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Neue Tools für das Informationsund WissensmanagementWinkler, Till; Trier, Matthias (Berlin, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: E nterprise Social Networks (ESNs), d. h. Informationssysteme, die die Vernetzung von Mitarbeitern in Unternehmen fördern sollen, sind in verschiedenen Varianten und unter verschiedenen Bezeichnungen (etwa Enterprise Social Media, Corporate Social Software, Social Business oder Enterprise 2.0) bereits seit etwa gut einem Jahrzehnt auf dem Markt. Dennoch erfreuen sie sich erst seit den letzten Jahren steigender Beliebtheit und halten ebenfalls nach und nach flächendeckenden Einzug in Großunternehmen wie Siemens, Daimler oder Deutsche Telekom. Um mit dem Gartner »Hype Cycle« zu argumentieren: Das Thema ESN hat die Spitze des Hypes längst überschritten, das »Tal der Enttäuschungen« durchschritten und nähert sich nun zunehmend dem »Plateau der Produktivität«. Motivation genug, um sich anhand einiger ausgewählter Fallbeispiele mit ESNs genauer auseinanderzusetzen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9593 Files in this item: 1
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Hansen, Michael Wendelboe (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Local content requirements - i.e. government backed requirements that extractive MNCs must procure inputs locally - are fast becoming a major issue in MNC-host country bargaining in Africa. Across Africa, governments are seeking to mobilize MNCs for sustainable development through increasingly stringent local content requirements. As a result, extractive MNCs are facing a rapidly evolving strategic field, the management of which may have immense implications for their investment decisions, profitability and efficiency. While a vibrant and dynamic literature on local content in Africa is emerging, this literature is predominantly informed by economic and political perspectives, and strategic management perspectives are virtually absent. This is problematic as one of the main reasons why local content interventions in Africa fail to produce the expected results is that they often are based on an inadequate understanding of MNC strategy and interests. Hence, the aim of this paper is to characterize and conceptually develop the strategic management perspective on local content. The paper outlines generic strategies that MNCs may adopt to balance the often conflicting pressures for local content and global efficiency. It is concluded that by better aligning local content intervention with MNC strategy and interests, the likelihood of positive development outcomes will be greatly enhanced. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9564 Files in this item: 1
Wendelboe Hansen_EIBA_2017.pdf (558.8Kb) -
Exploring the Linkage Between Team Diversity and Micro-practices of (in)equalityHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This qualitative study explores the intricate linkage between organizing in diverse teams and relational (in)equality. Literature on diversity in teams predominantly applies a positivist approach prescriptive of how to compose the ‘successful’ diverse team while drawing up process gains and losses. Relying on an ethnographic study of diverse teams in a Danish subsidiary of a multinational service company renowned for its diversity profile and organizing work in diverse teams this article gives a nuanced picture of the relational dynamics of diverse teams both hindering and increasing relational (in)equality. It is explored how diversity is linked to paradoxical processes of gendered and ethnified hierarchies based in stereotypical in- and out-groups as well as (organic) solidarity through difference. Drawing on these paradoxical processes, the analysis unfolds how equality in diverse teams might be fostered by team practices that stress members’ heterogeneity and avoid reducing minority members to mere representatives of a (stigmatized) social group. These are furthermore team practices that strengthening team solidarity trough openness to difference. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9557 Files in this item: 1
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An Analysis of Delistings from the United Nations Global CompactRasche, Andreas; Larsen, Mathias Lund; Gwozdz, Wencke; Moon, Jeremy (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This study analyzes which firms leave multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) for corporate social responsibility. Based on an analysis of all active and delisted participants from the UN Global Compact between 2000 and 2015 (n= 15,853), we find that SMEs are more likely to be delisted than larger and publicly-listed firms; that early adopters face a higher risk of being delisted; and that the presence of a local network in a country reduces the likelihood of being delisted. We theorize that MSIs face a participant self-selection bias over time and that local networks enable legitimacy spillover effects that prevent firms from exiting. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9555 Files in this item: 1
