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economic and scientific specialisation among OECD countriesLaursen, Keld; Salter, Ammon (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Hanh, Pham Thi Song (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Departing from my interest in finding key factors determining a developing country firms’ export success, this research explores two fascinating topics: one is the debate on whether a developing country’s producers should become involved in marketing functions where a developed country’s firms already hold a strong position, and the other is the very limited attention given in the export literature to the role of relational capability in a firm’s export business.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7742 Files in this item: 1
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A semiotic outline of fundamental signs, significance-effects, knowledge profiling and their use in knowledge organization and brandingThellefsen, Torkild Leo (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I designate my work as a semeiotic of knowledge organization in a somewhat wide meaning of the concept. A somewhat wide meaning means that it is not restricted to LIS research in keywords or representational theory of documents or thesauri construction etc. It builds upon and is inspired by the semeiotic of Peirce. It understands development of signs as a process of knowledge organization. Here, the focus is on branding, emotions and scientific knowledge. Therefore, the aim of the thesis is to present the concepts: the fundamental sign, the significance‐effect, semeiotic constructivism and the knowledge profile, and to suggest some relations between them. The main questions I pursue, and which this thesis hopefully will give answers to, are: Is it possible to define and describe the above mentioned concepts, which have their theoretical starting point in the semeiotic of Peirce? And is it possible to outline a use of these concepts? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8003 Files in this item: 1
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The International Monetary Fund and Policy Reform Surveillance in Small Open EconomiesSeabrooke, Leonard; Broome, André (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The International Monetary Fund spends most of its time monitoring its member states' economic performance and advising on institutional change. While much of the literature sees the Fund as a policy enforcer in "emerging market" and "frontier" economies, little attention has been paid to exploring the Fund’s bilateral surveillance of its Western member states. This article proposes that "seeing like the IMF" provides a dynamic view of how the Fund frames its advice for institutional change. It does so through "associational templates" that do not blindly promote institutional convergence, but appeal for change on the basis of like-characteristics among economies. Many Western states, particularly small open economies, consider the Fund's advice as important not only for technical know-how, but because Fund assessments are significant to international and domestic political audiences. This article traces the Fund's advice on taxation and monetary reform to two coordinated market economies, Denmark and Sweden, and two liberal market economies, Australia and New Zealand from 1975 to 2004. It maps how the Fund advocated "policy revolutions" and "policy recombinations" during this period, advice that coincided with important institutional changes within these small open economies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7323 Files in this item: 1
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A Study of a New Economy Firm’s Powers of PersuasionElgaard Jensen, Torben (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The article is an empirical analysis of how a Scandinavian new economy firm was able to persuade a number of business journalists that it represented ‘the future’. It analyses how visitors to the firm were met with a specific and persuasive combination of rhetorical and material ressources. It suggests that the persuasive power of the firm was based on its ability to evoke and articulate a series of pointed contrasts between the attractive working life within the firm and the ordinary and problematic work life elsewhere. The article suggests that this strategy of drawing contrasts together differs from the mode of persuasion usually described by STS. Keywords: Sociology of expectations, Sociology of futures, Sociology of anticipation, New Economy, dot-com, persuasion, power, actor-network theory, materialised contrast argument. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6690 Files in this item: 1
future and furniture - berlin.pdf (288.3Kb) -
Rai, Sudhanshu; Kuhn Pedersen, Mogens (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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On the strategification of time in organisationsFrankel, Christian (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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A Third-Generation Prediction MarketHallin, Carina Antonia; Juul Andersen, Torben; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article theorizes a new way to predict firm performance based on aggregation of sensing among frontline employees about changes in operational capabilities to update strategic action plans. We frame the approach in the context of first- and second-generation prediction markets and outline its unique features as a third-generation prediction market. It is argued that frontline employees gain deep insights when they execute operational activities on an ongoing basis in the organization. The experiential learning from close interaction with internal and external stakeholders provides unique insights not otherwise available to senior management. We outline a methodology to agglomerate these insights in a performance barometer as an important source for problem finding and innovation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8815 Files in this item: 1
