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Nielsen, Lene (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: design ideas. The concept of engaging personas and narrative scenario explores personas in the light of what what it is to identify with and have empathy with a character. The concept of narrative scenarios views the narrative as aid for exploration of design ideas. Both concepts incorporate a distinktion between creating, writing and reading. Keywords: personas, scenarios, user-centered design, HCI URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6448 Files in this item: 1
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Integrating Wind Power into the Danish Electricity SystemJenle, Rasmus Ploug (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present study involves an inquiry into the making of a Danish energy system based on renewable energy sources. Focusing specifically on one of the major barriers to the introduction of renewable energy sources known as the intermittency problem, emphasis is put on how fluctuating electricity generation from wind turbines has been integrated into the Danish electricity system. The study focuses on the ways in which the integration of wind power in Denmark has involved the introduction and reconfiguration of a series electricity markets known as Nord Pool. Significantly, these electricity markets are engineered as control arrangements for electricity system equilibrium maintenance. When attempting to integrate wind power into the Danish electricity system by introducing or reconfiguring these control system market arrangements, metrics from economics are used to describe the ideal outcome or objective to be attained through market construction. Coupling these empirical observations with a line of inquiry concentrating on the use of knowledge, skills, and know-how in market design and management associated with the ‘performativity programme’ in the social and human sciences and especially economic sociology the thesis is framed by the following research question: How have control systems engineering and economics been mobilized in the endeavor to integrate wind power into the Danish electricity system through electricity market design and management? Answering this research question involves an analysis of three different instances of electricity market construction. All three cases demonstrate how integrating wind power into the Danish electricity system has been approached as a matter of electricity market construction increasing the capacity of Nord Pool to exert control and maintain equilibrium in the electricity system. In addition to producing insights into how the intermittency problem is being handled in Denmark, the present study seeks to augment the performativity programme in two ways. One way is to show how control systems engineering, being an understudied form of expertise within the performativity programme, has played a crucial role in the design and management of a series of markets. The other is to show how economics, being a form of expertise studied extensively by the members of the performativity programme in other empirical settings, has had heretofore undescribed functions in market design and management. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9191 Files in this item: 1
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Knudsen, Morten (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Workingpaperet er en guide til litteratur om metode, analysestrategi og videnskabsteori med relevans for problemorienteret samfundsvidenskabeligt projektarbejde på videregående uddannelsesinstitutioner. En række temaer præsenteres og relevant litteratur angives. Temaerne er ordnet under tre overskrifter: I. Genstand, II. Analyse og metode III. Proces, kvalitet og formalia. Guiden er skrevet specifikt til brug på masteruddannelsen Master of Health Management på CBS, men vil også kunne finde bredere anvendelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7786 Files in this item: 1
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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Diets of European ChildrenGwozdz, Wencke; Reisch, Lucia A.; DeHenauw, Stefaan; Lissner, Lauren; Moreno, Luis; Tornaritis, Michael; Molnar, Denes; Siani, Alfonso; Veidebaum, Toomas; Pigeot, Iris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Because interventions related to diet and other health behaviours are seldom successful and/or sustainable, it is extremely important to identify the individual factors that contribute to a healthier or unhealthier diet. To this end, we use cross-sectional data from the IDEFICS study to analyse the dietary behaviour of children aged between 2 and 9 years in eight European countries. We model the complex nature of these individual factors using structural equation modelling. Our results show that both sedentary behaviour and food exposure are strong contributors to children’s dietary choices. However, although we find a positive relation between a healthy diet and weight status for girls, weight status appears independent of diet quality for boys. These outcomes, although they permit no firm conclusions on health policy strategies, clearly suggest that further research based on longitudinal data could provide valuable insights for the design of successful prevention and intervention strategies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8334 Files in this item: 1
