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A literature review and a suggestion of how to study the issueWestenholz, Ann (, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Very little research – if any – has been done to find out what happens to leadership and working live when Chinese companies settle in Denmark. This paper argues that it is worth investigating this topic, as I assume that the numbers of Chinese companies locating themselves in Denmark will increase in the coming years. The aim of the paper is firstly to give an overview of the literature that deals with the development of Chinese companies going abroad, and it is shown that the direct outward investments of China is experiencing a rapid growth. Secondly I like to look at leadership and working lives in China, and the lesson learned from the literature is that leadership and working life in China is diverse and continuously evolving. But some trends may be identified like different institutional regimes and different types of companies. Thirdly I look at leadership and working life in Denmark, and I compare leadership and working life in the two countries showing that there are many differences. These differences may have an impact on the way Chinese companies handle their encounters with ‘strangers’ when they establish themselves abroad, but we do not know if this is happening. I conclude by outlining a way of how to empirically study the interaction between Chinese and Danish managers and employees working together in a Chinese company in Denmark. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8645 Files in this item: 1
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Entrepreneurial leadership?Hansson, Finn; Mønsted, Mette (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
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Are Entrant Firms Exposed to a 'Shock Effect'?Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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implication of growing cross-border interdependenceNarula, Rajneesh (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Barnes, Justin; Lorentzen, Jochen (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper addresses the innovation activities of automotive component manufacturers in South Africa. It looks at the technological trajectory of a handful of firms that stand out from the crowd and analyses the results of their endeavours in the context of their interaction with foreign capital, their internal upgrading and R&D agenda, and their interface with South Africa’s national innovation system (NIS). The analysis makes use of eight case studies, and illustrates the conditions under which indigenous innovation in the automotive industries can happen in a developing country. This finding contradicts at least part of the conventional wisdom concerning the location of innovation activities in global car value chains. Results also point to a deficient NIS insofar as there appears to be a disjuncture between the demand for engineering competence in the manufacturing sector on the one hand and output from the tertiary education sector on the other. Open questions that need further attention include among others the overall functioning of the NIS, and changes over time in the perception of local innovation potential by car assemblers. Keywords: automotive industry, developing countries, technology transfer, technology accumulation, innovation. JEL Classification: L62, O31, O32. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6546 Files in this item: 1
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An understanding anchored in pragmatismBang Mathiasen, John (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The subject matter chosen for this PhD, learning within a Product Development (PD) working practice, might give rise to wonder given that I have a theoretical education within supply chain management, achieved practical experience as senior supply chain manager and finally, conducted a great many lectures dealing with supply chain management. Offhand, it may seem an odd choice, but my practical experience, briefly illustrated in the below, triggered the decision to study learning within a PD working practice. PD implies design of components and clarifications of the assembly process. A side effect of these activities is a routing, which establishes the supply chain; that is, the total journey, which all components must undertake before the product is saleable. Hence, seen from the perspective of the operation, the supply chain to be managed throughout the life cycle of the product is created during the PD phase. Changing a supply chain later on is possible, but it requires a significant effort. When managing a supply chain area, in which a large part of the products had a life cycle of more than 10 years, I realised the critical importance of influencing the PD process. Thus, employees from the supply chain department were often engaged in intense exchanges of views with the PD engineers and substantial resources were devoted to improving the awareness of supply chain considerations during the PD process. Nevertheless, in my firm conviction, these efforts only managed to exert minor influence and consequently, the established supply chains were difficult to handle. Ever since then, I have wondered why we were unsuccessful in influencing the supply chain of a new product. The involved supply chain engineers had a highly theoretical background as well as practical experience, but it was not possible to initiate learning among the PD engineers as regards the establishment of a more suitable supply chain. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8509 Files in this item: 1
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Raffnsøe, Sverre (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: On dit souvent que Foucault a renoncé à toute philosophie de l’histoire ce qu'on peut bien admettre en constatant l'impatience de Foucault de mettre de la distance avec l’histoire universelle qui explique l'histoire en la rapportant à quelque chose qui oblige universellement et qui est en train de se faire valoir à l'époque. Dans ses Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte Hegel se réconciliait avec les antithèses de L’histoire du monde en les voyant comme l'expression d'une raison qui se faisait conscience d'elle-même à l'époque et qui cherchait à se manifester aux différents niveaux. Dans sa Zur Genealogie der Moral Nietzsche pensait se trouver en pleine réouverture d'une guerre universelle indissoluble entre "Rome" et "Judée", entre une culture aristocratique qui donnait libre cours à nos épanouissements et une culture de ressentiment qui cherchait à réprimer nos activités plus que de besoin. Dans Die Idee der Naturgeschichte Adorno essayait de faire éclater le continuum historique et ses truismes en montrant comment une nature en elle-même indéfinisable est toujours présent concrètement dans l'histoire et dans la culture sans y être réductible. Au contraire Foucault renonce à ordonner l'histoire en la mettrant à distance dans une retrospection totalisante qui se réfère à une raison synthétisante, à une conflictualité générale ou à une transcendance née de l'histoire mais oubliée URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6400 Files in this item: 1