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Empowering and Exploitive Practices in the Quest for Inclusive Team OrganisationHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: It is generally acknowledged that ethnic-minority employees are excluded or marginalized as low-skilled labour in the workplace (e.g. Ahonen et al, 2014; Gotsis and Kortzi, 2015; Johansson and Śliwa, 2014; Ortlieb and Sieben, 2013; Zanoni and Janssens, 2015). This is also the situation in Denmark that has experienced a growing diversity at the labour market for the past 25 years (Ejrnæs, 2012; Holck, 2016; Holck and Muhr, 2017; Romani et al, 2016). However, Danish organisations are increasingly encouraged to include a diverse group of employees drawing on business case arguments from diversity management literature. Two of the most predominant arguments for hiring diverse employees are either related to competences affiliated with minority background driving innovation and creativity potential or as mere labour; a way to obtain allegedly loyal, hardworking and low cost labour. In relation to the first mentioned, ethnically diverse and inclusive work teams are advocated to increase return on equity by promoting problem solving, creativity, and innovation via individually different perspectives and approaches to job tasks drawing on insights from literature on learning as well as group processes (Mitchell et al., 2015; Thatcher and Patel, 2012). The latter mentioned, which is rarely explicitly advocated by companies but are none the less the most prominent reason to employ minorities – at least according to literature – is the quest for low labor costs and a supposed “right attitude to work” (Johansson and Śliwa, 2014; Ortlieb and Sieben, 2013; Zanoni and Janssens, 2015). Often, ethnic minorities are hired under job conditions unattractive to the majority, including low wages, poor career prospects, and low reputation combined with minorities’ lower bargaining power, presumed high adaptability and flexibility (Ahonen et al., 2014; Gotsis and Kortzi, 2015; Holck and Muhr, 2017). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9559 Files in this item: 1
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Reflections on Digital ‘Focal Things and Practices’ in the WildernessBødker, Mads (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This position paper reflects on Borgmann’s notion of ‘focal things’ and its applicability in the discourse about interaction with technologies in nature. Using the example of a combined cooking burner and thermoelectric 5W smartphone charger (a BioLite cook stove), this position paper gives an example of how a mundance “device” turns focal once it is connected to a contextual infrastructure (the ‘wild’), and reflects on the applicability of the notion of focality. The guiding question is how the notion of ‘focal things and practices’ drawn from Borgmann might help us think about the (strained) relationship between digital technologies and the wilderness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9563 Files in this item: 1
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Glückstad, Fumiko Kano (Fredeiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In connection to this challenge session “5C: Comprehending Consumers: Computing Complexity of Cultures”, I introduce a new initiative a so called “UMAMI: Understanding Mindsets Across Markets, Internationally”, a four-year project funded by the Danish government. The project combines the existing secondary data such as World Value Survey and European Social Survey, primary data collected via quantitative surveys measuring constructs used in the marketing and tourism sciences, and data available from the Danish tourism industries. The project further employs machine learning technologies for segmenting consumers and predicting segment-specific tourist behaviors. This presentation introduces the objectives and the structure of this four-year project for understanding mindsets of consumers across markets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9577 Files in this item: 1
Kano_Gluckstad_JSAI2017.pdf (490.3Kb) -
Exploring the Interrelations of International Business and Politics in the Case of New Alliance for Food Security and NutritionHaakonsson, Stine; Gammelgaard, Johanna; Just, Sine N. (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: On May 18, 2012 leaders of the G8 and three African countries jointly launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NA). The collaboration was announced by the US president at the time, Barack Obama, who declared that “…food security is a moral imperative, but it’s also an economic imperative. History teaches us that one of the most effective ways to pull people and entire nations out of poverty is to invest in their agriculture” (Obama, 2012). NA aims to do just that: enhance Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in African agriculture by a partnership model committing public and private actors to shared goals of “sustained, inclusive, agriculture-led growth” (New Alliance, n.d.A). However, this aim – and with it NA as such – has received severe media criticism for being but a thin foil for what the The Guardian has dubbed the ‘corporate scramble for Africa’ (Jones, 2014): “It will be like colonialism. Farmers will not be able to farm until they import, linking farmers to [the] vulnerability of international prices. Big companies will benefit” a Tanzanian politician told the newspaper (Kabwe, quoted in Provost, Ford & Tran, 2014). More recently, the European Parliament (EP) has issued a resolution raising similar concerns, albeit in different tones. Thus, the EP (2016) in its review of NA: Calls on governments and donors to suspend or review all policies, projects and consultancy arrangements that directly encourage and facilitate land grabbing by supporting highly harmful projects and investments or indirectly increase pressure on land and natural resources and can result in serious human rights violations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9578 Files in this item: 1
