Conference papers Titler
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Exploring the Role of sensemaking Narratives in Stakeholders’ Shared Understanding of the BrandGyrd-Jones, Richard; Törmälä, Minna (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Purpose: An important part of how we sense a brand is how we make sense of a brand. Sense-making is naturally strongly connected to how we cognize about the brand. But sense-making is concerned with multiple forms of knowledge that arise from our interpretation of the brand-related stimuli: Declarative, episodic, procedural and sensory. Knowledge is given meaning through mental association (Keller, 1993) and / or symbolic interaction (Blumer, 1969). These meanings are centrally related to individuals’ sense of identity or “identity needs” (Wallpach & Woodside, 2009). The way individuals make sense of brands is related to who people think they are in their context and this shapes what they enact and how they interpret the brand (Currie & Brown, 2003; Weick, Sutcliffe, & Obstfeld, 2005; Weick, 1993). Our subject of interest in this paper is how stakeholders interpret and ascribe meaning to the brand and how these meaning narratives play out over time to create meta-narratives that drive brand meaning co-creation. In this paper we focus on the concept of brand identity since it is at the level of identity that the brand creates meaning for individuals (Kapferer, 2012; Csaba & Bengtsson, 2006). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9515 Filer i denne post: 1
Gyrdjones_Tormala_Makesense.pdf (67.08Kb) -
Hald, Kim S.; Thrane, Sof (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Research positioned in the intersection between management accounting and supply chain management is increasing. However, the relationship between management accounting and supply chain strategies has been neglected in extant research. This research adds to literature on management accounting and supply chain management through exploring how supply chain strategy and management accounting is related, and how supply chain relationship structure modifies this relation. Building on a contingency theoretical lens as well as literature within management accounting and supply chain management, a research model is developed. The research model highlights two basic forms of fit. First, fit between lean- and agile supply chain strategies, and supply chain management accounting practice. Second, supply chain relationship structure, modelled as the extent to which a firm organizationally integrates activities with customers and suppliers, is a moderating variable and. When misfits occur this may lead to negative performance effects and have implications for the competitiveness of the firm and the supply chain system as a whole. This study makes a contribution to the literature by conceptualizing the elements of management accounting in a context of the supply chain and by relating it to supply chain strategy and supply chain relationship structure. A set of generically different supply chain management accounting postures are proposed and the notion of design/use flexibility of a supply chain management accounting technique proposes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9373 Filer i denne post: 1
Hald_Thrane.pdf (320.0Kb) -
Tackney, Charles T. (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This is an exploration, using Japanese language primary sources, of management policies and relat-ed industrial sector ecology of the post-World War II machine tools industry. From postwar devas-tation to global leader in worldwide market share by the mid-1980s, remarkably little is know of the factors that contributed to this sucess. Paralleling Max Holland’s 1989 Burgmaster case study method of the U.S. firm’s and industry failure, this study examines the history of Okuma Corpora-tion, an Aichi Prefecture machine tools producer. The role of management leaders and government support for viable firms is shown to provide the necessary industrial ecology for machine tools pro-ducers to recover, innovate, deal with successive oil shocks, and achieve a leadership role in the machine tools sector. Comparative reflections on the parallel decline of the U.S. machine tools in-dustrial sector conclude the paper. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8614 Filer i denne post: 1
Tackney_2012_3.pdf (505.2Kb) -
Henningsson, Stefan; Yetton, Philip (, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Acquisitions are standard components of the growth strategies of many organizations. Frequently, acquisitions raise important questions concerning how and to what extent the acquisition’s information technology (IT) needs to be integrated into the IT of the acquirer. We investigate how the initial conditions of business and IT alignment in the acquirer and the acquisition affect the complexity of the post-acquisition IT integration process, in acquisitions of business units by multi-business organizations. Adopting an IT alignment model for multi-business organizations, we explain the complexity of IT integration paths in two acquisitions made by the industry group Trelleborg AB. We identify four initial business and IT strategic alignment conditions where the IT integration process is a simple one-step process exploiting existing business and IT capabilities. Low compliance with these conditions leads to increased complexity because additional business and/or IT capabilities have to be developed to leverage the full potential of the acquisition. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8628 Filer i denne post: 1
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Henningsson, Stefan; Kude, Thomas; Popp, Karl Michael (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper, we report on a novel approach developed by SAP AG, the German enterprise software company, for managing the integration of acquisitions of companies to access innovative technologies and related capabilities: the Product Council approach. The value of the Product Council approach rests in ensuring critical speed while not compromising accuracy in the integration process. For SAP, the Product Council became a vital component in its technology acquisition capability that allows the company to retain its technological edge in the hypercompetitive software industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9421 Filer i denne post: 1
