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An empirical assessmentSchmidt, Marcus (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present study is based on a large scale panel survey and uses the German market for profiling the consumer of ecological margarine. We analyze how this consumer differs from the mainstream consumer. Consumers of ecological margarine are categorized as light- , medium-, heavy-users and loyalists. Also, we explore why some consumers - when being asked - intend to buy ecological margarine but do not purchase the product (and vice versa). A cluster analysis of non-purchasers of ecological margarine shows at least one sizeable cluster of non-purchasers possess views on ecostatements that are more eco-prone than loyal purchasers of eco-margarine. Several other interesting findings are revealed. Implications for promotion of ecological margarine are discussed (not in the present draft but at the conference). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8721 Files in this item: 1
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Böhm, Markus; Henningsson, Stefan; Yetton, Philip; Leimeister, Jan Marco; Krcmar, Helmut (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Acquisitions of new businesses and divestments of existing ones are frequently components of large organizations’ corporate strategies. In both acquisitions and divestments, corporate IT infrastructure plays a critical role for realizing business objectives. In this paper, we take a dual view of the IT-related challenges in divestment and acquisition strategies, studying them as a single integrated transaction between a buyer and a seller and investigating how the IT carve-out and IT integration strategies influence each other. The extant literature on the interaction between carve-outs and integration strategies is an empty set. Here, we begin to shed light to the limitations of the carve-out contract, the processes of carving out a business unit from one and integrating it into another multibusiness organization, asymmetries in both parties’ preferences for an IT transaction process and its influence on arising challenges and organization performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8631 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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Institutionalization Through ExperimentationGeorg, Susse; Garza de Linde, Gabriela; Pinheiro-Croisel, Rebecca; Aggeri, Franck (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Judging from the number of communities and cities striving or claiming to be sustainable and how often eco-development is invoked as the means for urban regeneration, it appears that sustainable and eco-development have become “the leading paradigm within urban development” (Whitehead 2003). But what is it that is driving these urban transformations? Clearly, there are many probable answers to this complex question and in what follows we will focus on one particular catalyst of change – urban design competitions. Considered as field changing events (Lampel & Meyer 2008, Anand and Jones 2008), urban design competitions are understudied mechanisms for bringing about field level changes. This paper examines how urban design competitions can bring about changes within two types of fields – professional fields and local geographical fields. The context for our study is urban regeneration in two cities in France and Denmark, both of which have been suffering from industrial decline and have invested in establishing “eco-districts”. Based on these two case studies we explore how the different parties involved in these urban development projects have developed innovative design templates and practices that can instantiate field level changes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8405 Files in this item: 1
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Sanden, Guro Refsum (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: One important effect of globalisation for the multinational corporation (MNC) is the increasing diversity of the workforce, which becomes clear through the variety of different language backgrounds found among employees at all levels of the organisation. In order to overcome the linguistic barriers presented by the multilingual workforce, MNCs may try to implement various language policies or strategies to regulate the internal communicative environment, for example by adopting a common corporate language, or deploy language management tools such as language training for employees or use of translation services. However, these language policies may have consequences unanticipated by the management, and could possibly affect the company in ways far beyond the scope of the linguistic-communicative area. This paper attempts to examine the role of corporate language policies and their effects for the internal communication patterns of a MNC. It is argued that the importance of language as a precondition for successful employee collaboration implies that language policies should not be developed in isolation from the organisational context, but instead be employed with the purpose of supporting the overall goals and objectives of the corporation. If the MNC fails to adequately address the language issue of its organisation, the problems may potentially escalate to the extent that they negatively affect the operation of the firm and its economic performance. Finally, it is argued that language policies can be both reactive, building on previous language experiences, and proactive, as a management tool to help shape the future language practices of a company and its employees. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8685 Files in this item: 1
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The International IPSERA Workshop on Customer Attractiveness, Supplier Satisfaction and Customer Value. 25-26 November 2010Ellegaard, Chris; Freytag, Per V. (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Reports on supply chain management (SCM) failure are becoming more frequent in the SCM literature, despite widespread recognition of the business potential associated with such optimizations of operational buyer-supplier interfaces. Some failures can be ascribed to imbalances in the net benefits realized by the buying and supplying company implementing SCM. Failed SCM initiatives hurt the buying company’s customer attractiveness and limit opportunities for long term value creation with suppliers. Hence, an important task for the buying company is the management of SCM initiatives in a way that benefits both parties. However, SCM costs and benefits often materialise as the result of complex interactive processes between buyer and supplier actors, which makes SCM a challenging management task. To increase the understanding of these complex processes, this study identifies the various types of supplier costs and benefits resulting from the failed VMI initiative of a multinational company. While the benefits from this case turn out to be few, the costs appear in large variety and scale. More importantly, we uncover the underlying mechanisms generating these costs, thereby enabling managers to identify and avoid the costs. Based on the findings, we propose pre-project classification of supplier VMI readiness to allow more beneficial implementation as a key managerial implication. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8229 Files in this item: 1
