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Economic Development in the Industrial Region of Aachen, 1800‐1860Reckendrees, Alfred (Munich, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The economic transition characterizing the process of European industrialization in the 19th century was concentrated on regions rather than on states. In the first half of the 19th century, the region of Aachen (in the west of Prussia) pioneered on the territory of the German states and developed to a powerful industrial region. The implementation and diffusion of the factory system and the economic impact of adapted and new institutions make the core of this paper. Reciprocal interconnections be-tween firms of different clusters shaped the region and created economic dynamics. Investments trans-gressed the boundaries of single industries and new industries emerged. One important feature of the regional production system was cross-sectional knowledge transfer; a second was institutions support-ive to this process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8982 Files in this item: 1
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Larsen, Øjvind (Akureyri, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: 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 Files in this item: 1
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Degnegaard, Rex (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Co-‐creation as a concept has won terrain over the past 10 years (Bhalla, 2010; Ramaswamy and Goulliart, 2010; Ramaswamy, 2011). In practice as well as in literature, co-‐creation is climbing the agenda in relation to contemporary opportunities and challenges within management, organization design, and change initiatives. Thus, there has been a vast growth in application and conceptual development of the concept of co-‐creation. However, there is very little research-‐based literature on how the field of co-‐creation has developed, and of how the concept is being established, and on the future frontiers of the concept of co-‐creation. This paper aims to build an overview of the literature on co-‐creation to explore what the existing literature relate to and indeed to pinpoint if any patterns or streams can be identified. The paper illustrates how the use of the concept of co-‐creation suggests a necessity for focusing further on specific co-‐creation related issues and challenges of significance to business and society. Thus, the paper highlights new co-‐creation related issues, challenges, and frontiers in practice and research rather than giving answers or solutions to existing problems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8732 Files in this item: 1
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Privat produktpolitik i det indre markedFrankel, Christian; Højbjerg, Erik (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: De politiske og administrative studier af det indre markeds færdiggørelse har overvejende fokuseret på, hvordan gennemførelsen er bundet til en forandring af kompetence‐ og arbejdsdelingen mellem de eksisterende EU institutioner og medlemslandene. Et sådant EU internt fokus ser imidlertid bort fra, at væsentlige dele af gennemførelsen allerede i 1987 med Fællesaktens vedtagelse blev overladt til de private europæiske standardiseringsorganisationer (ESO2). Når man tænker på, hvor vigtig en rolle disse organisationer er tildelt i udviklingen af det indre marked, kan det undre, at denne uddelegering hidtil ikke har været belyst i nævneværdigt omfang. For det første synes uddelegeringen at indeholde demokratiske udfordringer, fordi private aktører gennem medlemsskab af de autonome europæiske standardiseringsorganisationer deltager direkte og i et vist omfang uden for politisk og administrativ kontrol i at fastlægge reglerne for markedsførelsen af varer i det indre marked. For det andet rejser uddelegeringen en række analytiske spørgsmål om, hvor EU integrationens institutionelle locus skal findes, når sikringen af EUs politiske målsætninger med det indre marked er afhængig af en inter‐organisatorisk koordination mellem EU og ESO. Udover at det indre marked er betinget af institutionelle forandringer inden for rammerne af EU er det ligeledes afhængig af en institutionsdannelse mellem de gensidigt autonome organisationer EU og ESO. Endelig, for det tredje, indebærer uddelegeringen en særskilt udfordring for ESO. I takt med at europæisk teknisk standardisering skal indfri bredere samfundsmæssige og politiske hensyn i markedsdannelsesprocessen er der risiko for, at én af de bærende principper i standardiseringsarbejdet, nemlig frivilligheden, sættes under pres. Der er sandsynligvis grænser for, hvad teknisk standardisering kan levere i forhold til samfundsmæssig regulering uden at undergrave sin egen logik. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8717 Files in this item: 1
