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Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: While (managerial) beliefs are central to many aspects of strategic organization, interactive beliefs are almost entirely neglected, save for some game theory treatments. In an increasingly connected and networked economy, firms confront coordination problems that arise because of network effects. The capability to manage beliefs will increasingly be a strategic one, a key source of wealth creation, and a key research area for strategic organization scholars. KEYWORDS: Interactive beliefs, coordination, network economy, common knowledge. JEL CODE: D84, M30 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7439 Files in this item: 1
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Change management challenges in the Danish police reformDegnegaard, Rex (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Since its commencement in January 2007, the Danish police reform has been a hot topic in the media, at universities, dinner parties, and in waiting rooms. The general perception of the police reform is that it is a failure. During 2008, the reform has been subject to much public debate, which has linked many unfortunate cases of police neglect with the police reform. Furthermore, the public debate has created a picture of a police not in control and with the reform to blame. Given this troublesome context of the police reform, the question which everyone is asking is: why did it go wrong? Along with the question of: whose fault was it? The current thesis does not provide one single answer to the chaotic situation surrounding the police reform. Neither does it place the responsibility of the unforeseen consequences of the police reform. Rather, this thesis focuses on unforeseen consequences of the reform in regards to change management and organizational implications. This thesis is submitted as a doctoral thesis at Copenhagen Business School in completion of a three-year Ph.D. study. The thesis is the result of a longitudinal research study on change management challenges in the Danish police reform. The study rests on a multi-sited methodology compromising an array of research methods such as interviews, field studies, presentations, meetings, written document studies, etc. over the course of the three years’ duration of the study. The study draws from different strands of literature, primarily change management literature and institutional literature, including resource dependency theory. The research question, which guides the thesis, is as follows: What are the change management challenges and the organizational implications of introducing a reform, which has a functional-rational logic of modernization and efficiency to the Danish police, which is a strongly institutionalized organization? The research question has been answered through the analysis, which is divided into three sections: - Change management in the reform, - Content of the police reform, and - The external control of the police. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8008 Files in this item: 1
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Klein, Peter G.; Barney, Jay B.; Foss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Strategic entrepreneurship is a newly recognized field that draws, not surprisingly, from the fields of strategic management and entrepreneurship. The field emerged officially with the 2001 special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on “strategic entrepreneurship”; the first dedicated periodical, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, appeared in 2007. Strategic entrepreneurship is built around two core ideas. (1) Strategy formulation and execution involves attributes that are fundamentally entrepreneurial, such as alertness, creativity, and judgment, and entrepreneurs try to create and capture value through resource acquisition and competitive posi-tioning. (2) Opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking—the former the central subject of the entrepreneurship field, the latter the central subject of the strategic management field—are pro-cesses that should be considered jointly. This entry explains the specific links between strategy and entrepreneurship, reviews the emergence and development of the strategic entrepreneurship field, and discusses key implications and applications. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8514 Files in this item: 1
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A dynamic perspectiveNielsen, Bo Bernhard (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper focuses specifically on interfirm strategic collaboration as a vehicle for knowledge management across firm boundaries. Drawing on the widely accepted exploitation/exploration dichotomy, this article contributes to research concerning alliance dynamics by combining elements related to alliance formation, negotiation and outcomes. By integrating the exploitation/exploration arguments into a set of knowledge-related strategic motives for alliance formation, the main arguments focus on the influence of governance mechanisms on the relationship between strategic fit and outcome in terms of knowledge. This paper integrates the emergent knowledge-based theories of alliance formation (and outcome) with existing theories related to governance and coordination in an attempt to explain how the knowledge outcome of collaborative relationships may be determined by the strategic fit of partner motives, influenced by the mix of contractual and procedural governance. A series of testable propositions are derived in order to answer the following question: Do combinations of contractual and procedural coordination, given specific strategic fit, explain performance differentials? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7479 Files in this item: 1
