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Korzen, Iørn (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
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A literature review and a suggestion of how to study the issueWestenholz, Ann (, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Very little research – if any – has been done to find out what happens to leadership and working live when Chinese companies settle in Denmark. This paper argues that it is worth investigating this topic, as I assume that the numbers of Chinese companies locating themselves in Denmark will increase in the coming years. The aim of the paper is firstly to give an overview of the literature that deals with the development of Chinese companies going abroad, and it is shown that the direct outward investments of China is experiencing a rapid growth. Secondly I like to look at leadership and working lives in China, and the lesson learned from the literature is that leadership and working life in China is diverse and continuously evolving. But some trends may be identified like different institutional regimes and different types of companies. Thirdly I look at leadership and working life in Denmark, and I compare leadership and working life in the two countries showing that there are many differences. These differences may have an impact on the way Chinese companies handle their encounters with ‘strangers’ when they establish themselves abroad, but we do not know if this is happening. I conclude by outlining a way of how to empirically study the interaction between Chinese and Danish managers and employees working together in a Chinese company in Denmark. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8645 Files in this item: 1
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Managing the tension between reality and employee surveysLarsson, Magnus (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper aims at an exploration of leadership in the context of pervasive organizational control, in the form of standardized measurement systems. Measurement practices are proliferating in contemporary organizations, with ever more aspects of both organizational and private life being monitored and measured (Clegg & Courpasson, 2006). These systems are generally seen as an important part of organizational control regulating and shaping both actions of organizational members, and their own self-understanding or identity (Alvesson & Willmott, 2002). The image of the iron cage of bureaucracy, where action is tightly regulated, has in part been exchanged for the image of soft controls, regulating values and identities rather than behaviors and actions. Kärreman and Alvesson (2004), however, point out how these two types of control might work in tandem, constituting a strong regulating force. In contrast to this literature that emphasize the constraints on individual agency, the leadership literature emphasize the powers of leaders to influence and shape organizations and organizational processes (Yukl,2002). Leadership is commonly associated with driving and facilitating change and development. Theories of leadership emphasize (among other things) vision, personal engagement, interpersonal relationships, and ability to empower subordinates. How, then, can leaders exercise their agency and enable change when faced with systems generally seen as regulating rather than facilitating agency? It is this paradox that we wish to explore in this paper. We take the case of employee surveys, being a common practice in western organizations, that paradoxically constitute a standardized system aiming at change and development, and explore how these are experienced and managed by leaders in various organizations. We wish to analyze in terms of leadership how these standardized systems migh on the one hand constrain leadership action, and on the other hand be utilized in change related initiatives, thereby preserving leadership agency. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8709 Files in this item: 1
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Hjerrild Carlsen, Mathilde; Høllund, Holger (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Despite the last years’ efforts to innovate public education in Denmark the Danish public school has remained hesitant to change, and relations with the surrounding world have remained in their early stages. Using Michel Callon’s concept of translation our study sheds light on the social processes that form the conditions of managing innovation among professionals. It shows how managing innovation in practice is part of a complex network of social interaction and evolves as a constant ‘translation’ aiming at enrolling opposing actors, and positioning oneself in relation to the professional identities and positions that innovation put at risk. The analytical contribution of our paper is to add comprehension to innovation management in the public sector as a process of positioning innovation in relation to a variety of human and non-human actors as well as professional identities. Innovation is shown to challenge the professional identities of the teachers and school leaders, as the teachers experience that innovation is not recognized in standardized tests and thereby jeopardizes their professional position. Onwards the paper outlines three management strategies that evolve in the social processes of the translation of innovation and the different management positions that these strategies entail. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8893 Files in this item: 1
Mathilde_Hjerrild_Carlsen.pdf (152.4Kb) -
