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Duus, Henrik Johannsen (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The e-learning area is characterized by a magnitude of different products, systems and approaches. The variations can also be observed in differences in the views and notions of e-learning among business people, researchers and journalists. This article attempts to disentangle the area by using economic and sociological theories, the theories of marketing management and strategy as well as practical experience gained by the author while working with leading edge suppliers of e-learning. On this basis, a distinction between knowledge creation e-learning and knowledge transfer e-learning is outlined. In so doing, the existence of a huge gap between the practice and ideas of leading edge suppliers and several mainstream notions in business and academia is identified. The various views are divided into four different ideal-typical paradigms, each with its own characteristics and limitations. The selection of which paradigm to use in the development of an e-learning strategy may prove crucial for success. Implications for the development of an e-learning strategy in businesses and learning institutions are outlined. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7678 Files in this item: 1
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Hovedresultater fra undersøgelse i kommuner, regioner og statAndersen, Kim Normann; Vatrapu, Ravi (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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Comparing inter-firm labor mobility in the music industry and manufacturing industriesFrederiksen, Lars; Sedita, Silvia Rita (Frederiksberg, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper adds new knowledge to the phenomenon of transferring embodied knowledge through labor mobility by means of a comparative study of the entertainment and manufacturing industries. Explorative in nature, the paper takes advantage of unique data on the Danish labor market (i.e. IDA) to investigate labor mobility patterns for the two selected industries and to detect internal differences within industry segments and regarding creative intensive and invention activities in particular. We use the music industry as a proxy for the entertainment industries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7887 Files in this item: 1
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Challenges and CharacteristicsFoss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms influences knowledge processes, such as sharing, retaining and creating knowledge. It insists on clear micro (behavioural) foundations, adopts an economizing perspective, and examines the links between knowledge-based units of analysis with diverse characteristics and governance mechanisms with diverse capabilities of handling these transactions. Research issues that the knowledge governance approach illuminates are sketched. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7880 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: This paper gives an overview over some theory and empirical evidence on employee ownership and other forms of employee financial participation and answers the following questions: What is employee ownership and what is the relation to other forms of financial participation? Why is employee ownership widespread in some developed market economies like US and in Italy, France and Spain, while it has a quite rare occurrence in the Scandinavian countries? What are the conditions favouring and what are the barriers for employee ownership? What are the advantages and drawbacks for employee owned companies? The paper also gives a summary of the experience in the Baltics – with reference to the following three country articles – and gives finally some perspectives for the future. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7054 Files in this item: 1
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evidence from Estonian case studiesKalmi, Panu (Helsinki, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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an application to transition economiesKalmi, Panu (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
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Exploring the Potential of Critical Realist Case Studies of “What Could Be” for a Critically Performative CMSKoss Rasmussen, Rasmus (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
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Schmidt, Marcus (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Den foreliggende rapport bygger på en analyse af 871 huskesedler. Sedlerne er dels indsamlet i Jylland og dels i København. Indsamlingen af forbrugernes kasserede huskesedler er foregået såvel inde i dagligvarebutikkerne (indkøbskurve, affaldsspande) som ude foran butikkerne (parkeringsplads, indkøbsvogne). Dataindsamlingen omfatter de største supermarkeder og discountbutikker samt Bilka. Det vedhæftede appendiks forenden indeholder en nærmere redegørelse for den anvendte metodiske fremgangsmåde. Da produkter på en indkøbsseddel ofte er uklart beskrevet ("frugt" "grønt", "diverse pålæg", "weekendguf" osv.) har vi valgt at betegne hver nedfældning, der er protokolleret på papir, som et vareemne eller et indkøbsforsæt. "2 Agurker" og "Rød Merrild, 23,95" er ret præcist beskrevet, hvilket "frugt", "diverse pålæg" eller "morgenmad" ikke just kan siges at være. Medens en indkøbsseddel giver fuld mening og kan "afkodes" af medlemmerne af den pågældende husstand, kan den virke indforstået og delvis uforståelig for udenforstående. Øl er måske ensbetydende med den ramme med 6 Tuborg, som man plejer at købe, "frugt" kan være synonym med bananer, æbler og appelsiner, husstandens tre foretrukne frugter osv. De 871 huskesedler indeholdt i gennemsnit lidt over 9 vareemner. Medens der er store udsving, gælder at flertallet af huskesedler indeholder mellem 3 og 15 vareemner. Der er dog en spredning i opadgående retning. En huskeseddel indeholdt faktisk 60 emner. Se Figur 2 forneden i appendiks. Samlet rummede de 871 sedler 8047 vareemner. Skønsvist drejer det sig om mellem 600 og 800 forskellige produkter. Det præcise tal lader sig ikke helt fastlægge, idet visse vareemner ("grønt", "pålæg" og "tøj" osv. i modsætning til agurker, hamburgerryg og Adidas T-shirt XL) ikke tillader identifikation af et specifikt produkt. Dertil kommer af 542 emner fordelt over 262 sedler ikke kunne identificeres positivt (ulæseligt). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7677 Files in this item: 1
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the leadership challengeMeyer, Klaus (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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How Headquarters Facilitate Business Model Innovation at the Subsidiary LevelCao, Yangfeng; Ping Li, Peter; Skat-Rørdam, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Primarily due to the large gaps in economic and institutional contexts between the developed and emerging markets, business model innovation (BMI) at the subsidiary level plays an important role for the success of small and mediumsized firms (SMEs) from the developed markets operating in the emerging markets as top-down venture. While some studies claim that the direct involvement of headquarters (HQ) of SMEs in the activities of their subsidiaries is essential, surprisingly little is known about how HQ specifically facilitates BMI at the subsidiary level, especially in the context of top-down venture. Adopting the method of comparative and longitudinal case study, we tracked the BMI process of six SMEs from Denmark operating in China. The emergent framework indicates that entrepreneurial aspiration and flexibility at the HQ level 2 Asia Research Centre, CBS, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 2013-42 are two primary facilitators of BMI at the subsidiary level via the mechanisms of commitment and cooperation. We also found that BMI performance would influence the two facilitators in a feedback loop. Hence, we can contribute to the literatures on international entrepreneurship and strategic entrepreneurship by integrating the two previously separated research streams via their shared theme of accelerated learning. In particular, this study helps solve the puzzle concerning fast and successful international venture. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8679 Files in this item: 1
