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Hector Estrup og økonomisk metodologiFoss, Nikolai J. (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Med udgangspunkt i debatten mellem Hector Estrup og Hans Keiding i Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (1986) diskuteres centrale aspekter af økonomisk metode og metodologi, specielt hvordan økonomer mener at der kan etableres kontakt mellem modeller og virkelighed, og hvilke implikationer dét har for vurderingen af teorier i økonomi (dvs. økonomisk metodologi). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6312 Files in this item: 1
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a preliminary assessmentFrederiksen, Frode; Husted, Kenneth (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Lateral Strategies for Scientists and Those Who Study ThemGorm Hansen, Birgitte (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis Adapting in the Knowledge Economy investigates the strategies deployed by academic scientists when trying to adapt and maneuver within an increasingly complex mixture of scientific, industrial and governmental agendas. Chapter one “From insights to invoice” summarizes the last decade of Danish research policy as a tendency towards intensified focus on interaction between the university and “outside” actors. Looking at Danish policy documents and interview data the chapter shows how policy changes responded to an idea of “ivory tower” researchers isolating themselves in Danish universities. Furthermore, the interaction agenda was motivated by the perception that knowledge was produced but not sufficiently used. Strongly influenced by the concept of the knowledge economy and that of mode 2 knowledge production, policy changes were directed at bridging a gap between the producers and the consumers of knowledge. A series of reforms and initiatives were launched to facilitate more interaction between science and industry as well as more responsiveness towards societies’ problems on behalf of the universities. This interaction agenda was coupled with an increase in the economic investment in research and an increased focus on competition between researchers in order to ensure high quality in knowledge production.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8346 Files in this item: 1
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Candi, Marina (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The goals of this thesis are to examine new technology-based firms’ use of aesthetic design as an element of service innovation and to explore potential relationships between aesthetic design and performance in this same context. There is a scarcity of research on aesthetic design as an element of service innovation, particularly in new technology-based firms. Because of this scarcity, a hybrid research strategy is appropriate and the empirical basis for this research encompasses multiple case studies, longitudinal quantitative data and evaluations by expert panels. The first phase of the research involves developing an operationalization of design that enables evaluation of aesthetic design as an element of innovation in technology-based firms. The second phase uses case research to explore the role and organization of aesthetic design in service innovation in new technology-based firms. The final phase explores relationships between aesthetic design and performance in the research context. Hypotheses are developed based on existing research, on one hand, and the results of the case research, on the other, and these hypotheses are tested using longitudinal survey-based data. The operationalization of design developed is a three-dimensional model consisting of functional design, visceral design and experiential design. Functional design is concerned with utility, features and delivery; visceral design is concerned with appealing to the human senses; and experiential design is concerned with message, symbols, culture, meaning, and emotional and sociological aspects. Visceral design and experiential design are combined to yield a formative measure of aesthetic design. The findings of the research are that new technology-based firms emphasize functional design over aesthetic design. Emphasis on aesthetic design is related positively with the importance of design in a firms’ sector and founders’ experience of sales and marketing, while it is negatively related with founders’ technical education. In new technology-based firms, aesthetic design can be characterized as being used to exploit or counteract the characteristics that distinguish services from products, namely intangibility, inseparability, heterogeneity and perishability. The application of aesthetic design to counteract these characteristics is more prevalent than exploitation. Aesthetic design in new technology-based firms is found to be primarily silent, meaning that those performing design activities are mostly managers and technical staff engaged in design activities as part of their development efforts and without these activities necessarily being acknowledged as design. The findings regarding the relationship between aesthetic design and performance are that aesthetic design is positively related with competitive advantage, but that this relationship is dependent upon moderating factors. The effectiveness of aesthetic design in achieving competitive advantage through differentiation is found to differ depending on the current stage of commoditization. The greater the level of commoditization of a service the more effectively aesthetic design can be employed to improve competitive advantage. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the objectives underlying managers’ decisions to use aesthetic design in service innovation are attracting new customers, improving firm image and/or retaining existing customers, and doing so at lower cost. Hypothesis testing using longitudinal survey-based data confirms that by and large these benefits are realized by new technology-based firms. This research makes a number of important contributions. The research focus lies in an area where there is little existing research and, thus, the operationalization of aesthetic design developed and the characterization of aesthetic design as an element of service innovation in new technology-based firms constitute important contributions. The characterization provides a picture of the prevalence, roles, organization and actors of aesthetic design in the research context. The research also contributes insight about the relationship between aesthetic design as an element of service innovation and performance of new technologybased firms. The research shows that various positive relationships exist but that they can be contingent upon existing conditions, which act as moderating factors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7132 Files in this item: 1
