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Thyssen, Ole (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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En revitalisering af Luhmann & Foucaults magtanalytikRennison, Betina Wolfgang (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Magt er et pudsigt fænomen. Det er et fænomen, vi alle umiddelbart kender til, et fænomen vi alle lader til at genkende, når vi støder på det. Et fænomen, vi laver undersøgelser af, som vi søger at ’udrede’ og ’indfange’ for derved at kunne kontrollere det, der kontrollerer os. Men magt er også et fænomen, vi ikke synes at kunne begribe. Ikke alene er magt ofte et tabu i kommunikationen, noget vi undlader at tale om – et sprængfarligt fænomen, vi ikke tør nærme os. Men magten er også i sig selv et svært tilnærmeligt fænomen. Det er ikke til at hitte rede i, hvori magten egentlig består. Det er ikke så ligetil at udrede magten. Dette paper tilbyder en måde at iagttage magt på. Det præsenterer en analytik, hvormed det bliver muligt at begribe dette ubegribelige fænomen. Paperet lancerer en teoretisk udfoldelse af magtbegrebet, men antager først og fremmest en analysestrategisk karakter, hvor bidraget er at levere en strategi til, hvordan magt kan iagttages og analyseres. Dens sigte er at fungere som fundament for konkrete magtanalyser af organisationer og ledelsesrelationer. Paperet stiller skarpt på spørgsmålet om, hvordan man kan iagttage socialiteten og kommunikationen med et magtblik. Hvad får man øje på, når man anretter et magtens blik, hvori består et sådant magtblik og hvilken grundproblematik og genstand kaster det af sig? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6393 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: The roles of accounting in shaping the economy are currently being rediscovered by sociologists (Callon, 1998; Fligstein, 1990; Granovetter, 1985). This recent revival of interest in accounting marks a further stage in a curious pattern of alternate attention and neglect on the part of sociologists towards the practices that make the economy visible and measurable qua economy. This paper reviews the different ways in which accounting has been given a wider sociological significance across the twentieth century. It argues for a focus on how new calculative practices emerge within historically specific assemblages, and how they alter the capacities of agents and organisations, and the interrelations among them. Investment appraisal practices are used to illustrate. The paper is in five sections. Section one introduces the paper. Section two considers briefly the work of Max Weber in the early 20th century, and the link established in his writings between accounting and rationalisation. Section three considers a subsequent stage, with a markedly different focus, namely the emergence in the 1950s and 1960s of a substantial literature on budgeting. Heavily influenced by theories of group dynamics, this literature focussed primarily on management accounting in an intra-organisational setting. Section four examines a further stage, characterised by the elaboration of a range of methodologies from approximately 1980 onwards that had as their concern to analyse the social and organisational aspects of accounting. The methodologies developed and applied here included those that focus on the institutional environments of accounting, the political economy of accounting, ethnographic approaches, and a concern with the networks within which accounting is embedded. Section five considers one particular strand of the recent economic sociology literature, that which concerns the calculative capacities of agents and their embeddedness in social networks. While endorsing the revival of interest in economic sociology, this paper argues that rather than focus on the enduring and transhistorical attributes of agents and networks, emphasis be placed on the roles of accounting within historically localised and temporarily stabilised assemblages of practices. Also, in place of an emphasis on the role of economics and economic theory in formatting the real economy, attention is directed to the more prosaic practices of management accounting which make it possible to act upon persons and processes within and between organisations. These arguments in favour of focussing on the calculative practices of accounting are illustrated briefly through consideration of a relatively neglected topic in management accounting - investment appraisal. The practice of "investment bundling" as elaborated at Caterpillar Inc in the early 1990s is considered. An investment bundle was defined there as a multi-period capital spending program based on the diverse yet mutually reinforcing assets needed to manufacture a core product module in a specified area on the factory floor. It is argued that the practice of investment bundling as developed at Caterpillar helped operationalise a world-wide transformation of production regimes within a particular corporate setting, and in a manner compatible with the broader problematising of the competitiveness of North American industry which can be termed a "politics of the product". Investment bundling provided a device for intervening within the firm, and in consonance with a broader transformation of concepts of competitiveness and economic citizenship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6319 Files in this item: 1
