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Monografi om dobbeltheden i tænkning af strategi, dels som vidensfelt i organisationsteori, dels som kunstnerisk tilgang til at skabe i erhvervsmæssig innovationGylling, Martin (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is a study of processes of commercial artistic creation focusing on the practice of processual strategy in a context of designed strategy. The thesis focuses on the practice of processual strategy, seeing as strategy within the field is primarily understood and practised in a designerly approach. This concerns constructivist and objective thinking which, according to critical voices in organizationstudies, has difficulties explaining how strategic organisation creation gains a processual character. This is the critique that comes from the more poststructuralist positions in research on process theory and strategy, which in these years aims to move focus away from the dominance of designed strategy. I.e. an approach to practice understood as methodological individualism and pragmatic rationality (Chia & Holt 2009; Steyaert 2007; Stacey 2011; Hjorth 2012). Through recent poststructuralist currents in the field of processual strategy thinking and organisational entrepreneurship, for example Chia & Holt’s creation philosophical research in strategy without design and Steyaert’s (2007) thinking on the concept of entrepreneuring; the process theoretical thinking of entrepreneurship and innovation, the aim is to look beyond constructivist thinking of practice in order to understand processual dynamics in strategic work at the level of the organisation. In relation to this thinking the present thesis provides an empirically based discussion of processual strategy with an aim to contributing to the field of organisational entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8895 Files in this item: 1
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Implications for Modularization and Interface ManagementMikkola, Juliana Hsuan (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Toward a General TheoryMikkola, Juliana Hsuan (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The focus of this paper is to integrate various perspectives on product architecture modularity into a general framework, and also to propose a way to measure the degree of modularization embedded in product architectures. Various trade-offs between modular and integral product architectures and how components and interfaces influence the degree of modularization are considered. In order to gain a better understanding of product architecture modularity as a strategy, a theoretical framework and propositions are drawn from various academic literature sources. Based on the literature review, the following key elements of product architecture are identified: components (standard and new-to-the-firm), interfaces (standardization and specification), degree of coupling, and substitutability. A mathematical function, termed modularization function, is introduced to measure the degree of modularization embedded in product architectures, by taking the key elements as the main variables. Various managerial and theoretical implications of the modularization function are drawn. For instance, the function can be used as a framework to aid to examine various leveraging forces behind new product development, manufacturing, and supply chain management policies of a firm. The modularization function also allows us to study the implications of modularization from different theoretical perspectives, such as resource-based view of the firm and transaction cost economics. Finally, the application of the modularization function and its limitations are discussed. Key words: modularity, product architecture URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6287 Files in this item: 1
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the case of Indian durable consumer goods industriesPatibandla, Murali (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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a welfare-theoretical approachOlai Hansen, Bodil; Keiding, Hans (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
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A methodological approach applied to the volkswagen case in ArgentinaYoguel, Yoguel, Novick, Anabel Novick, Marin (Frederiksberg, 2000)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this paper -as a part of a wider research project - is to analyze the concept of production network from a methodological and theoretical viewpoint based on a three-plane perspective. These dimensions are the linkages among agents, the innovation activities, and the social management technology, including work process organization and the social agreement generation model in force. It is an experimentally methodological approach that tries to go from a theoretical conceptualization of the phenomenon to its empirical evaluation. The questions guiding this research are as follows: 9 What are the variables and dimensions to be observed in the analysis of a group of interconnected firms in order to define a production network? Is it a unique definition or, on the contrary, does it involve a range of alternatives? What are the externalities generated by the agents who belong to one network? 9 What is the relationship between the network’s firms’ technological behavior and their organizational counterpart? How are learning processes in the business firms linked to their own training systems? Has the social management technology some differential role in the learning process and in the development of skills? How do knowledge transmission processes manifest themselves within the “network”? 