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Omtydningen af melankolien og manien som bipolære stemningslidelser i dansk sammenhæng under hensyn til dannelsen af det moderne følelseslivs relative autonomi. En problematiserings- og erfaringsanalytisk undersøgelseGudmand-Høyer, Marius (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandlingen har to formål. For det første undersøges hvorledes det blev muligt at de to sygdomsnavne mani og melankoli samt de tilstande de har refereret til i løbet af et bestemt tidsrum, omtrent sammenfaldende med det 19. århundrede, kunne forskyde sig i forhold til tidligere overleverede bestemmelser af en ganske anden art. Hvor tidligere problematiseringsformer i vid udstrækning forbandt disse sygdomslidelser med en fuldstændig galskab stående overfor en der var mere begrænset, udforskes det således hvordan og i forbindelse med hvad melankolien og manien senere kunne finde sammen i et nyt fællesskab omkring stemningen som en særlig artikulationskategori. Det blev her tale om et fællesskab hvori manien og melankolien grundlæggende afgrænsedes og artikuleredes som bestemte sindssygdomme under hensyn til følelseslivets område og hvori de indbyrdes primært kom til at adskille sig bipolært ved det opstemte (lysten, nydelsen, det behagelige) overfor det nedstemte (ulysten, smerten, det ubehagelige). I denne sammenhæng var den førhen definerende afsindighed ikke længere en betingelse for de maniske og melankolske tilstandes sygelighed, men var derimod blevet en ofte forekommende stemningskongruent fremtrædelsesform. Afhandlingens andet formål er på denne baggrund at skildre centrale dele af den historiske baggrund for den særegene fremmedgørelsesfigur der er kommet til at høre til det moderne begreb om psykisk sygdom. Der synes her at være blevet tale om en form for fremmedgørelse der ikke forudsætter den intellektuelle forstyrrelse som førhen kunne sætte den gales sensus privatus udenfor fornuftens forudsatte sensus communis. I stedet er trådt en om sig selv bevidst fremmedgørelse fra et eget sædvanligt selv indenfor rammerne af et fællesskab som både før og efter forrykkelsen er lige så alment som det moderne følelsesliv i sin relative autonomi. Det empiriske materiale for denne historiske undersøgelse består i det bredest mulige udvalg af offentliggjorte ytringer der med herkomst i en dansk sammenhæng i perioden 1800-1900 tematiserer manien og melankolien som psykiske sygdomme. Den analytik som bringes i anvendelse overfor dette materiale er den historiske problematiserings- og erfaringsanalyse, hvilken afhandlingen samtidig præsenterer i sin hidtil mest udviklede form. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8704 Files in this item: 2
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Abstract: Co-creation has emerged today as a concept which thinkers across otherwise largely opposed traditions have come to embrace. This dissertation substantiates how the concept of co-creation, from proponents of Strategic Management Thought to thinkers coming out of Autonomist Marxism and Critical Management Studies, appears as designating either: (1) a new win-win mode of value creation where businesses co-create value with various sorts of outsiders; (2) a new social, commons-based value creation autonomous from business interests; or (3) a mode of value creation intimately intertwined with new modes of management capable of harnessing and exploiting productive capacities outside established organizations. Behind these contemporary differences, the dissertation discloses a more encompassing history. Through this, the emergence of a widely shared co-creation vocabulary is brought forth. While this vocabulary is used persistently to express a whole new mode of value creation, in whatever form, the dissertation argues that the co-creation vocabulary actually undermines the very possibility of speaking about value creation in a consistent manner. At the same time, however, it is not a vocabulary which can just be dispensed with, since its emergence is intimately intertwined with an accelerated emphatic injunction; an injunction advanced by a reformulated managementality that throughout the twentieth century has tempted management ‘to go outside’. Accounting for this history, the dissertation claims that a complex experience has been born, an experience of the outside. Through this experience, the outside has emerged not merely as a source of value creation and an object of management; it has also emerged as an obligation that has to be met, an obligation which is forcefully expressed today through the co-creation vocabulary. In order to inquire into contemporary accounts of co-creation, as well as the historical trajectories through which this phenomenon has come to emerge, the dissertation develops what is designated as the historical problematization analysis, inspired by and reconstructed from the very late work of Michel Foucault. By utilizing this mode of analysis, it becomes possible to bring together otherwise separate accounts of co-creation on the same level of analysis, to inquire into central historical conditions of possibility through which the phenomenon of cocreation has come to emerge and to take stock of what difference the arrival of cocreation introduces in relation to yesterday. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8701 Files in this item: 1