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Janning, Finn (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Olsen, Jørgen Kai (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Mange kortvarige forbrugsgoder har den egenskab, at de ikke nødvendigvis forbruges i den periode, hvor de købes, fordi det er muligt for forbrugeren at lægge dem på lager til senere brug. Dette gælder fx for varer som kaffe, te, øl, spiritus, læskedrikke, sæbe, vaskepulver, hårshampoo, tandpasta, papirvarer og konserves. For denne type varer er det klart, at den aktuelle størrelse af forbrugerens lager (dvs. beholdning af varen) som hovedregel vil spille en afgørende rolle for hans købs- og brugsadfærd i en given periode. Dette forhold kommer eksempelvis implicit til udtryk, når man i kvantitative modeller for en virksomheds afsætning og/eller markedsandel finder en signifikant effekt ikke kun af den aktuelle pris for varen, men også af prisen for varen i én eller flere tidligere perioder. Se fx Birch, Olsen og Tjur (2005). En sådan effekt er imidlertid kun en indirekte effekt. Den direkte determinant for forbrugerens købs- og brugsadfærd er ikke prisen for varen i en tidligere periode (som man jo ikke kan købe ind til mere i den aktuelle periode), men derimod størrelsen af forbrugerens lager af varen på det tidspunkt, hvor købet og forbruget realiseres. Men det er klart, at størrelsen af det aktuelle lager vil være bestemt af prisen for varen i én eller flere tidligere perioder. Endvidere er det klart, at prisen for varen - ikke kun i én forudgående periode, men i en lang række forudgående perioder - vil være en indikator for, om prisen for varen i den aktuelle periode er høj eller lav. Det sidstnævnte forhold vil vi dog se bort fra i det følgende. Problemstillingen i denne artikel er herefter at opstille en model for forbrugerens købs- og brugsadfærd for et kortvarigt forbrugsgode, hvor den aktuelle størrelse af forbrugerens lager af varen gøres til direkte determinant for hans adfærd. Foruden størrelsen af det aktuelle lager af varen vil vi inddrage den aktuelle pris for varen som determinant for forbrugerens købsadfærd. Når vi kun inddrager denne ene beslutningsvariabel i modellen, skyldes det alene ønsket om at simplificere fremstillingen. Modellen opbygges nemlig således, at den umiddelbart vil kunne generaliseres, ved at der inddrages yderligere forklarende variable for købs- og brugsadfærden i den, fx virksomhedens salgsindsats og konkurrenternes pris og salgsindsats. En tilsvarende problemstilling har hyppigt været behandlet i den afsætningsøkonomiske litteratur. Se fx Jain and Vilcassim (1991) for en grundig litteraturgennemgang og modelsammenligning. Men de benyttede modeller har et noget andet udgangspunkt end vort. Dels fordi modellerne er modeller for ventetiden mellem to på hinanden følgende køb af varen. Eksempelvis eksponentialfordelingen og den negative binomialfordeling (Ehrenberg (1959)), Erlangfordelingen (Herniter(1971), Zufryden (1978), Jeuland, Bass and Wright (1980) og Gupta (1988)) og Cox’s hazard model (Jain and Vilcassim (1991)). Dels fordi det aktuelle lager af varen kun indgår indirekte i modelkonstruktionen via størrelsen af det købte kvantum ved forrige køb. Den model, vi vil opstille i det følgende, er i modsætning til ovennævnte modeller en model for antal købte enheder af varen i en given periode, hvor størrelsen af det aktuelle lager af varen indgår eksplicit i modelkonstruktionen. Fordelen ved denne modelformulering er, at man får mulighed for at bestemme sandsynlighedsfordelingen for størrelsen af forbrugernes lager af varen på et givet tidspunkt. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6652 Files in this item: 1
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notat til udvalget om skat og internationaliseringBlomgren-Hansen, Niels (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Skov, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper is written in preparation for the ‘Wardrobe Ethnographies’ conference to be held in Herning in June 2011. It aims to provide a research framework that goes beyond a catalogue of existing literature, and to provide discussion points for the conference papers. Scholars from several different disciplines have studied wardrobes and dress practices through a range of ethnographic and related qualitative and quantitative methods. The aim of the conference and ensuing book is to bring together a series of papers which combine a discussion of research approaches and methods with an ethnographic account of research findings. We hope to make a dual argument; firstly as obbjects of study wardrobes and dress practices can generate critical and innovative insights both at micro and macro levels; , and secondly, that what I tentatively term wardrobe ethnographies are a feasible and realistic research approach that is attracting scholars from different disciplines and with different research interests. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8277 Files in this item: 1
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Dyrby, Signe Sofie (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD thesis is concerned with the social dynamics of Enterprise Social Media (ESM) at work. As ESM technologies are making their way on to the organizational scene, knowledge about how to understand and work with these media are in demand. Existing knowledge about ESM in organizations highlights the technological features and the new possibilities for organizational work that these media bring forward. However, the open and perpetual display of organizational connections and conversations on ESM also presents a unique opportunity for studying the role of social interactions and relationships that underlie organizational work on these platforms. The purpose of this PhD thesis is to examine ESM in light of its social dynamics and the implications of these for organizational work. In the context of this research, social dynamics refer to the interactions and relationships between actors in the organization. Conceptually the social dynamics of ESM at work are investigated in the light of three domains of ESM, sociality and work and their intersections. The investigation builds on the empirical setting of three organizations utilizing the ESM technology Yammer and involves the examination of the organizations’ use of the platform through methods of interviews and observations onsite and online. The thesis makes three central contributions to our understanding of the social dynamics of ESM at work. First, the thesis adds to existing perspectives on ESM in organizations by integrating the three domains of ESM, sociality and work. While the literature has so far treated these domains separately or in pairs, this research demonstrates how the social dynamics of ESM in organizations arise between the functionalities of the ESM technology, the sociality of the organizational members, and the work practices carried out. Second, the thesis presents a social fabric framework as a way of explaining, interpreting and understanding the social dynamics of ESM at work. Mapping the social fabric of the organization on ESM provides valuable insight into the dynamic and diverse nature of the relationships that form on the platform and how these create the basis of work. Third, the thesis contributes a relational constructivist perspective to the study of the social dynamics of ESM at work that emphasize the study of relationships between actors rather than the study of individual actors. Considering the social dynamics of ESM in organizations through the social fabric framework provides researchers and practitioners with a new way of understanding and theorizing about ESM at work. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9264 Files in this item: 1