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Michea, Adela; Varnes, Claus Juul (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This study adds to business model innovation literature by exploring the adaptability of dominant logics of corporate mindsets. The purpose is to analyze how a company can rethink itself based on the premises of servitization: how the mindset of a manufacturer can be reconfigured when changing the business model from product to service innovation and adapting a service logic for its entire business. A field study was conducted in the form of two workshops and interviews with middle-level managers of Vestas Wind Systems, a global wind turbine manufacturer. The study indicates that it is cognitively possible to change the business model of a manufacturing company. Furthermore, the results showed that mindsets can be mapped, but they change depending on the framing. Interestingly, each mindset possesses a different businesslogic, as the components of the business model framework interact differently in a product than a service situation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8844 Filer i denne post: 1
Michea_Varnes.pdf (516.1Kb) -
Borgström, Benedikte; Agndal, Henrik; Cui, Lianguang; Jensen, Leif-Magnus; Hertz, Susanne (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The purpose is to better understand the interrelatedness of new business models in the truck market and developments in the road transport sector. Based on a three year research project in cooperation with a European heavy vehicle manufacturer, we describe short cases showing some of the business models in use and demonstrate changes and the relations between the markets trucking and transport. New business models emerge both in the heavy vehicle and transportation markets, in complex ways involving multiple actors. The impetus for the models can come from several directions but the final impact must be negotiated and cannot be planned by a single actor. The paper considers the development of new business models and implications on the market from the point of view of the firms actually using the business models. This shows how different business models can co-exist and involve different types of rationalities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9366 Filer i denne post: 1
Borgstrom_et_al_euram2016.pdf (140.0Kb) -
A Set Theoretical ApproachLaster Allan, Lasrado; Vatrapu, Ravi (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Recent advancements in set theory and readily available software have enabled social science researchers to bridge the variable-centered quantita-tive and case-based qualitative methodological paradigms in order to analyze multi-dimensional associations beyond the linearity assumptions, aggregate ef-fects, unicausal reduction, and case specificity. Based on the developments in set theoretical thinking in social sciences and employing methods like Qualita-tive Comparative Analysis (QCA), Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA), and set visualization techniques, in this position paper, we propose and demonstrate a new approach to maturity models in the domain of Information Systems. This position paper describes the set-theoretical approach to maturity models, presents current results and outlines future research work. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9356 Filer i denne post: 1
Lasrado_Vatrapu.pdf (1.105Mb) -
Colleoni, Elanor; Arvidsson, Adam; Hansen, Lars K.; Marchesini, Andrea (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In recent years, new digital media have become important for social networking and content sharing. Due to their large diffusion, social media platforms have also both increased the strategic importance of managing corporate reputation and rendered this more difficult. Companies are increasingly apprehensive about information and opinions that can spread through online communities rapidly without any control. While social media platforms increase the power of stakeholders, they also represent a large-scale source of information about feelings, opinions and sentiments of people that allow us to measure and monitor reputation through the analysis of user generated content in real-time. In this paper, we show how social media content can be used to measure the online reputation of a company. Furthermore, we present an open platform that uses a sentiment analysis algorithm on twitter traffic to monitor the real time evolution of company reputation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8730 Filer i denne post: 1
Colleoni_Arvidsson_Hansen_Marchesin.pdf (384.8Kb) -
Hsuan, Juliana; Prockl, Günter (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Purpose - 3PL services are more or less individually designed bundles of logistics operations that are provided on the basis of a long term relationship between logistics service providers and their clients mostly in industry and retail. The appropriate degree of the individuality is however subject to a trade-off between the creation of complexity to reflect individual customer needs and the realization of synergy effects by the replication of common elements and the multiplied utilization of relevant resources for different customers. The appropriate mix of the more individual elements and the more common elements is seen as a major success factor for the design of the service propositions. Design/methodology/approach - The explorative paper is combining major elements and frameworks from different interdisciplinary research streams, such as modularity and service design and adapts them to the subject of third party logistics. Findings - As a major result the paper is providing a conceptual model for the systematic and formal description of modularity and individuality in the configuration of third party logistics services. The model thus serves as a tool to classify and categorize degrees of complexity that are embedded in TPL settings. Research limitations/implications (if applicable) - As our research is still in the exploratory stage, we do not offer empirical findings. Practical implications - Our findings can help firms to better understand the critical factors in their current TPL service offerings and how to replicate or (re)design the new services offered. Depending on the level of complexity of the TPL services, firms need also to consider the implications of the replication and/or (re)design on the configuration of the supply chain, especially downstream. Originality/value - The paper crosses disciplinary boundaries and combines relevant research streams to provide a sound foundation for the categorization and classification of TPL services and for new service design/development (NSD) and supply chain configuration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8813 Filer i denne post: 1