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Mønsted, Mette (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Collaborations are formed as inter-organisational relations, which are special forms of networks creating and spanning boundaries of organisations. This chapter is focusing on social networking mechanisms for organising, and managing networks. This is one of the features for understanding collaboration and management of collaborations. Networking is a new understanding of management in an economy in which uncertainty and turbulence are the norms rather than the exception. Network management in an entrepreneurial turbulent environment is seen as enacting power in a ‘negotiated management’ process involving partners much more than an established position in a hierarchy where power is exercised. The focus is on obtaining control and power, but also to keep all the actors active even when they are formally out of control of the manager. The question is how to create and maintain the role as project manager on joint projects with other firms. Networking is one way of mobilising resources, through which resources for establishing research and innovation are explored and exploited. In all research and innovation projects, the legitimacy of both technologies, firms and research teams are important. Legitimate partners, such as: recognised peers and research environments as well as international research funding may be exploited as a viable strategy for establishing a good reputation, and thus a strategy to create legitimacy of own innovation and research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6344 Files in this item: 1
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A Sociological Approach to Managerial TechnoloyThygesen, Niels Thyge; Tangkjær, Christian (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The relevance of technologies in management and organizational analysis is well accepted in theory, if not by managers themselves. But the way technologies allow us to observe has not yet been explored. This is because many accounts of technologies neglect, if not the constitutive nature of technologies, then at least their observational potential. In particular, this article argues, technologies work by setting the scene of observation for the manager. In order to handle that challenge, management must be a matter of `managination`, that is, second order observation. Keywords: management, observation, reproduction, steering, technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6354 Files in this item: 1
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a refection of corporate strategyJørgensen, Heidi; Vintergaard, Christian (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Logically it seems that companies pursuing different business strategies would also manage their relationships with other firms accordingly. Nevertheless, due to the lack of research in the field of network strategies, this link still remains inadequately examined. Based on the well-known framework of organisational behaviour developed by Miles and Snow (1978), this paper argues that the patterns of network behaviour practiced by firms greatly depend on the business typology of the company. That is, a company’s business typology will to a certain degree dictate the network identity of the company. In this paper evidence is provided, that the relation between a company’s strategy, structure and processes in fact have a considerable influence on its pattern of network behaviour. Three case studies from the Danish biotech industry exemplify and illustrate how a company’s strategy is directly correlated with how it manages its strategic network relations, which consequently affects its network identity (Eisenhardt 1999). It is argued in this paper that the level of relational embeddedness, incentives for establishing strategic relations and the relation between the number of non-redundant and redundant relations are the most dominant elements distinguishing the types of network behaviour in relation to the business typology. The paper thus strives to argue how different business typologies develop a network identity on the basis of their network behaviour. Due to the correlation between a company’s strategy, structure and processes and its pattern of network behaviour, knowing how to manage this relation becomes essential, especially during the development of new strategies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6368 Files in this item: 1
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a research AgendaMichailova, Snejina; Husted, Kenneth (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Ernø-Kjølhede, Erik; Husted, Kenneth; Mønsted, Mette; Wenneberg, Søren Barlebo (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
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Pedersen, Ove K.; Kjær, Peter; Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Hansson, Finn (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Det er vanskeligt i dagens samfund ikke at betragte udtrykket ”den uhyre vareophobning” som Marx i Kapitalens første kapitel (1970 1.1: 128/49)i bruger som det mest sigende udtryk for den samfundsmæssige rigdom, som en endog meget beskeden forudsigelse af en eksplosiv udvikling, som vi ser her fuldt udfoldet godt 150 år senere. Kapitalforholdets eksplosive dynamik, som Marx analyserede i sin vorden, har nu vist sig i sin fuldt udfoldede globale dynamisk, hvor dagens kapitalisme har bredt sig til alle områder i samfundet og alle dele af kloden. Debatten herom har dog i lang tid været præget af en række summariske og empirisk ufuldstændige antagelser om, hvad der er det unikt nye i dagens kapitalisme, ofte efterfulgt af en nærmest apriorisk afvisning af Marx' kritik som relevant for en kritisk forståelse af dagens kapitalisme. I modsætning til dette vil denne artikel undersøge om de modsætninger og problemer, som den nye kapitalisme skaber for lønarbejderne og se nærmere på om de med fordel kan analyseres ved at gå tilbage og videreudvikle de bidrag til analyse af det moderne lønarbejde under kapitalismen, som vi finder hos Marx og hermed bidrage til en systematisk samfundskritik af vilkårene for det moderne lønarbejde. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6433 Files in this item: 1
