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An Embedded, Comparative Case Study of Municipal Waste Management in England And DenmarkDam, Sofie (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This PhD concerns the potentials and challenges for conducting innovation in public-private partnerships (PPPs) towards the objective of transforming municipal waste management towards more sustainable systems. In recent years, local authorities have been met with intensified demands from the EU and national governments to change existing waste management systems from solutions based on disposal and recovery towards more recycling and prevention and at the same time deliver more efficient waste management services through the inclusion of private businesses. These two demands may to some degree be mutually supportive, but may also lead to challenges in the prioritization and development of new solutions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9169 Filer i denne post: 1
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With Comparative and Multi-level Case Studies from Denmark and IrelandHelby Petersen, Ole (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This PhD dissertation studies national similarities and differences in policy and regulation of public-private partnerships (PPPs), with an empirical focus on Denmark and Ireland. The starting point and motivation for the study is the observation that whereas PPPs are often depicted in the academic literature and in policy practice as a globally disseminated governance scheme, in reality, a closer examination of the PPP reform landscape reveals significant differences in national governments’ PPP policy and regulation and in the amount of actually implemented PPP projects. By comparing the initiatives taken by the Irish government, which has embraced PPPs, with those of the Danish government, which has been a PPP sceptic, this study inquires into the fundamental questions as to how, why and to what consequences some governments have developed widespread policy and regulation frameworks to support the implementation of PPPs, whereas others have been much more reluctant. The dissertation addressed four research questions: (i) what are the key actors, strategies and institutions that create policies and regulations for the formation of PPPs?; (ii) how did governments’ PPP policies and regulations develop over time, and how can their similarities and differences be explained?; (iii) how do differing national policy and regulation frameworks serve to facilitate or hinder the formation of PPPs, exemplified by four case studies from the schools sector?; (iv) what framework conditions does the EU set for PPP initiatives at national and sub-national levels? The main aim of the dissertation is to study how and why national PPP policy and regulation frameworks developed over time. At the national government level, the study thus contains both diachronic and synchronic analysis. Furthermore, in line with previous research within what has been called the governance approach within PPP studies, policy and regulation are also seen as constitutive elements that tap into and set the general framework conditions and institutional ‘rules of the game’ for the realisation of concrete PPP projects. The comparative interest at the central government level is thus supplemented by an analysis (a) of the interplay between decisions about policy and regulation at the national level and the formation of concrete PPP projects, and (b) of the EU’s role in regulating decisions about PPPs at national level and in relation to the formation of concrete PPP schemes. A main finding is that whereas academic PPP literature often portrays governments’ rationales for resorting to PPPs in terms of achieving innovation, collaborative advantage, value-for-money, new market possibilities, improved risk sharing etc., the findings brought to the fore in this dissertation suggest that a primary objective indeed was to remove major public infrastructure investments from governments’ balance sheets, and thereby reduce the pressure on public capital budgets and provide more infrastructure than would otherwise be possible. However, as the off balance sheet rationale has been shown to be largely false, because there is always a bill to pay in the long term, this raise a number of broader legitimacy and accountability issues, which the present PPP policy and regulation frameworks of governments do not seem to adequately address. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9114 Filer i denne post: 1
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A processual and embedded explorationStelling, Christiane (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This thesis addresses the need, development and management of trust in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), an issue that thus far has received only very little attention. For this purpose, the dissertation contributes with four separate articles, of which the first two explore the main concepts – PPPs and trust – while the last two present the empirical exploration of trusting in PPPs by drawing on four in-depth case studies. The exploration of the PPP concept in the first article focuses on the definitory and classificatory practices across disciplinary and professional fields and contributes with an inductive map of the dominant patterns. The review of PPP publications argues that the main divergence lies in the focus on two differing dimensions. While a first group focuses on PPPs as a new way of distributing responsibilities across public and private partners a second group defines PPPs as a new means for joint decision-making and interactive collaboration between public and private partners. For the thesis it is especially the second dimension – the relational - that becomes relevant when trust moves centre-stage. In the second article, the dissertation addresses trust conceptualizations in an interorganizational setting. The article argues for a more processual approach to (re)embed trust in time and space. Following, the paper develops a processual framework for studying interorganizational trusting as ever evolving, always embedded and not least rooted in individual experiences of organizational members from various organizational levels. Finally, the article highlights the constitutive importance of contingency not only creating the need for trust but also its precondition. It is because we experience the future as open (contingent) that we are in need and able to form trust, i.e. suspend doubts and form positive expectations about another’s future behaviour despite he/she has the possibility for alternative actions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8942 Filer i denne post: 1