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Hardt, Daniel; Rambow, Owen (Copenhagen, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We analyze user viewing behavior on an online news site. We collect data from 64,000 news articles, and use text features to predict frequency of user views. We compare predictiveness of the headline and “teaser” (viewed before clicking) and the body (viewed after clicking). Both are predictive of clicking behavior, with the full article text being most predictive. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9580 Files in this item: 1
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Figueroa, Maria Josefina (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: One of the most pressing contemporary challenges is the need for inclusion of vast number of people in urban innovation processes and societal systemic solutions to tackle sustainability inequality climate change and other major challenges. But there is little understanding of what role civil society organizations (CSO) can play to sustain, help propagate and preserve gains from these solutions and how increasing market commodification and governing interventions may affect these efforts. One result of this lack of understanding is reflected in the expectation that entrepreneurs will solve environmental problems in cities. This paper contributes knowledge to the emerging literature on the impact of social innovation with a comparative qualitative empirical case analysis in the field of promotion of sharing space for bicycle use in four European cities. The analysis demonstrates a strong relationship between the presence, vitality and variety of CSO social innovation and the cities’ success in promoting greater social inclusion in the use of public space for bicycling. It is concluded that in the field of sharing space and promotion of bicycle use social innovation has a strong role to play. Over time, it can open venues for collective meaning formation, and help in propagation and preservation of values and ideas that can lend support to scaling up opportunities for these solutions. Scaling up bicycle use will require unabated support to civil society’s social innovation capabilities with emphasis of equal measure to those given today to commercial, planning and legislative actions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9584 Files in this item: 1
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Extending the Business Case of Migrant Workers at the WorkplaceHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper contributes to theoretical debates around migrant workers at the workplace, labour market inequality and the business case of diversity. Building on stories of overqualified migrant stuck in low-rank jobs due to their migration, this paper explores how migrant workers are simultaneous defined by precarization and high demand especially in the service industry. Drawing on the qualitative data from the case company, Service, I inquire how a diverse composition of employees happened by coincidence, has turned into an advantage of extending the conventional diversity business case: Employing highly-skilled, career-minded migrants in low-skilled postions, migrants are simultaneously casted as a disposable, replicable and temporary resource, the ‘ideal worker’, AND as a ‘high potential’ for first line management. This extended business case of diversity draws on multifaceted business arguments that arise from migrants’ paradoxical situation. To improve their situation, the article discusses whether alternative conceptualization of talents, ‘high potentials’, and making the ambitions of diverse employees more prominent in strategic human resource management can be a relavant strategy – instead of targeted diversity management programs often losing sight of equality. Promoting socio-economic redistribution and general recognition of migrant workers through labor marked affiliation might be the best way to protect these 'diverse workers'; just by fighting for better working conditions for them as workers (Fraser and Honneth, 2003; Zanoni and Janssens, 2014). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9558 Files in this item: 1
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Evidence for a Uniform AccountHardt, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Same is an anaphoric element that performs a comparison, which can either be external or internal to a sentence. Hardt and Mikkelsen (2015) show that same, unlike other anaphoric expressions, imposes a parallelism constraint, and they present three types of examples showing that same is infelicitous in the absence of parallelism. Hardt and Mikkelsen propose an account that applies uniformly to internal and external readings; however, the evidence they present largely targets external readings – they don’t offer empirical evidence that clearly supports the uniform approach. Furthermore, Barker (2007) argues that internal readings must be treated differently than external readings. In this paper, I show that the parallelism effects observed by Hardt and Mikkelsen in fact apply to internal readings as well. This provides support for a uniform treatment of internal and external readings of same. It also suggests that discourse relations, which typically apply to separate overt predications, also apply to the implicit predications that arise in distributional structures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9574 Files in this item: 1