A Framework and an Agenda for Social Media Research in ISWang, Cancan; Medaglia, Rony; Sæbø, Øystein (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: As the body of Information Systems (IS) research on social media grows, it faces increasing challenges of staying relevant to real world contexts. We analyze and contrast research on social media in the e-government field and in IS research, by reviewing and categorizing 63 studies published in key journal outlets, in order to identify and complement research foci and gaps. We find that, in comparison with egovernment social media research, IS studies tend to adopt an abstract view of the individual user, focus on a monetary view of value added by social media, and overlook the role of contextual factors. We thus propose an extended framework for mapping social media research, by including a focus on the role of context and environment, and identify a research agenda for future studies on social media-related phenomena relevant to real world contexts. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9240 Files in this item: 1
Wang_Medaglia_Sæbø_OASIS_2015_FINAL.pdf (339.5Kb) -
The Value of Coworker Mobility in Pushed and Pulled-driven StartupsRocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: By combining the insights from the widespread research on entrepreneurial spin-offs and from the emerging literature on hiring choices in startups, we investigate the role of coworker mobility in pushed and pulled spin-offs survival. We address two main gaps identi ed in prior research: the relative inattention paid to other human resources beyond the founder, and the hetero-geneous context where employee startups may be established. We use a rich matched employer-employee dataset for Portugal, and estimate a multi-stage model addressing the issues of self-selection in entrepreneurship and endogeneity in recruitment choices. We find that spin-offs hiring coworkers from the parent fi rm survive longer. The survival bonus resulting from coworker mobility is higher in pushed-driven startups. This work has important implications for broader theories on the role of labor mobility in organizational outcomes of arrival fi rms, and also for developing theories on labor markets for entrepreneurship. It also constitutes an important step towards unpacking the mechanisms through which mobile human capital affects the performance of receiving firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9307 Files in this item: 1
Rocha_Carneiro_Varum_DRUID.pdf (699.5Kb) -
Tvarnø, Christina D. (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the existing Public Private Partnership (PPP) acts in the EU Member states, the existing national economic measures supporting establishment of PPP projects, PPP guidelines and, furthermore, the existing national central governmental PPP units. After mapping these four subjects in the EU member states, the paper focuses on the solutions chosen in France, United Kingdom, and Ireland. The purpose of the paper is to provide specific knowledge on PPP instruments to countries as Denmark, which lack on both legal instruments, as well as PPP projects in general. This knowledge might provide a new perspective on how to improve the PPP marked through legal, financial, and governmental measures concerning PPP. The paper focuses on legal act, central PPP units and financial instruments as support of PPP. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9387 Files in this item: 1
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Gammelgaard, Jens; Kumar, Rajesh (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The relationship between multinational enterprises’ (MNE) headquarters and their subsidiaries has been of considerable interest to international business scholars (e.g., Dörrenbächer and Geppert, 2009). Although a subsidiary is an integral part of an MNE, its interests do not necessarily converge with those of headquarters. Many scholars note that relationships between headquarters and subsidiaries are characterized by the simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition (e.g., Bouquet and Birkinshaw, 2008; Otterbeck, 1981). On the one hand, the subsidiary and its managers are dependent on headquarters’ resources to fulfill its mandate. On the other hand, the subsidiary and its managers have their own particular goals, which may or may not coincide with the goals of headquarters and its managers. Subsidiary managers may also seek to develop the unit’s own sense of identity, which may be at variance with that of the MNE (e.g., Mudambi and Navarra, 2004). The potential for goal and identity conflict between headquarters and subsidiaries leads to the emergence of a mixed-motive relationship between the two units and their managers. A mixed-motive relationship generates conflict, but the mere existence of conflict is not necessarily detrimental to the relationship (Rahim and Bonoma, 1979). However, the emergence of a prolonged conflict and/or its ineffective management may create a dysfunctional relationship between the headquarters and the subsidiary. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9413 Files in this item: 1
The Legitimacy Dynamics EIBA.pdf (147.4Kb) -
Morsing, Mette; Rasche, Andreas; Wetter, Erik Wilhelm (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines the legitimacy attached to different types of multi-stakeholder data partnerships occurring in the context of sustainable development. We develop a framework to assess the democratic legitimacy of two types of data partnerships: open data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly freely available) and closed data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly shared within a network of organizations). Our framework specifies criteria for assessing the legitimacy of relevant partnerships with regard to their input legitimacy as well as their output legitimacy. We demonstrate which particular characteristics of open and closed partnerships can be expected to influence an analysis of their input and output legitimacy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9690 Files in this item: 1