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Positioning and Framing in Nascent Institutional ChangeGirschik, Verena C. (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This doctoral dissertation aims to understand how companies realize corporate responsibility—both how they perform corporate responsibility in particular local contexts and how they negotiate understandings of what corporate responsibility means. It builds on an inductive case study of the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, a company known for its remarkable investments in integrating societal objectives into its business model and promoting new ways of thinking about and doing business. The case inspired the overarching theoretical question how actors construct and legitimize new ideas and practices at the nascent stages of institutional change. To address this question, the dissertation develops a micro-sociological approach to institutional change that brings to light how actors struggle over meaning in power relations by focusing on processes of positioning and framing. The three articles in this dissertation unfold distinct yet interdependent processes of positioning and framing that constitute new ways of performing and understanding corporate responsibility. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9275 Filer i denne post: 1
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The Case of U.S. Chambers of CommerceCrawford, Brett (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Much of the organizational institutionalism literature suggests that the phenomenon of interests is a central construct, however, portrays interests in an overly deterministic, rational, and liberal way. In this thesis, I challenge those views and suggest that interests are a complex and interdependent socially constructed phenomenon. Accordingly, interests represent an actor’s recognition, perceived importance, and participation in a number of figurations and social games. Illustrated through the institution of U.S. chambers of commerce, I explore how chambers of commerce have withstood a changing American culture to become both the world’s largest business federation and public-private partnership. Moreover, even as the United States represents the most liberal of liberal market economies, chambers of commerce represent a context where capitalists have set aside market competition and unified their interests to become one of the largest and most influential institutions in the world. Following a brief introduction of interests and chambers of commerce, this thesis begins with the first paper, which is a critical review of the phenomenon of interests within the organizational institutionalism literature. Tracing the conceptual variety of both the origins and functions of interests in institutional studies, I illustrate how an overly deterministic and rational view of interests is problematic. The critical review continues with a discussion of my critiques of the extant literature followed by an introduction of a less rational and calculative approach to interests by coupling Bourdieu’s (1998) conceptualization of interests with Elias’s (1978) sociology emphasizing figurations and social games. The three subsequent empirical papers test this approach to interests on macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of the institution of chambers of commerce. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8452 Filer i denne post: 1
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On the Politics of Translation in Global GovernanceGrasten, Maj Lervad (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This thesis is about the rule of law in global governance and the role of legal expertise. It is about how contested concepts, vague wordings and political promises combine with international legal expertise to shape political and social realities in the making of global order(s). To this end, the aim of the thesis is to problematize and scrutinize the meaning and doings of the rule of law as a key concept in present-day international law and politics. Drawing on the case of internationally administered rule of law reforms in post-conflict Kosovo, the main problem I address in the thesis is – given the ambiguity of the very meaning of the concept – how, why and when is the meaning of the rule of law ‘fixed’, stabilized and made knowable to serve as a source of justification for the authority of international experts in ruling the domestic legal and what are the political implications thereof? To address this problem, I adopt a practice-oriented, multi-sited ethnographic approach to reconstruct the different and often conflicting meanings that are inscribed into the concept of the rule of law by various international actors, in particular international lawyers, engaged in rule of law reforms in the period from the establishment of the UN administration in 1999 until today where an European Union (EU) rule of law mission exercises extensive powers within the legal field in Kosovo. The main argument of the thesis is that the practical meaning of the rule of law in global governance is constituted through struggles over drawing the boundary between ‘law’ and ‘politics’ in the quest towards constructing and enacting law’s relative autonomy versus what is narrated and thus assessed as being social, political and moral influences. This plays out in the often mundane, everyday practices and ordinary language of international actors who are formally identified, authorized and justified to possess the professional knowledge – the particular expertise – that is required to solve the ‘problem’ of the rule