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Lunde Jørgensen, Ida (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The thesis contributes to a more nuanced understanding of art support by investigating the underlying legitimations and institutional logics of two of the most significant foundations supporting visual art, in Denmark, the private New Carlsberg Foundation and public Danish Arts Foundation. Drawing on insights from neo-institutional and French convention theory, the thesis makes its central contributions within the fields of neo-institutional theory, cultural policy and philanthropy studies. The first paper shows the suitability of neo-institutional theory, particularly the theories of isomorphism, cultural and institutional entrepreneurship, institutional logics, and rhetorical work to address a number of key debates in cultural policy pertaining to the evaluation of aesthetic performance, the justification of investment in the arts and how ideas and meanings become taken for granted in the cultural policy field. In addition, the first paper theorizes the wider field of cultural policy, suggesting twelve institutional arenas where cultural policy is unfolded, of which the thesis focuses on public and private foundations. In the second paper, the thesis focuses on uncovering the key legitimations of art support in the New Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation at critical points in time, drawing on and contributing to the literature on institutional logics and convention theory. Specifically, the thesis shows the importance of nine particular logics of legitimation underlying art support; the industrial, market, inspired, family, renown, civic, projective, emotional and temporal. Most central to the foundations’ operation are the professional (industrial), artistic (inspired) and civic logics. The thesis shows that the invocations of these logics are highly reflective upon wider societal institutions, prevailing institutional logics, the nature of the critical moment and the organisations’ practices and purpose. In the third paper the thesis hones in on the temporal logic, and draws attention to the micro-level use of this logic, which suggests that logics are invoked in characteristic ways. The third paper illuminates five distinctive uses of the past in the New Carlsberg Foundation, pertaining to the charter, the founding family, place, the moment and anecdotes and importantly shows that while some of these uses are reflected and instrumental, others are institutionalised and show propensity towards institutional reification. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9337 Filer i denne post: 1
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Strengthening universities’ strategic collaboration with the surrounding societyOlsson, Torben; Hjorth, Charlotte Lorentz; Yngvesson, Markus; Jönsson, Eric; Oehlmann, Johanna; Hjorth, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This project is in line with the Scandinavian approach to the welfare state and the active, public role for stimulating and facilitating innovation (Bason, 2010). Researching this pilot effort to build an incubator for public innovation is thus not only a study of how it could be done, but also an inquiry into the role of public support for an innovative public sector (cf. Mazzucato, 2014; Ansell and Torfing, 2014; Osborne and Brown, 2013). Current societal challenges are creating pressure for the public sector to increase effectiveness and deliver better services. Many agree that the relationship between people and the public sector in general and public services in particular should be radically reshaped (Manzini and Staszowski, 2013). There has been a recent move away from new public management based approaches to public innovation (Bason, 2010). Generally this means a move towards a more collaborative (Ansell and Torfing, 2014) and symbiotic process (Mazzucato, 2014). Hartley (2013) shows there are both great overlaps between public and private innovation, and distinct differences. Notably, incentive to learn from others is less clear in the public sector where new knowledge is not an obvious driver of competitive capacity. In conclusion, research also points to the need to develop more local-specific models and approaches to innovation-support in public organisations. Beyond the triple-helix model of collaboration (Etzkowits and Leydesdorff, 2000) public innovation needs support from a local organisation that can provide the solution to the incentive problem, and feed innovation processes with organisational support. Whereas incubators have provided this support for business start-ups, developing an incubator-model for public innovation is new and timely. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9427 Filer i denne post: 1