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Frankel, Christian (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Østergaard, Uffe (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Er Færøerne en nation uden stat? Det mener næsten alle færinger. Mange – muligvis et flertal – ønsker at gå skridtet videre til en helt uafhængig national stat med økonomisk og muligvis også fuld politisk uafhængighed af Danmark. At en sådan vil skulle klassificeres som mikrostat i lighed med øriger i Stillehavet bekymrer tilsyneladende ikke nationalt selvbevidste færinger. Hvordan danskerne i den danske del af Rigsfællesskabet ser på Færøerne er mere uklart. Modsat holdningen til Grønland er det først og fremmest uvidenhed der præger forholdet. Forholdet mellem de to rigsdele i den konstruktion der i grundloven kaldes ”Rigsenheden”, også selv om vi i praksis er gået over til at tale om rigsfællesskabet, er i øjeblikket mere end nogensinde til forhandling. Forhandlingerne foregår på baggrund af den aftale om hjemmestyre der blev vedtaget i 1948 efter en afstemning der endte med et meget snævert flertal for uafhængighed. Fra officiel dansk side har man hidtil kviet sig ved at anerkende Færøerne som en egen nation, da nation i dansk politisk sprogbrug normalt antages at være identisk med stat. Det er ikke helt urimeligt som det fremgår af navnet de Forenede Nationer, der som bekendt ikke består af folk, men af stater. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7360 Files in this item: 1
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En indsigt i hyggefænomenet og de relaterede fødevarepraksisserBoye, Heidi (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A lot of attention has been given to health-related issues worldwide, especially since the World Health Organisation declared obesity epidemic in many countries. Overweight and obesity impose a serious threat to economic welfare and the health and quality of life of the individual consumer (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet, 2007). Paradoxically in continuation of the increased overweight, obesity and nutrition-related diseases research stresses there is an escalating concern about health issues such as eating and living healthy (ATV, 2007; Nordic Plan of Action, 2006). However consumers find many different obstacles to integrating healthy food products in their daily lives, including the compelling need for hedonic food consumption which often involves less healthy or unhealthy food (Luomala et al., 2004, 2006). Hedonic food consumption is often associated with social gatherings and „hygge42‟, where everyday „health-rules‟ are replaced with unrestricted „pleasure-rules‟...... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8050 Files in this item: 1
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Etablering af en ekspressiv kategori, eksemplificeret på russiskHäuser, Ivan (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandling placerer sig i forlængelse af forskningen på området følelse og sprog. Det undersøges, hvordan følelser udtrykkes af den talende og vækkes hos andre gennem sproglige midler. Antagelsen er, at der kan identificeres fællestræk, som udgør et særligt lingvistisk system for følelsers interaktion med sproget. Systemet forsøges afdækket inden for det moderne russiske sprog og beskrevet som en ekspressiv kategori. Følelser, herunder behov og motiver, driver menneskers handlinger, herunder også deres sproghandlinger. Følelser ligger ikke kun bag ved og under sproget, men kommer ofte også op til overfladen og bliver synlige i form af lingvistiske udtryk. Følelser er ikke kun private, men de er et socialt fænomen; de er integreret i sproget og spiller en rolle i dialog. Det er følelsers funktion i sproget, der undersøges i denne afhandling. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8375 Files in this item: 1
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Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choice between internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been a major challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes. While research on R&D cooperation or strategic alliances is abundant, little is known about the outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper investigates the driving forces of external technology sourcing through contract research based on arguments from transaction cost theory and the resource-based view of the firm. Using a large and comprehensive data set of innovating firms from Germany our findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the choice for engaging in contract research activities. Moreover, we show that internal and external R&D sourcing are complements: the marginal contribution of internal (external) R&D is the larger the more firms spend on external (internal) R&D. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7690 Files in this item: 1
