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past and future directionsFüssel, Lanni (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Sommerlund, Julie (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
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serious but not literal design!Mouritsen, Jan; Kreiner, Kristian (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Backer, Lise (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: 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 Files in this item: 1
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Mathieu, Chris (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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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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Summary of: The School’s Good and Vicious Circles An Empirical Preliminary Survey of 4th and 5th Grades’ Academic Levels and Attitudes to Noise, Discipline and LearningHermansen, Mads (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Academic benefits from tuition, pupils’ self-confidence, noise in class, connection between style of learning and noise, the teacher’s influence on class culture, optimizing learning, academic progression from 4th to 5th grade, pupil satisfaction. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6725 Files in this item: 1
project_danish_school_culture.pdf (187.9Kb) -
Del 2: Arkitekternes perspektiv og erfaringerKreiner, Kristian; Gorm, Majken Merete (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
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Del 1: Bygherrernes perspektiv og erfaringerKreiner, Kristian; Gorm, Majken Merete (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7984 Files in this item: 1
CLIBYG_arbejdspapir_praekval_del1.pdf (345.5Kb) -
Agersnap, Flemming; Witfelt, Claus; Löfvall, Steffen; Find, Anders (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I dette working paper præsenteres og diskuteres et e-læringskoncept: Pædagogisk Selvtræning. Først vises den medietekniske udformning. Dernæst præsenteres et læringsteoretisk grundlag for konceptet ud fra K. Illeris, 2001. Det starter ud fra de læringsprocesser (kognitive, psykodynamiske og sociale), som foregår i brugere af konceptet, lærere så vel som studerende. Ud fra denne model diskuteres, hvordan denne viden kan være vejledende for lærerens resp. den studerendes direkte aktivitet i klasselokalet. Problemet for brugeren (en lærer eller en student) er dels at diagnosticere situationen på holdet, ved eksamen e.l. og dels at finde/vælge en reaktionsmåde, der er relevant hertil. Det er disse kompetencer, Pædagogisk Selvtræning søger at udvikle. Til sidst diskuteres, hvordan Pædagogisk Selvtræning kan videreudvikles og indplaceres ift. andre, fx IT-baserede undervisningsformer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6691 Files in this item: 1
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The Making of Statistical Facts and Artifacts in EconomicsTryggestad, Kjell (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The study aims is to describe how the inclusion and exclusion of materials and calculative devices construct the boundaries and distinctions between statistical facts and artifacts in economics. My methodological approach is inspired by John Graunt’s (1667) Political arithmetic and more recent work within constructivism and the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The result of this approach is here termed reversible statistics, reconstructing the findings of a statistical study within economics in three different ways. It is argued that all three accounts are quite normal, albeit in different ways. The presence and absence of diverse materials, both natural and political, is what distinguishes them from each other. Arguments are presented for a more symmetric relation between the scientific statistical text and the reader. I will argue that a more symmetric relation can be achieved by accounting for the significance of the materials and the equipment that enters into the production of statistics. Key words: Reversible statistics, diverse materials, constructivism, economics, science, and technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6714 Files in this item: 1
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Tryggestad, Kjell (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to inquire into the role of socio-technical devices like value metrics and accounting in organizing the service market. The authors provide a case on how such devices participates in framing the market for transportation during the introduction of large-scale bridges. In addition to the traditional role of accounting as a representation device, the authors also show how these devices participate in performing the service economy – undermining and redrawing organizational boundaries in unexpected ways. The presence of multiple connections with socio-technical devices are then brought into an explanation of the overflowing and reconfiguration of the transportation market. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6712 Files in this item: 1
