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Entry timing and mode choiceJakobsen, Kristian (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation consists of an introduction followed by four papers on issues related to the choice of entry timing and entry mode in transition economies. Below is a list of the papers that is included in the dissertation with information about their current publication status and coauthorships. * Jakobsen, K. 2007. First mover advantages in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparative analysis of performance measures, Journal of East-West Business, 13(1), 35-61. * Jakobsen, K. 2008. Competition for Markets in the Brewing Industry in Central and Eastern Europe. In J. Larimo (Ed.) Perspectives on Internationalization and International Management, Vassan Yliopiston Julkaisuja, p. 299-316. ISBN 978-952-476-228-1 * Jakobsen, K., & Meyer, K. E. 2008. Partial Acquisition: The overlooked entry mode. In J. H. Dunning and P. Gugler (eds.) Progress in International Business Research 2, Elsevier Science, p. 203-226. ISBN 978-0-7623-1475-1. * Jakobsen, K., & Meyer, K. E. 2007. Negotiating entry modes: Partial acquisitions in transition economies. Revise and resubmit at International Business Review URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7681 Files in this item: 1
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Petersen, Bent; Welch, Lawrence S. (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
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Skabelse af forestillinger i læge- og plejegrupperne angående relevans af nye idéer om kvalitetsudvikling gennem tolkningsprocesserAlbæk, Jens (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this dissertation is to identify how ideas of organisational development are incorporated into and employed in hospital departments. The dissertation focuses on the conceptions of professional identity among doctors and nurses, their conceptions of clinical practice and the ideas of development they are introduced to. The health professionals’ conceptions of development and practice are connected to their perception of ‘professional relevance’ in the dissertation. This conception of ‘professional relevance’ thereby forms a recurring expression of conceptions among the actors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7806 Files in this item: 1
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Nielsen, Søren Bo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Schjelderup, Guttorm (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Nielsen, Søren Bo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Munich, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Lund, Lars (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper defines a base model of the airborne passenger traffic to and in Greenland showing the number of passengers on every non-stop connection. The type of airplane is defined for each route, and that determines the flying time. The number of connections and capacity utilization are fixed with due regard to the timetable of Air Greenland and the density of traffic on each route. Assumptions as to the cost per hour as a function of the duration of the flight are made for each aircraft. Applying this to different investment scenarios for airports and landing strips an index for the costs of supply of air traffic is found. Using this index the supplier’s cost savings in the scenarios are found as a percentage of the relevant sale. A number of reports from recent years have information about the necessary investments in the scenarios, and matching these with the changes in costs permits the calculation of present values for the different projects. Apart from direct savings there are derived benefits in some of the scenarios the most prominent being the possibility to abandon Kangerlussuaq. The calculations include these indirect effects. Two scenarios have high present values: the use of Keflavik as hub, and the construction of a new airport with a 3000 meter runway south of Nuuk: two rather different scenarios, the first dominated by current savings, and the second dependent on a large fixed investment. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7526 Files in this item: 1
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Bjørn-Andersen, Niels; Mørup-Petersen, Anders (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Fire cases om forskningsevaluering og kvalitetssikring i industriel forskning og sektorforskningHansson, Finn (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Hansson, Finn; Frederiksen, Frode (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Security sector reform in Sierra LeoneAlbrecht, Peter Alexander (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis argues that security sector reform (SSR) has failed according to its own ambition of establishing a ‘centrally governed state’. A primary reason for this failure is found in the concept of authority that state-building projects and much of the academic work that underpins it. Since the late 1990s, internationally supported efforts to make and consolidate peace in Sierra Leone have been synonymous with SSR. Support was given by the United Kingdom (UK) in particular to contain and ultimately overhaul the armed forces, which staged two coups in 1992 and 1997. Support was also provided to the central government to institute national security coordination and intelligence organizations, and to reestablish the Sierra Leone Police (SLP). The collapsed, but internationally recognized state was to be rebuilt, and security was seen as not only a prerequisite for this process to begin, but its very foundation. The first question of the thesis revolves around why the western universalist state concept came to guide SSR in Sierra Leone, and why it was considered of such fundamental importance to stability internationally. The second question revolves around how to conceptualize