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Financial Literacy and the Corporate Governmentalization of the ‘Business of Life’Højbjerg, Erik (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper is a work-‐in-‐progress. The purpose of the paper is programmatic in the sense that it tries to formulate elements of a research agenda revolving around the issue of corporate governmentalization. By this term I intend to indicate ways in which companies seek to construe and mobilize consumer subjectivities whose consuming practices involve the self-‐ management of the individual along etho-‐political goals of good governance. The back-‐drop of this topic is the investigation of the forms of contemporary social and political transformation, with a focus on the transformative powers of ‘politicized private enterprises’ or the ‘political corporation’. The research question is: How do corporations seek to construe and mobilize responsible citizens by offering products and services, the consumption of which are assumed to transform the individual¹s self-‐relationship along proclaimed ethical and political goals? The research question will be discussed in the context of financial literacy educational initiatives. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, increasing the financial literacy of ordinary citizen-‐consumers has taken a prominent position among regulators and financial institutions alike. The logic seems to be that financially capable individuals will enjoy social and political inclusion as well as an ability to exercise a stronger influence in markets. The paper specifically contributes to our understanding of the governmentalization of the present by addressing how -‐ at least in part -‐ the corporate spread of financial literacy educational initiatives can be observed as a particular form of power at-‐a-‐distance. The focus is on the role of private enterprise in governmentalizing the ‘business of life’ by establishing and mobilizing specific conceptual forms around which the life skills of the entrepreneurial self involves a responsibilization of the individual citizen-‐consumer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9006 Files in this item: 1
Erik_Hojbjerg.pdf (253.1Kb) -
Rønning, Ola; Hardt, Daniel; Søgaard, Anders (, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Sluicing resolution is the task of identifying the antecedent to a question ellipsis. Antecedents are often sentential constituents, and previous work has therefore relied on syntactic parsing, together with complex linguistic features. A recent model instead used partial parsing as an auxiliary task in sequential neural network architectures to inject syntactic information. We explore the linguistic information being brought to bear by such networks, both by defining subsets of the data exhibiting relevant linguistic characteristics, and by examining the internal representations of the network. Both perspectives provide evidence for substantial linguistic knowledge being deployed by the neural networks. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9684 Files in this item: 1
Rønning_Hardt_Søgaard.pdf (369.5Kb) -
A Study in the Hotel IndustryGrønholt, Lars; Martensen, Anne (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the links between employee attitudes, customer loyalty and business results. Methodology/approach – From a conceptual point of view, this employee-customer-business results chain is well founded and generally accepted, also in the European Excellence Model. But for many companies, it seems difficult to demonstrate such links, and several issues must be addressed to uncover the links. To investigate these links empirically, a hotel chain provided data matching employee and customer measures with measures of profit, and a modeling approach is developed. Findings – The model is successfully applied. As it is possible to estimate and test the links, we have demonstrated the effects of employee attitudes on customer loyalty and further on business results. The findings provide strong empirical evidence for the developed model, and the study provided evidence of theemployee-customer-business result chain. Research limitations – The study is limited to four hotels in Copenhagen, Denmark. Practical implications – The research findings provide a better understanding of the employee-customer-business result chain and may help practitioners in improving company financial performance. Originality/value – This paper provides new insights into the relationships between employee attitudes, customer loyalty, and business results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9666 Files in this item: 1
Gronholdt_Martensen_ICQSS2018.pdf (157.2Kb) -
