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En undersøgelse af læringsprocesser mellem projekt og organisation på Aarhus TeaterDanneskiold-Samsøe, Ida (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Formålet med denne afhandling er at få en bedre forståelse af, hvordan læringsprocesser udvikler sig i en kunstnerisk projektbaseret organisation. Undersøgelsen er gennemført på et dansk institutionsteater, Aarhus Teater, fordi teatret har den specifikke organisering, at nye kunstnere, nye arbejdsledere i form af instruktører og scenografer kommer som eksterne projektansatte (næsten) hver gang en ny proces går i gang. Kombinationen mellem faste medarbejdere og freelanceansatte eksterne kunstneriske ledere skaber en spænding mellem det unikke (flygtige) projekt og den blivende organisation. Det specielle ved teatret er altså interaktionen mellem på den ene side regulær (rutinebaseret) organisering og projektbaseret organisering på den anden side. Denne afhandling bidrager med en bedre forståelse af, hvordan læring udvikles og udfordres i denne særlige form for organisering. Undersøgelsen tager sit udgangspunkt i ledelses- og evalueringsmøder, der omhandler de praktiske og ledelsesmæssige problemstillinger, der opstår undervejs i processerne. Det er den sociale dynamiske læringsproces i mødesamtaler, der er hovedgenstand for analysen, for at komme nærmere en forståelse af, hvordan betydninger udvikler sig undervejs i møderne, og hvordan disse betydninger kanaliserer spor til de næste mødedrøftelser og skaber retning eller handling i forbindelse med fremtidige forestillinger. Det er ved undersøgelsen af disse mødesamtaler, at forbindelsen mellem det unikke (flygtige) projekt og den blivende organisation er blevet analyseret. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9346 Filer i denne post: 1
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unusual lessons from the past for the post-Soviet marketHolden, Nigel (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Juridisk analyse af kvinders og mænds adgang til varer og tjenesteydelserNielsen, Ruth (København, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Formålet med denne rapport er at præcisere omfanget og rækkevidden af det forbud mod kønsdiskrimination ved adgang til varer og tjenesteydelser, der i Danmark siden vedtagelsen af ligestillingsloven i 2000 gælder for alle sælgere/tjenesteydere både i den private og offentlige sektor samt af den pligt til at indarbejde kønsligestilling i al planlægning og forvaltning, der gælder i den offentlige sektor (den såkaldte mainstreamingpligt). Det vil også blive diskuteret, i hvilken udstrækning der, hvis der ønskes mere kønsligestilling, kan og bør ske skærpelse af reglerne i dansk ret inden for rammerne af de nugældende EU-regler. Kønsligestilling og forbud mod diskrimination er grundlæggende rettigheder (menneskerettigheder). I de seneste år er der i stigende grad udviklet et samspil mellem elementer i dansk ret, der stammer fra EU-niveau, og elementer, der stammer fra folkeretligt eller nationalt niveau, hvilket gør det relevant at opfatte regler af national herkomst, folkeret og regler, der er blevet til i EU-regi, som ét stort system. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8666 Filer i denne post: 1
Ruth_Nielsen_2013.pdf (872.3Kb) -
Financial Literacy and the Corporate Governmentalization of the ‘Business of Life’Højbjerg, Erik (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper is a work-‐in-‐progress. The purpose of the paper is programmatic in the sense that it tries to formulate elements of a research agenda revolving around the issue of corporate governmentalization. By this term I intend to indicate ways in which companies seek to construe and mobilize consumer subjectivities whose consuming practices involve the self-‐ management of the individual along etho-‐political goals of good governance. The back-‐drop of this topic is the investigation of the forms of contemporary social and political transformation, with a focus on the transformative powers of ‘politicized private enterprises’ or the ‘political corporation’. The research question is: How do corporations seek to construe and mobilize responsible citizens by offering products and services, the consumption of which are assumed to transform the individual¹s self-‐relationship along proclaimed ethical and political goals? The research question will be discussed in the context of financial literacy educational initiatives. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, increasing the financial literacy of ordinary citizen-‐consumers has taken a prominent position among regulators and financial institutions alike. The logic seems to be that financially capable individuals will enjoy social and political inclusion as well as an ability to exercise a stronger influence in markets. The paper specifically contributes to our understanding of the governmentalization of the present by addressing how -‐ at least in part -‐ the corporate spread of financial literacy educational initiatives can be observed as a particular form of power at-‐a-‐distance. The focus is on the role of private enterprise in governmentalizing the ‘business of life’ by establishing and mobilizing specific conceptual forms around which the life skills of the entrepreneurial self involves a responsibilization of the individual citizen-‐consumer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9006 Filer i denne post: 1
Erik_Hojbjerg.pdf (253.1Kb) -
Some Preliminary Thoughts on Entering the FieldMoeran, Brian (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The theoretical discourses devoted to smell reflect a maze of fascinating taboos and mysterious attractions. In present-day Western societies, the sense of smell is undervalued. Scents are highly elusive and often cannot be directly named. Many languages have virtually no vocabulary to describe them, except in terms of the other senses of sight, sound, touch and taste. Scents are communicated primarily through metaphors. What are these linguistic and visual metaphors, and what do they tell us about the societies and cultures in which they are used? How do we know what scents ‘mean’? Is smell a universal form of semiotic communication (as global advertising campaigns suggest), or does it vary in different social and cultural contexts (as anthropological and other literature asserts)? Are there specific ‘scent cultures’? If so, in what do they consist? And how do these affect the creation, appraisal and use of fragrances in the three countries – Japan, France and the USA – in which I intend to conduct my research? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6973 Filer i denne post: 1
