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Seizing Opportunities and Managing ThreatsSax, Johanna; Juul Andersen, Torben (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Strategic responses to complex and frequent environmental changes must balance the tension between innovative opportunistic search and optimization of operating processes. The ability to survive and thrive depends on an ability to facilitate dispersed exploratory initiatives, test their commercial viability, and exploit the associated business opportunities. However, dispersion of authority requires coordination as well as empowerment calls for extended controls. Hence, there is a tension between the aim of avoiding diversion of corporate resources through tight control of plans and facilitation of decentralized autonomous initiatives searching for opportunities. This prescribes a strategy process that gives direction and forms structure while it at the same time enables innovative behaviors and entrepreneurial initiatives. To this end, the paper outlines an integrative model that combines centrally planned (induced) and decentralized (autonomous) strategy-making with interactive control processes. The strategy and management accounting literatures are synthesized to develop the theoretical underpinning for the model and its proposed outcome effects. It is argued that interaction control of central and dispersed strategy-making creates a dynamic system that drives organizational adaptation. The outmoded strategic control concept is revisited and updated for contemporary responsiveness needs under increasingly turbulent conditions. Finally, the paper lays out a method for an empirical survey-based study that can test the propositions from large-scale corporate sampling. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8786 Filer i denne post: 1
sax juul andersen.pdf (197.2Kb) -
the emergence of a new industry?Schultz, Majken; Ervolder, Lars; Hultén, Jannik (København, 1997)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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A Yin-Yang Perspective of Central and Peripheral Mechanisms in (Global) Strategy FormationJuul Andersen, Torben; Hallin, Carina Antonia; Li, Xin (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The organizational capacity to cope with unexpected changes remains a fundamental challenge in strategy as global competition and technological innovation increase environmental uncertainty. Whereas conventional strategy-making often is conceived as a sequential linear process, we see it as a non-linear interaction between top-down and bottom-up mechanisms dealing with multiple actions taken throughout the organization over time. It is driven by intension but with a flexible balance between centralized (planned) and decentralized (spontaneous) activities where strategy formulation and implementation interact. We adopt the frame of complementary Yin-Yang elements and Zhong Yong balance to explain the time bound interaction between these opposing yet complementary strategy-making mechanisms where tradeoffs and synergies are balanced across hierarchical levels. The model outlines how the interaction between top-down and bottom-up mechanisms shape sustainable strategic responses. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9010 Filer i denne post: 1
JUUL ANDERSEN_WP 5 2014.pdf (585.2Kb) -
Bordum, Anders; Højbjerg, Erik (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The paper critically reviews the intentional model of power in organizational management from seven different perspectives. It summarizes some of the most debated issues within political science over the recent decades in relation to an intentional understanding of the concept of power. We claim that these issues are also relevant within organizational management and strategy studies, and we point, in particular, to two contemporary research areas, in which the intentional concept of power seems inadequate to further push the research agenda. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6411 Filer i denne post: 1
wp11-2003abeh.pdf (409.8Kb) -
Clemmensen, Torkil (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This is a collection of talks on usability and culture with prominent researchers and practitioners on the Indian interaction design and usability scene: Apala Chavan, Anirudha Joshi, Dinesh Katre, Devashish Pandya, Sammeer Chabukswar, and Pradeep Yammiyavar. I did these talks because for several years I have been the coordinator of a cross cultural research project in India, China and Denmark that aims at investigating the impact of culture on the results of established methods of usability testing. During these years I gradually have come to realize the need for letting the prominent researchers and practitioners in the Indian software industry and university world speak about the big questions in the field. Without this grand context, it is in fact impossible to understand what research experiments will tell us about interaction design and usability in India and abroad. Therefore I first give an introduction to cultural usability and then present the six talks. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6445 Filer i denne post: 1
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Teilmann, Kasper Aalling (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The dissertation ‘Interactive Approaches to Rural Development’ gives new theoretical and empirical knowledge in the collaboration on development of rural areas and landscapes. From a perspective about the development and the challenges faced, the study analyses which functions that are demanded by the rural areas. Furthermore, the study makes an analysis of the collaboration in an EU financed rural development association; the Local Action Group (LAG). The overall objective is to: Analyse and discuss approaches to rural development under Danish conditions. The dissertation is cantered around three papers introduced with a frame that contributes to the overall objective. With point of departure in the changes that have structured the Danish landscape, the first paper analyses and discusses how the Danish planning system can be optimized to plan for a multifunctional landscape. Paper two and three builds on the EU rural development policy LEADER that through local project based development