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A response to Marianne de Laet’s “Anthropology as social epistemology”Ratner, Helene (, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: As her title indicates, Marianne de Laet suggests that social epistemology could be thought of as anthropology, in terms of how this mode of knowing has helped flesh out the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. She does so firstly, by accounting for how anthropological methods and concepts have contributed to science and technology studies (STS) by providing an alternative to “believing the natives” i.e., scientists, hence challenging positivist and objectivist accounts of science. She then specifies selected analytical insights of anthropology. The concepts ‘culture’ and ‘practice’, she argues, enable us to learn how “knowledge is social in an epistemic sense” (2012, 421). She concludes her argument by questioning the distinction between epistemology and ontology, maintaining that anthropology is social epistemology. De Laet touches several key debates in the history of STS and much of her commentary on the sociality of knowledge is difficult to disagree with. There are however, also some elements in her argument with which I wish to engage critically. These include the relationship between anthropology and STS and the relationship between the concepts of culture and ontology. I will do so by drawing my inspiration from a contemporary a debate across STS and anthropology that — like de Laet — regards entanglements of epistemology and ontology, practice, and materiality. This project is also known as post- ANT and empirical philosophy in STS (Mol 2002; Gad and Bruun Jensen 2010, 55-80; Law and Hassard 1999) and lateral, multi-natural and ontological engagements in anthropology (Maurer 2005; Riles 2000; Strathern 2004 [1991]; Carrithers et al. 2010, 152-200; Viveiros de Castro 2004, 463-484). De Laet mentions some of the same sources. I will focus my commentary on these debates’ implications for the concept of culture and “our terminological tinkering” (2012, 420). My aim is to provide a different account of what anthropology has to offer STS and, as a consequence, to keep some interesting tensions open between the conceptual and the empirical, between “us” and “them”, which I believe de Laet resolves too quickly. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8691 Files in this item: 1
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Overcoming Stereotypes and Embracing Ideological VarietyVallentin, Steen (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper makes a contribution towards a more nuanced understanding of the ambiguous and contested relationship between neoliberalism and CSR (corporate social responsibility). It challenges stereotypical depictions of CSR as a neoliberal discourse and argues that there is a need for greater awareness of the varieties of liberalism at play in CSR. The paper is concerned with neoliberalism both in regard to the theory and the practice of CSR. Theoretically, it presents the Foucauldian understanding of neoliberalism and neoliberal governmentality as its primary means of identifying and analyzing processes of neoliberalization. On the practical side, it focuses on the neoliberalization of governmental approaches to CSR. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8689 Files in this item: 1
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How special groups organize for collaborative creativity in conditions of spatial variability and distanceO’Donnell, Shannon (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The enormous challenges and opportunities impacting the world community today increasingly require people to practice collaborative innovation effectively both in person and across geographic boundaries. Simultaneously, advances in technology such as social networking tools, digital 3-D representations, virtual worlds, and open source practices are inspiring generations of users to develop new kinds of adaptive collaborative networks and capabilities. But when people work across organizational and geographic boundaries, new challenges arise that make it difficult for groups to achieve the levels of excellence they are capable of achieving together in close proximity. Practitioners need help determining how best to perform collaborative