9 What indicators are useful for the empirical identification of the different means of manifestation of the network according to the theoretical viewpoint adopted? How can those indicators be articulated in order to elaborate typologies intended for the identification of “hybrid” models? How can a complex indicator be built in order to show the different levels of circulation of intangible assets, development of learning processes and work process organization? In the first section, the conceptualization of the production “network” used in this paper is discussed. In the second section, most relevant variables and indicators are presented in order to feature the business firms and the network in terms of: a) type, quantity and quality of tangible and intangible exchanges among the agents; b) innovative capacity and learning; c) social management technology. Then we elaborate a typology of networks based on the consideration of the previous parameters. Lastly, in the fourth section, we discuss how the three dimensions interact in the case of Volkswagen and his forty main local suppliers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8076 Files in this item: 1
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Backe, Lise (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The article analyses the multinational oil-company Shell’s decision in 1997 to establish Shell International Renewables. Theoretically the analysis contributes to developing the garbage can decision-making model developed originally by Cohen, March and Olsen (1972) by adding the production of organisational identities to the model. Within the scientific field of business and the environment the article contributes to a new understanding of the relationship between decision-making, green organisational identities and the process of social construction of business opportunities. This relationship can be of a sort, where the corporations’ greener organisational identities are the product of random organisational garbage can decision-making processes. In such processes the rationale that the protection of the natural environment can be viewed as a business opportunity gets into focus not before, but after the decision has happened. Thus, in the process of accounting for their decision the corporations are not just accounting for a particular decision, but also in a general sense contributing to socially constructing anew what can be considered a business opportunity – also for other corporations. In this process of socially constructing new business opportunities the corporations are drawing on cultural sources not just from the field of rhetoric of economics, but also from other cultural sources within the business sector and the society as such. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6702 Files in this item: 1
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B. Richardson, George (københavn, 1998)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Firms do not exist because of the cost of using the price mechanism, but because they enable actions to be carried out concurrently in conformity with a particular design. This concurrent coordination, which production requires, is distinct from the evolutionary coordination, which is the unintended consequence of market transactions. The two processes are alternatives only to a limited extent. Evolutionary adjustment cannot bring about concurrent coordination, and irreducible uncertainty limits the scope of the planning which does. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8095 Files in this item: 1
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A Case Study of Branding and Identity Struggles in a Low-Prestige OrganizationFrandsen, Sanne (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation examines the relationship between corporate branding and identity work at organizational and individual levels in the context of a lowprestige corporation. It is based on 17 months of research undertaken as an inhouse ethnographer at MGP, a European based national telecommunication corporation. The study seeks to contribute to integrated corporate branding theory by adopting a critical perspective on the intra-organizational affects of brands and branding. The dissertation contains three papers, each of which contributes to discussions within corporate branding, organizational identity and identification, as well as to literature on management control and employee resistance. The findings demonstrate that the management adopts integrated corporate branding in a hypocritical manner, while employees in response develop a cynical distance to their work. While this may be interpreted as negative consequences, the dissertation argues that these are productive and have certain advantages for the management in the given context. Thus, the findings challenge the integrated corporate branding ideal of coherence between the external and internal dimensions of corporate branding as the only productive way to create a successful corporate brand. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8366 Files in this item: 1
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Junge, Martin; Severgnini, Battista; Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The role of product and marketing innovation for productivity growth is addressed using survey and register data for the Danish economy. It is argued that marketing and product innovation are complementary inputs and that innovation activities are skill-intensive. It is found that product and marketing innovation in skill-intensive firms results in significantly faster productivity growth than in unskilled-intensive firms that introduce this combination of innovation activities. More precisely, an increase in the share of educated workers of one percentage point, increases productivity growth by around 0.1 percentage point in firms with product and marketing innovation. In addition, it is found that firms that engage in product innovation but not in marketing innovation or the other way around do not demonstrate a growth effect from their innovation activities. It is also found that product and marketing innovation has an independent role in productivity growth that cannot be attributed to organisational changes, even though the majority of innovative firms engage in this latter innovation type. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8468 Files in this item: 1