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Online GPA Data in Lower Secondary SchoolsNormann Andersen, Kim; Zinner Henriksen, Helle; Medaglia, Rony; Hjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde; Sløk, Camilla (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Despite ten years of direct regulation, our study of Danish lower secondary schools shows that they do not provide online access to the GPA for individual public schools (N=1,592). Using Lipsky’s gate-keeping theory, we investigate the lack of data provision as indicator not only of professionals’ being reluctant to accept imposed standards and control from central level (top-down) but also avoiding demands from parents (and children) on transparency and accountability (bottom-up). The lack of accessibility of grades on the web can thus be seen as a classical gate-keeping mechanism evolving in the age of information society where expectations of end-of-gatekeeping by providing accessibility and transparency using information systems has been outnumbered by classical forces of gate-keeping. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8593 Files in this item: 1
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Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal SocietyAndersen, Steffen; Ertac, Seda; Gneezy, Uri; List, John A.; Maximiano, Sandra (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Economists and other social scientists typically rely on gender differences in the family-career balance, discrimination, and ability to explain gender gaps in wages and in the prospect for advancement. A new explanation that has recently surfaced in the economics literature is that men are more competitively inclined than women, and having a successful career requires competitiveness. A natural question revolves around the underlying determinants of these documented competitive differences: are women simply born less competitive, or do they become so through the process of socialization? To shed light on this issue, we compare the competitiveness of children in matrilineal and patriarchal societies to show that the difference starts around puberty. Moreover, most of the changes during this period of life are within the patriarchal society, in which boys become more competitive with age while girls become less competitive. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8389 Files in this item: 1
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Jetzek, Thorhildur; Avital, Michel; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The exponentially growing production of data enables global connectivity as well as increased openness and sharing, which turn into a powerful force that is changing the global economy and society. Governments around the world have become active participants in this evolution by opening up their data for access and re-use by public and private agents alike. The recent phenomenon of Open Government Data (OGD) has spread around the world, driven by the proposition that opening government data has the ability to generate both economic and social value. However, a review of the academic research and the popular press reveals only sporadic attention given to various aspects with no overarching framework that explains how OGD generates value. We apply a critical realist approach to uncover the generative mechanisms that serve to explain this relationship. First, we present a strategic framework with four archetypical generative mechanisms. The framework outlines the different pathways to value generation and highlights the current tension between the private/public and economic/social domains. Second, we offer a conceptual model that provides a systematic way of articulating and examining further the generation of value from OGD. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8740 Files in this item: 1
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Sornn-Friese, Henrik (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
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Folkeskolernes brug af internettetAndersen, Kim Normann; Medaglia, Rony (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: De danske folkeskolers indsats med anvendelse af internettet til at levere data om karakterer og trivselsmål halter ikke blot bagefter, men er endog meget langt fra målsætninger om åbenhed og gennemsigtighed. Det var ellers et meget klart formuleret krav i Lov om gennemsigtighed og åbenhed i uddannelserne m.v. (vedtaget tilbage i 2002) samt i 360 graders eftersynet af skolerne, der i den netop udkomne rapport bl.a. anbefalede langt stærkere fokus på resultater. En kortlægning af 200 folkeskoler jævnt fordelt på de fem regioner viser, at det stadig i langt overvejende er generel information om skolerne, der dominerer hjemmesiderne, og at folkeskolerne ikke har integreret eksempelvis karaktergennemsnit og andre forbrugerdata på hjemmesiderne. I stedet skal forældre og børn gå via andre informationskanaler for at få data om karakterer for den enkelte skole. Det kan eksempelvis ske via UNI-C eller CEPOS. Ud af de undersøgte 200 folkeskoler er det kun 15% af skolerne, der kommer op på et niveau, hvor de er på omdrejningshøjde med målsætninger om gennemsigtighed og sammenlignelighed via internettet. De øvrige 85% halter så meget bagefter, at undersøgelsen konkluderer, at det er vanskeligt at se loven er internaliseret i den digitale ledelse og kommunikation til brugerne. Der kan være to mulige årsager til dette. Enten er skolerne uvidende om hvordan man lægger informationer op på nettet eller de forsøger bevidst at undgå sammenlignelighed og tilgængelighed. Uanset om det skyldes manglende viden eller modvilje, er resultatet, at danske børn og forældre i praksis er ladt i stikken af skolerne. Der findes flere portaler og online databaser, hvor data for karaktergennemsnit fordelt på fag og klassetrin kan findes. Det er imidlertid kun en lille del af folkeskolerne, der benytter denne mulighed. Mange af de skoler, der linker til data, tager så betydelige forbehold for disse data, at det langt fra stimulerer brugerne til at hente, anvende og vurdere oplysninger om karakterer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8158 Files in this item: 1