supports new income opportunities for the local inhabitants. Collaboration on the rural development is a subject that requires an interdisciplinary analytical approach. The dissertation therefore builds on different theories and both qualitative and quantitative analytical methods. The theoretical foundation draws on generic network theory and various applications of this. This is conducted by inclusion of ideas from interorganisational interaction in an analysis of the collaboration between municipality and a locally anchored development association. In addition the theory of social capital is applied to analyse whether the partnership formation and collaboration has supported the development of the local area. Furthermore, the concept of multifunctionality is assessed as a principle to be applied in countryside planning and rural development. The empirical foundation of the dissertation draws on mixed method research approach with interviews and surveys that are studied through qualitative and quantitative data analyses. Two of the three papers take point of departure in a case study of LAG-Djursland. Based on the dissertation it is concluded, that a crucial factor in the development of rural areas and landscapes is the collaboration among relevant stakeholders– often arranged around a partnership. To secure a concrete and locally attuned development it is important to engage local anchored stakeholders. These stakeholders have the greatest knowledge about the local development opportunities and barriers. Though the dissertation builds on experiences from the Danish rural landscape, the analyses, discussions and conclusions will be relevant in an international perspective. The interactive approach and the analysis hereof will be applicable in other domains than that of rural development. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8592 Filer i denne post: 1
Kasper_Aalling_Teilmann.pdf (1.359Mb) -
Towards a Research Agenda. 20th Nordic Workshop on Interorganizational Research, Sandberg, Denmark, 16th – 18th August 2010Hjerrild Bonde, Christina; Houman Andersen, Poul; Ellegaard, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8227 Filer i denne post: 1
BondeHoumanEllegaardNordic2010.pdf (178.1Kb) -
Jensen, Mikael Reimer (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In the rst essay we look at the Danish interbank market and how it functioned during the nancial crisis. Prior to the nancial crisis the view seemed to be that the money markets were well functioning and capable of handling stress in nancial markets. This is the conclusion in Fur ne (2001, 2002) who analysis the US money market during the crisis in the autumn of 1998 where Russia e ectively defaulted on its sovereign debt. However, the recent nancial crisis was a lot more severe than the one in 1998. During the recent crisis we have seen the volatility of money market rates spike and many central banks have conducted unconventional monetary policies. Whether the interbank markets are robust is thus a relevant question again. A key element in our analysis is that the total amount of liquidity in the interbank market is constant when central bank interventions are absent. A negative shock to one bank's liquidity holdings should correspond with a positive shock for another bank's liquidity holding. In a market with no frictions, banks faced with liquidity shocks should be able to absorb these by borrowing from those with surplus liquidity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9385 Filer i denne post: 1
Mikael Reimer Jensen.pdf (1.866Mb) -
Madsen, Dorte; Ho, Shuyuan Mary (, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Interdisciplinarity is in the DNA of the iSchools. This workshop invites you to discuss how inter-disciplinarity plays out in theory and practice. The workshop addresses the uniqueness of the iSchools, provides an interactive framework to discuss and reflect on interdisciplinary practice. It suggests some models and tools to describe relations between disciplines, while offering a venue to brainstorm and envision issues of interest with like-minded colleagues. The purpose of this workshop is to establish a setting for continuous dialogue among colleagues on how interdisciplinarity plays out in practice. The workshop aims to create a forum for reflection on local inter-disciplinary practice(s) and to consider the possibilities of forming research networks. The workshop opens with a panel presentation from iSchool deans and senior faculty discussing current interdisciplinarity practices in iSchools and with presentations that address theoretical frameworks of interdisciplinarity. These presentations will form the basis for small group discussions in the afternoon. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8897 Filer i denne post: 1
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Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper examines the influence of European integration on the relationship between state administration and private interests in the four Nordic countries – Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. By private interests I mean interest organizations, private corporations and independent experts. The paper focuses exclusively on the national policy processes that are involved with managing European Union (EU) issues. More specifically, this paper discusses two aspects of multi-level governance. First is the important role of private interests in the coordination of decision making at the national level preceding their government’s representation of national interests in the European Council of Ministers and other EU organizations. Second is the effect of all this on national democratic systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7346 Filer i denne post: 1