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Iversen, Jens; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We argue that formal schooling and wage-work experience are complementary types of human capital for entrepreneurs. Strong empirical support is found for this hypothesis as the interaction term between schooling and actual wage-work experience enters positively and significantly in a Mincer equation, whereas the effect of schooling in the absence of wage-work experience is insignificant. These results are extremely robust towards more flexible specifications, including fixed-effects estimations dealing with unobserved heterogeneity. For wage workers, the interaction term is negligible, confirming that the complementarity is a distinct characteristic of entrepreneurial human capital. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7990 Files in this item: 1
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Any Gains from TradeFoss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Although they have developed very much in isolation from each other, we argue the theory of entrepreneurship and the economic theory of the firm are closely related, and each has much to learn from the other. In particular, the notion of entrepreneurship as judgment associated with Frank Knight and some Austrian school economists aligns naturally with the theory of the firm. In this perspective, the entrepreneur needs a firm, that is, a set of alienable assets he controls, to carry out his function. We further show how this notion of judgment adds to the key themes in the modern theory of the firm (i.e., the existence, boundaries, and internal organization). In our approach, resource uses are not data, but are created as entrepreneurs envision new ways of using assets to produce goods. The entrepreneur’s decision problem is aggravated by the fact that capital assets are heterogeneous. Asset ownership facilitates experimenting entrepreneurship: Acquiring a bundle of property rights is a low cost means of carrying out commercial experimentation. In this approach, the existence of the firm may be understood in terms of limits to the market for judgment relating to novel uses of heterogeneous assets; and the boundaries of the firm, as well as aspects of internal organization, may be understood as being responsive to entrepreneurial processes of experimentation. Key words: Entrepreneurship, heterogeneous assets, judgment, ownership, firm boundaries, internal organization. JEL Codes: B53, D23, L2 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6429 Files in this item: 1
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Report from a workshop 6-8 September 2010Schaumburg-Müller, Henrik; Jeppesen, Søren; Langevang, Thilde (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This working paper is a report from the workshop on Entrepreneurship Development arranged by the Centre for Business and Development Studies at CBS and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 2010. The objective of the workshop was to use the participants’ joint knowledge and experiences to discuss and provide conclusions on what role entrepreneurship development has played and can play to stimulate growth and employment in Africa. Entrepreneurship development is understood as the promotion and development of activities and processes that foster and support productive entrepreneurship in the society. The workshop should provide inputs to how entrepreneurship in Africa can be supported and be used in the development and implementation of the “Growth and Employment” priority of the new Danish strategy for development cooperation. The workshop had twenty participants with long standing insight to the challenges of entrepreneurship development and employment growth in Africa from international organizations, development cooperation partners, universities and private enterprises and organizations. The report contains the key issues discussed at the workshop and ends with conclusions and recommendations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8208 Files in this item: 1
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Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Schjerning, Bertel; Sørensen, Anders (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper analyses the importance of entrepreneurs for job creation and wage growth. Relying on unique data that covers all plants, firms and individuals in the Danish private sector, we are able to distil a number of different measures of entrepreneurial plants from the set of new plants, including measures that much more precisely capture the "truly new” or "entrepreneurial” plants than in previous studies. Using these data, we find that while new plants in general account for one third of the gross job creation in the economy, entrepreneurial plants are responsible for between 15% and 25% of this, and thus only account for up to 8% of total gross job creation in the economy. However, entrepreneurial plants seem to generate more additional jobs than other new plants in the years following entry. Finally, the jobs generated by entrepreneurial plants are to a large extent low-wage jobs, as they are not found to contribute to the growth in average wages. However, this insight varies across the different types of entrepreneurial plants. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7713 Files in this item: 1
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Meyer, Klaus; Tran, Yen Thi Thu (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are expanding their global reach, carrying their products and brands to ever more remote corners of the world. They encounter business environments that vary not only from their country of origin, but also vary greatly amongst each other. Thus foreign investors have to adapt their strategies, most notably their marketing and acquisition strategies, to the local context. In this paper, we outline why globalisation drives MNEs into emerging economies, and we provide conceptual frameworks that may aid investors to adapt their strategies to emerging economy contexts. MNEs have to develop a portfolio of local and/or global brands that matches their competences with local needs. If they aim for market leadership they may pursue a multi-tier strategy, but this needs to be supported by an appropriate foundation of global and local resources. This strategy in particular requires the acquisition of complementary local resources controlled by local firms. However, acquisitions in emerging economies are inhibited by institutional obstacles and weak local firms. Thus, foreign investors may pursue staged, multiple, indirect, or Brownfield acquisitions to build their projected operation. We illustrate our proposed strategies by analysing how one multination enterprise - Carlsberg Breweries - has developed its operations in three very different emerging economies: Poland, Lithuania and Vietnam. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7071 Files in this item: 1
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greenfield, acquisition, and brownfieldMeyer, Klaus E.; Estrin, Saul (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
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The Conflicting Legacies of Demsetz and PenroseFoss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 1997)[More information][Less information]