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The case of travel guidebook productionAlačovska, Ana (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis focuses on the production of travel guidebooks. Its aim is to explore the mutual coconstruction and entanglement of genres, producers and institutions in cultural production and cultural work. It also examines how authorial and institutional, professional and industrial selfreflexivity exists in and through ambiguous and shifting interrelations with genres and their poetics. To this end, it develops a preliminary theoretical framework for a comprehensive exploration of the complex dynamics of cultural production that is attentive to the cultural objects themselves: here, a down-market, ‘uninventive’ and ‘heteronomous’ genre known as the travel guide(book). The thesis argues that the specificity of the genre is continually contextualized and re-contextualized, qualified and re-qualified, commodified and rendered autonomous, in the daily, local, and intimate practices of guide-making. The argument presented is that the genre is not merely a backdrop for creative agency or a predetermined set of rules, but a complex entity – spatially and temporally dispersed – that affords autonomous opportunities for various modes of action, self-definition, and self-interpretation. Thus, genres are active elements or animating forces of cultural production, rather than merely outcomes of industrial dynamics. What arises from the empirical material is that cultural producers experience ‘autonomy’ in and through the notion of genre which itself is fuzzy, vague, tacit, implicit and often non-formalized. Nonetheless, it is obdurately present in a spectrum of strategies, rhetoric, a sense of responsibility, expertise and professionalism applied by such producers in order to explain, define and justify their practical decisions and evaluations. The first three chapters explore perceived limitations of sociological, anthropological and sociocultural paradigms of cultural production. They also indicate some potential areas for crossfertilization with genre theory, which has conceptualized the notion of genre as social action, cognitive action-schemata, and institutions that mediate between industry, producers, and audiences. The last four chapters follow and trace interpenetrating and interlocking relations between genres and institutions firstly, as they mutually and historically co-produce each other in industrial practice; secondly, as entangled in individual and professional auto-biographies with reference to the genre and its adjacent markets; and third, as embedded in actual production practices - how guidebook producers make use of and interact with the editorial brief (or institutionalized and contractually binding genre specificity) and independent genre trajectories (autonomous logic), while making daily evaluations of their work and their own professional selfreflexivity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8703 Files in this item: 1
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A Rank-Size AnalysisLorenzen, Mark; Vaarst Andersen, Kristina (Frederiksberg, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Using novel statistical data, the paper analyzes the geographical distribution of Richard Florida’s creative class among 445 European cities. The paper demonstrates that size matters, i.e. cities with a high proportion of creative class tend to get more creative through attraction of still more creative labor. More specifically, the distribution of the European creative class falls into three phases, each approximating a rank-size rule, with different exponents (i.e., inequality). The exponent for the smallest cities is profoundly more negative than for the middle-sized cities, and this tendency is stronger for the creative class than for the general population. Furthermore, the exponent of the largest cities is slightly less negative than the middle-sized cities, and this tendency is also stronger for the creative class. In order to explain this, the paper presents four propositions about how effects of large and small population sizes of cities may be more detrimental to attracting the creative class than attracting the population in general. Below a population size of approximately 70,000 inhabitants, there is a rapid drop of attractiveness to the creative class with decreasing city size. We propose that this may be because below this size, cities begin to drop below minimum efficient market sizes for particular creative services, below minimum labor market sizes for particular creative job types, and below minimum levels of political representation by the creative class. Above a European city population size of approximately 1,2 million inhabitants, the attractiveness of increasing city size for the creative class drops, and we propose that the creative class may respond particularly adversely to urban congestion. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7871 Files in this item: 1
DRUID_07_17.pdf (317.3Kb)