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A dispositif analysis perspectiveDyrby, Signe (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper explores the introduction of Enterprise Social Media into organizational practices. The investigation draws on Foucault’s perspective of dispositif analysis as an approach to analyzing and understanding the influence of technology on organizations. The dispositif analysis is pursued through the illustration of an organization implementing an enterprise social media technology for the practice of knowledge management. In the analysis two dispositifs are considered, a dispositif of hierarchy and a dispositif of network. A discussion is carried on the dispositif analysis as a method including opportunities and limitations. It is argued that allowing for the analysis of historically formed dispositifs can add to our way of understanding the influences of technology on the social order of organizations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9076 Files in this item: 1
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A performative approach to studying processes of systemic innovation in the energy sectorBrenneche, Nicolaj Tofte (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The ongoing efforts to transform energy systems towards becoming environmentally sustainable provide a rich empirical source for cases of organizational creativity in the form of collective entrepreneurship, co-creation and collaborative innovation. In this paper, I will briefly introduce the challenge of organizing knowledge production in context of open-ended energy system transitions and argue, on the ground of a critical reading of established innovation management research, that a processual approach is needed in order to analyze how system transition processes are pursued through an entrepreneurial form of collective agency-in-progress through e.g. partnership arrangements. I will put particular emphasis on presenting a methodology for doing innovation process research performatively which I have developed during the course of my ph.d. research where I have participated in a European strategic partnership since 2009. Considering this partnership as a case of relational entrepreneurship within the organization of energy research, the methodological discussion puts focus on how to study this performatively – that is, how to not only theorize and study relational entrepreneurship as a practice of others, but to perform relational entrepreneurship through a research practice. The paper comprise an introduction and then a excerpt from my methodology chapter from my ph.d. thesis which I am close to finalizing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8831 Files in this item: 1
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Origins, Attributes, CritiqueFoss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Israel Kirzner’s concept of entrepreneurship as alertness to profit opportunities is one of the most influential modern interpretations of the entrepreneurial function. Shane and Venkataraman’s (2000: 218) influential assessment defines entrepreneurship research as “the scholarly examination of how, by whom, and with what effects opportunities to create future goods and services are discovered, evaluated, and exploited.” As such, “the field involves the study of sources of opportunities; the processes of discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities; and the set of individuals who discover, evaluate, and exploit them.” Shane’s General Theory of Entrepreneurship (2003) cites Kirzner and “Kirznerian opportunities” more than any writer other than Joseph Schumpeter. More generally, the entrepreneurial opportunity, rather than the individual entrepreneur, the startup company, or the new product, has become the centerpiece of the academic study of entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7755 Files in this item: 1
SMG WP 2009-02.pdf (317.2Kb) -
A Role Model Story?Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van (Bonn, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context in shaping i ndividual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in entrepreneurship research is one’s boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees’ decisions to become entrepreneurs themselves? Using Danish register data of newly founded firms and their entrepreneurs and employees between 2003 and 2012, and employing methods that allow causal inferences, we show that entrepreneurial bosses indeed affect their employees’ future entrepreneurship choices, especially if both boss and employee are female. We investigate two alternative underlying mechanisms that may shape the (female) boss’ influence on (female) workers’ entrepreneurship decisions. Our results consistently suggest that entrepreneurial bosses may act as role models for the entrepreneurship activities of their employees, especially between pairs of female bosses and female employees. We do not find any evidence on female bosses acting as “queen bees” at the workplace. Female entrepreneurial bosses may, thus, act as a lever to reducing the gender gaps in entrepreneurship rates. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9347 Files in this item: 1