creativity given unique and dynamic work conditions. Meanwhile, as new forms of creative group work emerge at an accelerating pace, researchers struggle to keep up with and develop nuanced understanding of the variations in collaborative processes we increasingly see performed. With this PhD research, I aim to increase our understanding of a particular, specialized form of collaborative creativity called “ensembling.” I investigate this phenomenon by studying it in diverse—including “stretched”—conditions. By stretched, I mean that, literally, groups are stretched apart in space as membership size and spatial distance between members increase and work configurations vary. The groups I study are those both capable of achieving and driven to achieve a peak-performance state of ensemble, and do so via the enactment of an interdependent set of methods that call ensemble into being, a process I call ensembling. In their ideal form, these work methods support the emergence of ensemble and result in the creation of aesthetically coherent and novel outcomes that are particularly responsive to the contexts in which they are made. To investigate the phenomenon of ensemble, I first develop a construct of ensemble based on informant descriptions, and use theory and data to develop a detailed description of how ensembling is performed in natural conditions (i.e., in close physical proximity). Then I look at an extreme example in which a set of expert groups’ ability to ensemble was put under stress by an unprecedented work task. In 2009, multiple string quartets (many considered world class) organized to perform a new musical composition. The composition challenged four quartets at a time to perform as an integrated ensemble while sitting apart, in various configurations, and at spatial distances of up to 70 feet. To help them address the difficulties produced by increased membership and distance, the musicians integrated a simple coordinating technology into their process. To learn how participants made ensemble possible given these new conditions, I engaged multiple qualitative methods for generating data and multiple perspectives for interpretation. I first considered their process as an iterative approach to exploring strategies for addressing constraints, in order to show how the methods of ensembling interacted with conditions of increased group size, increased spatial distance and configurational variability, and to elicit their evolving beliefs about what methods made ensemble more likely to occur given these conditions. Then I performed an alternative interpretation, disrupting this logic and exploring the ways in which participants used methods of ensembling—particularly openness to uncertainty and reconceiving—to create unanticipated potentialities for ensemble to emerge despite constraints. I show how they worked with a coordinating technology called a “click-track” in important new ways that went beyond “merely” achieving synchronous coordination to increasing their autonomy, relatedness, and ability to demonstrate artistic virtuosity, enabling them to engage equally in leadership and participation and to play. Finally, performing a comparative analysis across sub-units of the case, including examples of breakdown in the process, I generated additional insights into what conditions, beliefs, methods and behaviors enable or inhibit processes of ensembling. Integrating learning from analysis and interpretation, I propose a new range of conditions in which ensembling is possible, and a revised and expanded description of the methods by which groups ensemble. Conditions can expand to include larger groups with limited-tenure consisting of enduring-tenure sub-groups, multiple task interdependencies at group and sub-group levels, balanced tenure at sub-group level, a balance between proximity and distance, opportunities to work with and without technological mediation, and self-determined configuration variability. I show that the emergence of ensemble depends on, for instance, a shared purpose to ensemble, and methods such as a “struggle” phase, episodes of close physical proximity, collective leadership, “dueting” in different configurations, reconceiving constraints, living with the paradox of one-and-four, opening the process to uncertainty and to the emergence of consent, and subliminal technology engagement. Ultimately, these groups demonstrated an increasing ability to adapt to new conditions faster and more creatively, making new configurations possible, and suggesting ways in which ensemble might be performed in other kinds of group settings. I summarize findings in the form of a “framework of ensembling” that is meant to serve as a tool to further enrich our yet nascent understanding of this complex phenomenon and to aid in the exploration of ensembling in contexts outside the usual places we expect it to occur. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8653 Files in this item: 1