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A New Approach to Strategic ControlHallin, Carina Antonia; Andersen, Torben J.; Foss, Nicolai J.; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent advances within the dynamic capabilities view emphasize the “sensing” of employees as an important part of the micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities: By putting in place organizational processes that mobilize and exploit information gathered by individual employees from their operating environment, firms can update insights about performance outcomes and improve strategic decision-making. We test empirically the extent to which firms can ascertain performance outcomes by drawing on employee knowledge. Our empirical setting is the Scandinavian hospitality sector with respondents among frontline service employees. Using a time series approach, we show that employee respondents (collectively) assess medium-term organizational performance better than management and the financial models available to them. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8506 Files in this item: 1
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A Qualitative Case StudySøderberg, Anne-Marie (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Previous research tends to overemphasize frictions, cultural clashes and communication breakdowns in virtual teams. The author aims at exploring positive aspects of cross-cultural collaboration and identifying some of the conditions underlying trust-building, employee motivation and team effectiveness. Whereas much research on virtual teams has taken its point of departure in Western MNCs and primarily addressed headquarter concerns, this case study of a Danish MNC´s Indian R & D site gives voice to Indian managers and employees and explores through semi-structured interviews and observations how they perceive communication and collaboration within multinational and multicultural R & D teams, and how they try to find common ground. Based on the interviews accounts, there are several enablers of virtual team collaboration: advanced information and communication technology facilitated virtual communication, and high English-language proficiency among the engineers at different R & D sites made dialogue and knowledge exchange feasible. Moreover, team members shared a strong professional identity as engineers and technicians, and they displayed a strong identification with the MNC, a world leader in the wind power industry. Perceived national differences in leadership and communication style played a minor role, maybe because the majority of Indian managers and employees had previous experience working in other Western MNCs. Some of the Indian managers and employees were even able to act as boundary-spanners between headquarters and the Indian R&D site due to their study and work experiences in other business environments. Culture courses that introduced the Danish and Indian team members to a North European communication and management style, and to an Indian respectively, were introduced on the initiative of the Danish managing director, who - in contrast to the HR department - recognized the importance of facilitating the virtual teamwork through cultural awareness training. Suggestions for further cultural learning processes are given. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8566 Files in this item: 1
Søderberg IHRM 2012 conference paper.pdf (98.55Kb) -
An Analysis of Factors Influencing Diets of European ChildrenGwozdz, Wencke; Reisch, Lucia A.; DeHenauw, Stefaan; Lissner, Lauren; Moreno, Luis; Tornaritis, Michael; Molnar, Denes; Siani, Alfonso; Veidebaum, Toomas; Pigeot, Iris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Because interventions related to diet and other health behaviours are seldom successful and/or sustainable, it is extremely important to identify the individual factors that contribute to a healthier or unhealthier diet. To this end, we use cross-sectional data from the IDEFICS study to analyse the dietary behaviour of children aged between 2 and 9 years in eight European countries. We model the complex nature of these individual factors using structural equation modelling. Our results show that both sedentary behaviour and food exposure are strong contributors to children’s dietary choices. However, although we find a positive relation between a healthy diet and weight status for girls, weight status appears independent of diet quality for boys. These outcomes, although they permit no firm conclusions on health policy strategies, clearly suggest that further research based on longitudinal data could provide valuable insights for the design of successful prevention and intervention strategies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8334 Files in this item: 1
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Sudzina, Frantisek; Razmerita, Liana (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Due to advances of technology including faster and ubiquitously accessible Internet connection, on-line gaming have grown tremendously in the last couple of years. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether escapist motives for playing games are linked to strengthening of weak ties through on-line gaming. The research investigates Facebook and other on-line games separately. A surprising result is that while most of the investigated escapist motives are positively correlated with strengthening of weak ties, the mundane breaking motive is negatively correlated with strengthening of weak ties. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8620 Files in this item: 1
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Sudzina, Frantisek; Razmerita, Liana (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Due to advances of technology including faster and ubiquitously accessible Internet connection, on-line gaming have grown tremendously in the last couple of years. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether escapist motives for playing games are linked to strengthening of weak ties through on-line gaming. The research investigates Facebook and other on-line games separately. A surprising result is that while most of the investigated escapist motives are positively correlated with strengthening of weak ties, the mundane breaking motive is negatively correlated with strengthening of weak ties. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8603 Files in this item: 1