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what do we know and need to know?Mahnke, Volker; Overby, Mikkel Lucas; Vang, Jan (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper presents a review of existing theoretical perspectives and empirical work on strategic IT outsourcing. By presenting the main findings of various recent studies and elaborating on current research gaps it conveys a picture of the past research, the present findings and the future applications of IT outsourcing. Prior research has generated theoretical insights and largely qualitative evidence on IT outsourcing. While quantitative studies remain sparse, limited to decisionmaking and performance, there is a lack of quantitative empirical research examining outsourcing processes more comprehensively. This paper outlines a simple, yet integrative process model and develops propositions, which serve to integrate and compare theoretical strands, to evaluate existing empirical research and to stimulate new avenues of empirical research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6479 Files in this item: 1
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Andersen, Torben J.; Joshi, Mahesh P. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The strategic orientations of global integration and local responsiveness (the I-R framework) continue to dominate analyses of internationalization strategies and identify the basic strategy typologies of multinational enterprise. Much effort has been devoted to verify the generic strategies established within the original I-R framework but few studies have investigated their implied performance effects. In conformity with the foundations of the I-R framework we characterize the strategic orientations by their implied corporate decision structures and strategy processes and analyze their performance associations in two distinct industrial environments. The evidence from this analysis contradicts predictions in the conventional I-R framework. We explain this conundrum from a resource-based perspective as firms operating in technology intensive environments outperform when they have access to diverse multinational resources whereas firms in common goods businesses gain economies from global product standards. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7428 Files in this item: 1
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The case of the US express delivery industryMahnke, Volker; Overby, Mikkel Lucas; Özcan, Serden (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: IT-enabled innovations are of increasing importance for competitive success in a range to develop associated competencies - in-house and/or through outsourcing - consequential for creating and sustaining competitive advantage. Against the backdrop of the importance of IT-enabled innovation, the key concern of this chapter is to address the crucial question: How do capability development strategies differ between first-movers and late entrants in IT-enabled services. We develop theory based on three explorative case studies – FedEx, UPS and DHL. An analysis of the three companies reveals that governance choices are influenced by a company’s attempts to create, imitate, and/or leapfrog IT-enabled innovation in varying technological regimes. of industries including express delivery services. How companies choose associated competences - in-house and/or through outsourcing - is conseqcreating and sustaining competitive advantage. Against the backdrop of the of IT-enabled innovation, the key concern of this chapter is to address URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6499 Files in this item: 1
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Andersen, Torben Juul; Roggi, Oliviero (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Major corporate failures, periodic recessions, regional debt crises and volatile markets have intensified the focus on corporate risk management as the means to deal better with turbulent business conditions. Hence, the ability to respond effectively to the often dramatic environmental changes is considered an important source of competitive advantage. However, surprisingly little research has analyzed if the presumed advantages of effective risk management lead to superior performance or assessed important antecedents of effective risk management capabilities. Here we present a comprehensive study of risk management effectiveness and the relationship to corporate performance based on panel data for more than 3,400 firms accounting for over 33,500 annual observations during the turbulent period 1991- 2010. Determining effective risk management as the ability to reduce earnings and cash flow volatility, we find that it has significant positive relationships to lagged performance measures after controlling for industry effects and company size. We also find that availability of slack resources and investment commitments affect the risk management capabilities and their relationship to performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8696 Files in this item: 1