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Rethinking practice, problems and possibilitiesHjordrup, Sanne K. (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This industrial PhD is about talent management. More specifically, it is about how the customer relationship becomes a source of value and value creation for the company through the practice of talent management, a key strategic HR initiative. Talent management is a costly activity in terms of both time and money. Nevertheless, talent management is an HR practice that is virtually taken for granted in any company of a certain size. This is the case because it is assumed to be a value-adding initiative and believed to be a key strategic HR initiative, in particular for large global organisations, to remain competitive. This dissertation suggests that talent management practices are not necessarily as value-adding as is the long-standing assumption, and thus challenges prevailing notions of what constitutes valuable talent management. It argues the need to rethink the practice of talent management to ensure that it adds a level of value that justifies the amount of attention and resources spent on it. The dissertation examines what the implications are for talent management when a company introduces a customer focus as a way of competing in the market. In order to examine this, the dissertation brings the concept of value into the discussion of talent management and thus invites new ways of connecting the various dots of talent management – both within the HR function and in the interaction between HR, the business and the customers. Value is a complex concept, and in the management literature (including the literature on talent management), the concept is often addressed in a narrow economic sense based on an industrial logic. The strategic management literature has increasingly focused on value in a relational sense, which alters ways of doing successful business. The dissertation argues that when a company perceives customer relations as a potential source of competitive advantages, this has implications for notions of value and value creation in the organisation, including the practice of talent management. This requires a relational perspective on value and value creation, which implies that value becomes both more difficult to control and more complex and embedded in a system of multiple, mutually dependent factors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9207 Filer i denne post: 1
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A View from the Sociology of CritiquePresskorn-Thygesen, Thomas (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This article examines the forms of mobility that characterize contemporary work life. In doing so, it applies the theoretical framework associated with Luc Boltanski’s sociology of critique (Boltanski, 2012 [1990]; Boltanski and Thévenot, 2006 [1991]) and argues that this framework offers a fruitful and important perspective in conceptualizing and understanding the forms of mobility that are becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s knowledge work. The sociology of critique allows one to chart the economic and historical conditions of mobility critically, while its sociology of morals also allows us to explore the distinctly normative side of new forms of mobility without succumbing to a celebratory picture of work-related mobility. More specifically and in the context of the ‘kinetic elite’, the article explores how Boltanski and Chiapello’s (2005) analysis of a ‘projective order of worth’ can help us understand the attractiveness of constantly being ‘on the move’. Qualitative data from three exemplars of this elite group of workers is used to illustrate how the ideal of being mobile is perceived as an often problematic imperative, but also as one which is nevertheless rewarding and worth living up to. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9238 Filer i denne post: 1
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The Critical State of Critique in the Age of CriticismRaffnsøe, Sverre (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Since the Enlightenment critique has played an overarching role in how western society understands itself and its basic institutions. However, opinions differ widely concerning the understanding and evaluation of critique. To understand such differences and clarify a viable understanding of critique, the article turns to Kant’s critical philosophy, inaugurating the “age of criticism”. While generalizing and making critique unavoidable, Kant coins an unambiguously positive understanding of critique as an affirmative, immanent activity. Not only does this positive conception prevail in the critique of pure and practical reason and the critique of judgment; these modalities of critique set the agenda for three major strands of critique in contemporary thought, culminating in among others Husserl, Popper Habermas, Honneth, and Foucault. Critique affirms and challenges cognition and its rationality, formulates ethical ideals that regulate social interaction, and further articulates normative guidelines underway in the on-going experimentations of a post-natural history of human nature. In contradistinction to esoteric Platonic theory, philosophy at the threshold of modernity becomes closely linked to an outward-looking critique that examines and pictures what human forms of life are in the process of making of themselves and challenges them, by reflecting upon what they can and what they should make of themselves. As a very widely diffused practice, however, critique may also become a self-affirming overarching end in itself. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9138 Filer i denne post: 1