of law and thus to translate it into what it should be in practice. Importantly, the separation and relationship between law and politics is not naturally given in practice and can therefore not be taken for granted. The boundary between the two realms is narrated and enacted differently by different actors for a particular purpose, in a given time and place. Indeed, inscribing meanings into the rule of law follows from enacting and inscribing a particular meaning into the boundary between law and politics. In sum, the construction of knowledge and meaning around the ‘rule of law’ unfolds in struggles over discursively fixing, momentarily stabilizing and thereby inscribing meaning into this boundary, which in turn would authorize a particular group of actors and their attending solutions to the problem over other actors and their solutions. The construction of knowledge and meaning around the ‘rule of law’, I will demonstrate in this thesis, is a result of how politics of translation play out in everyday practices of global governance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9633 Filer i denne post: 1
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A Neoinstitutional Analysis of the Emerging Organizational Field of Renewable Energy in ChinaHøyrup Christensen, Nis (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Today, China is the world leading investor in renewable energy. At the heart of this effort lies China’s ability to shape markets through industrial policies. Through a neoinstitutional theoretical perspective this dissertation views China’s efforts within renewable energy as the emergence of a new organizational field. Despite the importance of organizational fields as a key concept in the neoinstitutional literature, there is a lack of studies on exactly how they emerge. Throughout four articles this dissertation scrutinizes therefore the emergence of the field of renewable energy in China and the mechanisms driving this emergence. Firstly, the relation between state and market is examined, and it is argued that Chinese state interventions in markets, for instance through subsidies, are based in deeply rooted historic grounds. Thus, the article explains the general context in which the Party-state handles subsidized markets, like renewable energy. Secondly, the specific development of the idea of sustainable development, and how it evolves into an institutional logic of its own, is analysed. It is around this institutional logic that renewable energy emerges as a field. The key mechanism in play is the idea work of the Party state by which sustainable development is positioned in the Partystate discourse. Thirdly, subsidization of renewable energy in China is examined as an important feature of the increasing institutionalization of the organizational field. It is shown how negotiation between companies and Party-state is the vital mechanism by which subsidies are determined.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8627 Filer i denne post: 1
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A Comparative Case Study of Danish and Swedish Passenger Rail 1990–2015Christensen, Lene Tolstrup (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This doctoral thesis (PhD) explores from a public governance perspective the role of stateowned enterprises (SOEs) in an era of marketization of public service provision and thus contributes to the renewed academic interest in contemporary SOEs. It builds on an explorative comparative case study of DSB SOV and SJ AB in the marketization of passenger rail in Denmark and Sweden respectively from the 1990s to 2015. In the period both cases kept full state ownership and Sweden gradually exposed all services to competition whereas in Denmark with time competition was put on hold. The case study consists of document study and +50 interviews and is based on a historical institutionalist perspective on gradual change that emphasizes interpretation in the implementation between rule makers and rule takers as a driver of institutional change. It leads to the conceptualization of the SOE as an institutional market actor (IMA). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9410 Filer i denne post: 1
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Filantropiens gensidighedsrelationer i teori og praksisMahncke, Henrik (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: De almennyttige fonde har gennem de seneste 15 år finansieret en lang række store bygge- og anlægsprojekter for de danske museer. Fondenes position er i denne periode blevet styrket ved en markant øget uddelingskapacitet og nye uddelingsmetoder i kombination med færre offentlige midler til disse byggerier. Det har skabt en ny dynamik på museumsområdet og flyttet rundt på rollefordelingen mellem staten, kommunerne, museerne og fondene. Denne ph.d.-afhandling afdækker disse markante udviklingstræk ved at undersøge de store gaver, som fænomen i et senmoderne samfund. Metaspørgsmålet er, hvordan de store gaver og nye former for uddelingspraksis ændrer den langsigtede relation mellem almennyttige fonde, staten og kommunerne. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9360 Filer i denne post: 1
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En kortlægning af styringsmæssig kontekst, strategisk tilgang, samt anvendte redskaber og teknologier for udvalgte danske statslige styrelserFroholdt, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Siden begyndelsen af 1980erne har den offentlige sektor i Danmark, og flere andre vestlige lande, været genstand for en moderniseringsproces. En moderniseringsproces, der har ført til nye måder at tænke og bedrive offentlig administration og ledelse på, herunder anvendelsen af organisatorisk strategi i en offentlig kontekst. Formen, sådanne organisatoriske strategier antager i en offentlig kontekst, er dog i høj grad et uudforsket område, hvilket er omdrejningspunktet for nærværende afhandling og følgende fundamentale forskningsspørgsmål: Hvordan tager strategi og strategisk ledelse form i en dansk offentlig kontekst? For at besvare ovenstående forskningsspørgsmål, er der udviklet et konceptuelt framework, som tillader en analyse og kortlægning af specifikke variable med relevans for den form, strategi og strategisk ledelse antager i en offentlig kontekst. De variable, der anvendes som analytisk linse i det konceptuelle framework, vedrører en organisations styringsmæssige kontekst, strategiske tilgang samt anvendte redskaber og teknologier. Analysen og kortlægningen af den styringsmæssige kontekst trækker på en række forskningsmæssige bidrag omkring eksisterende styringsparadigmer og deres karakter. Den strategiske tilgang er analyseret og kortlagt med udgangspunkt i Whittingtons (2001) strategiske perspektiver samt yderligere forskningsmæssige bidrag vedrørende de enkelte perspektiver.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8700 Filer i denne post: 1