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Ougaard, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The current international crisis has important similarities with the crisis of the 1970s that eventually gave rise to a new hegemonic project and associated growth model, later to be labelled neoliberalism. With a view to assessing the possibilities for a transition to a new model in the current situation the paper examines the first transition along three selected dimensions: the underlying structural changes that prevented a return to the old model; the relatively autonomous role of international organisations in diagnosing the problems and suggesting remedies, and the role of power relations and political leadership in effecting the transitions. All three factors are argued to be critical. The same questions are then asked of the current situation. Deep global eco-nomic integration along with environmental problems, lacking inclusion of people, rising inequalities and the empowerment of the emerging economies all present economic and political problems that cannot be ad-dressed effectively by neoliberal policy prescriptions. This is diagnosed by international organisations and in the G20, but there still are tensions between the new agenda and the legacy of neoliberalism and a new convincing hegemonic project has not yet emerged. The crisis is both one of hegemony within the transnational power bloc and between the power bloc and popular forces, right and left. This makes the question of political leader-ship critical, but Brexit and the election of Donald Trump has only served to aggravate the crisis. There is a possibility for a progressive turn, but also for a rather malevolent development. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9545 Files in this item: 1
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Ougaard, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper addresses one of the “exemplary questions” listed by the panel conveners, namely: “How does the postcolonial perspective enable/disable the rethinking of theories and concepts considered central to critical IR?” This requires an explication of how I see the several parts of the exemplary question. I will do this in reverse order, beginning with critical IR. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9544 Files in this item: 1
Ougaard_WISC2017.pdf (505.2Kb) -
Ougaard, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Marx’s body of theory can be divided into four interconnected elements. One is the economic theory of capitalism, as presented in Das Kapital, a theory whose relevance keeps being re-affirmed, especially in times of crisis. This relevance is due, inter alia, to the theory’s account of recurrent crises and large scale unemployment, the constant drive to concentration and centralization of capital, the compulsory drive towards labour- and cost-cutting technological innovation, and the tendency towards growing inequality. The second element has become known as historical materialism, Marx’s outline of a program for research and theory-building on human society’s development and change. This program has been developed and adapted in various ways and has suffered a rather mixed fortune of marginalization and occasional fashionableness in academia, along with intense internal theoretical debates, but it remains productive within the social sciences and history. The third element is the idea that capitalism is a progressive mode of production that eventually will build the basis for a new and better society, which will be socialist and eventually communist in the sense of a society where ‘the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all’. And the fourth element is the idea that the transition to this new and better society will take place through a revolution led by the industrial working class. These elements combine outstanding and path-breaking social science scholarship with a strong political commitment and a vision for a dramatically better, more free and just and more humane society. Undoubtedly this combination is an important reason why Marx’s ideas have kept and keep renewing their power of attraction. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9546 Files in this item: 1
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An Overview and a Research AgendaXian, Xian; Hedman, Jonas; Tan, Felix Tier Chan; Tan, Chee-Wee; Lim, Eric T. K.; Clemmensen, Torkil; Henningsson, Stefan; Mukkamala, Raghava Rao; Vatrapu, Ravi; van Hillegersberg, Jos (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ever since its first manifesto in Greece around 3000 years ago, sports as a field has accumulated a long history with strong traditions while at the same time, gone through tremendous changes toward professionalization and commercialization. The current waves of digitalization have intensified its evolution, as digital technologies are increasingly entrenched in a wide range of sporting activities and for applications beyond mere performance enhancement. Despite such trends, research on sports digitalization in the IS discipline is surprisingly still nascent. This paper aims at establishing a discourse on sports digitalization within the discipline. Toward this, we first provide an understanding of the institutional characteristics of the sports industry, establishing its theoretical importance and relevance in our discipline; second, we reveal the latest trends of digitalization in the sports industry and unpack its implications for sports organizations; last, we propose an agenda for sports digitalization research in IS. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9542 Files in this item: 1
