Browsing Department of Business and Politics (DBP) by Year Published
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A Route to a New Negotiating Order in High Performance Work Organizations?Hull Kristensen, Peer (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Contrary to a widely held view, rather than seeing the certification of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) as a barrier to increasing employee participation, this article views new ways of structuring participation as a necessary step towards making improvements in OHS management systems. The article first considers how work organization has changed and then in a similar way traces how bargaining has shifted from being distributive to become integrative to create a fundamental change in the negotiation regime. Finally, by analysing an OHS-certified firm in greater depth, the article shows how solutions for improvements in OHS management and notable bottom-up formulations of OHS benchmarks may help us discover how the organizational form of firms in which high-performance work organization can be developed through new participative structures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8204 Files in this item: 1
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Hull Kristensen, Peer; Lotz, Maja (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper suggests that it is time to take the agency of teams seriously. Whereas the debate has previously focused on how firms may function more effectively by using team-based work-organization, our aim is to discuss and understand how teams effect the evolutionary dynamic of companies. Fieldwork in four Danish manufacturing companies helped us discover that firms as “communities of teams” are highly dynamic entities with complex layers of different team forms that operate, innovate and improve by constantly recombining work, collaborating across organizational divisions and redistributing authority, thereby challenging some of the existing “idioms” of team research and theories of the firm. The paper builds on these findings as we attempt to rethink research on teams by re-describing the evolutionary dynamics of firms and suggesting some themes that call for comparative research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8205 Files in this item: 1
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Greve, Crasten (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper aims to take stock of the concept of New Public Management (NPM) to see what has happened with the concept, and to consider recent concepts and ideas that challenge NPM. The reason is that there is still much talk about NPM, although many now seem to think that we have gone “beyond” NPM or are in a “post-NPM” public management situation. The second part of the paper will deal with self-styled conceptual alternatives to NPM. These began to appear in the last decade. With “self-styled” I mean that they explicitly present themselves as alternatives to NPM and address the shortcomings in NPM to promote other conceptualizations. Combined, these alternatives approach a coherent research agenda. To be able to discuss these matters, the argument is presented through a theoretical approach that views public management reform as institutional change. This approach is now common in public management reform studies (Pollitt & Bouckaert 2004; Christensen & Lægreid, 2001, 2007, 2011), Knill (1999) and Barzelay (2001) and colleagues (Barzelay & Gallego 2010). The analytical framework comes from theories of public policymaking and theories of historical institutionalism in political science. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8548 Files in this item: 1
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A linguistic contribution to the comparative study of national ways of thinking and communicatingLundquist, Lita (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recently, it was observed that the French President Nicolas Sarkozy ‘uses a lot of verbs’ (Calvet & Véronis 2008), what contributes to the impression he makes of being a “turbopresident”. At the same time, the (then) Minister of State in Denmark, Anders Fogh-Rasmussen, was characterised as being arrogant because of his top-down, formal, and impersonal way of communicating. If these two styles of communication stuck out as being noticeable in their French and Danish political framework respectively, it is because they were seen against the backdrop of social norms spelling out other rules for communicating in the two societies; a French norm, for presidents at least, stipulating not to use a lot of verbs, and a Danish norm telling not to be formal and impersonal. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8207 Files in this item: 1
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Lessons from Special Education in FinlandSabel, Charles; Saxenian, AnnaLee; Miettinen, Reijo; Hull Kristensen, Peer; Hautamäki, Jarkko (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8206 Files in this item: 1
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Ideological Continuity and the Organization of Anti-Socialist Propaganda in the Danish Business Community, 1945-1974Lund, Joachim (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In Denmark, only minor changes took place in the economic elite after the liberation. Retributions with economic collaborators were dealt with in the legal system, and business managers who had been involved in pro-German political activities during the occupation withdrew to their executive offices and kept a low profile. With Nazism defeated, other ideational forces of integration surfaced as prewar anti-Socialist feelings and activities were invigorated. As an integral part of a general fight against economic regulation and for free trade, anti-Socialism became an important integral factor among Danish business leaders during the immediate postwar years. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7917 Files in this item: 1