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Janning, Finn (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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Frederiksen, Lars Frode; Hansson, Finn; Wenneberg, Søren Barlebo (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Knudsen, Line; Wenneberg, Søren B. (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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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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Abstract: The thesis is a thorough empirical study of discourses, fantasies, and patterns of interaction in highinvolvement knowledge work. My interest in the issue was sparked by a fascination with the intensity and contradictory nature of working life for many high-skilled workers. I was curious about the ambiguities and paradoxes existing within the same dynamic, and I was puzzled by the fact that such tension-ridden and precarious machinery could keep functioning despite its constant episodes of breakdown – be they emotional or organizational. My intention was to find a gaze and a language which could capture these ambiguities and tensions, rather than insisting on classical dualisms such as profit versus meaning, instrumentality versus authenticity, power versus freedom, and influence versus vulnerability...... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8061 Files in this item: 1
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Draft VersionHansson, Finn; Brenneche, Nicolaj Tofte; Mønsted, Mette; Fransson, Torsten; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi; LPF; Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy; LPF (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this report the key findings of an extensive literature review and an empirical survey of collaboration projects within the fields of sustainable energy and climate change are presented. The main objectives of the report is 1) to develop an analytical framework of innovation systems and to identify important managerial and organisational challenges pertinent to collaboration projects linking actors from within the Triangle of Knowledge (Innovation, Education and Research) and 2) to report on major collaboration patterns and on the basis hereof identify the most important types of collaborations known by the partners of SUCCESS. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7760 Files in this item: 1
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Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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tre samfundsvidenskabelige analysestrategierHøjbjerg, Erik (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Dette arbejdspapir er et forarbejde til et kapitel i bogen ’Socialkonstruktivistiske analysestrategier’ redigeret for Samfundslitteratur af Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Anders Esmark og Carsten Bagge Laustsen. Bogen forventes udgivet ultimo 2004. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6328 Files in this item: 1
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How to evaluate and select new scientific knowledge by introducing the social dimension in the evaluation of research qualityHansson, Finn (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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the role of industrial researchers' decision-makingHusted, Kenneth (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
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Birkeholm Munk, Kasper (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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At arbejde med et ikke-essentialistisk identitetsbegrebBuhl, Søren; Bech Hansen, Rasmus (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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analyzing Immanuel Kant's grounding for a metaphysics of moralsBordum, Anders (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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A Treatise on Modernity and NegationLarsen, Øjvind (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Modern global society has seen dramatic changes that throw us into impenetrable ethical problems of a kind never before witnessed in history. By this means, ethical problems constitute the locus of our confrontation with our own life situation. It is this condition that I take to be of fundamental importance when one undertakes to reflect upon the meaning of ethics today. If we approach the issue from the point of view of the history of ideas, we find that throughout the whole of the history of philosophy there have been a series of different attempts to articulate an ethics. Most of them address our concerns about how a human being ought to act in order to realise his or her life in the best or most correct way. I will return to the array of suggestions that have been offered in this regard. What is important for my purposes, meanwhile, is that there is some-thing that precedes ethical considerations, namely, the fact that ethics imposes itself upon the indi-vidual as a vital problem, and as one that cannot be escaped. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6438 Files in this item: 1
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Mindset-driven strategic change and executional agility in Solar A/SNielsen, Rikke Kristine (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper explores the practical and theoretical avenues for working with mindset as a strategic lever and method of securing business strategy executional agility. Taking the mindset development aspirations of Solar A/S as point of departure, the building up of a collective mindset conducive to strategy execution is explored as a method of securing implementation of business strategy. Reflecting the strategic priorities and internationalization process of the case study organization, the concept of global mindset is activated as an avenue of exploration (Chatterjee, 2005; Levy et al., 2007; Dekker et al; 2005; Bowen & Inkpen, 2009; Gupta & Govindarajan, 2002). A global mindset is the cognitive ability (of managers) to be open towards and navigating, integrating and mediating between multiple cultural and strategic realities on both global and local levels mirroring the Solar notion of group mindset supporting business strategy. It is argued that a knowledge gap exist with regards to creation and change of mindset in connection with strategy execution. Concepts of organizational learning are put forward as a possible point of entrance to mindset change. The paper is informed by the exploratory data from the initial phase of an ongoing industrial Ph.D.- project in Solar A/S with the working title “A mindset for strategy execution -mindset-driven leadership development and strategic performance.” URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8586 Files in this item: 1
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Knudsen, Line Gry; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi; LPF; Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy; LPF (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter aims at summarizing the discussion on collaborative networks as discussed in the reviewed literature (see appendix 3.). The question on governance of networks has today assumed a key role as more and more research programs are depending on large scale network collaborations. The criteria for evaluation the optimal organizing of a network can be divided into two important categories, each facing a number of important challenges. Management of network and management in network constitute together the governance system of the network and are of course closely connected but represent simultaneous a very important division of labour in the whole network system. Each type of management has to find solutions to specific challenges raised by the function of the network and its participants. This is what the following pages will describe in more detail. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7758 Files in this item: 1
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