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Andersen, Torben M.; Skaksen, Jan Rose (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance* In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier goods trading is equivalent to increased mobility of employment across countries and thus a change in the trade-off between wages and employment faced by wage setters. While the effects of product market integration on the trade-off between wages and employment in general is ambiguous, it is shown that product market integration works like a general improvement in productivity via the specialization it allows through trade. Unambiguously, real wages and employment and welfare improve upon reductions in trade frictions, and therefore workers are better off irrespective of whether the market power of unions is enhanced or muted. JEL Classification: F15, J30, J50 Keywords: trade frictions, wage formation, employment, welfare gains URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7506 Files in this item: 1
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Andersen, Torben M.; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we set up a two-country general equilibrium model where trade unions have wage bargaining power. We show that a decrease in trade distortions inducing further product market integration gives rise to specialization gains as well as a labour market reform effect. The implications of the specialization gains are similar to an increase in labour productivity, whereas the labour market reform effect is similar to an increase in the degree of competition in the labour market. Wages, employment and welfare increase as a result of further product market integration. It is interesting to note that the labour market reform effect of product market integration is achieved despite an increase in the wage level. JEL Classification: F15, J30, J50. Keywords: Trade frictions, wage formation, employment, welfare gains. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7655 Files in this item: 1
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Ledelsesmæssige udfordringerArlbjørn, Jan Stentoft; Wæhrens, Brian Vejrum; Johansen, John; Pedersen, Torben (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
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En analyse på baggrund af en detaljeret uddannelsesopdeling. Teknisk baggrundsnotatFosse, Henrik Barslund; Højbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: CEBR har for Djøf udført en opgave, der har bestået i at få klarlagt produktivitetseffekter af uddannelse på et relativt højt detaljeniveau. Opgaven omfatter to dele: Den første del er en klarlægning af såkaldte egen- og fælleseffekter på 16 uddannelsesgrupper defineret ud fra fire uddannelseslængder og fire uddannelsesretninger. Beregningerne er udført på brancheniveau og inden for sektorerne privat fremstilling og privat service. Den anden del af opgaven omfatter en konsekvensberegning af at løfte Danmark op i OECD’s top 5, når det gælder andel af personer på arbejdsmarkedet med en videregående uddannelse. CEBR har beregnet produktivitetseffekter inden for sektorerne privat fremstilling og privat service. Endelig har Djøf ønsket, at de samlede produktivitetsgevinster af et uddannelsesløft omsættes til populære størrelser i velfærdsdebatten. Dette notat indeholder en beskrivelse af beregninger af uddannelseseffekter. Beregningerne tager udgangspunkt i allerede estimerede marginaleffekter og følger tidligere anvendte metoder. Notatet inddelt som følger: Kapitel 2 er et kort teknisk kapitel, der informerer om data samt kort opremser litteraturgrundlaget og de anvendte metoder til at beregne effekterne af uddannelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8742 Files in this item: 1
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En analyse på baggrund af en detaljeret uddannelsesopdelingFosse, Henrik Barslund; Højbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus; Lykkebo, Ole Bech; Brandt, Kathrine Marie Skou (København, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne rapport handler om den ekstra værdi, som højtuddannede er med til at skabe i de virksomheder, hvor de er ansat. En ekstra værdi som sætter virksomhederne i stand til at levere kunderne serviceydelser og produkter i en højere kvalitet eller til en lavere pris end ellers. Den ekstra værdi kan opstå på mange forskellige måder afhængigt af uddannelse og branche. Eksempelvis skaber det ekstra værdi, at kvinden med boret er uddannet tandlæge, når man sætter sig i tandlægestolen for at få en omfattende og måske bekostelig behandling. For en familie, der køber og renoverer et gammelt hus, har det også ekstra værdi, at det er en uddannet el-installatør, som udfører el-arbejdet. Det kræver loven i øvrigt også. Ligesom det har værdi for en dansk vækstvirksomhed, som opkøber en udenlandsk konkurrent, at uddannede jurister har styr på kontrakten, så investeringen sker på det rette grundlag. Denne rapport sætter for første gang i en dansk sammenhæng krone og ører på den ekstra værdi – også kaldet højere produktivitet – som samlet er forbundet med alle de meget forskellige kategorier af videregående uddannelser i den private sektor1. Analyserne viser effekterne opdelt på uddannelseslængde, fagretning og branche. Mere uddannelse skaber højere værditilvækst pr. præsteret time i den private sektor. Dermed er der udsigt til højere produktivitet ved at øge uddannelsesniveauet. Samtidig foretages en samlet beregning som viser, at velstanden i Danmark vil stige betydeligt i form af øget BNP, hvis en større andel af de privatansatte har en videregående uddannelse. Flere højt-uddannede privatansatte vil forbedre virksomhedernes produktivitet og dermed styrke konkurrenceevnen. Det vil også kunne få en gunstig indvirkning på eksport og beskæftigelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8741 Files in this item: 1