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the case of the Øresund medi-tech plastic industrySornn-Friese, Henrik; Simoni Sørensen, Janne (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper investigates barriers to the process of regional economic development from a linkage perspective. It develops the concepts of linkage lock-in and switching costs as fundamental factors explaining some of the social dynamics of the process. The overall claim of the paper is that different types of costs and their determinants may lock firms in to existing linkages, creating a probable barrier to successful regional economic development. The paper defines linkage lock-in as the difficulty in switching to alternative linkage partners, even if this is desirable. Switching costs are the costs involved in terminating and forming linkages. The extent of transaction costs, dynamic transaction costs and opportunity costs delineate switching costs in interfirm linkages. The paper further elaborates on the concept of opportunity costs; it states that in dynamically competitive environments a class of opportunity costs, namely learning opportunity costs might arise as a result of the relative importance of learning and innovation. Learning opportunity costs are defined as the costs of missing key possibilities to learn in dynamically competitive environments. They are furthermore seen as being constituted by cognitive costs, which in turn are influenced by the existence of information costs. The theoretical argument is illustrated by a case study of the medical part of the Øresund medi-tech plastic industry. Key words: Regional economic development; interfirm linkages and switching costs; lock-in and learning; cross-border business; medi-tech plastic industry. JEL classifications: D83, L14, L22, L68, R58 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7240 Filer i denne post: 1
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Om udvikling af medarbejdernes brandorienterede dømmekraftHermansen, Dorte (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: How can service companies get their employees to ‘live the brand’? This thesis answers this question through a dialogue between practice and theory. It investigates the potential of philosophical-dialogical methods to transform abstract brand values into action in corporate branding praxis at TDC and explores opportunities to apply the methods in context of service companies in general. It develops an understanding of corporate branding as an organisational and cultural project in which collective dialogue-processes serve as the main sensemaking process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7813 Filer i denne post: 1
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the effect of the vote of confidence procedureBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Delegation and Influence Under Alternative Political StructuresBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper studies how interest group lobbying of the bureaucracy affects policy outcomes and how it changes the legislature’s willingness to delegate decision-making authority to the bureaucracy. We extend the standard model of delegation to account for interest group influence during the implementation stage of policy and apply it to different institutional structures of government. The paper addresses the following questions: First, how does the decision to delegate change when the bureaucratic agent is subject to external influence? What cost does this influence impose on the legislative principal? Finally, how susceptible are policy choices to bureaucratic lobbying under different government structures? In answering these questions, the paper seeks to provide a comparative theory of lobbying and to explain the different patterns of interest group activity across political systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7561 Filer i denne post: 1
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Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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a case study of environmental management in MalaysiaJuhl Pedersen, Rasmus (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Rossing, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: A thorough literature review shows how it is well established in the literature that performance appraisal (PA) in modern organisations is infused with many problems. However, at the same time PA is one of the most institutionalised features of running large corporations everywhere in the Western world. Problems in PA challenges managers and employees and provoke important local adaption and meaning creation processes across workforces in order to allow a meaningful fit between the practice of PA and the task at hand in each workforce. Through 34 qualitative interviews with manager-employee dyads, the study design included a comparative study of local adaption and meaning creation in PA across four different workforces over a full one-year PA-cycle in a case organisation where a one-size-fits-all PA scheme had been implemented. Important differences in environmental dynamics and in manager and employee enactment patterns were found. Understanding these patterns is not only important for our understanding of how PA schemes affect individuals' and organisations' performance. It is also more fundamentally important to our understanding of the dynamics of the problems in PA which have been uncovered, analysed and attempted to be solved over the last 20 years' scholarly research into PA, without any real breakthrough. Austin's (1996) separation between management by delegation versus management by measurement was used as a typology of differences in the task at hand in Sales, R&D, Production and Staffs in the case organisation. Although PA as such is clearly designed to operate within the management by measurement paradigm, comparative findings across workforces show that important differences are present. Particularly, Sales and R&D form contrasting cases in terms of characteristics of the task at hand and characteristics of PA adaption and meaning creation. Thus, the study shows how a standard corporate PA scheme can be twisted in different directions in different workforces to such an extent that in R&D it can even be argued that the scheme in some ways has more similarities with management by delegation than with management by measurement. The study discusses the implications of this and guidance to future research is provided. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8761 Filer i denne post: 1
Morten_Rossing.pdf (3.266Mb) -
