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Applying dialogism in social science researchOoi, Can-Seng (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Bakhtin was a literary theorist and was the widely acknowledged father of dialogism. This working paper shows how Bakhtin and dialogism can be used to capture complexity, ambivalence and ambiguity in the social world. In following the spirit of dialogism, I will refer to my own research experiences in tourism and art worlds, through which I will reveal my own inclinations – which can be read as biases – in my research knowledge production. Through the concept of genre, heteroglossia, polyphony and carnivalesque, dialogism allows social science researchers to identify and structure the forces of order and disruption in society. There are methodological consequences if one is to follow dialogism. Besides having to get deep into the empirical field, dialogism challenges by raising questions on the manner we collect data, the extent to which we can present a holistic analysis, the ways to engage alternative analytical interpretations and the approach to address a researcher’s own biases. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8672 Filer i denne post: 1
CLCS WP Ooi.pdf (94.05Kb) -
an empirical analysisPetersen, Christian; Plenborg, Thomas (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Fair value accounting has become predominant in accounting as a vast number of IAS/IFRS standards are based on fair value accounting, including IAS 36 Impairment of assets. Fair value accounting for goodwill is technically challenging, since market prices are not observable. Thus, valuation technologies must be applied in order to test goodwill for impairment. While prior research on goodwill has concentrated on either the (dis)advantages for each accounting procedure for goodwill or examined the value relevance of goodwill (amortization) and goodwill write-offs, little effort has been devoted to the technical problems in the implementation of IAS 36. However, recent research on the topic document that firms commit a variety of errors in applying IAS 36 (Petersen and Plenborg, 2007). We examine firm characteristics that might explain the frequency of errors that firms commit in applying impairment tests. Our findings suggest that at least two factors might explain why errors are present – the lack of an impairment manual and not involving employees with rigorous experience in firm valuation. Our research, which might be seen as the fist step toward guidelines in applying technically challenging accounting standards, should be of interest to firms, auditors and standard setters. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6749 Filer i denne post: 1
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Navrbjerg, Steen E.; Minbaeva, Dana (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: As multinational corporations operate in multiple countries, headquarters must take into account differences in local settings when seeking the means to coordinate and control subsidiaries. The local system of industrial relations sets the framework for what kind of human resource management a multinational corporation can implement. Yet another question is whether the still stronger multinationals can change the existing systems of industrial relations, directly or indirectly. The paper analyzes four Danish enterprises over a ten-year period. This longitudinal study shows that none of the multinationals directly try to interfere in local industrial relations. However, by exercising their management prerogative in a way that differs from the Northern European tradition of industrial relations, they do influence the cooperation between employers and employees. In particular, the results show that a shift from a stakeholder to a shareholder management style and the increased degree of HQ control have an effect on the whole cooperative atmosphere in each of the companies. In the long run, they may affect the collective bargaining system as such. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7451 Filer i denne post: 1
smg wp 2008-13.pdf (778.2Kb) -
Bramming, Pia (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: What has power to do with Human Resource Management (HRM)? Perusing HRMtextbooks one will find, that power as a concept, only seldom is approached explicitly. When the subject of power is addressed directly, it is primarily as a question of bargaining power between organisation and labour market institutions, the power of a leader or person in terms of the right to execute punishment and the duty to obedience or empowerment, as a countermove to the effects of bureaucratic workplace routines "... where initiative is stifled and workers become alienated"1. Indirectly one can identify power as interesting in the HRM-literature, as a question of influence or status of HRM as a function in business. Does or does HRM not play a central role in business? Is HR part of top management? That is questions concerned with how power is distributed as a commodity in reality. This paper is taking up the concept of power as a distributing force of reality, as opposed to a distribution of commodities in reality. In this way the position on power adopted is similar to the in Deleuzes words very simple definition of power by Foucault: "Power is a relation between forces, or rather every relation between forces is a ‘power relation." (Deleuze 1999: 70). This way of conceptualising power has as a consequence, that power always has several sides: Power is not essentially repressive Power is not unilateral, but requires both "masters and mastered" Power is practiced more than it is possessed. The first point is serving as both the way in and the way out of this paper. The paper will pry at the workings of power in order to unfold power as a positive as well as repressing force using HRM as the practice where power is working. "The exercise of power is a "conduct of conducts" and a management of possibilities" (Foucault, 2000: 341) Consequently, the way to study power is not to try to "find it", but to see, how it is practiced. (Deleuze, 1999: 71) Studying power in HRM therefore becomes a question on grasping the power relations and force fields emerging from HRM-practice. One could therefore ask the question: "What is HR about – and what is HR practice?" Barbara Townley (1994, 1998, 1999) has done this extensively and demonstrates how a foucauldian analysis focuses on practices, which structure social relations. (Townley, 1998: 194) Townley conceptualizes HRM as the medium through which the employment relationship may be organized or disciplined through technologies of the self. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6677 Filer i denne post: 1