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Hartmann, Stig (København, 1997)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: artikel falder i tre afsnit. Første afsnit arbejder på at vise hvordan den nuværende ledelsespraksis nødvendigvis må bevæge sig mellem to helt fundamentale orienteringer som giver ’ledelse’, lederen og den ledede en grundlæggende mening med sin tilblivelse. Dette afsnit slutter i håbet om at der må være en overensstemmelse mellem den retoriske logos, etos og patos for at undgå at blive forført af et usædvanligt raffineret kunstværk som kan betegnes som et liv der lykkes. Andet afsnit udvikler på baggrund af en historisk læsning af værdibegrebets indholdsmæssige forskydning et begreb om eksistentielle værdier, som på den ene side udtrykker menneskets grundlæggende livsvilkår og på den anden side signalerer de tavse værdier der sikrer virksomhedens bæredygtighed. Artiklen afslutter med et afsnit omkring den praktiske integration af etiske fortællinger baseret i en forudsætning om at forståelse og ånd kan være de bærende komponenter i det organisatoriske fællesskab. Herved gives et bud på, hvordan etikken bør realiseres i organisationen gennem den autonome fortælling, der har sans for det gode liv. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6387 Files in this item: 1
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En problemformuleringHøjbjerg, Erik (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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brudstykker af 27 lederes livRy Nielsen, Jens Carl; Ry, Morten (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne artikel er et uddrag af endnu ikke publiceret bog om lederes hverdagsliv. Bogen bygger i meget høj grad på interviews. Vi har således interviewet 27 ledere to gange i perioden maj 2005 oktober 2006. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6684 Files in this item: 1
ledere i aktion og udvikling.pdf (189.6Kb) -
Lando, Henrik (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: How should a court set the negligence standard in a given area of activity when future (potential) injurers or victims are unlikely to know the standard set by the court? In particular, how should the standard be set in the oft-occurring case where one of the future parties is a professional actor who is likely to know the legal standard of negligence, while the other is an amateur, who is unlikely to know it? In this case, it may be optimal for the court to set the standards at the first-best level despite the amateur's ignorance of the law. The amateur may be able to infer the standards, either from the situation itself (from his knowledge of the costs and benefits of precautions), or from the act performed by the professional party. Moreover, the amateur may take due care because he realizes that the professional party will have an incentive to live up to the standard, and that the risk of a loss will therefore be on the amateur. However, when the ignorance of the amateur is "large," involving not only the legal standards but also the risks inherent in the activity, it may well be optimal for the court to depart from first best standards. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7239 Files in this item: 1
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Møller, Michael; Rose, Caspar (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Seabrooke, Leonard (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Who drives domestic institutional change in the face of international economic crisis? For rationalists the answer is powerful self-interested actors who struggle for material gains during an exogenously generated crisis. For economic constructivists it is ideational entrepreneurs who use ideas as weapons to establish paths for institutional change during crisis-driven uncertainty. Both approaches are elite-centric and conceive legitimacy as established by command or proclamation. This article establishes why domestic institutional change in response to international economic constraints must be legitimated by non-elites and how their everyday actions alter policy paths established in crisis. This is illustrated by re-examining a case frequently associated with punctuated equilibrium theories of crisis and institutional change: interwar Britain. In contrast to conventional explanations, I argue that the "legitimacy gap" between elite and broader public understandings about how the economy should work informed institutional experimentation during the 1920s and 1930s and fertilized the "Keynesian Revolution" of the 1940s. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7381 Files in this item: 1
legitimacy_gaps_british_eco_no14.pdf (211.7Kb) -
Raffnsøe, Sverre (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: L’événement joue un rôle central peut-être un peu sous-estimé chez Michel Foucault. Dans cet article on essaierait de combler cette lacune, en rendant compte du rôle de l’événement dans la pensée de Foucault pour jeter un jour nouveau sur les traits de l’événement en général et le rôle de l’événement dans le livre The Music of Chance de Paul Auster en particulier. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8176 Files in this item: 1
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unusual lessons from the past for the post-Soviet marketHolden, Nigel (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Juridisk analyse af kvinders og mænds adgang til varer og tjenesteydelserNielsen, Ruth (København, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: 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 Files in this item: 1
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Exploring some benefits of constraints on creativity and aesthetic value creationFrandsen, Thomas; Friis, Ivar; Hansen, Allan (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper explores the role of budgeting in the Danish film industry and seeks to illustrate the positive effects a line-budget might have on the creativity and innovativeness in film production. In our analysis we provide illustrative examples of the enabling and facilitating role of budget constraints on film production from the Danish film industry in general as well as from a case study of the process of making the Danish film “The Island of Lost Souls” in particular. We draw on Elster (2000)’s constraint theory and suggest that the constraints imposed on agents by line-item budgeting under some circumstances lead to situations where ‘less is more’ as line-item budgeting might be used to focus creative behavior as well as pre-commit the agent against passion and time inconsistency. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8483 Files in this item: 1
Frandsen_Friis_and_Hansen_2011.pdf (133.5Kb)