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Henningsson, Stefan; Hanseth, Ole (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper inquires into the complexities of contemporary IT solutions based on a case study of the EU’s eCustoms initiatives using Manuel DeLanda’s Assemblage Theory. Technological innovations have enabled information infrastructures with dramatically increased number and heterogeneity of included components, and their dynamic and unexpected interactions. Unfortunately, lack of understanding of how the increasing complexity influences development initiatives is hampering effective information infrastructure development. Assemblage Theory can be seen as holistic synthesis of previous research streams seeking to explain how information infrastructures evolve in social contexts. Accordingly, in this paper it helps us getting a holistic grasp of the complexity of contemporary IT solutions and the “essence” of their dynamics. Through Assemblage Theory we explain how the European eCustoms information infrastructure has through a dialectic between stabilizing and destabilizing processes assumed its current shape - a result of decisions taken decades ago, path dependency, complexity, and accumulated emergence. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8632 Files in this item: 1
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A case Study of SAPAntero, Michelle C.; Hedman, Jonas; Henningsson, Stefan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The ERP industry has undergone dramatic changes over the past decades due to changing market demands, thereby creating new challenges and opportunities, which have to be managed by ERP vendors. This paper inquires into the necessary evolution of business models in a technology-intensive industry (e.g., develop new offerings, engage in partnerships, and the utilize new sales channels). This paper draws from strategy process perspective to develop an evolutionary business model (EBM) framework that explains the components and processes involved. The framework is then applied to a longitudinal case study of SAP to explain how its success in a technology-intensive industry hinges on its ability to reconfigure its business model. The paper contributes to the extant literature on business models in two ways: first, by identifying and explaining the need for an evolutionary perspective; and second, by adopting different value configurations to reflect the convergence of customers, suppliers and vendors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8725 Files in this item: 1
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Lehrer, Christiane; Constantiou, Ioanna; Hess, Thomas (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The continuance of use is an important topic of IS research. However, in the past, many researchers have focused on adoption rather than IS continuance. Studying continuance is of equal importance, because if use does not persist, this may limit the revenues of the provider. This is particularly true for consumer-oriented services, which rely on advertising, or subscription-based revenue models. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of location-based services (LBS) continuance as a relevant case study for the examination of IS continuance generally. A research model is developed and empirically tested through a survey of a representative sample in Germany. The proposed model builds on and extends the Limayem et al. model of IS continuance. Our analysis highlights the importance of habit and emotion in LBS continuance. The results indicate that habit has a stronger predictive power than continuance intentions for LBS continuance and that emotions are an important driver for user satisfaction with LBS. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8523 Files in this item: 1
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Interactive climate control in greenhouses in DenmarkClemmensen, Torkil (Lisbon, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper argues that we should focus on creating examples of indigenous HCI. This should be done by becoming more sensitive to regional and national differences in how work styles and interaction design across time and use merge, adapt, localize and reduce the ambiguity of the technology. A case of climate control is reported. The method is interpretive phenomenological analysis that focuses on idiosyncrasies. The climate control experience of a Danish expert is compared with the experiences of a similar Israeli expert. The conclusion says that many similarities exist, but also meaningful differences that should be the basis for Indigenous HCI design. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8533 Files in this item: 1
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Uneson, Marcus; Juel Henrichsen, Peter (Jachranka, 2011)[More information][Less information]
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The Case of Google Wallet and ISISChae, Sang-Un; hedman, Jonas (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Over the past few years, mobile payments have been present like a storm on the horizon. They have generated a lot of attention; yet have not reached wide adoption. Issues such as the complexity of the mobile payment ecosystem and the lack of sustainable business models have been accounted for the slow market penetration. With the rise of new technologies such as NFC, the mobile payment sphere experiences a new height of talk, which materialized in a second wave of companies entering the market. Using the case study method, we will enquire into two recent mobile payment initiatives in the U.S, namely Google Wallet and ISIS. As such, the paper sets out to study NFC-enabled mobile payment innovations and provide an analysis of business models of m-payment services. The outcome of the paper contributes to the research of business models and mobile payment in two ways. First, it offers an applicable business model framework that allows practitioners and academics to study current and future mobile payment approaches. Second, it offers new insight in the field of NFC mobile payments; specifically about concrete business model configurations to effectively reach mass-market. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8724 Files in this item: 1