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IT and the Construction of the Competent PatientLangstrup Nielsen, Henriette (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Initiatives in medical practice that are said to re-insert the subject, thereby overcoming the problems of objectifying practices in earlier times, often operate with a notion of bodies and selves as pre-established entities. In this paper, I will try to show some of the work it takes to produce or perform self-monitoring subjects who participate in keeping their asthmatic bodies in control through the use of an online control center. I argue that the bodies in control and the competent selves related to this technology depend on the establishment of a chronically ill body and on the decentering and incorporation of the clinic in everyday life. Passages into the body are to be kept open in real-time through the involvement of materially heterogeneous arrangements. The distributed character of this work creates and is dependent on an ambiguity in relation to the question of agency. Who or what acts, decides, looks, knows and so on, is not necessarily defined or otherwise clear in the day-to-day use of the technology. Instead, agency becomes performed in particular instances, where it might become the property of one part of the network or another. Creating the asthmatic as a free, autonomous agent in this instance depends on blurring other nodes in the network in the day-to-day use of this technology, these being, the physician, the technology, and the scientific set-up. As such, I argue that agency in the form of the self-monitoring competent ill, is best understood as a successful performance of invisible passages and links that hook up bodies, other selves, science and medical practices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6713 Files in this item: 1
papers in organization, no. 50.pdf (282.6Kb) -
towards optimal distinctivenes in European film makingAlvarez, José Luis; Mazza, Carmelo; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper; Svejenova, Silviya (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract. This paper advances a micro theory of creative action by examining how distinctive artists shield their idiosyncratic styles from the isomorphic pressures of a field. It draws on the cases of three internationally recognized, distinctive European film directors - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain), Nanni Moretti (Italy) and Lars von Trier (Denmark). We argue that in a cinema field, artistic pressures for distinctiveness along with business pressures for profits drive filmmakers’ quest for optimal distinctiveness. This quest seeks both exclusive, unique style and inclusive, audience-appealing artwork with legitimacy in the field. Our theory of creative action for optimal distinctiveness suggests that film directors increase their control by personally consolidating artistic and production roles, by forming close partnership with committed producer, and by establishing own production company. Ironically, to escape the iron cage of local cinema fields, film directors increasingly control the coupling of art and business, hence forging their own "iron cage". "[T]he unusual and paradoxical place that Pedro [Almodóvar] has been able to find: we are within the industry but we preserve our peculiarity." (Agustín Almodóvar, 2001). Optimal distinctiveness: "social identity is viewed as reconciliation of opposing needs for assimilation and differentiation from others." (Marilynn Brewer, 1991). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6672 Files in this item: 1
papers in oraganization, no.49 2003.pdf (302.8Kb) -
The Power of Imperfect PrinciplesKreiner, Kristian (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The computer IC is the heart of the information and telecommunication technology. It is a tiny artifact, but with incredible organizing powers. We use this physical artifact as the location for studying central problems of the knowledge economy. First, the paper describes the history of chip design and the emergence of the technological community involved in designing and manufacturing computer chips. The community is structured in a way that reflects the underlying physical nature silicon and the numerous other materials and chemicals involved. But it also reflects the human agency of defining new projects, of visioning the liberation from atoms, of committing to travel many detours in the labyrinths of development, and of perceiving and exploring the affordance that new technologies hide. Some of these characteristics are analyzed empirically in a case study of designing a chip for a digitalized hearing instrument. It is found that technological progress is not hindered, but rather aided by the use of imperfect principles, abstractions and representations of reality. The power of such imperfections is discussed and generalized. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6683 Files in this item: 1
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evalueringsrapport over Master of Public AdministrationRy Nielsen, Jens Carl (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Med denne rapport ønsker vi at gøre status over de første 9 år med uddannelsen til Master of Public Administration (MPA) ved Handelshøjskolen i København. Grundlaget for rapporten er en selvevaluering, der i 2002 blev udarbejdet til den første officielle evaluering af masteruddannelser i Danmark. Danmarks Evalueringsinstitut under Undervisningsministeriet gennemførte her en evaluering af MPA-uddannelsen samt uddannelsen til Master of Public Management (MPM) ved Syddansk Universitet og uddannelsen til Master of Public Policy (MPP) ved Roskilde Universitetscenter. Resultatet af evalueringen er fremlagt i en samlet rapport: "Masteruddannelser" fra september 2003. Den eksterne evaluering giver MPA-uddannelsen en særdeles positiv vurdering, men indeholder også konstruktiv kritik. Generelt er studieledelsen og lærergruppen naturligvis meget glade for evalueringen, som til fulde bekræfter, at MPA-uddannelsen er et godt produkt, der har bevist sin berettigelse de seneste 9 år. I rapporten fra Danmarks Evalueringsinstitut indgår der naturligvis mange elementer fra MPA’s selvevalueringsrapport, men studieledelsen på MPA har skønnet, at en forkortet og revideret udgave af denne rapport kunne være nyttig i forbindelse med information om MPA-uddannelsen til ansøgere, aftagere, nye undervisere, rådgivere og andre interesserede. Denne reviderede rapport udgør derfor et vigtigt vidnesbyrd om grundlaget for og de løbende justeringer af uddannelsen. Rapporten indgår samtidig som et afgørende grundlag for det udviklingsarbejde, der i 2003 er sat i gang med henblik på at på at revidere og præcisere MPA-uddannelsens kompetenceprofil og herved fremtidssikre et godt produkt. J.C. Ry Nielsen, der er en af grundlæggerne af uddannelsen og i dag vicestudieleder for den internationale del, har på studieledelsens foranledning bearbejdet selvevalueringsrapporten til den her foreliggende udgave. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6716 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: In his influential essay on markets, An essay on framing and overflowing (1998), Michel Callon writes that "the growing complexity of industrialized societies [is] due in large part to the movements of the technosciences, which are causing connections and interdependencies to proliferate". This paper is about tech-noscience, and about the proliferation of connections and interdependencies created by it. More specifically, the paper is about stem cells. Biotechnology in general has the power to capture the imagination. Within the field of biotechnology nothing seems more provocative and tantalizing than stem cells, in research, in medicine, or as products. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6727 Files in this item: 1
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What Do We Know? Where Do We Go?Leca, Bernard; Battilana, Julie; Boxenbaum, Eva (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional entrepreneurship since Paul DiMaggio introduced this notion in 1988. Based on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and process of institutional entrepreneurship. It also presents the enabling conditions that have been previously identified and reviews the research methods that have been applied to the study of institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, based on this analysis, this paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers may use this paper to build targeted and sophisticated research designs that add value to the emerging body of literature on institutional entrepreneurship. Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneur, Institutional Change, Paradox of Embedded Agency URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6705 Files in this item: 1
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Or how materials produce degrees of humanity in strategic research and practiceTryggestad, Kjell (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this article is to inquire into the possible significance of materials in the production of emerging strategic outcomes. The article first sets out to discuss the different ways contemporary strategy research define the identity of strategic actors. It is argued that the various schools of strategy research, although different in important respects, operate with a common human centered assumption: Humanity is treated as given – the strategic actor or subject is assumed to be an individual human or a collective of humans. By adding the possible significance of materials and other non-human entities to the explanatory repertoire of strategy research, another line of inquiry is pursued. The performative perspective thus proposed, is inspired by the classical work of Von Clausewitz and the recent anthropology of science, technology and organizational identities. In the proposed perspective, the human centered assumption is no longer just a premise for doing strategy research, but instead considered an interesting emerging outcome to be explained. Further more, the performative perspective allows strategy research to extend the notion of emergent strategies so as to include the possible significance of materials and other non-human entities in the explanation of 2 emerging strategic identities and outcomes. Hence, also a new task has been added to strategy research: To explain how emerging strategic identities – consisting of both humans and non-humans, are produced as part of strategic outcomes. Three cases are presented, each of them with a particular bearing on how materials participate in the making of emerging strategic identities and outcomes: The first case account for strategies transforming plans into anti-plans. This is a case of how a strategic plan is betrayed (or rejected) by an emerging collective consisting of both humans and diverse materials like a paper inscription and heavy machinery. The second case account for how the emerging twin identities of the strategic management subject and the human object are co-produced in interaction with a machine delegate. Finally, the third case account for how the strategic technology and the strategic collective emerge and co-produce each other as a macro-actor, only to become transformed in unexpected ways - as common technology and reflective human subjects. In the concluding section, it is argued that the humanity of the reflective human subject should be regarded as an emerging identity, co-produced in interaction with diverse materials like machinery. It is further argued that strategy research has slowly written out Von Clausewitz original insight in this respect. The complexity Von Clausewitz introduced with the notion of ‘degrees of humanity’ has been replaced with a given humanity, yet the costs of doing so remain outside the frames of contemporary strategy research. Failing to attend to the possible significance of materials in producing degrees of humanity has made strategy research as much producers of strategic outcomes, as providers of explanations and observations. The expression ‘technological strategy as macro-actor’ summarizes these findings and the associated implications for research and practice. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6699 Files in this item: 1
working paper 2003 no.25.pdf (417.5Kb)