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Nielsen, Michael E. (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: ‘No amount of preparation could have lessened the shock and revulsion I felt on entering a sporting-goods factory in the town of Sialkot, seventy miles from Lahore, where scores of children, most of them aged five to ten, produce soccer balls by hand for forty rupees, or about $1.20, a day. The children work eighty hours a week in near-total darkness and total silence. According to the foreman, the darkness is both an economy and a precautionary measure; child-rights activists have difficulty taking photographs and gathering evidence of wrongdoing if the lighting is poor. The silence is to ensure product quality: "If the children speak, they are not giving their complete attention to the product and are liable to make errors.” The children are permitted one thirty-minute meal break each day; they are punished if they take longer. They are also punished if they fall asleep, if their workbenches are sloppy, if they waste material or miscut a pattern, if they complain of mistreatment to their parents or speak to strangers outside the factory. A partial list of "infractions” for which they may be punished is tacked to a wall near the entrance. It’s a document of dubious utility: the children are illiterate. Punishments are doled out in a storage closet at the rear of the factory. There, amid bales of wadding and leather, children are hung upside down by their knees, starved, caned, or lashed.’ URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7730 Filer i denne post: 1
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Stäheli, Urs (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Mayer, Wolfgang; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Why do donor countries give foreign aid? The answers found in the literature are: (i) because donor countries care for recipient countries (e.g. altruism), and/or (ii) because there exist distortions that make the indirect gains from foreign aid (e.g. terms of trade effects) to be larger than the direct losses. This paper proposes a third answer to the above question, namely that aid is determined through the domestic political process of the donor country. The paper demonstrates how foreign aid affects the donor country’s income distribution and how, in a direct democracy, the majority of voters might benefit from foreign aid giving even though the country’s social welfare is reduced. JEL Classification: F35 Keywords: foreign aid, politics, majority voting. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7488 Filer i denne post: 1
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Backer, Lise (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this article I analyse how the multinational oil company Shell has responded to the increasing institutional pressures (DiMaggio and Powell, 1983) related to corporate environmental governance. The corporate culture in Shell appears favourable (Hoffman, 2001) towards the adoption of corporate environmental governance practices. The Shell top management is to this end appearing sincere in the way they monitor (Meyer and Rowan, 1977) the progress in giving secondary stakeholders (Clarkson, 1995) access to environmental information and to environmental decision-making in Shell. Based on the Shell case I contribute in this article to descriptive stakeholder engagement theory by conceptualising a number of new internal influence strategies that engaged secondary stakeholders can use in their new face-to-face interactions with the corporations. These internal stakeholder influence strategies should be seen as adding to the list of external stakeholder influence strategies (e.g. Frooman, 1999) that secondary stakeholders can use in their traditional role of operating from the outside. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6698 Filer i denne post: 1
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Kragh Jespersen, Peter; Sognstrup, Hanne (Frederiksberg, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Ougård, Morten (København, 1996)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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recommendations consistent with rational behavior?Munk, Claus; Sørensen, Carsten; Vinther, Tina Nygaard (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Implications for innovation managementMikkola, Juliana Hsuan (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Globalization of markets and new business practices are prompting high-tech firms to reconsider their competitive strategy. The increasing complexity of technologies in addition to shorter product life cycles are also forcing firms to rely on R&D as a source of strategy. More importantly, firms are inclined to evaluate their technologies from a portfolio’s perspective in which a set or a sub-set of R&D projects is evaluated together, in relation to each other. Portfolio techniques can help strategic managers in evaluating whether a portfolio of products is adequate from the perspective of long-term corporate growth and profitability. Obviously, when R&D projects are evaluated relative to one another, technical capability management of such projects must be carried out concurrently. In this paper, R&D Project Portfolio Matrix is used as a tool for analyzing a portfolio of R&D projects by linking competitive advantages of a firm to benefits these projects may provide to customers. Examples of batteries for electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are provided to illustrate how such matrix is used, and what are some of the implications for innovation management of such projects. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6924 Filer i denne post: 1
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Peverelli, Peter J. (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The Port of Rotterdam is a typical European organisation that undertakes several activities towards China annually and has a clear understanding of what it has to offer to its Chinese counterparts, but does not always succeed in achieving rapport with those counterparts. This paper studies the identity constructs of the Port of Rotterdam in a selected number of Chinese contexts (central ministries, main ports, etc.). The methodology is narrative analysis using corpora of texts compiled for each context. The core theoretical principle1 is that identity is not a property, but a process of ongoing interaction. The identity of A can only be established in a particular context, by observing the interaction between A and parties in that context. A will thus obtain multiple identities in multiple contexts. The results can be used by the Port of Rotterdam to improve the effectiveness of its delegations to China. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7406 Filer i denne post: 1
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Exemplified by the transformation of the Danish pine furniture manufacturersLutz, Salla (København, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Dette forskningsprojekt tager udgangspunkt i observationer omkring de danske producenter af fyrretræsmøbler. Siden slutningen af 90’erne har industrien været præget af priskonkurrence som ses dels indbyrdes mellem de danske producenter, dels fra aktører i lande med lavere omkostningsstrukturer. Derudover er slutbrugernes interesse for fyrretræsmøbler dalet betragteligt. I takt med den heraf følgende lavere efterspørgsel på fyrretræsmøbler er de danske producenter i stigende grad begyndt at købe færdigproducerede møbler fra lavprismarkeder som Kina og Østeuropa for at komplementere deres egen møbelproduktion. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7762 Filer i denne post: 1