Prockl_3.pdf (408.7Kb) -
Carl, Michael; Lacruz, Isabel; Yamada, Masaru; Aizawa, Akiko (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: By the mid-1980s it was clear that unrestricted high quality machine translation would not be achievable in the foreseeable future and alternative directions to the then dominant rule-based paradigm were proposed. The appropriate level of linguistic representation was difficult to determine, hard to compute; and translation relations were incomplete, error prone and time consuming to formalize within the current-state rule-based translation formalisms. At the same time, with the upcoming availability of Personal Computers (PCs), more translations were produced in electronic form. As translators produce translations daily, implicitly solving those translation problems that are so hard to formalize, Isabelle (1992) said that “Existing translations contain more solutions to more translation problems than any other existing resource.“ New horizons for using MT were thus sought, which led to a number of different paradigms, some of which are briefly described. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9280 Filer i denne post: 1
Michael Cral_2016_02.pdf (261.8Kb) -
Tollin, Karin; Vej, Jesper (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Managers’ mindset about the sustainability construct and its triggers is the topic dealt with in the paper. The interviewed managers are all working in companies expressing a commitment on sustainability in their external communication. However, our findings reveal that their commitment is pursued from different business models, visions and ideas about the sustainability construct. We found that sustainability is not triggered, approached and practiced in accordance with one overall mindset. Four interrelated mindsets emerged - due to that sustainability is a learning process and thus formed and developed over time. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8321 Filer i denne post: 1
28_04_XXII_ISPIM.pdf (105.2Kb) -
Schaeffer, Moritz; Carl, Michael (Nagoya, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This study investigates the coordination of reading (input) and writing (output) activities in from-scratch translation and post-editing. We segment logged eye movements and keylogging data into minimal units of reading and writing activity and model the process of post-editing and from-scratch translation as a Markov model. We show that the time translators and post-editors spend on source or target text reading predicts with a high degree of accuracy how likely it is that they engage in successive typing. We further show that the typing probability is also conditioned by the degree to which source and target text share semantic and syntactic properties. The minimal cognitive Markov model describes very basic factors which play a role in the processes occurring between input (reading) and output (writing) during translation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9528 Filer i denne post: 1
Schaeffer_Carl.pdf (280.0Kb) -
The Yin-Yang Process of Top-Down and Bottom-Up MechanismsJuul Andersen, Torben; Hallin, Carina Antonia; Li, Xin (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The organizational capacity to cope with unexpected changes remains a fundamental challenge in strategy as global competition and technological innovation increase environmental uncertainty. Conventional strategy-making is often conceived as a sequential linear process where we see it as a non-linear interaction between top-down and bottom-up mechanisms dealing with multiple actions taken throughout the organization over time. It is driven by intension but with a flexible balance between centralized (planned) and decentralized (spontaneous) activities. We adopt the principles of complementary Yin-Yang elements and Zhong Yong balance to explain the time bound interaction between these opposing yet complementary strategy-making mechanisms where tradeoffs and synergies are balanced across hierarchical levels. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9011 Filer i denne post: 1
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Baron, Irene (Odense, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Barricelli, Barbara Rita; Clemmensen, Torkil; Campos, Pedro; Abdelnour-Nocera, Jose; Lopes, Arminda (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This position paper is aimed at presenting as discussion material at the CoPDA 2016 Workshop the preliminary results of a short review of the literature published by the HWID community in the last 10 years in four books. Specifi-cally, the attention is posed on understanding the importance of motivation, par-ticipation, and engagement in Interaction Design projects for smart and pervasive workplaces. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9390 Filer i denne post: 1
hwid-copda2016-camera_ready.pdf (207.3Kb) -
Yadav, Mohit; Clemmensen, Torkil (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this paper we discuss the emergence of a redefined human work interaction design environment due to Internet of Things. The change in paradigm challenges designers to re-think the category of the user/worker to include their trusted IT devices/cognitive objects while designing for work environment. We present a theoretical proposition to understand the new user (as body, brain + cognitive object), and suggest an approach to capture the UX of the smart workplace. We present and discuss a pilot experiment where we integrate multiple (physiological, behavioral, environmental and IT processes) data-streams of UX in a work setting. This may give a holistic view of UX in the smart workplace. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9021 Filer i denne post: 1