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Pedersen, Ove K. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of discourse analysis is to reveal the ontological and epistemological premises which are embedded in language, and which allows a statement to be understood as rational or interpreted as meaningful. Discourse analysis investigates whether – in statements or texts - it is possible to establish any regularity in the objects which are discussed; the subjects designated as actors; the causal relations claimed to exist between objects (explanans) and subjects (explanadum); but also the expected outcome of subjects trying to influence objects; the goal of their action; and finally the time dimension by which these relations are framed. Discourses thus comprise the underlying conditions for a statement to be interpreted as meaningful and rational. At the same time, discourse analysis is the study of rationality and how it is expressed in a particular historical context. Discourse analysis is part of the Constructivist (or Social Constructivist) approach within the humanities and social sciences. It assumes that basic assumptions with regard to being, self and the world are constructed by individuals living in a historical and cultural context which is produced and reproduced by their speech acts. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7792 Files in this item: 1
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Institutionelt brud i den offentlige moderniseringspolitik? OPP og udlicitering i de danske kommunerHelby Petersen, Ole; Ring Christensen, Lasse (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Vi stiller os i dette paper kritisk spørgende til det nye i OPP og søger at belyse, om OPP markerer et institutionelt brud med det i dansk moderniseringspolitik velkendte begreb udlicitering. Vi giver svar gennem to del-analyser. Først sammenlignes nøgletal for danske kommuners brug af udlicitering og arbejde med OPP-modellen. Analysen viser, at OPP-arbejdet overvejende foregår i større kommuner med en gennemsnitlig økonomi og en ideologisk sammensætning på borgmesterposterne på linje med gennemsnittet i landets kommuner. Hvorimod kommuner med højt udliciteringsniveau oftest ledes af borgerlige borgmestre, så er OPP-kommunerne økonomisk og ideologisk på linje med gennemsnittet af landets kommuner. I anden delanalyse kigger vi på reguleringsrammen for brug af henholdsvis OPP og udlicitering. Det kommunale selvstyre og de årlige kommuneaftaler fungerer som en institutionel ramme omkring de reguleringstiltag, som regeringen har mulighed for at anvende. Fælles for reguleringen af kommunernes udlicitering og OPP ligger et bærende princip om metodefrihed i opgaveløsningen. Hvor grænserne for metodefriheden går, er dog ikke en fastlåst størrelse, men genstand for løbende forhandling mellem det statslige og kommunale niveau. Vi konkluderer, at OPP på centrale parametre ikke blot er en forlængelse af udlicitering, men en selvstændig og bemærkelsesværdig kontraktmodel, som er ved at institutionaliseres i de danske kommuner. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7788 Files in this item: 1
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Examples from Danish and FrenchLundquist, Lita (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7821 Files in this item: 1
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A Response to Global Needs?. IACCM(International Association for Cross Cultural Competences and Management) Annual Conference: Cross Cultural Competence: Knowledge Migration, Communication and Value Change, 24-26 June, 2009 WienEgholm Feldt, Liv (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8236 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: It has become common over the last 25 years to formulate general ethical standards for management of public administration, not only in developing countries, but in most western democratic societies too. Standards of ethical conduct currently exist for public managers in USA, England, New Zealand, Canada, Australia5, and a number of other countries6. They apply to members of the civil service on the basis of professional merits (meritocracy) as well as to public officials on the basis of their political appointment (politocracy). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7791 Files in this item: 1
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Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Også i byen var standssamfundet struktureret ved hjælp af privilegier; ligesom forholdet mellem by og land var det. Købstaden havde eneret på handel og næring; kun købmænd måtte drive handel; kun håndværkere måtte drive håndværk; og ingen undtagen byens borgere måtte udøve håndværk eller afsætte håndværksprodukter inden for byens grænser. Håndværkere fra byen måtte ikke drive håndværk på landet; håndværkere fra landet måtte ikke arbejde for byerne. Indenfor byen var håndværkernes arbejdsevne bestemt af laugens privilegium på næring. Både adel og borger var således indplaceret i et symmetrisk forhold, ligesom bonde og håndværkersvend, og husmand og håndværkerdreng. Den ene stands privilegier satte grænser for den næste. De vigtigste forskelle var mellem by og land, og her indenfor mellem borger og ikke-borger. Sammen med forskellene mellem de besiddelsesløse og de privilegerede, og adel og bonde udgjorde forskellen mellem by land samt borger og ikke-borger grundstrukturen i den absolutistiske regulering. De privilegerede havde for-rettigheder i forhold til stand eller formue og i forhold til om de boede på land eller i by. Købstadsprivilegiet var oprindeligt naturgroet; senere blev det delegeret af kongen som privilegium; det var både før-moderne og tidligt-moderne. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7366 Files in this item: 1
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Et essay i forbindelse med fagbladet Folkeskolens 125 års jubilæum.Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Lærernes fagblad Folkeskolen fylder 125 år. Tillykke med det! Hermed kan vi fejre et af de mest citerede fagblade, som udgives af en af de mest indflydelsesrige, danske interesseorganisationer, og samtidig en af de vigtigste af alle faggrupper, nemlig folkeskolelærerne. Først af alt kan vi dog fejre den danske folkeskole. Uden den, ingen lærere, og uden lærere ingen forening og intet medlemsblad. Sammen med fagbladet Folkeskolen kan vi derfor også tillade os at fejre skolen; også selvom det er usikkert hvornår folkeskolen opstod, og hvorfra den skal dateres. Opstod den med kirkeordinantens om ”børneskoler” i 1539, med anordningen om ”almueskoler” i 1814, eller med lov om forskellige forhold vedrørende folkeskolen i 1899? Svaret er ikke ligegyldigt, men irrelevant i denne sammenhæng. I dette bidrag skal jeg hylde Danmarks Lærerforening, dets medlemmer, og deres fagblad, og jeg vil gøre det ved at påstå, at der er ét forhold, som i alle bladets 125 år og i alle DLF’s 134 år har optaget medlemmerne mere end noget andet - og det er folkeskolens formål. Folkeskolen fik sin første egentlige formålsparagraf i 1937, men lang tid før var dens opgaver fastsat ved ordinants, ved forordning, anordning eller lov. Det er derfor også ved sådanne bestemmelser, at skolen har fundet sin berettigelse og lærerne deres mission. Ligesom det er ved sådanne bestemmelser, at lærerforeningen har defineret, hvad der udmærker dens medlemmer, hvad der gør dem til en særlig profession, eller giver dem deres kaldelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7326 Files in this item: 1