A Research AgendaKazan, Erol; Tan, Chee-Wee; Lim, Eric T. K. (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Digital platforms are disruptive IT artifacts, because they facilitate the quick release of innovative platform derivatives from third parties (e.g., apps). This study endeavours to unravel the disruptive potential, caused by distinct designs and configurations of digital platforms on market environments. We postulate that the disruptive potential of digital platforms is determined by the degree of alignment among the business, technology and platform profiles. Furthermore, we argue that the design and configuration of the aforementioned three elements dictates the extent to which open innovation is permitted. To shed light on the disruptive potential of digital platforms, we opted for payment platforms as our unit of analysis. Through interviews with experts and payment providers, we seek to gain an in-depth appreciation of how contemporary digital payment platforms are designed and configured to foster open innovation. We envision that this study bridges existing knowledge gaps between digital platform and innovation literature. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9406 Files in this item: 1
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How time impedes organizational agency in social responsibility activitiesBerg Johansen, Christina (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We live in an age where time is our most treasured resource. In all endeavors of life, we seek to control and exploit time towards specific ends, be it in organizational strategies, education, family logistics, career planning. We have colonized time with the clock and related technologies, and time is now a global currency that translates directly into money. The modern organization has developed out of this rationalization of time, and much management theory and education centers on temporal notions of efficiency – if we cannot work more, then how can we work harder and smarter, so as to spend time most productively? As will be argued in this article, rationalized temporality is one of the most powerful social constructions with which actors guide their behavior in contemporary organizations, and it invades other social constructions without our notice. This has real effect of our ability to develop new social solutions that lie outside the rational standards, as the case of a corporate social responsibility program will illustrate later. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9256 Files in this item: 1
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Tackney, Charles T. (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This is a participant-observer report concerning curriculum deployment of Bernard J.F. Lonergan’s insight-based critical realism and general empirical method for interdisciplinary research methods and allied courses in Copenhagen Business School (CBS, Denmark), from 2001 to the present. I also report similar instruction in interdisciplinary methods for management and organization studies at the International School for Social and Business Studies (ISSB, Slovenia) in 2012.1 The overall time period has been entirely under the aegis of the Bologna Process, begun in 1999, and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), launched in March, 2010. Both the originating Bologna Process and subsequent EHEA envision curriculum development appropriate to “ensure that the European higher education system acquires a world-wide degree of attraction” (European Commission, 2013). In addition, the Bologna Process calls for specification of the “necessary European dimensions of higher education” (Ibid.). The point of this working paper is to report teaching success and indicate potential merits of Lonergan’s general empirical method, grounded in insight-based critical realism, as a robust epistemological basis for EHEA university curriculum and instruction. The design approach to Lonergan’s method offers grounds to think it uniquely adapted for interdisciplinary social science in the complex trans-cultural, multi-lingual, and religiously pluralist EHEA, thus providing curriculum content adequate and appropriate for the “necessary European dimensions of higher education. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9085 Files in this item: 1
Tackney_10 June 2014.pdf (364.5Kb) -
Carl, Michael; Kay, Martin; Jensen, Kristian T. H. (Preprint, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates properties of translation processes, as observed in the translation behaviour of student and professional translators. The translation process can be divided into a gisting, drafting and post-editing phase. We find that student translators have longer gisting phases whereas professional translators have longer post-editing phases. Long-distance revisions, which would typically be expected during post-editing, occur to the same extent during drafting as during post-editing. Further, both groups of translators seem to face the same translation problems. We suggest how those findings might be taken into account in the design of computer assisted translation tools. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8046 Files in this item: 1
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Expatriates´ Identity Work in Reverse Knowledge TransferFeldt, Liv Egholm (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the last decade, researchers have shown that MNCs need to reverse knowledge transfer to secure their competitiveness in the global market. Lately this has been studied through re/expatriates. This study presents two exemplary cases from a study of 64 interviews conducted in 5 of the largest Danish MNCs. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to understand the role identity work plays in the ability and willingness of expatriates to learn and transfer knowledge. Second, to introduce Life Course Theory as an important methodological contribution with which to capture the entangled relationship between agency and structure within reverse knowledge transfer. Third, to develop and extend the current theoretical and methodological frame that govern the research of knowledge transfer. The present study indicates that institutionally generated organisational frames and work organising practices develop and feed certain power structures and communities, which influence the possibility of agency and as a result reverse knowledge transfer. The findings of this study stress that: 1) power is as an important productive force in identity work: consequently, it has the ability both to hinder and spur the processes of transformative learning and reverse knowledge transfer; 2) reverse knowledge transfer can be hindered by the lack of transformative learning in the single individual. The empirical material in this paper has been collected in the research project ”Cultural Intelligence as a Strategic Resource”. The project was funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council and conducted by Lisbeth Clausen, Liv Egholm Feldt, Martine Cardel Gertsen, Anne-Marie Søderberg, Verner Worm and Mette Zølner, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. The research team have had privileged access to five of the largest Danish MNCs. While the collection of material has in general been carried out by the research team, Liv Egholm Feldt is the only person responsible for the analysis, reflections and perspectives presented in this paper. To secure the anonymity of the interviewees, fictitious names have been used. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8436 Files in this item: 1
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How Luxury Experiences Contribute to Consumer SelvesBauer, Martina; von Wallpach, Sylvia; Hemetsberger, Andrea (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Hitherto literature in the area of luxury and luxury brands predominantly applies a management-oriented view of luxury. This project departs from traditional views on luxury by focusing on consumers’ experiences with what they perceive as luxury. More specifically, the objective is to enhance understanding regarding how luxury experiences contribute to consumers’ selves. The empirical study is exploratory in nature and relies on consumer diaries regarding consumer luxury experiences. This project contributes to existing literature by outlining four different forms of how luxury relates to consumers’ selves. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8683 Files in this item: 1
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Exploring the Role of sensemaking Narratives in Stakeholders’ Shared Understanding of the BrandGyrd-Jones, Richard; Törmälä, Minna (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose: An important part of how we sense a brand is how we make sense of a brand. Sense-making is naturally strongly connected to how we cognize about the brand. But sense-making is concerned with multiple forms of knowledge that arise from our interpretation of the brand-related stimuli: Declarative, episodic, procedural and sensory. Knowledge is given meaning through mental association (Keller, 1993) and / or symbolic interaction (Blumer, 1969). These meanings are centrally related to individuals’ sense of identity or “identity needs” (Wallpach & Woodside, 2009). The way individuals make sense of brands is related to who people think they are in their context and this shapes what they enact and how they interpret the brand (Currie & Brown, 2003; Weick, Sutcliffe, & Obstfeld, 2005; Weick, 1993). Our subject of interest in this paper is how stakeholders interpret and ascribe meaning to the brand and how these meaning narratives play out over time to create meta-narratives that drive brand meaning co-creation. In this paper we focus on the concept of brand identity since it is at the level of identity that the brand creates meaning for individuals (Kapferer, 2012; Csaba & Bengtsson, 2006). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9515 Files in this item: 1
Gyrdjones_Tormala_Makesense.pdf (67.08Kb) -
Hald, Kim S.; Thrane, Sof (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Research positioned in the intersection between management accounting and supply chain management is increasing. However, the relationship between management accounting and supply chain strategies has been neglected in extant research. This research adds to literature on management accounting and supply chain management through exploring how supply chain strategy and management accounting is related, and how supply chain relationship structure modifies this relation. Building on a contingency theoretical lens as well as literature within management accounting and supply chain management, a research model is developed. The research model highlights two basic forms of fit. First, fit between lean- and agile supply chain strategies, and supply chain management accounting practice. Second, supply chain relationship structure, modelled as the extent to which a firm organizationally integrates activities with customers and suppliers, is a moderating variable and. When misfits occur this may lead to negative performance effects and have implications for the competitiveness of the firm and the supply chain system as a whole. This study makes a contribution to the literature by conceptualizing the elements of management accounting in a context of the supply chain and by relating it to supply chain strategy and supply chain relationship structure. A set of generically different supply chain management accounting postures are proposed and the notion of design/use flexibility of a supply chain management accounting technique proposes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9373 Files in this item: 1
Hald_Thrane.pdf (320.0Kb)