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En socialpsykologisk analyse af forholdet imellem selvledelse, ledelse og stress i det moderne arbejdslivGroth-Brodersen, Signe (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandlingen rejser et kritisk perspektiv på individualiseringen af sundhedsfremme ud fra en diskussion af ledelse af selvledelse i det moderne arbejdsliv. Det er karakteristisk for den eksisterende danske og internationale forskning i selvledelse, at der er gennemført en begrænset empirisk udforskning af selvledelsens funktion og virke i arbejdslivets praksis. Det er i særlig grad empirisk underbelyst, hvordan variationer i forholdet imellem selvledelse og ledelse indvirker på forekomsten af stresssymptomer. Et nyere dansk empirisk projekt placerer selvledelse, beskrevet som en særlig form for selvorganiseringskompetence, i en positiv position i forhold til at håndtere det grænseløse arbejdsliv. Det grænseløse arbejdsliv beskrives her som det at have frie grænser i forhold til organiseringen af ’arbejdstid og arbejdssted’. Disse resultater udfordrer tidligere studier indenfor arbejdslivsforskning, hvor man i højere grad har set selvledelse koblet sammen med stress og stigende krav til individet (Phil-Tingvad, 2010; Allvin et. al., 2011, Lund & Hvid, 2007). I den internationale forskning beskrives selvledelse som ’Self-Leadership’. Self-Leadership handler om en særlig form for selvkontrol, hvor individet giver sig selv feedback og er selvmotiverende (Neck & Hougton, 2006; Manz & Neck, 2004). Self-Leadership er en teori, der arbejder med selvledelse uden en konkret kobling til arbejdslivet. Teorien beskæftiger sig derfor ikke med selvledelsens sammenspil med ledelsen og herunder betydningen af ledelse som relevant kontekstuelt parameter. Selvledelse bliver set som en eksistentiel form for egenledelse.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8626 Files in this item: 1
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Industrial and institutional revolution in the district of Aachen (Aix‐la‐Chapelle), 1800‐1860Reckendrees, Alfred (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the first half of the 19th century, the industrial district of Aachen was a small dynamic economic region in the West of the Prussian Rhineland. It was a leading industrial region in terms of production and a region in which modern economic institutions advanced modern industrial organizations. The regional institutional arrangements were partly based on the French law:1 During the French Revolutionary Wars, the West of the Rhineland had been a part of France with the region of Aachen (see maps 1 and 2) forming the Département de la Roer. After the French defeat in 1814, the Rhineland was integrated as the Rhineprovince into the Prussian State, but with very few exceptions the French legal system continued. The French code de commerce rather than the Prussian civil law constructed the norms of business and commercial activities2 and institutional arrangements that had emerged in the ‘French period’ continued to influence regional economic development. Not only property rights and civil rights, also other institutions of French origin like chambers of trade and commerce, commercial courts, or collective institutions for the settlement of work related conflicts shaped economic behaviour. 3 New Prussian laws did not dramatically influence regional economic development; only the Railroad Law (1838) and the Prussian Joint Stock Companies Law (Preußisches Aktiengesetz) of 1843 had a certain impact. Just like the General German Trade Law (Allgemeines deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch) of 1861, the Joint Stock Company Law was based on French ideas and aimed at modernizing the Prussian economy. It perhaps helped developing the eastern parts of Prussia towards a more capitalistic economy; for the region of Aachen it mainly introduced more oversight from the Prussian State. The Prussian integration of the Rhineland did, of course, also induce some economically relevant change; this regards e.g. the introduction of the Prussian currency or the Prussian trade union. These aspects will be discussed later. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8615 Files in this item: 1
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Reckendrees, Alfred (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: 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/10398/8802 Files in this item: 1