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Danish Foundations, CSR Legislation, and how Tradition Facilitates Compettive AdvantageBlom, Karen Sofie; Kaus, Kristine; Biering-Sørensen, Anna Sophie; Tackney, Charles T. (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In stark contrast to other national settings, the commercial foundation is a rather common form of ownership of enterprises in Denmark. Today, there are around 1,300 Danish commercial foundations. Familiar foundations include AP Møller Mærsk, Carlsberg, Egmont, and Novo Nordisk. Our paper aims to facilitate an understanding of this unique Danish tradition and explore its profound contemporary relevance.The significance of Danish commercial foundations, their societal and compassionate role, has manifested itself through philanthropic projects for centuries. We explore the dual identities that inhere in contemporary Danish commercial foundations, and how these impact contemporary society. There are also challenges and opportunities for such foundations in light of recent Danish corporate social responsibility (CSR) legislation. We explore these through a contextual analysis of legal structures that govern Danish commercial foundations. Extended Foundational Corporate Citizenship (EFCC) is presented in the paper as a communications model or tool to help resolve the inherent tension between a commercial foundation’s contemporary business and philanthropic units, offering an aid to strategic advantage identification. The EFCC model and associated modes of communication proposed may further serve to manage legislative pressures presented to commercial foundations. Moreover, the traditional commercial foundation structure, coupled with EFCC model deployment, appears theoretically and strategically anticipatory of emerging Danish legislative obligations. Isomorphic processes within commercial foundations shed light on the links between the internal communicative challenge and CSR legislation. Such isomorphism appears between the business - philanthropic configuration and the company - CSR configuration. These processes aid recognition of the potential benefit of the inherent structure of a commercial foundation in relation to the emerging focus on CSR legislation. An additional purpose of illustrating the isomorphic processes was to facilitate clarification of a potential strategic advantage of commercial foundations, indicating how such traditional foundations may not only exist in society but operate “ahead of” emerging CSR legislative reporting obligations. The contemporary proliferation of CSR, as a legal matter, is a potent source of consumer interest. It is also a research field that provides commercial foundations with a number of opportunities to explore. Legislative obligations may appear to be little more than a reporting obligation for commercial foundations’ business units. Yet, our research suggests the structure of a commercial foundation already contains a latent communicative advantage for the good, not only of commercial foundations, but also contemporary society. We believe that our research findings in the Danish case of foundation organization and management theory may be of interest to an international audience. Within the structure of a commercial foundation one may find inherent notions of compassion coupled with authentic commercial and profit-making intentions. Indeed, we hope the results offer a path to successfully anticipate current, as well as future, stakeholder and public expectations for an organizational form of historical interest and future merit. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8612 Files in this item: 1
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Accounting as matters of concern and a Poincaré DiskLichen, Alex Yu (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Inspired by Latour’s (2005a) notion of matters of concern and M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit III as a representation of the Poincaré Disk, this study follows how an S&OP process was fabricated in a large Swedish manufacturing company. The study claims that when actors are fabricating the S&OP process, local actors create emergent, ongoing and multiple matters of concern around it. The group demand chain, the actor who is responsible for guiding the implementation of the process, delegates the attempts to close these matters of concern to local actors located in separate times and spaces. As a result, constituents of the S&OP process are dispersed in diverse local times and spaces rather than being coordinated in a single time and space by the group demand chain. Accounting is a set of matters of concern. The S&OP process and its purpose of integration come from an “absolute nothingness” – its minimal configuration ‐ because actors refer to them in their absences. They need to be re‐presented. The minimal configuration of the S&OP process creates a working time/space where diverse actors are engaged to create emergent properties of the S&OP process and new possibilities of integration. Consequently, as new matters of concern are constantly created by actors, integration on the demand chain becomes uncertain because actors are always creating new possibilities to move towards integration but will never arrive at the destination of integration. The S&OP process and integration thus go back to the “absolute nothingness” because as matters of concern they have no edge. To integrate is thus to postpone integration. In‐between stands the constituents of the S&OP process and possibilities of integration dispersed in diverse times and spaces. This means from this “absolute nothingness” lays the “geometry exactitude” of the managerial technology. Accounting is a Poincaré Disk. Therefore accounting not only creates a presence what are absent but also initiates a working time/space where actors can bring heterogeneous problematisation upon itself. The impossibility of representation brings about possibility of heterogeneous representational practices. Accounting makes the transition possible by artificially blurring the distinction between absence and presence. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8702 Files in this item: 1
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An International ViewKotzab, Herbert; Teller, Christoph; Grant, David B. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper discusses factors affecting the execution of supply chain management and presents a conceptual model and six hypotheses based on such factors identified in the literature. The model was tested in two European country-specific cases using structural equation modelling. Findings in both cases confirm the hypothesized hierarchical order of three proposed antecedents: ‘internal SCM conditions’ affect ‘joint SCM conditions’ which in turn influences collaborative ‘SCM-related processes’. Managerial implications are that firms in both countries should adopt these hierarchical steps to ensure a rigorous and appropriate approach to achieving full and integrative SCM. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8330 Files in this item: 1
hkotzab_konf_july_2011.pdf (270.0Kb)