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Exploring the Emergence, Consolidation and Reconfiguration of Legitimatory and Fiscal State-craftingCelik, Tim Holst (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Since the crisis-engrossed 1970s, and especially the 1990s, ‘governance’ has become a dominant concern and concept; notably, within particularly political science, a certain diagnosis explicitly or implicitly focused on a shift ‘from government to governance’ has become increasingly popular. This study examines the governance phenomenon of the post-1970/1990s period from a state-situated and historically informed perspective. Specifically, taking initial analytical departure in an approach of the early 1970s associated with James O’Connor, Jürgen Habermas and Claus Offe focused on the statesituated tension-filled functional relationship between legitimation and accumulation, the study both historically and theoretically reworks this approach and reapplies it for the post-1970s/1990s governance period. It asks whether and to what extent governance has served as a distinctive post- 1970s/1990s state-facilitated way of bridging/altering the tension-filled relationship between legitimation and fiscal accumulation in Western European liberal-capitalist democratic polities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9481 Filer i denne post: 1
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A critical assessment of Fair Trade through the examination of the Argentinean wine industryStaricco, Juan Ignacio (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This dissertation offers an assessment of Fair Trade’s transformative potential through an empirical examination of the case of Fair Trade wine produced in Argentina and consumed in the United Kingdom. Guided by a dialectical understanding of the research process, the analysis is done at various levels of generality, offering both case-specific and universal arguments about the Fair Trade system as a whole. Theoretically, the dissertation develops a regulationist framework based on a critical engagement with the French Regulation Approach and the Amsterdam Project in International Political Economy. The proposed analysis of Fair Trade as a ‘mode of regulation’ makes possible: (i) an examination of specific ways in which this initiative institutionalizes key socioeconomic relations, (ii) a comparison of Fair Trade with the ‘conventional’ economy and (iii) a discussion of its concrete effects. The further exploration of Fair Trade’s political and ideological dimensions sheds light on the reasons behind the system’s current limitations. The analysis shows that Fair Trade offers very limited improvements compared to the conventional economy. Additionally, for the Argentinean wine industry, Fair Trade further marginalizes the most vulnerable groups. These findings, it is argued, are a consequence of Fair Trade’s acritical acceptance of the main capitalist contradictions, which importantly limit the transformative aspirations of its supporters. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9226 Filer i denne post: 1
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Justification and Critique, Emancipation and Coercion Towards the ‘Active Society’Hansen, Magnus Paulsen (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Since the late 1980s, European welfare states and labour market regulation have gradually but radically been transformed into ways of underpinning a more “active society” where active usually entails paid work or activities, such as training and qualification, that aim towards work. The thesis investigates the transformation towards the ‘active society’ through the spectre of unemployment and how it is governed. Two puzzles in the transformations have motivated the inquiry: firstly, the co-existence of a plurality of different, and often contradictory, conceptions of who the unemployed are and why they are unemployed; and secondly, the co-existence of wills to emancipate the unemployed alongside the justification of using coercive measures towards them. This thesis argues that if we want to understand the varieties within the transformations, the “what?” question, it is necessary to address the “how?”; i.e., how transformations are legitimised. Here, ideas and morality are pivotal. Inspired by French pragmatic sociology (Boltanski and Thévenot), the ideas are approached as cities of unemployment that are mobilised to justify and criticise policies related to the governing of unemployment. In these situations where the question of what is the best way to govern unemployment is put to the test, cities of unemployment enable actors to prepare and qualify the reality of the situation for critique and justification. Each city of unemployment is founded on a principle with specific principles to try or test both those who govern and the subjects inhabiting each city, thus entailing a specific understanding of what emancipating the unemployed involves, i.e., what kind of moral subject the unemployed person is with what kind of needs and characteristics. The thesis thus asks which cities of unemployment are mobilised in contemporary reform processes of the governing of unemployment, how are the cities mobilised to justify and criticise, and how do the cities sediment into instruments and institutions governing the unemployed? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9465 Filer i denne post: 1
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