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Verdibasert og skaperkraftig ledelseSletterød, Niels Arvid; Myhren, Rune; Kirkeby, Ole Fogh (Steinkjer, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Vår menneskelige skaperkraft er nøkkelen til verdiskaping, innovasjon og konkurransekraft. Derfor trenger alle ledere å forstå seg på å være et skapende menneske. Blues gir et perspektiv på det skapendes kår i virksomheter. Bluesbandet er et godt eksempel på klok ledelse av skapende arbeidsfellesskap. Bluesen avdekker hvordan det står til med oss og om våre verdier blir gjort virkelige i det vi gjør og skaper. Da synet sitter i øret vil bluesen kunne avdekke det skapendes vilkår slik det oppleves og leves ut i virksomheten. Ledere må altså være gode lyttere. Bluesbandet er et skapende arbeidsfellesskap som fremelsker skapermot og utvikler skaperglede. Stående på kanten av stupet, «the point of no return», har bandet en felles oppgave og skjebne. Alle må gjøre hverandre gode og overgå seg selv i det skapende mesterskapet for å bli konkurransedyktig og etterspurt. Ledelse av det skapende handler om det. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9246 Filer i denne post: 1
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Resume: This case centers on the efforts of Maersk Drilling to apply its CSR policy to its business operations in Angola, the second largest oil producer on the African continent. The case explores 1) the organizational and strategic integration of CSR initiatives; 2) how strategic notions of CSR (as a mode of value creation) are applied in practice; 3) how strategy relates to compliance in the development of CSR; 4) how the CSR strategy of a multinational company is (or can be) adapted to the local conditions of a developing country. Maersk Drilling’s approach to CSR and the strategic mindset that drives its efforts to be considered a good corporate citizen in Angola, have to be considered in lieu of it being a business unit within a multinational conglomerate: the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. Therefore, we will start out by presenting the organizational background for CSR in Maersk Drilling and proceed from there. The case reflects Maersk Drilling’s strategic outlook, market situation and organization as of late 2013/early 2014. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9213 Filer i denne post: 1
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CBS Views on EntrepreneurshipReichstein, Toke; Sørensen, Anders; Kaiser, Ulrich; Sofka, Wolfgang; Gartner, William B.; Fattoum, Asma; Barinaga, Ester; Langevang, Thilde; Bartholdy, Camilla; Hjorth, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: There are many thoughts and beliefs about entrepreneurship. This diversity in opinions and concepts may be triggered by the booming interest in entrepreneurship and in entrepreneurs. Journalists, politicians and academics, just to mention a few groups, have greatly turned their focus and attention towards entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. And in the labour market, entrepreneurship has become one of the more attractive options. Entrepreneurship has indeed become a centre of attention throughout society. There are numerous definitions, terms, theories, thoughts, and conjectures on and around entrepreneurship. It is truly a multidisciplinary topic that draws on sociology, economics, management, and psychology, etc. It can therefore often be confusing to study, and exceedingly difficult to gather a coherent set of academic contributions on entrepreneurship. Very different things are investigated under the heading of entrepreneurship. Even when scholars discuss overlapping issues, the used terminology may often be misaligned. Indeed, even the most accomplished experts tend to be confused when debating topics on entrepreneurship. There can easily emerge a misperception and misunderstandings due to the muddy and inconsistent use of terms. Motivated by the need for understanding the differences in the way we perceive and think about entrepreneurship, the CBS Entrepreneurship BiS Platform set out to ask 10 scholars from CBS to offer their thoughts on 5 dimensions with regard to entrepreneurship. In what could best be described as a curiosity-driven relay, these scholars passed the baton over to the next person, resulting in a ‘run’ across departments and varying traditions of thought. They represented the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, the Department of Economics, the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization, the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, the Department of Business and Politics, and the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship. The five question posed to the interviewees where: 1. What is your understanding of entrepreneurship? 