yadav and clemmensen nordichi14.pdf (181.7Kb) -
Competencies for doing research in/with(in), for and in-between organizationsNielsen, Rikke Kristine (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper addresses the research practice of practicable research by drawing a map of methodological in-roads to doing research with a view to bridging the practitioner-research gap and producing what has been termed as ‘actionable research’ by engaging closely with practitioners in the research process. The map includes three territories and methodological in-roads for doing research in close collaboration with practitioners with a view to mutual value creation and co-construction: Doing research, in/with(in), for and in-between organizations. The methodological reflections in the map are illustrated and discussed against the backdrop of a concrete instance of academia-practitioner collaboration, the industrial Ph.D. research project of Group Mindset-Development in Solar A/S. The industrial Ph.D. researcher is seen as a front-runner vis-a-vis a political climate of increasing demands from governments to universities with regards to the ability of research groups to demonstrate co-operation with external stakeholder groups and an illustration of the privileges and pitfalls of doing research in close engagement with practice called for by the increasing academic interest for actionable research. Using empirical data from an on-going practitioner-academia research project, a literature review and inputs from a professional development workshop organized by the author at the British Academy Management’s annual meeting 20121, a position for doing research in/with(in), for and in-between practice is carved out. Based on the challenges and potential pitfalls inherent in this research position, researcher competencies for successfully handling the research management of the in-between and bridging the academia-practitioner gap in research practice are discussed. Further, competency requirements of both academia and practice as main stakeholders in an industrial Ph.D. project or other projects with the ambition to create value in both camps simultaneously are debated based on the methodological map presented. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8887 Filer i denne post: 1
Rikke_Kristine_Nielsen.pdf (474.8Kb) -
Using discourse as a strategic resourceHjelholt, Morten; Blegind Jensen, Tina (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper investigates how discourse can be mobilized as a strategic resource when introducing a public sector reform program in a local government setting. We explore how actual day-to-day practices, contexts, and processes relate to the shaping and localizing of broad strategic discourses. In particular, we emphasize the practices in which national strategic formulations are legitimized and accepted or abandoned by the actors involved. Building on a case study conducted over a two-year time span, we show how a local actor engages with and promotes a national reform program by evoking a discourse with strategic intentions. First we present how the national reform program is translated into a local government by the evoking of historically produced and context dependent discourses. Next we show that locally produced discourses need to be evoked and re-attached to the national reform program in order to enable new local practices. Our study shows that formal reform programs and strategies are never stable and firm objects; rather, they are constantly enacted and changed as part of discursive practices. Thus individuals enter a discursive space from where to engage strategically with the creation of new local practices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8726 Filer i denne post: 1
Blegind_Jensen_EGOS.pdf (511.2Kb) -
An Inspiring Experience for the Sahara RegionLyck, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This article includes as Part One factual information on Greenland and the structure of the Greenlandic economy, and factual information on the Sahara Region, south of Morocco. It is needed in order to have a basic understanding of what Greenland and the Sahara region are, seen from an economic, political and geographical point of view. Furthermore, the current economic situation in both Greenland and the Sahara region is presented together with the development of the last years. Part Two of the article deals with the constitutional framework conditions for Greenland in relation to being part of the Danish Realm, Greenland being situated in the Arctic with a geostrategic position for more Southern powers (America, the Nordic countries and Russia), being inhabited by indigenous people and having a prominent position in relation to sustainability. It also deals with “the Moroccan Initiative for Negotiating an Autonomy Statute for the Sahara Region” , as presented by Morocco to the Security Council on 11 April 2007. Part Three deals with natural resources both in Greenland and the Sahara Region. Firstly a short introduction to living resources, mainly the fisheries is presented. Secondly, the mineral resources are presented and analysed in depth. It includes the search for minerals, petroleum and gas before and after 1979. Furthermore, it includes the development and content of the mineral laws. In this context, the Greenland strategy for mining is presented. Finally, the status on minerals and petroleum resources in Greenland and the Sahara region is presented. Part Four includes the conclusion and the perspectives for ownership and management resources that can be learnt from the Greenland experiences, in particular in the context of the Moroccan Initiative for the Autonomy of the Sahara Region. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8473 Filer i denne post: 1
LYCK_2012_1.pdf (2.434Mb)