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Juul Andersen, Torben (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Liberalizations of international trade and improvements in communication and information technologies allow companies to organize around extensive multinational structures of cross-border sourcing networks. In a freely interacting market setting multinational enterprise is exposed to financial and economic risks that can be monitored within conventional reporting systems and managed through use of various derivative instruments. All the while, a dispersed multinational structure can be vulnerable to disruptions caused by changing economic conditions, competitive moves, and geopolitical developments as well as natural disasters and terrorist events that are difficult to forecast. Consequently, current risk management techniques span from conventional gap analyses and quantitative value-at-risk measures of market-related exposures to more qualitative assessments of competitive exposures and low-frequency high-impact disaster events based on scenario analyses. Hence, there is a need to consider risk management approaches that integrate relatively transparent financial exposures with the consequences of uncertain and hard-to-quantify event risks. This paper outlines the contours of such a strategic risk management framework incorporating conventional exposure measures and simulation techniques to assess vulnerability and responsiveness in a turbulent global setting. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7426 Files in this item: 1
smg wp 2005-003.pdf (526.7Kb) -
Lobontiu, Gabriela (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Sløk, Camilla; Ryberg, Marie (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne rapport undersøger, hvordan strategisk ledelse bliver beskrevet i kvalitative interviews med 22 skoleledere fordelt over størstedelen af landet. Dvs. kommunerne Odense, Fåborg-Midtfyn, Assens, Nyborg, Fredericia, Syddjurs, Skanderborg, Mariager Fjord, Silkeborg, Frederikshavn, Aalborg, Ringkøbing-Skjern, Varde, Fredensborg, Rudersdal, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Frederiksberg, Haderslev, Gladsaxe og Køge. Baggrunden for undersøgelsen er OECD’s kritik (2007) af, at der foregår for lidt strategisk ledelse i folkeskolen og for meget pædagogisk/faglig ledelse. Formålet med undersøgelsen var gennem interviews at skabe forståelse for, hvordan skoleledere selv 1) forstår og 2) arbejder med strategisk ledelse, når man giver dem ordet i en interviewundersøgelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8271 Files in this item: 1
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Juul Andersen, Torben; Fredens, Kjeld (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Corporate entrepreneurship is deemed essential to uncover opportunities that shape the future strategic path and adapt the firm to environmental change (e.g., Covin and Miles, 1999; Wolcott and Lippitz, 2007). At the same time, rational central processes are important to execute strategic actions in a coordinated manner (e.g., Baum and Wally, 2003; Brews and Hunt, 1999; Goll and Rasheed, 1997). That is, the organization’s adaptive responses and dynamic capabilities are embedded in integrative structures that accommodate dispersed business initiatives. The dual concerns for integration and entrepreneurial behavior are reflected in the conjoint need for effective routines and exploratory search in adaptive systems (e.g., Pfeifer and Bongard, 2007; Sutton and Barto, 1998). It has also been expressed as a need to balance exploitation and exploration (March, 2001) and configure ambidextrous organizational forms (e.g., O’Reilly and Tushman, 2008; Tushman and O’Reilly, 2004). In strategy research, optimization and rejuvenation perspectives have variously been described as intended and emergent strategies (Mintzberg, 1978; Mintzberg and Waters, 1985), top‐down and bottom‐up strategies (Nonaka, 1987), induced and autonomous strategy processes (Burgelman, 2005; Burgelman and Grove, 1996, 2007), central planning and decentralized initiatives (Andersen, 2000, 2004, Andersen and Nielsen, 2009). Burgelman and Grove (2007) outline such a combined strategy process and observe how central direction and dispersed exploration can change over time influenced by strategic leadership. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8552 Files in this item: 1
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Poulsen, Thorbjørn; Plenborg, Thomas; Rohde, Carsten (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
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Højlund, Holger; la Cour, Anders (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