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Industrirådet og efterkrigstidens Danmark 1945 - 1958Lind Larsen, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Velfærdsstaten befinder sig i et vadested. Befolkningen bliver ældre, og finansieringsgrundlaget skrumper. Det giver grundlag for diskussioner om, hvorvidt kursen skal justeres eller lægges radikalt om, og hvordan forholdet skal være mellem rettigheder og pligter i fremtiden. I de aktuelle diskussioner om den danske velfærdsstats fremtid er det et tilbagevendende spørgsmål, hvordan den danske velfærdsstatsmodel er opstået, og hvad der egentlig er dens centrale bestanddele. Den danske velfærdsstats rødder kan naturligvis trækkes langt tilbage, men der er efterhånden enighed om, at de første årtier efter befrielsen står som helt centrale i forhold til den moderne danske velfærdsstats historie. I perioden fra 1945 til slutningen af 1950’erne blev en række væsentlige forudsætninger således skabt for, at den moderne velfærdsstat kunne realiseres i 1960’erne og 1970’erne, hvor omfattende velfærdsreformer blev gennemført og en stor offentlig sektor etableredes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8399 Files in this item: 1
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Seabrooke, Leonard; Tsingou, Eleni (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Aging populations across advanced industrialized countries are expected to have a great impact on a range of socio-economic policies, ranging from welfare and pensions provision to industrial, labor market and financial policies. While populations are aging there has also been a drop in birth rates. Demographic change is acknowledged as a policy concern within many advanced industrialized countries, but discussions about low fertility are not explicitly expressed in terms of policy objectives. Governments, sensitive to the authoritarian implications of prescriptive natalist policies, focus instead on programs that aim to enable choice about childbearing; in concrete terms this means measures such as one-off payments, improving childcare availability, and addressing worklife balance concerns.1 As an issue, low fertility is seen as a particular problem for a number of European and East Asian advanced industrialized countries. Germany and Japan stand out in having experienced especially low fertility over a sustained period of time, while countries with an established and generous welfare state or long traditions of migration appear to buck these trends among members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8755 Files in this item: 1
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the Danish medical societies' creation of the "function-bearing" unitBorum, Finn (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Valentin, Finn (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In April 2004, Copenhagen Business School opens a centre for research on biotech business. Biotech Business includes a number of senior and junior researchers from CBS. Initially the centre takes its point of departure in four projects included in the research program on Competence, Organisation and Management in Biotech Industries (COMBI). Starting in March 2004, COMBI is funded jointly by The Danish Social Research Council, firms and organisations in the Danish biotech industry and CBS. This presentation refers exclusively to four COMBI projects. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6768 Files in this item: 1
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Savin, Andrej (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The digital world of the 21st century is increasingly the world of automatic decision making. In such a world, an ever larger number of tasks are relegated to computers which gather and process data as well as suggest or make decisions silently and with little supervision. This situation has been made possible by a transfer of a staggering portion of our daily lives from the offline world to the Internet. It is a truism that automation would be impossible without our willing participation on the Internet. We freely take part in social networks, post on blogs, and send our emails. On the other hand, it is equally true that we are increasingly monitored by the state, by profit‐maximizing corporations and by our fellow citizens and that these methods of monitoring are becoming smarter. Vast amounts of data which have become available and which we contribute, form what we today call “big data”.1 This is then harvested for connections and correlations and profiles created that can be used for commercial and other purposes. We fear this world but are also dependant on it. The creation of these profiles and their usage is an uncharted territory for the social sciences as much as it is a strange territory for the regulators. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8914 Files in this item: 1
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