2. What characterizes and entrepreneur as an individual? 3. What does this mean for university education, or education more generally? 4. What is the role and function of entrepreneurship for private companies and the public sector? 5. In what sense is entrepreneurship important for society? The aim of the Baton of Entrepreneurship is to stimulate dialogue and share insights into entrepreneurship research across the internal boundaries of CBS. But the Baton of Entrepreneurship also functions as a means to convey differences and inform about how entrepreneurship can be thought of in different ways. Having said this, it also reveals that the differences across CBS might not be as big as one might expect and that there are profound overlaps representing a potential for cross-organizational interaction on the topic of entrepreneurship. Perhaps this commonality will be the fuel, which allow new discoveries in the field of entrepreneurship to flourish. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9136 Filer i denne post: 1
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A Philosophical Examination of the Creative Manager, the Authentic Leader and the EntrepreneurJohnsen, Christian Garmann (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This thesis undertakes a philosophical examination of three figures at the heart of post-bureaucratic thought – the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur. While the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur share the aim of resolving the crisis of Taylorism, this thesis argues that they produce their own internal crises. They do so because the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur are inherently bound to concepts that resist transmutation into a managerial logic that would enable them to serve their functional purposes without betraying their conceptual dynamics. What philosophy offers us is not a ready-made solution to the crises of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur, but rather a point of departure for constructing concepts that enable us to explore the paradoxes embedded within these figures. Since philosophical concepts dwell in crisis, they enable the thesis to capture the paradoxes, aporias and impossibilities that inevitably accompany post-bureaucratic thought. Instead of regarding the crises in post-bureaucratic management thinking as an impasse, abyss or deadlock, the thesis shows how they can chart new ways of conceptualizing the postbureaucratic organization. Drawing on Derrida’s concept of pharmakon, Deleuze’s concept of simulacrum and Zizek’s concept of fantasy, three concepts equally marked by their paradoxical nature, this thesis opens up a philosophical critique of the post-bureaucratic image of thought. This will be done by exploring the figure of the creative manager through a reading of Gary Hamel’s popular management handbook The Future of Management informed by Derrida’s concept of pharmakon; the figure of the authentic leader through a reading of Bill George’s semiautobiographic self-help tome Authentic Leadership informed by Deleuze’s concept of simulacrum; and the figure of the entrepreneur through a reading of Richard Branson’s autobiography Losing My Virginity informed by Zizek’s concept of fantasy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9186 Filer i denne post: 1
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Når ledere taler om ledelse: VL-analyse 2015Holt Larsen, Henrik; Poulfelt, Flemming; Nielsen, Rikke K. (Hellerup, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Det er kendt, men ikke nødvendigvis erkendt, at god ledelse har afgørende betydning for konkurrencekraften, vækstpotentialet, produktiviteten og indtjeningsevnen i danske virksomheder. Det viser hovedparten af de analyser om ledelse, der er gennemført i de senere år i Danmark og udlandet. En netop udkommet rapport viser således, at forbedret ledelse i danske virksomheder ville kunne gavne samfundsøkonomien med et meget stort, årligt milliardbeløb (Ugebrevet A4, 27.4.2015). Det ville især kræve inddragelse af medarbejderne i tilrettelæggelsen af det daglige arbejde, socialt ansvar og omsorg for medarbejderne samt bedre evne til at levere nye produkter, omstille sig og samarbejde med leverandører. Derfor er det et interessant spørgsmål i en tid, hvor fornyelse, vækst og produktivitet står på dagsordenen både samfundsmæssigt og i virksomheder, hvad der kendetegner dansk ledelse anno 2015. Det spørgsmål har Dansk Selskab for Virksomhedsledelse ønsket at belyse som optakt til VL Døgnet i maj 2015, der samtidig markerer 50 års jubilæet for organisationen. Derfor var det også naturligt at spørge medlemmerne om, hvordan ledelse i dag udøves i de virksomheder, de repræsenterer. Det er resultaterne fra denne undersøgelse, som i det følgende vil blive præsenteret. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9177 Filer i denne post: 1
