation arbejder med at skabe mening og identitet (individuel, kollektiv og organisatorisk) i forhold til deres daglige arbejde og organisationen. Konsulenternes daglige arbejde er kendetegnet ved at være immaterielt videnarbejde (Alvesson, 2000; Ipsen, 2006), hvor både input (konsulenternes viden og erfaringer) og output (kandidater, kunder og samarbejdspartneres tilfredshed og fremdrift) er af en immateriel karakter. Herunder fremstår det centralt, at en stor del af arbejdet er at etablere og ”være i” relationer til kandidater, kunder, virksomheder og samarbejdspartnere, og at konsulenterne er centrum for mange, til tider modsatrettede, krav og forventninger fra kunder, kandidater, kollegaer, ledelse osv. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8778 Files in this item: 1
Didde_Maria_Humle.pdf (1.263Mb) -
Sammenhængende borgerforløb, innovation og partnerskaber i kommunale ledelsesindsatser på ældreområdetRyberg, Marie (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Antallet af ældre borgere og borgere med komplekse og kroniske sygdomme stiger i disse år, og kommunernes opgaver på ældreområdet er vokset og blevet mere specialiseret. Denne specialisering hænger dels sammen med den opgaveglidning, der sker i disse år fra sygehusene til kommunerne, eksempelvis fordi patienter udskrives tidligere fra hospitalerne. Desuden hænger specialiseringen sammen med en generel specialisering på sundhedsområdet, eksempelvis med fokuseringen på evidensbaserede indsatser. Endelig hænger specialiseringen sammen med bestræbelserne på at modernisere de styringsmæssige strukturer omkring ældreområdet. Disse moderniseringsbestræbelser tog for alvor fat i slutningen af 1990’erne ud fra idéer, der kan betegnes New Public Management. Her introducerede man fritvalgs-‐ordningerne, herunder BUM og lagde op til en standardisering af ydelserne gennem Fælles Sprog. Introduktionen af fritvalgs-‐ordningerne har flere steder betydet, at eksempelvis opgaver -‐ som eksempelvis rengøring i hjemmeplejen – er blevet fordelt ud til forskellige specialiserede aktører. Den øgede specialisering betyder, at ældreområdet i visse sammenhænge kan bære præg af en silostruktur. Her kan forskellige enheder, specialer, traditioner og sprog være konflikt med hinanden og opgaverne løses ikke altid mest optimalt. Denne rapport er et led i projekt, der handler om tværgående ledelse på ældreområdet. Projektet har fokus på ledere af medarbejdere med borgerkontakt i hjemmeplejen og pleje/omsorg. Og projektet sigter på ”at udvikle velfærdsledelse, der sætter kerneopgaven i centrum og nedbryder formelle og uformelle grænser i opgaveløsningen” URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8874 Files in this item: 1
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Security sector reform in Sierra LeoneAlbrecht, Peter Alexander (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis argues that security sector reform (SSR) has failed according to its own ambition of establishing a ‘centrally governed state’. A primary reason for this failure is found in the concept of authority that state-building projects and much of the academic work that underpins it. Since the late 1990s, internationally supported efforts to make and consolidate peace in Sierra Leone have been synonymous with SSR. Support was given by the United Kingdom (UK) in particular to contain and ultimately overhaul the armed forces, which staged two coups in 1992 and 1997. Support was also provided to the central government to institute national security coordination and intelligence organizations, and to reestablish the Sierra Leone Police (SLP). The collapsed, but internationally recognized state was to be rebuilt, and security was seen as not only a prerequisite for this process to begin, but its very foundation. The first question of the thesis revolves around why the western universalist state concept came to guide SSR in Sierra Leone, and why it was considered of such fundamental importance to stability internationally. The second question revolves around how to conceptualize authority when actors such as paramount and lesser chiefs that may neither be categorized as state nor non-state are the primary makers of order in rural areas of the country. Speaking of the weakness or failure of a state is a way of describing what it is not, namely a centrally governed set of institutions that is able to make order within the territorial space that defines it. A focus on the state as an analytical concept does not, however, tell us much about how order is then made, and by whom it is made in Sierra Leone. The thesis rethinks what authority is in a way that does not privilege ‘the state’ as an analytical category, a tendency that has dominated much policy and academic thinking. The thesis’ empirical basis of doing so is data relating to international policy-making processes, interviews among the key actors of Sierra Leone’s SSR process, and ethnographic fieldwork in Peyima, a small diamond mining town in Kamara Chiefdom, Kono District. In a view of authority tied to ‘the state’ lies the conceptualization of a political entity, a bordered power container, which stands above, is detached from, and at the same time encompasses, controls and regulates society. In UK support of Sierra Leone’s statebuilding efforts, the practices of traditional leaders and their productive effects in the justice and security field, and enforcing order, were acknowledged. However, failure to respond adequately to their central role in governing Sierra Leone’s countryside came in two ways, both of which are related to concepts of the western universalist state that continue to guide SSR. The first failure was embedded in misrecognizing the resilience and productivity of local actors and institutions, and their authority to appropriate, interpret, translate and above all shape the elements of what was offered through SSR. The second failure came in not recognizing the hybrid nature of all actors in the justice and security field, based on the fact that they draw authority to act within the field from numerous sources across physical and symbolic space, in local and national domains. Hybridity is integral to state formation in Sierra Leone. It is foundational, and is historically grounded in the colonial era, articulating an infinite mixture of various forms of authority (from state legislation to status of autochthony and secret society membership). Inevitably, this order was reproduced by SSR, even if the aim of the international actors who supported this process of change had been to eradicate it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8549 Files in this item: 1
Peter_Alexander_Albrecht.pdf (8.787Mb)