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the case of ChinaGuoming, Xian; Cheng, Zhang; Yangui, Zhang; Shunqi, Ge; Zhan, James X. (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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a case of social capitalGeersbro, Jens; Hedaa, Laurids (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Evidence for a Uniform AccountHardt, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Same is an anaphoric element that performs a comparison, which can either be external or internal to a sentence. Hardt and Mikkelsen (2015) show that same, unlike other anaphoric expressions, imposes a parallelism constraint, and they present three types of examples showing that same is infelicitous in the absence of parallelism. Hardt and Mikkelsen propose an account that applies uniformly to internal and external readings; however, the evidence they present largely targets external readings – they don’t offer empirical evidence that clearly supports the uniform approach. Furthermore, Barker (2007) argues that internal readings must be treated differently than external readings. In this paper, I show that the parallelism effects observed by Hardt and Mikkelsen in fact apply to internal readings as well. This provides support for a uniform treatment of internal and external readings of same. It also suggests that discourse relations, which typically apply to separate overt predications, also apply to the implicit predications that arise in distributional structures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9574 Filer i denne post: 1
Hardt_2017.pdf (137.4Kb) -
Harder, Mie (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This dissertation explores the internal antecedents of the phenomenon labeled management innovation. Management innovation refers to the implementation of new management practices, processes, techniques or structures that alter the way the work of management is performed. In other words, management innovation refers to changes in what managers do and how they do it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8295 Filer i denne post: 1
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The effect of diagnostic capability and implementation capabilityHarder, Mie (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Management innovation is the introduction of new management practices that significantly alter the way the work of management is performed. Building on behavioral theory of the firm, this paper explores the effect of firms’ diagnostic capability and implementation capability on the likelihood of adopting new‐to‐thefirm and new‐to‐the‐industry management innovations. The paper finds that formalized activities directed at developing and implementing management innovations as well as CEO novelty increases the likelihood of innovating in both categories. Also, top management team (TMT) diversity increases the likelihood of adopting new‐to‐the‐industry innovations. The paper does not find a direct effect of performance decline on the likelihood of implementing management innovation, but two variables, TMT diversity and previous experience, positively moderate the relationship between performance decline and new‐to‐the‐industry management innovation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8247 Filer i denne post: 1
SMG_WP_3_2011.pdf (1.199Mb) -
a study of how organisational identity influences the strategy-making processKjærgaard, Annemette (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Organisations have to deal with increasingly complex and turbulent environments, which demand that they continuously change and adapt to new circumstances or challenges. One way for organisations to cope with these challenges is to manage the strategy-making process in order to ensure that a continuous stream of new ideas and initiatives create new opportunities and ensure that the company stays viable by adapting to new internal and external challenges. This has been pursued in studies of strategy formation (Mintzberg, 1978), strategic change (Pettigrew, 1988) and internal corporate venturing (Burgelman, 1983b, 2002) and is still a central issue in the strategic management discourse. It is generally acknowledged that continuous change is important for organisations’ survival in a changing world. On the other hand the need for stability and continuity in form of a clear and strong corporate identity is also acknowledged to be critical for organisational success (Collins & Porras, 1994). Where the organisational identity works to ensure consistency in the company’s strategic action, the strategy making process works to renew the current concept of strategy (Burgelman, 1983b). Organisations thus face a dilemma when they engage in strategy-making to reconcile the perpetual tension between continuity and change (Burgelman, 2002). This challenge is far from new and has been discussed as e.g. the balance between exploration and exploitation (March, 1991). This article attempts to answer the question of how organisational actors’ perception of organisational identity influences the strategy-making process during organisational change. The study adopts an evolutionary approach to the unfolding of the strategy-making process, using the variation-selection-retention framework of cultural evolutionary theory (Aldrich, 1999; Campbell, 1969; Weick, 1979), which has been applied to the strategy-making process by Burgelman in several of his works (Burgelman, 1983a, 1983b, 1991, 2002, 2003). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6497 Filer i denne post: 1
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The Effect of Diagnostic Capability and Implementation CapabilityHarder, Mie (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper adopts a behavioral theory of the firm perspective in order to compare the antecedents of two types of innovation: Management innovation refers to the adoption of new management practices or organizational structures, whereas product innovation refers to the introduction of new products or services on the market. The study further distinguishes between two categories of innovation within each type: new to the firm and new to the industry innovations. The findings indicate that there are more differences than similarities between the antecedents of the two types of innovation. However, adopting either type of innovation increases the likelihood of simultaneously adopting the other. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8248 Filer i denne post: 1
SMG_WP_5_2011.pdf (393.8Kb) -
Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Spaghetti OrganizationFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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the case of IndiaPatibandla, Murali (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Petersen, Bent; Welch, Lawrence S. (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]