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Bjerg, Ole (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Et aktør-netværksteoretisk ledelsesstudie af politiske evalueringsreformers betydning for ledelse i den danske folkeskoleGylling Olesen, Kristian (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Med en række evalueringsreformer har danske politikere siden sen-80´erne forsøgt at gøre op med lærernes autonome undervisning for at få lærere til gennem evalueringer at forbedre elevernes læring. I 90´erne blev der bl.a. introduceret frivillige kvalitetsprogrammer og teamarbejde, og i 00´erne fulgte nationale læringsmål, -test og skriftlige elevplaner. Mere indflydelse til skolelederen er blevet set som et politisk svar på, hvordan evalueringsreformerne kan blive gennemført ude i skolerne, så eleverne lærer mere. Samtidig har den evidensbaserede skoleledelsesforskning givet en række svar på, hvilke generelle ledelsespraktikker og succesfulde personlighedstræk hos skoleledere der kan fremme elevernes læring og faglige udbytte i folkeskolen. Ifølge denne ph.d.-afhandling er den politiske og evidensbaserede forståelse af skoleledelse for entydig. Afhandlingen argumenterer i stedet for, at skoleledelse ikke opstår entydigt eller klart, når politikerne introducerer nye evalueringsreformer i folkeskolen. Der er snarere tale om, at skoleledelse opstår forskelligt og med skiftende aktører – skoleledelse emergerer flertydigt. I lokale kontekster spiller en række forhold ind og får betydning for, hvem der leder hvem, hvordan, hvor og hvornår. Ud fra et toårigt studie i to folkeskoler på den københavnske vestegn og med brug af aktør-netværksteori undersøger afhandlingen, hvordan forskelligt praktisk udstyr og taktiske manøvrer ud fra lokale dagsordner oversætter de politiske evalueringsreformer ude i skolerne, og hvad disse oversættelser betyder for flertydig og emergerende ledelse. Skolerne, som i afhandlingen bliver kaldt ABC Skolen og Byskolen, er blevet undersøgt med interviews, fotos og logs samt observationer. Afhandlingen er en artikelafhandling, som består af tre videnskabelige artikler udarbejdet på engelsk og en dansk ramme, der introducerer afhandlingen, præsenterer baggrundsanalyser, reviewer dansk og international skoleledelseslitteratur, udvikler ledelsesanalytik og metodisk setup samt præsenterer analysestrategiske valg og foretager en samlende konklusion. Den teoretiske inspiration kommer primært fra aktør-netværksteori (Bruno Latour, Michel Callon og John Law). Samtidig inddrager afhandlingen Mats Alvesson og Andrew Spicers (2010) flertydighedscentrerede ledelsesanalytik samt postbureaukratisk ledelsesteori, teori om evaluering og læringsledelse samt teori om ledelse med social kapital. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8979 Filer i denne post: 1
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Larsen, Øjvind (Akureyri, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: From their beginning in the 1930s, critical theory and the Frankfurt school had their focus on a critique of disturbed social relations in western society dominated by totalitarian political regimes like Stalinism, Fascism, Nazism, and by capitalism as an oppressive and destructive economic system and culture. Now, 80 years later, this has all become history and thus it is time to leave the concept of critical theory behind us, and instead bring the concept of critique to a broader theoretical framework like hermeneutics. This allows the possibility of retaining the theoretical intentions of the old Frankfurt school and at the same time there will be no boundaries by specific dominant theoretical perspectives. In this paper, such a framework for a critical hermeneutics is discussed on the basis of Weber’s, Gadamer’s, and Habermas’ theories on hermeneutics within the social sciences. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8998 Filer i denne post: 1
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Resume: Labels are often flashy conduits for hasty assumptions and partial truths. At the time when I was writing Action and Existence: Anarchism for Business Administration in the late 1970s, the term anarchism served as a handy synonym for mess, chaos, and disorder. In this context the word cropped up in public debates about the Baader-Meinhof terrorism in Germany in the aftermath of Paris 68, for example. In putting my book together, I set out to explain what I had learned through my own reading and discussion about this often shortchanged term. In the research and writing process I discovered that the word anarchism carried more concrete meaning than what I had first thought. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9055 Filer i denne post: 1
