http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8182 2013-06-18T22:16:37Z 2013-06-18T22:16:37Z Vallentin, Steen http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8689 2013-05-03T10:49:52Z 2013-05-03T00:00:00Z

Neoliberalism and CSR Vallentin, Steen This paper makes a contribution towards a more nuanced understanding of the ambiguous and contested relationship between neoliberalism and CSR (corporate social responsibility). It challenges stereotypical depictions of CSR as a neoliberal discourse and argues that there is a need for greater awareness of the varieties of liberalism at play in CSR. The paper is concerned with neoliberalism both in regard to the theory and the practice of CSR. Theoretically, it presents the Foucauldian understanding of neoliberalism and neoliberal governmentality as its primary means of identifying and analyzing processes of neoliberalization. On the practical side, it focuses on the neoliberalization of governmental approaches to CSR.

2013-05-03T00:00:00Z Normann Andersen, Kim Zinner Henriksen, Helle Medaglia, Rony Hjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde Sløk, Camilla http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8593 2012-12-07T12:19:08Z 2012-12-07T00:00:00Z

Gate-Keeping in the Age of Information Society Normann Andersen, Kim; Zinner Henriksen, Helle; Medaglia, Rony; Hjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde; Sløk, Camilla 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.

2012-12-07T00:00:00Z Reckendrees, Alfred http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8615 2013-01-04T13:08:24Z 2013-01-04T00:00:00Z

Dynamics of overlapping clusters Reckendrees, Alfred 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.

2013-01-04T00:00:00Z Hardt, Daniel Wulff, Julie http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8606 2012-12-19T08:14:49Z 2012-12-19T00:00:00Z

What is the Meaning of 5 *’s? Hardt, Daniel; Wulff, Julie Do user populations differ systematically in the way they express and rate sentiment? We use large collections of Danish and U.S. film reviews to investigate this question, and we find evidence of important systematic differences: first, positive ratings are far more common in the U.S. data than in the Danish data. Second, highly positive terms occur far more frequently in the U.S. data. Finally, Danish reviewers tend to under-rate their own positive reviews compared to U.S. reviewers. This has potentially far-reaching implications for the interpretation of user ratings, the use of which has exploded in recent years.

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