dokument 15.pdf (269.4Kb) -
Minbaeva, Dana (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper explores why and how HRM matters for knowledge transfer within multinational corporations. It is built upon the premise that there are certain HRM practices influencing extrinsic and intrinsic motivation of knowledge receivers. It is found that complementarity among HRM practices exists but does not always have a positive effect on knowledge transfer. Three hypotheses derived from these arguments are tested on data from 92 subsidiaries of Danish multinational corporations located in 11 countries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7450 Filer i denne post: 1
smg wp 2008-12.pdf (428.2Kb) -
Minbaeva, Dana B. (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This chapter introduces HRM practices that help MNCs to overcome knowledge transfer barriers (knowledge-driven HRM practices). It argues that MNCs can institute various HRM practices that impact knowledge transfer barriers associated with behavior of knowledge senders and receivers. HRM practices relevant for absorptive capacity of subsidiary employees form two groups – cognitive (job analysis, recruitment, selection, international rotation, career management, training and performance appraisal) and stimulative (promotion, performance-based compensation, internal transfer, orientation programs, job design and flexible working practices). The application of cognitive HRM practices enhances the ability of knowledge receivers to absorb transferred knowledge, while the use of stimulative HRM practices increases their motivation. Temporary and permanent types of international assignments respectively influence the ability and motivation of expatriate managers to share their knowledge. Keywords: Human Resources; Personnel; Human Resource Management; Multinational Corporations; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Learning; URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7447 Filer i denne post: 1
cbs forskningsindberetning smg 96.pdf (759.5Kb) -
A Strategic Management Analysis on Activity‐levelØrberg Jensen, Peter D.; Petersen, Bent (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this exploratory study we look at human asset aspects of offshore outsourcing of services that over time become more advanced and strategic potent to the outsourcing firms. As a consequence, the outsourcing firms might want to internalize the operations. We focus on the ways that outsourcing firms may transfer key personnel of local service providers to whollyowned subsidiaries. We argue that a felt need for applying more powerful incentives on key personnel of the service provider ‐ to harness and empower the sourcing operation ‐ may in itself be a motive for, and key driver of, the internalization process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8242 Filer i denne post: 1
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Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Human capital has often been discussed in transaction cost economics, particularly in connection with understanding the employment relation. This chapter reviews Williamson’s thinking on the issue, explains how it differs from Coase and Simon’s, and briefly discusses the relevant empirical literature. The chapter also covers property rights theory, and discusses various critiques of the treatment of human capital in transaction cost economics. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7429 Filer i denne post: 1
smg wp 2008-02.pdf (363.3Kb) -
Rose Skaksen, Jan; Munch, Jakob Roland (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intence competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical results. Osing a very rich matched worker-firm longitudinal dataset we find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export wage premium, but it accrues to workers in firms with high skill intensities. Keywords: Exports, Wages, Human Capital, Rent Sharing, Matched Worker-Firm Data JEL Classification: J30, F10, I20 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7623 Filer i denne post: 1
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Resume: This paper argues that the conceptualization of the human, the computer and the domain of use in competing lines of UX research have problematic similarities and superficial differences. The paper qualitatively analyses concepts and models in five research papers that together represent two influential lines of UX research: aesthetics and temporal UX, and two use situations: using a website and starting to use a smartphone. The results suggest that the two lines of UX research share a focus on users’ evaluative judgments of technology, both focuses on product qualities rather than activity domains, give little details about users, and treat human-computer interaction as perception. The conclusion gives similarities and differences between the approaches to UX. The implications for theory building are indicated. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8705 Filer i denne post: 1
Torkil_Clemmensen.pdf (92.43Kb) -