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Carl, Michael (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper introduces a new research strategy for the investigation of human translation behavior. While conventional cognitive research methods make use of think aloud protocols (TAP), we introduce and investigate User- Activity Data (UAD). UAD consists of the translator’s recorded keystroke and eye-movement behavior, which makes it possible to replay a translation session and to register the subjects’ comments on their own behavior during a retrospective interview. UAD has the advantage of being objective and reproducable, and, in contrast to TAP, does not interfere with the translation process. The paper gives the background of this technique and an example on a English-to-Danish translation. Our goal is to elaborate and investigate cognitively grounded basic translation concepts which are materialized and traceable in the UAD and which, in a later stage, will provide the basis for appropriate and targeted help for the translator at a given moment. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8044 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: This working paper – written for inclusion as a chapter on Japanese society, to be published in Chinese by the Beijing University of Foreign Studies later in 2011 – looks at popular culture as a form of cultural production. It argues for the need to study popular cultural forms like advertisements, ceramics, fashion magazines and folk art as both products and as processes of design, manufacture, distribution, appreciation and use, which must all be taken into account. Precisely because popular cultural forms are both cultural products and commodities, they reveal the complementary nature of the two categories of culture and the economy. The paper outlines and analyses the different ways in which social, cultural, symbolic and economic capital are converted by those participating in advertising, ceramic, fashion magazine and folk art worlds, and suggests that popular culture may best be seen as a name economy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8252 Files in this item: 1
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Bansler, Jørgen; Havn, Erling; Mønsted, Troels; Schmidt, Kjeld (København, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The medical record, the collection of notes and other documents concerning a particular patient, is a time-honored and robust institutional artifact. However, with patients with chronic ailments that typically are treated and monitored by multiple clinical workers, sometimes at different institutions, the medical record is more than ‘beginning to burst’: it is beginning to fragment. This becomes clear from our ongoing study of the coordinative practices of clinical workers dealing with patients with ‘implantable cardioverter-defibrillators’ (ICDs), i.e., pacemakers that dub as defibrillators.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8418 Files in this item: 1
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Viborg Andersen, Kim (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Mere end to tredjedele af statslige styrelser, råd og nævn kommer ikke slutbrugeren i møde på nettet. Med sneglefart og en tilsyneladende modvillighed mod at tage fuldblods digitale løsninger i anvendelse, synes styrelserne, råd og nævn at være opsat på at gøre ydelserne så løntunge som overhovedet muligt. Denne kontroversielle karakteristik kan være forklaringen på de resultater som en undersøgelse fra Handelshøjskolen i København afdækker for digitaliseringen af brugernes adgang til mere end 100 statslige styrelser, råd og nævn. Resultaterne fra undersøgelsen sår alvorlig mistillid til hastigheden og evnen til at udarbejde og gennemføre digital sagsbehandling og digitale løsninger med slutbrugeren i centrum. De eksisterende selvbetjeningsløsninger skriger til himlen om forbedring og nytteværdi for slutbrugerne. En endeløs række pdf-filer, excel-filer, informationer om telefontider og fysiske åbningstider er fortsat det dominerende billede af styrelsernes formåen på nettet. Det markante fravær af fokusering på slutbrugeren gør, at al tanke om at bruge de digitale medier til at løse arbejdskraftproblemet i den offentlige sektor synes at være så langt ude i tidshorisonten, at det nærmer sig fata morgana forestillinger. I stedet er hjemmesiderne for styrelserne, råd og nævn skabt om de marginale, og set fra et slutbrugerperspektiv, betydningsløse løsninger. Hjemmesiderne er halvhjertede løsninger og uden reelle forsøg på at skære den offentlige sektors administrationsforbrug ind til benet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6507 Files in this item: 1
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Dieng, Sebastian; Dörrenbächer, Christoph; Gammelgaard, Jens (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper analyses the moves global brewery companies undertake towards the distribution of decision making authority in their multinational organization and the likelihood of newly acquired subsidiaries to influence these moves. In this consumer goods industry, brands are suggested to be the primary subsidiary specific resource to influence these distribution processes. Empirically this paper explores three European acquisitions of the Dutch brewery corporation Heineken in Switzerland, Slovakia, and France. We explore whether differing brand value (regional/international, standard/premium) has had an impact on the subsidiaries‟ ability to maintain a certain degree of decision making authority after the take-over. The results of our case studies show, however, that the ownership of valuable brands may not be considered as a critical resource for subsidiaries here. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6601 Files in this item: 1
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