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Rocha, Robson S. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present article investigates co-decision making with focus on the development of partnerships arrangements (PAs) between managers and trade-union representatives in a Danish multinational company which has grown through cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The findings show the difficulties which trade-union representatives and management face in combining different forms of corporate governance and supporting PAs. The article argues that hybrid forms of PAs are unlikely to develop, due to historically embedded governance institutions, which create distinct expectations about how a firm must be controlled and who has the rights to exert this control. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7343 Files in this item: 1
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Pedersen, Ove Kaj (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: For blot 15 år siden var det ved at blive en veletableret kendsgerning, at den suveræne stat eller den nationale stat var blevet ”svækket”, ”udhulet”, eller på anden vis ændret i retning af at blive en mindre vigtig faktor i organiseringen af sociale, økonomiske og politiske – nationale såvel som internationale - relationer. Den australske politolog Linda Weiss kritiserede denne trend og kaldte den for ”The State Denial”1. Hun henviste til en lang tradition for at trivialisere statens samfundsmæssige rolle indenfor samfundsvidenskaberne, men fremhævede også, hvordan trivialiseringen i 80`erne og 90`erne skabte en udbredt skepsis over for, at de nationale stater havde ressourcer og handlerum til at modstå kapitalstrømmenes globalisering og politikkens europæisering. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7372 Files in this item: 1
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Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Den borgerlige statsform har forskellen mellem stat og individ til lokus; den udgør en forestilling om rationel handling (en ratio); og en forestilling om hvordan den selv tilbliver (dens tempus) og forandres (dens historie). Den indeholder også en forestilling om magt (dominans). Hvordan skal vises i det følgende! URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7341 Files in this item: 1
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Rocha, Robson (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present article investigates changes over time in the patterns of co-decisionmaking in a Danish multinational company which has grown through cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The findings show the difficulties that trade union representatives face when firms try to introduce a governance regime based on shareholder value ideology. The article argues that hybrid forms of governance are unlikely to develop due to historically embedded governance institutions, which create distinct expectations about how a firm must be governed and who has the right to participate in this governance. The spread of the Anglo-Saxon model of governance in Europe is likely to have negative effects on co-decision-making processes and established patterns of organizational cooperation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7358 Files in this item: 1
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Lotz, Maja (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper I explore the constructive links between co-operation, rivalry, and learning within the structure of team communities. Drawing upon social learning theory, the main purpose of this paper is to argue that both co-operation and rivalry are important triggers for mobilizing learning processes within and between teams. However, social learning theory tends to disregard the positive aspects of rivalry. Consequently, this paper will argue for the need to extend social learning theory beyond its rather harmonious learning perspective. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7369 Files in this item: 1
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Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Dette udgør kapitel 1, afsnit 5 i manuskript om Arbejdets Institutionelle Historie. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7336 Files in this item: 1
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Pedersen, Ove K. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Bønder med fæste og tyende i hus var ikke løsgængere. De var heller ikke privilegerede. De var i arbejde”; men havde ingen formue, var ikke født til stands eller rang og udgjorde således en gruppe mellem løsgængere og de privilegerede. Det samme gjorde håndværkersvende og lærlinge i forhold til mestre og borgere og næringsdrivende kvinder i forhold til andre kvinder. Gennemgangen af landboforholdet indebærer et skift i perspektiv i forhold til gennemgangen af de besiddelsesløse. I stedet for arbejdspligtens arkæologi, skal jeg nu give et rids over hvilke forpligtigelser bonde og husmand, tyende og tjener blev pålagt ved fæste, stavnsbinding eller på anden vis. Perspektivet skifter til, hvilke rettigheder de privilegerede havde over deres bonde og husmand; og derigennem hvilke begrænsninger disse rettigheder satte på bondens og husmandens personlige myndighed og retlige evner, men også hvilke former og grader for myndighed bonde og husmand opnåede i forhold til adel og proprietær. Jeg beskriver de besiddelsesløses situation i arbejde”, i modsætning til de besiddelsesløses situation uden arbejde”. Det er stadig arbejdsevnen, eller evnen til at påtage sig arbejde og retten til at lade være, der står i centrum. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7375 Files in this item: 1
wp cbp 2008-53.pdf (132.8Kb)