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Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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branding af nationer, regioner og byerBuhl Pedersen, Søren; Tangkjær, Christian; Linde-Lauersen, Anders (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: De seneste årtier har brand management og branding strategier fået større og større prioritet for organisationer i deres bestræbelser på at positionere sig på markedet. Det gælder først og fremmest kommercielt drevne organisationer, men i stadig større grad er også politisk styrede organisationer blevet opmærksomme på vigtigheden af at have et stærkt brand. De seneste år har branding imidlertid bevæget sig ind i andre politiske felter, nemlig branding af steder, som byen, regionen og nationen – ja, selv en supranational størrelser som EU bliver brandet. Byer, regioner og nationer indretter sig i stigende grad efter markedets krav om på den ene side konkret organisering af for eksempel arbejdskraft og økonomi, og på den anden side fortællinger om oplevelser, værdier og erfaringer som knytter sig til disse steder. Derfor er disse territoriale enheder begyndt at formulere sig selv som attraktive brands, der profilerer stedernes særlige kvaliteter. Nærværende paper forsøger at analysere profileringen af steder som en praksis der balancerer mellem bordering og branding som to parallelle logikker. Det er hypotesen, at forholdet mellem disse logikker kan aflæses i den måde, som forskellige brands fremstiller steder med både sentimentalitet og ironi. Anvendelsen af dette perspektiv indbærer, at der tænkes en direkte sammenhæng mellem de former for organisering, som præger nationer, byer og regioner, og den måde som disse steder symboliseres gennem brands. Paperet falder i to sektioner: én om vilkårene for branding som symbolsk praksis under det globale, og én om den reelle organisering, som de bestemte symbolske former er udtryk for. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6326 Files in this item: 1
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Raffnsøe, Sverre; Gudmand-Høyer, Marius T. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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Thyssen, Ole (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Bordum, Anders (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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en beretning om vidensdeling, arbejdsdeling og refleksiv praksisSiggård Jensen, Sisse (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: Dette historiske essay angående en afhandling af den store mediciner Galen fra Pergamon (c.129-200 e.Kr.) udgør anden del af en serie om filosofiske grænseområder i den senhellenistiske periode hvis første del består i en oversættelse med filosofisk kommentar til Lukian fra Samosatas (c.120-180 e.Kr.) Filosofiske leveveje til salg.* Men hvor digteren Lukians dialog fraskriver sig stort set al filosofi som frugtesløst for menneskelivet i bred og praktisk forstand, peger Galens tekst i stedet på hvordan medicinen må og skal inddrage den filosofiske tradition hvis den skal evne at forsvare sig imod en tvivlsom mekanistisk naturfilosofi som i Galens tid trængte sig ind på både lægekunst og -videnskab og truede med at nedbryde dem indefra. Ligesom Lukians satire giver også Galens tekst et særegent indblik i diskussionen mellem flere af antikkens etablerede filosofiske retninger – såvel platonisme, aristotelisme, epikuræisme og stoicisme som »atomisme« og »vitalisme«. Samtidig fremstiller Galens tekst også en omtolkning af arven særligt fra Platon og Aristoteles hvor disse forfatteres grundlæggende »psykologiske« lære om menneskekroppen tildeles en mere »fysiologisk« prægning der på sin side synes at pege i retning af senere tiders dualisme. Endelig præsenterer teksten et af verdenshistoriens første naturvidenskabelige eksperimenter, men indenfor helt andre rammer end dem der langt senere formuleres i og med den naturvidenskabelige revolution i det 17. århundrede: Hos Galen vendtes eksperimentet imod en mekanistisk og almindeligt eksperimentel naturforståelse i et forsøg på at vise hvordan naturen egenhændigt kan fortælle og fremvise sin egen omfattende sandhed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7907 Files in this item: 1
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Hansson, Finn (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the summary of the project as well as in the overall description for the SUCCESS project it is stated, that ‘benchmarking of past and ongoing collaborations’ serve as a tool to develop new and improved models of governance for large integrated projects. The reference to benchmarking as key tool to develop new models makes it necessary to have a closer look into the pro and cons for using this specific tool. A number of recent studies of science policy in Europe have taken a closer look into the system of benchmarking in this field. These studies, discussed later in this paper, have pointed to the fact that a reliable benchmarking exercise demand a strict data input very often impossible in science and innovation collaborations because of the very nature of these endeavours, the open and risky character of new knowledge as well as the unpredictable time. If we include the fact that collaborations all have their own history and do not represent some kind of representativeness of a science or R&D field but the opposite, are selected by pre-knowledge, a number of serious question to the use of a traditional benchmarking approach has been announced. What we can use from the benchmarking procedures is the idea of a systematic recording of knowledge of best practices analysed and interpreted by expert groups. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6391 Files in this item: 1
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Resultater fra en spørgeskema-undersøgelseFoss, Nikolai J. (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Baseret på et sample af de 1000 største danske virksomheder undersøges forekomsten af nye arbejdsorganiseringsformer i dansk erhvervsliv. Endvidere undersøges det, hvilke virksomheder der typisk implementerer de nye måder at organisere arbejdet på. Det vises at det primært er virksomheder i konkurrenceprægede og vidensintensive brancher der gør dette. De nye arbejdsorganiseringsformer implementeres i bundter. Det indikerer at de nye organiseringsformer er komplementære. Deres forekomst er endelig tæt korreleret med forekomsten af resultatløn. Det tyder på at "kontrol"- og "kommitment"- modeller for HRM ikke er modsatrettede, men tværtimod komplementære. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6350 Files in this item: 1
wp16-2003njf.pdf (206.0Kb)