visual communication and interactionNielsen, Janni (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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The Case of Amnesty InternationalVestergaard, Anne (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The development of corporate communication in recent years has brought about a fading of the division of labor between commercial and non-commercial organizations. While the practices of commercial organizations are becoming increasingly ethicalized, so the practices of non-profit organizations are becoming increasingly commercialized. This paper explores the use of media discourse for the communication of ethical messages by humanitarian organizations, caught, as they are, in a tension between, on the one hand, the commercial strategies of visibility and still greater dependence on the media, and, on the other hand, the public’s skepticism toward mediated morality and what is commonly referred to as compassion fatigue. The issue is investigated through an analysis of a TV spot produced by the Danish section of Amnesty International in 2004. This spot is taken as an example of how the organization’s branding strategies testify to a high degree of reflexivity about the conditions of what Luc Boltanski calls a Crisis of Pity. The analysis illustrates how, in the face of compassion fatigue, the organization manages to carve out a new space for itself in the marketized ethical discourse, and leads to a discussion of the consequences of such rebranding for the construction of morality by the organization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6965 Filer i denne post: 1
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Writing, Researching, TeachingBeyes, Timon; Johnsen, Rasmus; Munch, Mathias Adam; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi; LPF; Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy; MPP (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Following the workshop “Practicing Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education” at the University of St.Gallen in November 2012, the Copenhagen Business School was happy to host the follow-up workshop “Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education – Writing, Researching, Teaching”. Yet again we were proud to welcome international scholar adding great ideas and perspectives and initiating fruitful discussion concerning the debates around management education. This booklet contains the program, paper abstracts as well as articles from the online journalism incubator Studentreporter.org and the online Grasp-Magazine, summarizing various aspects of the workshop. We would like to thank all scholars and participants for their great contributions as well as a the Haniel Foundation for making the events possible. For further information about the workshops, projects and ongoing discussions please visit our online-platform: www.practical-reasoning.eu. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8877 Filer i denne post: 1
Rasmus_Johnsen.pdf (2.361Mb) -
Laursen, Keld; Foss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We survey, organize, and discuss the literature on the role of organizational practices for explaining innovation outcomes. We discuss how individual practices influence innovation, and how the clustering of specific practices matters for innovation outcomes. Relatedly, we discuss various possible mediators of the HRM/innovation link, such as knowledge sharing, social capital and network effects. We argue that the causal mechanisms underlying the HRM/innovation links are still ill-understood, calling for further research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8516 Filer i denne post: 1
Laursen_Foss_SMGWP2012_5.pdf (914.1Kb) -
Pre-conference proceedings of the IFIP TC 13.6 HWID working conferenceLopes, Arminda; Barricelli, Barbara Rita; Nocera, José Abdelnour; Campos, Pedro; Clemmensen, Torkil (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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NordiCHI Workshop on Crisis management training: design and use of online worlds, Reykjavik, Iceland, 16 October 2010Clemmensen, Torkil; Ulslev Pedersen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Internet- and sensor based ICT systems for climate management in greenhouses presents challenges for the understanding of how technology mediates the interaction between humans and specific work contexts, which is the topic of the field of Human Work Interaction Design (HWID). In this paper, we will analyze and discuss how to combine empirical work analysis with interaction design techniques, with a focus on sensor-based prototypes. The proposed method is action research that will use a combination of theory from usability, work analysis, and prototyping techniques. We wish to investigate possibilities for designing, using and evaluating interactive sensor based prototypes for designing systems, learning key skills, and enhancing current training methods, all of this in a work context. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8232 Filer i denne post: 1
Clemmensen__Pedersen_2010.pdf (130.2Kb) -
Examples from Danish and FrenchLundquist, Lita (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7821 Filer i denne post: 1
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En undersøgelse af, hvordan handicappede på arbejdsmarkedet ser sig selv og ses af deres ledere og kollegerMik-Meyer, Nanna; Kolding, Rasmus; Bossen Nielsen, Charlotte (København, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Nærværende forskningsprojekt er finansieret af Ludvig og Sara Elsass Fond, der i efteråret 2012 inviterede mig til et møde med henblik på et eventuelt samarbejde. Spastikerforeningen havde rettet henvendelse til fonden for at indgå et samarbejde om et projekt, der skulle vise, hvilke forhold der gjorde sig gældende for mennesker med cerebral parese (fremover CP), der var ansat på det danske arbejdsmarked. De to parter var især interesseret i at få belyst, hvilke erfaringer ledere og kolleger havde i forhold til at arbejde sammen med medarbejdere med CP, da dette var et område, man vidste meget lidt om. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8939 Filer i denne post: 1
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Behov for og holdninger til fremmedsprog i den danske centraladministration i et uddannelsespolitisk perspektivSkovgaard Andersen, Mette; Verstraete-Hansen, Lisbeth (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8783 Filer i denne post: 1
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Knudsen, Christian (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]