authority when actors such as paramount and lesser chiefs that may neither be categorized as state nor non-state are the primary makers of order in rural areas of the country. Speaking of the weakness or failure of a state is a way of describing what it is not, namely a centrally governed set of institutions that is able to make order within the territorial space that defines it. A focus on the state as an analytical concept does not, however, tell us much about how order is then made, and by whom it is made in Sierra Leone. The thesis rethinks what authority is in a way that does not privilege ‘the state’ as an analytical category, a tendency that has dominated much policy and academic thinking. The thesis’ empirical basis of doing so is data relating to international policy-making processes, interviews among the key actors of Sierra Leone’s SSR process, and ethnographic fieldwork in Peyima, a small diamond mining town in Kamara Chiefdom, Kono District. In a view of authority tied to ‘the state’ lies the conceptualization of a political entity, a bordered power container, which stands above, is detached from, and at the same time encompasses, controls and regulates society. In UK support of Sierra Leone’s statebuilding efforts, the practices of traditional leaders and their productive effects in the justice and security field, and enforcing order, were acknowledged. However, failure to respond adequately to their central role in governing Sierra Leone’s countryside came in two ways, both of which are related to concepts of the western universalist state that continue to guide SSR. The first failure was embedded in misrecognizing the resilience and productivity of local actors and institutions, and their authority to appropriate, interpret, translate and above all shape the elements of what was offered through SSR. The second failure came in not recognizing the hybrid nature of all actors in the justice and security field, based on the fact that they draw authority to act within the field from numerous sources across physical and symbolic space, in local and national domains. Hybridity is integral to state formation in Sierra Leone. It is foundational, and is historically grounded in the colonial era, articulating an infinite mixture of various forms of authority (from state legislation to status of autochthony and secret society membership). Inevitably, this order was reproduced by SSR, even if the aim of the international actors who supported this process of change had been to eradicate it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8549 Files in this item: 1
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do companies need owners?Thomsen, Steen; Rose, Caspar (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Introducing Seven New Product Project Types for the Study of Innovation ManagementRosenø, Axel (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Product innovativeness is a key moderating variable for the study of innovation management (Song & Montoya-Weiss 1998, p. 124). For this reason, some empirical studies of innovation management examine new product processes, critical success factors, and market learning practices for incremental versus discontinuous new product projects (Song & Montoya-Weiss 1998; Atuahene-Gima 1995; Veryzer 1998a; Lynn et al. 1996; O’Connor 1998; Rice et al. 1998). By looking at both these types of new product development projects, empirical observations are likely to be more realistic than those of studies that do not discriminate between more or less innovative projects. Even so, a dualistic view of the matter does not capture the nuances (Green et al. 1995)1 of the relationship between product innovativeness and innovation management practices. Hence, there is a need for richer innovativeness typologies that go beyond the dichotomous view and, thereby, lend themselves to a more finegrained study of innovation management practices for different types of new product projects. In fact, various innovativeness typologies exist that include more than two product types. Notably, the typology by Booz, Allen & Hamilton (1982)2 introduces two dimensions: newness to the market and newness to the company, resulting in six products types (with various combinations of high, medium and low newness). An alternative set of typologies differentiates between the product’s technological newness and its market newness, for example Abernathy & Clark’s (1985) typology with four new product types; Leonard-Barton’s (1995) five product types; and Veryzer’s (1998a) four types in a two-by-two matrix. Interestingly, these two meta-perspectives on product innovativeness (i.e. 1. new to the market and/or new to the company and 2. technological and/or market newness) are generally not included within the same typology in extant literature. For example, discussions of the technological and/or market newness of a product, often leave out the question of whether that newness is in the eyes of the industry and market (exogenous newness) or only for the focal firm itself (endogenous newness). More broadly, it can be stated that "... little continuity exists in the new product literature regarding from whose perspective this degree of newness is viewed and what is new" (Garcia & Calantone 2002, p. 112). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6441 Files in this item: 1