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Raffnsøe, Sverre (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I never became interested in philosophy primordially or originally. There is no source event or transformation that I can recall as being the defining moment. Stating ‘It began here!’ would be misleading… I am not even certain that I originally attained an interest, or even that I still am interested in philosophy as a privileged object of investigation and investment ‐ an aim in itself. There are, however, moments and situations in my life where an interest in philosophy has appeared or is necessarily forced upon me; these are times when philosophy appears as a seemingly unavoidable and essential questioning of fundamentals,– as a ‘basic’ need. This being said, it can be annoying as well as cumbersome. Philosophy as a ‘basic’ need makes itself felt as an estrangement that has always already taken place. It takes the form of a “Schritt zurück” in which one pulls away from, problematizes and reconsiders the given, including the given sense of community, its presuppositions and even the given self. As now, where I find myself writing this at a seaside hotel and consider whether I would prefer to stroll to the restaurant and chat with friends rather than continue taking pains to scrutinize and reflect. Incidentally a well‐known ‘philosophical’ ‘solution’ or resort since Hume. Concurrently, however, I sense that this latter choice may be lacking in philosophical substance. In such situations, philosophy becomes equated with a tendency towards seclusion – even with being secluded from myself. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8810 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: Der findes en lang række bud på, hvordan man kan tænke om og arbejde med strategi. På trods af den tilsyneladende rivende udvikling indenfor det strategiske forskningsfelt gennem de seneste godt 50 år står virksomheder dog overfor en enorm udfordring, idet en overvejende del af strategiske initiativer fejler. Den manglende evne til at eksekvere strategier har den konsekvens, at det begrænser en virksomheds vækst og dens tilpasningsevne og konkurrenceevne, hvorved både virksomheder og samfundet som helhed går glip af en enorm værdiskabelse. Manglende eksekvering betegnes derfor af nogle som den største barriere for succes og vigtigste årsag til skuffede forventninger. På trods af ovennævnte har den hidtidige forskning indenfor strategi primært koncentreret sig om udviklingen af strategier fremfor eksekveringen af dem. Populært sagt har eksekveringen af strategierne i forskningen primært kun fået ’plads på bagsædet’, hvor den bagvedliggende tankegang har været, at eksekvering mest af alt bare har skullet fikses efter formuleringen af strategien. Dermed har metoder og problemer i relation til strategieksekvering fået langt mindre opmærksomhed end dem, som anvendes indenfor strategiudvikling. Med henblik på at opnå en større forståelse for ’strategieksekvering i praksis’ har afhandlingen besvaret, hvorfor danske virksomheder ikke lykkes med at eksekvere deres strategier. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8826 Files in this item: 1
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The Social Productivity of Cartographic Crisis and Transitions in the Case of SEEITBrenneche, Nicolaj Tofte (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The long term transition to sustainable energy systems is already having an impact on how energy research and innovation is being organized. With ambitious European and national goals for energy system transitions, a new transition complexity challenges established domains of expertise and other established actor domains. Thus, system transition complexity opens up for a broad range of new relational problems which transgress established definitions of expert domains and which areas of expertise ‘belong’ to energy research and which actors are relevant for energy research and innovation. As an example hereof, the long term prospective of transformed energy systems actualizes a need for combining expert domains and actors within energy efficient buildings with expert domains and actors within the modeling, planning and management of energy systems of various kinds. Many other examples could be listed illustrating how energy research as a complex field of knowledge production and innovation confronts a new, open transition complexity, which transforms the landscapes of energy research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8784 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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En ledelsesfilosofisk afhandling om selvledelsens paradoksale dynamik og eksistentielle engagementKjær Lassen, Tommy (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling handler om selvledelsesfænomenets kommercielle konceptualisering. Afhandlingen baserer sig på et metodekombinerende forskningsprojekt bestående af aktionsforskning og fænomenologisk analyse. Projektet er etableret og finansieret efter erhvervsPhD-ordningen og er som sådan underlagt en dobbeltmålsætning om både erkendelsesmæssig videnskabelse og empirisk