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Four Cases from Danish Monetary HistoryRavn Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this dissertation I examine the historical relationship between Danish national identity and monetary organization, defined as the Danish currency kronen and the Danish central bank Nationalbanken. The ambition of my analysis is twofold: firstly, I aim to understand the role of national identity in legitimating Danish monetary organization. Secondly, I analyze the importance of the Danish currency and Nationalbanken in the construction of national identity. As such, the dissertation focuses on the mutually configuring relationship between monetary legitimacy and national identity. Following ideas from organizational institutionalism, one of the basic assumptions in the dissertation is that all organizations, including central banks, must be aligned with, or at least not contradict, the values, norms and symbols of the surrounding national culture. To analyze this potential alignment historically in a Danish context, national identity is applied as an analytical concept that conditions the actions and decisions of organizations placed in a national setting. In the dissertation, national identity is understood as the continuous reproduction and interpretations of the cultural elements of the nation as well as individual identification with these elements. This definition of national identity allows for an analysis that involves more than how monetary organization become legitimate. Every attempt to align kronen and Nationalbanken with national identity constitutes, concurrently, a reproduction of national identity. Thus, while a central bank and national currency might require alignment with national identity to be perceived as legitimate, monetary organization also reproduces and bolsters national identity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8975 Filer i denne post: 1
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Its Residual Deposits in Organizations – Implications and PotentialsLedborg Hansen, Richard (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper presents the experience and observations gained under two group relation exercises(Miller, 1990) conducted as part of two university courses for graduate student at CBS (Copenhagen Business School). The paper suggests that despite a decidedly clear ability to present themselves as authentic members of temporary organizations the students also displayed a clear inability to connect to the presentations of each other. This apparent high skillset in presenting but low skillset in relating led us to formulate a thesis of Facebook behavior aimed at describing and suggesting the presence of residual deposits from technology in organizations and its effect on individuals ability to connect to one another. Based on the case study the paper describes indications and suggests potential implication hereof. Given the inherent enhancement possibilities of technology our expectation for entertainment-‐rich information and highly interesting communication are sky-‐high and rising. With a continuous increase in digitized communication follows a decrease in face-‐to-‐face encounters and our ability to engage in inter-‐personal relationships are suffering for it (Davis, 2013). The behavior described in this paper suggests a regressive behavior -‐ one I suggest it is conditioned and legitimized by the use of technology. The risk is one of churning out callous members of society high on overt people skills but potentially incapable of building relationships. Since society is constantly looking to technology (Howard-‐Jones, 2011) for increases in effectiveness and efficiency we indiscriminately embrace digital communication and digitized information dissemination with enthusiasm – at the risk of ignoring the potentially dark side of technology. However, technology also holds a promise for better understanding precisely for the same reasons – that the growing amount of digitized communication “out there” represents data waiting to be sifted, analyzed and decoded. In this paper “Facebook behavior” refers to a particular behavior characterized by presenting your self and representations of selected self in the hope of getting a response. The responsive behavior you in turn expose your self to, can oscillate between complete ignorance as one polarization or a Like and possible a short comment being the other end of the scale – neither of which constitutes a relationship but both ends are accepted as representations of such. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9032 Filer i denne post: 1
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Reckendrees, Alfred (Munich, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Today the European welfare states are strongly challenged and it is heavily debated how much social security a society should provide and how much private insurance is possible. This article goes back to the origins of the German welfare state. In the 1830s, industrialists from the district of Aachen (Prussian Rhineprovince) suggested to implement collective labour rules regulating working hours and wages. In the 1860s – 20 years before Bismarck – they proposed a mandatory pension system with equal contributions of employers and employees; they suggested labour conflict resolution by joint arbitration panels of employers and labour representatives. The proposals did not gain support from the Prussian ministries arguing collective agreements would violate freedom of contracting. Entrepreneurs demanding social welfare and the Prussian state defending economic liberalism – this challenges the perception of the Bismarckian welfare state as a means to reconcile labour with the German state. Yet, in the early 19th century the