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Dahl, Michael; Van Praag, Mirjam; Thompson, Peter (, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find evidence that couples often establish a business together because one spouse ? most commonly the female ? has limited outside opportunities in the labor market. However, the financial benefits for each of the spouses, and especially the female, are larger in co-entrepreneurial firms, both during the life of the business and post-dissolution. The start-up of co-entrepreneurial firms seems therefore a sound in-vestment in the human capital of both spouses as well as in the reduction of income inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8961 Files in this item: 1
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Empirical Investigations into Entrepreneurial Activities of Hackers and MakersHalbinger, Maria (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: New ventures are central to an economy’s welfare and substantial promoters of technological change and innovation. Extant research has identified individuals and their role in entrepreneurial processes as the core pillars of entrepreneurship. This PhD dissertation aims to refine our understanding of the fundamental relationship between individuals and their entrepreneurial activities. In order to empirically test the hypotheses built, the analyses are based on a unique dataset on individuals in hacker- and makerspaces, i.e. open communities with physical workspaces where individuals with a common interest in technology, computing, science, art and hacking culture can meet, socialize and collaborate. Given that hackers and makers engage in various entrepreneurial activities, this empirical setting offers crucial benefits when analyzing entrepreneurial individuals. The thesis combines the literatures on psychology and entrepreneurship and consists of three essays. The first essay focuses on the early activities in the entrepreneurial process and depicts how the individual’s creativity as well as different forms of motivation influence different process activities including the discovery and exploitation of opportunities. The second essay consists of a longitudinal analysis and examines how the identity of the founder relates to firm exit. The third essay applies computational linguistic tools on haiku poems written by hackers to investigate how self-confidence, social awareness and social influence are related with entrepreneurial experience, defined by the number of times the individual has been involved in new firm establishments. Overall, the thesis aims to contribute to the field of entrepreneurship by providing empirical evidence on the individual-level factors that shape entrepreneurial activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8931 Files in this item: 1
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Moberg, Kåre (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this book chapter I present a multidimensional entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) scale. The scale builds on three established ESE-scales, but the reliability of it is improved compared to the original three scales as the highly discipline-specific jargon is transformed to a more neutral wording of the items. The scale has been tested in a large scale survey including 445 students from twelve different programmes at three universities in Denmark and one university in Sweden. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) has been applied in order to investigate the multidimensionality of the items in the scale, and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been applied to investigate its convergent, discriminatory and nomological validity. The results demonstrate support for a multidimensional ESE-scale with high predictive validity regarding entrepreneurial behaviours and with high reliability as the items are comprehensible to respondents, regardless if they have entrepreneurial experience or not. The scale can thus be used in programme evaluations that include control groups or other type of individuals that lack entrepreneurial experience. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8565 Files in this item: 1
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From opportunity discovery to judgmentFoss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Entrepreneurship has become a fast-growing subfield in management research, and is increasingly appearing in economics, finance, and even law. We survey a number of approaches to entrepreneurship in the economics and management literatures, and argue that modern research in this area need to be focused around ideas from Austrian economics and Frank Knight on entrepreneurial judgment. We critically discuss the recent opportunity discovery literature in management, and argue that it has partially misunderstood the Austrian origins of the theory, and fails to ade-quately distinguish between opportunity identification and opportunity exploitation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7485 Files in this item: 1
smg wp 2008-05.pdf (347.1Kb) -
Klein, Peter (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
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Foss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Entrepreneurship is ultimately about the arrangement of resources into productive activi-ties. Much of the entrepreneurship literature, however, has focused on the demand side of the market. While resource heterogeneity is a feature of many theories of the firm, such theories are not built on a systematic theory of capital. We show how the approach to capital developed by the Austrian school of economics provides a natural bridge between theory of entrepreneurship and the theory of the firm. We refine Austrian capital theory by defining capital heterogeneity in terms of subjectively perceived attributes, the func-tions, characteristics, and uses of capital assets. Such attributes are not given, but have to be created or discovered by means of entrepreneurial action. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7443 Files in this item: 1
smg wp 2008-03.pdf (348.5Kb)