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Power Dependence in the Governance of Public-Private e- Government InfrastructuresMedaglia, Rony; Hedman, Jonas; Eaton, Ben (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: National electronic identification systems (e-IDs) are key e-government infrastructures that form the backbone of e-government services. When developed via public-private partnerships (PPP), such e-government infrastructures require appropriate governance arrangements to sustain a delicate balance between governments and the private actors involved. Using the lens of power dependence theory, we investigate the ongoing tender process of the third-generation e-ID in Denmark. The key actors are public agencies and the financial sector. Early findings illustrate how contextual factors related to market, technology, regulations, and social norms affect the distribution of power dependence between the actors; such distribution will eventually shape the governance arrangement resulting from the tender. Through this study, we expect to contribute to research on governance of public-private e-government infrastructures, to research on large scale infrastructure procurement processes and e-ID, and to the theoretical development of power-dependence theory. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9541 Files in this item: 1
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Business and IT Managers’ Technological Frames Related to Cloud ComputingKhalil, Sabine; Winkler, Till J.; Xiao, Xiao (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: While cloud computing is becoming a mainstream IT sourcing option, especially large companies struggle with the internal governance of cloud and the issue of shadow IT. This study takes a technological frames perspective to contrast the knowledge and expectations that business versus IT stakeholders have regarding cloud IT. Our interview data from 20 business and IT managers display the incongruences between these two groups’ technological frames and how this relates to their governing actions: While business managers emphasize the benefits frames of cloud computing and tend to undermine IT governance, IT managers stress its threat frames and their desire to strengthen the IT governance framework. We discuss how these frame incongruences are related and how they can be resolved. This discussion contributes to the literature a stakeholder-specific view that may help understand the duality of the shadow IT phenomenon. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9543 Files in this item: 1
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The European Higher Education Area and Copenhagen Business SchoolTackney, Charles T.; Zølner, Mette (Atlante, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This Symposium presents curriculum design and content issues in a Scandinavian business school at its Centenary. The aim is an exploration of an educational institution at the interface of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) within the historical trends of the European Union. We hope this step will empirically document how the goals of the European Higher Education Area are functionally linked with the entrepreneurial sensibilities of administration, faculty, and administrative staff during the concrete operations of work. The series of presentations are framed between trans-cultural epistemological foundations in insight-based critical realism and inquiry into how the institutional entrepreneurs – the program directors – negotiate opportunities, risks, and tensions in curriculum and program implementation. Detailed case presentations take up curriculum effort to successfully engage issues of interdisciplinarity, use of text production as a tool in support of project and thesis writing, and the use of plurilingual content based teaching in a cooperative learning model for European studies. The history of one curriculum model initiated to educate better citizens, combining interdisciplinary methods with language instruction, whose features have endured and diffused throughout the business school, ends the presentation set. Symposium discussion will be designed to invite participants, from within the EU and beyond, to join in collaborative practitioner research for the EHEA future. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9547 Files in this item: 1
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A Systematic Literature Review of Road Freight TransportBenedikte, Borgström; Gammelgaard, Britta; Wieland, Andreas (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose: This article provides a comprehensive review of the strategic management of transport and logistics services and to identify promising avenues for future research in the field. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review is conducted based on articles published between 2011 and 2016 in international peer‐reviewed journals. 55 selected articles deal with strategic elements concerning hauliers, such as service offerings, costs and revenues. Findings: Themes of hauliers’ strategizing that are discussed in the literature, namely carrier selection revisited, professionalism, innovation, horizontal collaboration, planned and emergent strategies, and value propositions. Research limitations/implications: The research expands on the previous literature on logistics and transport and adds knowledge about hauliers as part of the transport and supply chain. Social implications: In highly ranked transport journals, only two per cent of the published articles concern haulier strategizing, thus, knowledge development concerning the socio-economic and managerial problems of practitioners and policy makers is delimited. Original/value: The study contributes to a strategic perspective by identifying transdisciplinary avenues of research that are likely to likely to encourage hauliers to be innovative. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9518 Files in this item: 1