district of Aachen was the most advanced economic region in Prussia in regard with industrial employment and modern industrial organisation. Producing quality goods for the world markets, the industrialists aimed at stabilizing the social environment and reconciling labour with the capitalist society. Their motivation, however, was not based on philanthropy; it was guided by economic aims and collective selfinterest. Analysing ‘social policy’ as a capitalist aim, the paper puts the German welfare state in a new perspective. By doing this it also wants to contribute to the discussion on the future of the modern welfare states, because if the argument presented here holds it might have implications for the possibility of privately solving social problems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8983 Filer i denne post: 1
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Resume: In the early 19th century coal mining in the region of Aachen (Prussian Rhine Province) developed to an industrial scale within few decades production was mechanised and new types of industrial organization emerged that allowed for concentration on production and economies of scale. The region hosted two mining areas (the Wurm area and the Inde area) showing rather different patterns of development; while the industry on the Inde was already concentrated at the turn of the century, and industrial modes of production emerged earlier, the industry on the Wurm developed slowly more slowly. Decentralized ownership prohibited scale economics before the mid-1830s. Then, new joint stock companies allowed for concentration of ownership, rationalisation of production and efficient governance. The analysis shows that these different patterns result from different pre-industrial institutional arrangements that were only harmonized during the French occupation of the Rhineland. The ms. containes 189p., 24 figures and maps, 49 tables on regional industrial production. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8981 Filer i denne post: 1
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En analyse af daginstitutionslederens betydning for et frivilligt engagement i de selvejende daginstitutionerHjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde; Højlund, Holger (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: I 2010 blev forsøgsprojektet ”Netværksledelse i selvejende daginstitutioner. Et partnerskabsprojekt mellem kommunerne Svendborg, Århus og København” sat i gang. Deltagere var paraplyorganisation for selvejende daginstitutioner Menighedernes Daginstitutioner (MDI), de tre kommuner, 116 selvejende daginstitutioner og forskere fra Copenhagen Business School (CBS). I forsøgsprojektet var et væsentligt motiv at eksperimentere med ny partnerskabsorganisering. Projektet blev, som titlen indikerer, bygget op omkring tre kommuners samspil med sine selvejende daginstitutioner. En målsætning var at undersøge mulighederne for at formulere nye veje for selveje herunder at undersøge partnerskabet som en ny måde at organisere sig på med civile kræfter i de offentlige velfærdsydelser på daginstitutionsområdet. Projektets dagsorden var på denne vis udtryk for en både forskningsmæssig interesse i og en praktisk dagsorden om at engagere civile kræfter i de offentlige ydelser. I følgeforskningen har forskere fulgt udvalgte institutioner og gennemført undersøgelser af frivilligt engagement. Ønsket har været igennem interviews at få viden om brugen af frivillige bestyrelser og forventninger til bestyrelsesmedlemmer i daginstitutioner. En sådan viden om bestyrelser vil spille sammen med det overordnede forsøgsprojekts fokus på ledelse af frivilligt engagement på betingelse af nye samarbejdsformer, der folder sig ud på tværs af den offentlige og frivillige sektor. Det er et håb, at undersøgelsen kan bidrage til at forstå og problematisere betingelser for ledelse og ledelsespositioner i samspillet mellem det offentlige og frivillige. Datagrundlaget for undersøgelsen er forvaltningsdokumenter, kvalitative interviews med ledere og bestyrelsesmedlemmer i 31 selvejende daginstitutioner i tre kommuner samt udtræk fra kvalitative kommentarer i en spørgeskemaundersøgelse besvaret af 1.975 forældre. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9082 Filer i denne post: 1
Hjerrild Carlsen_Hojlund.pdf (974.1Kb) -
Omdømmearbejde og omdømmepolitikRiis Larsen, Troels (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Afhandlingen undersøger: 1)Hvordan staten har forholdt sig til de ikke-statslige omdømmeaktører og deres arbejdsområder. 2) Hvilke omdømmepolitikker den danske stat førte over for henholdsvis Sovjetunionen og USA inder den kolde krig (1945-1988). En diskussion af en række teorier om, hvordan stater relaterer til landets omdømme viser, at eksisterende teorier såsom nationbranding, public diplomacy og soft power ikke er anvendelige til en historisk analyse af ovenstående spørgsmål. Derfor bliver der i starten af afhandlingen brugt tid på at opbygge et begrebsapparat der relatere til hvert spørgsmål. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8980 Filer i denne post: 1
Troels_Riis_Larsen.pdf (4.198Mb)