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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
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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) -
taking Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu into organisational analysisRocha, Robson (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, I discuss how a theoretical framework can be build to analyse social processes of transformation, making the link between macro and micro processes, in which this dichotomy can be overcome. The aim of this theoretical framework is to account for the transformation in societal characteristics and changes in actors’ strategies at micro level, in a way that links macro changes and micro processes - the cognitive structures of the individual and social structures of the society. In order to build this framework, I draw from the figuration sociology of Norbert Elias, the praxeologia of Pierre Bourdieu and the work of Michael Crozier. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6678 Files in this item: 1
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Elgaard Jensen, Torben (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In various ways, this paper makes the counter-intuitive claim that the utopian and the material are thoroughly interdependent, rather than worlds apart. First, through a reading of Thomas More’s Utopia, it is argued that Utopia is the product of particular kinds of relations, rather than merely a detachment from the known world. Second, the utopianism of a new economy firm is examined. It is argued that the physical set-up of the firm – in particular the distribution of tables and chairs – evoke a number of alternatives to ordinary work practice. In this way the materialities of the firm are crucial to its persuasive image of being the office of the future. The notion that utopia is achieved through material arrangements is finally related to the analysis of facts and fictions in ANT. It is argued, that even though Utopias are neither fact nor fiction, they are both material and effective on the configuration of networks; Where facts tend to stabilise the network by ‘holding’ others, Utopias tend to ‘push’ the network by evoking the possibility of others. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6706 Files in this item: 1
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A viral perspective on bureaucracy and scientific managementKjær, Peter; Frankel, Christian (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The virus metaphor may be used in studies of management knowledge not only as a way of describing diffusion processes but also as a way of thinking about viral elements of knowledge production. In the present article, organizational viruses are viewed as ensembles of basic distinctions that are constitutive of concrete bodies of knowledge and which form mutable engines of organizational self-descriptions. Organizational viruses, we contend, are both characterized by stability in terms of their basic productive configuration, while at the same time allowing for a high degree of variation in terms of concrete management knowledge and practice. The article is structured as follows. After the introduction, we first develop the notion of organizational virus as into an analytical approach. Second, we discern in the work of Frederick Taylor on scientific management and Max Weber on bureaucracy, two quite distinct viral configurations that we claim have infected most modern management knowledge – both on a discursive level and on the level of concrete organizational self-descriptions and practice. Third, we discuss our findings and raise the question of how viruses ‘work’, how they interact, and why they become infectious. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6707 Files in this item: 1
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Seeing Organizational Culture in a Becoming PerspectiveBøgetoft Christensen, Jens; Darmer, Per (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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A prospective literature reviewMathieu, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
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Boll, Karen (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article investigates a segmentation model used by the Danish Tax and Customs Administration to classify businesses’ motivational postures. The article uses two different conceptualizations of performativity to analyze what the model’s segmentations do; Hacking’s idea of making up people and MacKenzie’s idea of performativity. Based on these two approaches I demonstrate that the segmentation model represents and performs the businesses as it ‘makes up’ certain new ways to be a business and as the businesses can be seen as ‘moving targets’. With inspiration from MacKenzie my following argument is that the segmentation model posits a remarkable cleverness in that it simultaneously alters what it represents and represents this altered reality to confirm the accuracy of its own model of the businesses’ postures. However, despite this cleverness the model bears a blind spot as it assumes a world wherein everything around the model is in motion and can be shaped, whereas it believes itself to be stable. As indicated in the article, this assumption turns out problematic as the tax administration questions the model’s ability to produce valid comparisons. All in all, the article provides a detailed description and analysis of the model’s performativity and provides an example of a performativity study which in its methodology differs from the methodological criteria set up by MacKenzie. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8554 Files in this item: 1
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Influence Attempts as Another Piece to the Managerial JigsawsRy Nielsen, J. C. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Leadership, change management, mentoring, coaching, thinking in holistic terms, leadership development, contract management, project management, balanced score card, and benchmarking are terms that flourish in the newspapers, on leadership and management courses and programmes. The memoirs of great leaders and fix it by reading five minutes a day are sold in bundles at the airports around the world. The academic literature on the subjects is increasing rapidly, and within the last ten to fifteen years the public sector has come and more into focus, following the New Public Management wave. Many of concepts seem to become buzzwords, but the facts remain that the world is changing and so are/must the organizations. My focus is primarily on the public sector, but this sector can nowadays not be treated without looking at the private and the not for profit sector as well. Therefore – and because of my experience in trade unions and other voluntary organizations these organizations are incorporated in the paper URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6715 Files in this item: 1
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Becker, Lise (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this article I contribute to descriptive green business research on how processes of eco-effective greening business unfold in the practical reality. I look into the case of the increasing interaction between the multinational oil company Shell and the world’s largest wind turbine company Vestas. I draw on descriptive organisational sense-making theory and analyse to this end Shell and Vestas’ shared green sense-making on off-shore wind energy business. The article concludes that greening companies such as Shell – that are not born green – might be considerably advanced, if these companies strengthen their relationships with companies such as Vestas – that are born green. This is so, since companies that are born green have strong green ecocentric business beliefs that can function as important engines in shared green sense-making with companies that are not born green and have more hesitant green beliefs. KEY WORDS: Sustainable business, sense-making, climate change, oil and wind turbine companies URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6710 Files in this item: 1
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The Future role, Career, and Qualifications of Shop Stewards in Transnational CompaniesHull Kristensen, Peer (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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