Salla Lutz.pdf (1.214Mb) -
Mathieu, Chris (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Tools, techniques and methods for developmentNielsen, Janni; Nielsen, Lene; Jespersen, Mikkel; Smith-Hansen, Ole (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The project on Personalisation of Self-service Solutions across On-line Platforms (POSS ON-LINE) focuses on users, clients, and self-service solutions. It is based on the understanding that clients and users are different and have different goals, and that self-service takes place in different contexts, on different platforms, and within different applications and this requires development of complementary approaches and solutions. Traditionally the tools used to predict user behaviour build on users leaving traces of their actions. However, new application and developments for existing applications do not gather traces, and new ways of profiling the user is needed. To digitalise e.g. public services such as TOLD & SKAT to meet citizen’s needs is a huge challenge because the user’s context has to be taken into account. As the tracking tools are not sufficiently refined (1,4,14) pushing of information to users with the aim of increasing sales, e.g. AMAZON, still leaves much to be wished for. Despite the fact that the user profile, which the system generates, is continuously updated through user’s interaction with the system (15), e.g. myyahoo.com. Personalised application may both service the client and the user. The system gathers data about the user, which enables the client to push information to the user. Personalisation enables graphic user interface design that is personalised and relevant to the individual user and invites the user to get access to information with less strain. Personalisation of self-service solutions is promising and IT companies are experiencing an increase in the clients’ demands. At the same time the development of solutions moves within a shorter and shorter time span. Hence the process of innovations is paced and there is an increasing need of new ways of looking at the process of development. However, we lack methods to predict user behaviour without having to deal with huge amounts of data and data from both quantitative data as well as life world observations are required. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6476 Filer i denne post: 1
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evidence from the Copenhagen Stock Exchange 1993-1997Jakobsen, Jan; Voetmann, Torben (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Insights from PRME dataBlasco, Maribel (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In recent student interviews I and my colleagues conducted in connection with the implementation of the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) programme at CBS, I was intrigued to hear students talk about ‘responsible management education’ not primarily as a question of what they were taught, but of how responsibly their learning experience was managed. Students expected their teachers to be role models for how ‘good managers’ should behave; and looked to their school to set an example of good management. In appraising their teachers as responsible managers (or otherwise), students spent a lot of effort trying to attribute responsibility, wrestling with questions about the demarcation between their own responsibilities and those of their teachers and other BS actors, including the administration and students from other specialization. Notably, they saw responsibility as a relational construct where their responsibilities and those of other BS actors demarcated one another on an ongoing basis, partly based on role attributions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9435 Filer i denne post: 1
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Resume: This paper suggests that for negotiation studies, the well-researched role of cognitive closure in decision-making should be supplemented with specific research on what sort of information is seized on as unambiguous, salient and easily processable by negotiators. A study of email negotiation is reported that suggests that negotiators seize on concrete examples as building blocks that produce immediate positive feedback and consequent utilization in establishing common ground. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8737 Filer i denne post: 1
Bülow.pdf (207.4Kb) -
India's national Oil Company and International Activism in SudanPatey, Luke (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Resume: This paper addresses Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and Pharmaceutical Public Private Partnerships (PPPP) in Denmark or the lack of PPP(P)’s in Denmark. It would seem, that the market for PPP(P)’s in Denmark is either very small, non-existing or it might be disturbed by several factors: legal and political, business and structural. Besides pointing out some relevant key factors preventing PPP’s, the paper presents some new information: It is not only in the infrastructure industry that the lack of PPP is significant. The idea of establishing PPPP’s between the private pharmaceutical industry and the university sector is also problematic. This paper identifies that the creation of a common PPP business case is difficult in Denmark in both the infrastructure and the pharmaceutical industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8738 Filer i denne post: 1
Tvarno and Ostergaard paper on PPP.docx (81.22Kb) -
Weller, Angeli Elizabeth (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this dissertation, I explore the practices created to manage business ethics and corporate social responsibility in multinational corporations and the relationship between them across three separate but interrelated articles. The first article suggests that these practices are resident in distinct communities of practice, and therefore there are boundaries in both meaning and identity that make alignment between them problematic. The second article looks at the boundaries between these communities by exploring the history of the professional associations in the business ethics and corporate social responsibility field in the United States, as well as their current articulations of knowledge and competence in their respective fields. The third article is a single case study of a company that purposefully aligned ethics, compliance, corporate social responsibility and sustainability practices and managers, and it explores both the enablers of alignment and the learning stages that transformed them into a single community of practice. Theoretically, this work applies communities of practice, an organizational learning theory, within the business and society field, thereby contributing a helpful lens through which to explore responsible business practices and the practitioners that create and implement them. Leveraging this perspective, this research offers a theoretical explanation about why practices are not currently aligned and illuminates both the barriers and enablers to future alignment. Practically, this work shows that boundaries exist between business ethics and corporate social responsibility practices, and calls on scholars and managers who seek alignment to both build intentional bridges between these communities and consider alternate trajectories for the evolution of these practices. Done well, learning across the boundaries between these communities of practice could in turn catalyze managers’ understanding of ethics and responsibility in business. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9352 Filer i denne post: 1
Angeli Wellern.pdf (2.001Mb)