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Sørensen, Asger (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I 1980`erne startede et reformarbejde, der stadig pågår. Intet viser mere slående hvor langt dette er kommet, end det forhold, at hvor bureaukratiet tidligere blev set som en byrde for borgeren, tales der nu om bureaukrati som en byrde for den offentlige medarbejder. I det følgende skal jeg beskrive den ny bureaukratiske model som gradvist er vokset frem siden 1980`erne og hvis konsekvenser vi hver dag bliver mindet om, når offentligt ansatte kritiserer modellen for at have negative konsekvenser både for effektiviteten i deres indsats og for kvaliteten af deres arbejde. Jeg skal argumentere for fire vigtige pointer: 1 – Den offentlige sektor er i dag organiseret anderledes end tidligere. En ny bureaukratisk model er sat igennem, hvilket bl.a. viser sig derved at medarbejderne klager over kontrol og styring og regeringen svarer igen med en reform for afbureaukratisering af dokumentationssystemet. 2 – Den nye organisation er flydende frem for fast. Den indebærer at det kommunale selvstyre flyder fra lov til lov og fra den ene kommunaløkonomiske aftale til den anden. Hvor tidligere organisationsformer indebar en vis stabilitet i udstrækningen af det kommunale selvstyre, i driftsansvar og i hvilke velfærdsydelser borgeren havde krav på, er den nuværende mindre stabil, indrettet til konstant forandring. 3 – Den nye organisation bygger på fire principper, der er gensidigt i modsætning til hinanden, hvilket fremprovokerer interessekonflikter mellem regering og personaleorganisationer og mellem ledelse og frontmedarbejdere. 4 – Interessekonflikterne har ført til politisering af det forvaltningspolitiske reformarbejde. Og til at de traditionelle grænser mellem overenskomstsystem (forhandlinger og konflikt om løn og arbejdsbetingelser) og forvaltningspolitiske reformer er under ændring. De to integreres, og begge politiseres. Artiklen er disponeret således. I det første kapitel skelner jeg mellem bureaukrati (som noget nødvendigt) og bureaukratisme (som noget uønsket). Jeg præsenterer tre historiske former for bureaukrati (og bureaukratisme) for at fremhæve nutidens. I kapitel 2 beskrives de fire principper bag nutidens organisering af den offentlige sektor. Det sker med det formål at påvise hvordan flere af disse er i modsætning til hinanden og fremprovokerer interessekonflikter. Kapitel tre analyserer hvordan kvalitetsreformen viderefører og udbreder de fire principper og styrker interessekonflikterne. Endelig – i kapitel fire – summes der op og fremtidens minefelt aftegnes. Først må vi dog lige afklare, hvad der tales om. Derfor følger nogle begrebsforskelle og en typologi over former for bureaukrati (og bureaukratisme). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7350 Files in this item: 1
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Viborg Andersen, Kim; Juul, Niels Chr.; Korzen-Bohr, Sara; Pedersen, Jimmy Kevin (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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En skatteretlig analyse af SEL §§ 11, 11B og 11CTell, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Emnet for denne afhandling er rentefradragsbegrænsningsreglerne i selskabsskattelovens §§ 11, 11B og 11C. Selskabets valg af finansiering består grundlæggende af et valg mellem egenkapital og fremmedkapital (gæld). Valget herimellem påvirker indkomstopgørelsen forskelligt. Ved gældsfinansiering flyttes beskatningen fra selskabsniveau til investorniveau, hvorved selskabsbeskatningen kontra investorbeskatningen er afgørende for de skattemæssige incitamenter ved valget mellem egen- og fremmedkapital. En lavere beskatning af investor, eksempelvis ved en ikke-hjemmehørende investor, skaber incitament til en højere gældsandel på selskabsniveau, hvorved at indkomst flyttes til beskatning udenfor Danmark.1251 Rentefradragsbegrænsningsreglerne i SEL §§ 11, 11B og 11C skal hindre en sådan udflytning af skattetilsvar i specifikke situationer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8427 Files in this item: 1
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The European Commission; The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC); INGINEUS; Department of Business and Politics; DBP; Department of Business and Politics; DBP (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8637 Files in this item: 2
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Moeran, Brian (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Fragrance and perfume connect with our most basic and primitive window on the world – our sense of smell. Animals use their sense of smell to find food, sense danger and mate. So, too, do human beings. Mothers and their babies bond through smell. Smell triggers memories buried long in our unconscious, probably because our sense of smell is linked directly to the limbic system, the oldest part of the brain, which is the seat of emotion and memory. Throughout the ages in Western civilization, fragrance has been used to communicate spirituality, passion, and both masculinity and femininity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7772 Files in this item: 1
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Agambens politiske filosofi som anledningCarnera, Alexander (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Clemmensen, Torkil (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Interaction design and usability have become important contributors to economic and cultural development in emergent economies in today’s global distribution of the use and production of IT, but research and practice that incorporate cultural and non-western perspectives on software and interactive products are still in their infancy. This chapter presents theory of cultural cognitive styles and standard usability, and a framework for thinking about the maturity of cultural usability. The framework has five levels. Level I concerns the localization of the user interface, level II focuses on the localization of the usability evaluation methods, level III emerges with new user groups, level IV concerns historical changes in the concept of usability itself, and level V deals with managing a complexity of user groups. The chapter uses recent empirical results from studies of culture and usability to illustrate the need for the framework for thinking about the maturity of cultural usability. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7949 Files in this item: 1
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