nytteskabelse. Projektets aktionsforskningsdel er gennemført, blandt navnlig ingeniørsegmentet i DONG Energy Power, og den fænomenologiske analyse er gennemført med særlig afsæt i kandidatens forholdsvis atypiske baggrund nemlig en protestantisk tilværelsestydning. Projektet er initieret af virksomheden selv, det vil sige af ledelsen i udviklingsfunktionen Engineering i samarbejde med ledelsen i Powers afdeling for HR-Udvikling. Forskningsspørgsmålet lyder slet og ret: Hvordan skal selvledelse konceptualiseres i DONG Energy Power? Dette er i udgangspunktet et nytteorienteret spørgsmål, men afhandlingen viser, at dette spørgsmål implicerer en grundlæggende erkendelsesteoretisk problematik om, hvorledes et meningsfuldt og værdiskabende selvledelsesbegreb overhovedet lader sig konceptualisere. Bag selvledelsens hvordan gemmer der sig et normativt spørgsmål om selvledelsens hvorfor. Projektet er empirisk set sat i verden, fordi der viste sig en række problematikker i forbindelse med virksomhedens konceptualisering af dets ønskede selvledelsesbegreb; problematikker omhandlende forholdet mellem design og emergens, fastholdelse og performance, nødvendighed og mulighed og eksistens og produktivitet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8753 Files in this item: 1
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Barinaga, Ester; Yousef, Samira; Hussain, Saadia; De Las Casas, Marco (Stockholm, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Förorten i Centrum är en ideell förening som grundades i Stockholm 2010 på initiativ av forskaren Ester Barinaga, Docent vid Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. Förorten i Centrum har genomfört ett flertal kollektiva muralmålningar som har engagerat tusentals barn, unga och vuxna. Förorten i Centrum arbetar med kollektiv muralkonst för att skapa plattformer för dialog och samverkan mellan människor med olika bakgrund, hemvist och identitet. Skapare, förmedlare och utförare är barn och unga, familjer, boende och lokala initiativ. Genom sina bildberättelser engageras deltagarna i förändringen av det offentliga rummet och påverkar därmed bilden av sin närmiljö i den samtida debatten. Verktyget som används för att uppnå detta är dialogbaserade kollektiva muralmålningsprocesser. I våra muralmålningsprocesser samlas och synliggörs röster från en stadsdel, en stad eller ett område i en kollektiv medborgardialog där man arbetar tillsammans mot ett gemensamt mål - en muralmålning som pryder någon av områdets offentliga ytor. Grannar, konstnärer, familjer, stadsdelspolitiker, fastighetsägare, tjänstemän, ungdomsgårdar, skolor - alla deltar de i processen där beslut fattas om vilka ytor som ska målas, vilka motiv som ska skildras och vilka berättelser som ska förmedlas. Förorten i Centrum engagerar deltagarna för att påverka demokratins former och rum, samtidigt som metoden visar på vikten av dialog, överenskommelser och samverkan mellan olika samhällsaktörer när det kommer till att nå ett konkret, gemensamt mål: den färdiga muralmålningen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9004 Files in this item: 1
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Hjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde; Høllund, Holger (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Despite the last years’ efforts to innovate public education in Denmark the Danish public school has remained hesitant to change, and relations with the surrounding world have remained in their early stages. Using Michel Callon’s concept of translation our study sheds light on the social processes that form the conditions of managing innovation among professionals. It shows how managing innovation in practice is part of a complex network of social interaction and evolves as a constant ‘translation’ aiming at enrolling opposing actors, and positioning oneself in relation to the professional identities and positions that innovation put at risk. The analytical contribution of our paper is to add comprehension to innovation management in the public sector as a process of positioning innovation in relation to a variety of human and non-human actors as well as professional identities. Innovation is shown to challenge the professional identities of the teachers and school leaders, as the teachers experience that innovation is not recognized in standardized tests and thereby jeopardizes their professional position. Onwards the paper outlines three management strategies that evolve in the social processes of the translation of innovation and the different management positions that these strategies entail. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8893 Files in this item: 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)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: 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 Files in this item: 1
Rasmus_Johnsen.pdf (2.361Mb)