tentative findings from in-depth case studiesLorenzen, Mark (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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why are inter-firm learning patterns institutionalised within particular localities?Lorenzen, Mark (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Quantifying MNC Geographic ScopeGeisler Asmussen, Christian (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper proposes a multidimensional index of regional and global orientation which can be used in confirmatory studies with econometric methodologies. Unlike extant measures, the index is objectively scaled and controls for home country orientation and market size differences. The index is shown to be consistent with models of internationalization that incorporate different assumptions about strategic choice and global competition. Preliminary results show that large multinationals follow home region oriented internationalization paths, although much of the regional effect reported by previous studies in fact reflects strong home country biases. Keywords: globalization; regional integration; global strategy; regional strategy; local strategy; triad; liability of foreignness URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7433 Filer i denne post: 1
smg wp 2006-14 - registrering.pdf (327.5Kb) -
A Research AgendaKazan, Erol; Tan, Chee-Wee; Lim, Eric T. K. (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Digital platforms are disruptive IT artifacts, because they facilitate the quick release of innovative platform derivatives from third parties (e.g., apps). This study endeavours to unravel the disruptive potential, caused by distinct designs and configurations of digital platforms on market environments. We postulate that the disruptive potential of digital platforms is determined by the degree of alignment among the business, technology and platform profiles. Furthermore, we argue that the design and configuration of the aforementioned three elements dictates the extent to which open innovation is permitted. To shed light on the disruptive potential of digital platforms, we opted for payment platforms as our unit of analysis. Through interviews with experts and payment providers, we seek to gain an in-depth appreciation of how contemporary digital payment platforms are designed and configured to foster open innovation. We envision that this study bridges existing knowledge gaps between digital platform and innovation literature. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9406 Filer i denne post: 1
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A Politico-Economic ModelNedergaard, Peter (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper technical standardisation is understood and explained in a model where economic analysis is coupled with an analysis of the political system as proposed in rational choice theory. The aim is to answer both the question why various countries (e.g. the United States versus European countries) let either the market or public intervention determine the mode of technical standardisation and the possible implications of these two ways of organizing technical standardisation from an economic and a political point of view. Based upon the analysis of the paper a couple of general policy recommendations are made concerning the mode of technical standardisation. Keywords: Rational choice, market failures, technical standards, standardisation, government failures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7371 Filer i denne post: 1
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How time impedes organizational agency in social responsibility activitiesBerg Johansen, Christina (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We live in an age where time is our most treasured resource. In all endeavors of life, we seek to control and exploit time towards specific ends, be it in organizational strategies, education, family logistics, career planning. We have colonized time with the clock and related technologies, and time is now a global currency that translates directly into money. The modern organization has developed out of this rationalization of time, and much management theory and education centers on temporal notions of efficiency – if we cannot work more, then how can we work harder and smarter, so as to spend time most productively? As will be argued in this article, rationalized temporality is one of the most powerful social constructions with which actors guide their behavior in contemporary organizations, and it invades other social constructions without our notice. This has real effect of our ability to develop new social solutions that lie outside the rational standards, as the case of a corporate social responsibility program will illustrate later. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9256 Filer i denne post: 1
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Løchte Jørgensen, Peter (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Tackney, Charles T. (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This is a participant-observer report concerning curriculum deployment of Bernard J.F. Lonergan’s insight-based critical realism and general empirical method for interdisciplinary research methods and allied courses in Copenhagen Business School (CBS, Denmark), from 2001 to the present. I also report similar instruction in interdisciplinary methods for management and organization studies at the International School for Social and Business Studies (ISSB, Slovenia) in 2012.1 The overall time period has been entirely under the aegis of the Bologna Process, begun in 1999, and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), launched in March, 2010. Both the originating Bologna Process and subsequent EHEA envision curriculum development appropriate to “ensure that the European higher education system acquires a world-wide degree of attraction” (European Commission, 2013). In addition, the Bologna Process calls for specification of the “necessary European dimensions of higher education” (Ibid.). The point of this working paper is to report teaching success and indicate potential merits of Lonergan’s general empirical method, grounded in insight-based critical realism, as a robust epistemological basis for EHEA university curriculum and instruction. The design approach to Lonergan’s method offers grounds to think it uniquely adapted for interdisciplinary social science in the complex trans-cultural, multi-lingual, and religiously pluralist EHEA, thus providing curriculum content adequate and appropriate for the “necessary European dimensions of higher education. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9085 Filer i denne post: 1
Tackney_10 June 2014.pdf (364.5Kb)