Awarded Degrees
Performativity and Discourse: japanese Advertisements on the Aesthetic Education of Desire
Toyoko Sato
Through a 1969 – 1990 longitudinal study of Seibu Department Stores and Parco, under the aegis of the former Saison Group (Japan), this research documents how meaning is articulated and contested as discourse in late modern consumer society.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 20 July 2010Read more about: Performativity and Discourse: japanese Advertisements on the Aesthetic Education of Desire
The Power of Resistance: India’s National Oil Company and International Activism in Sudan
Luke Patey
In October 2002 the Canadian oil company Talisman announced that it was selling its stake in a profitable venture in Sudan. Talisman had been the target of a fervent divestment campaign orchestrated by international activists calling on the company to halt its activities on account of the detrimental influence oil development was having on a long-standing civil war in the country. Soon enough other western oil companies would follow suit and sell off their investments in the face of condemnation from activists.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 14 September 2010Read more about: The Power of Resistance: India’s National Oil Company and International Activism in Sudan
Fickle Commitment. Fostering political engagement in "the flighty world of online activism"
Julie Uldam
In the wake of increasing disillusion with the potential of alternative online media for providing social movements with a virtual space for self-representation and visibility (Atton, 2002; Downing, 2001; Rodriguez, 2001) activists have been adopting online social media into their media practices.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 19 November 2010Read more about: Fickle Commitment. Fostering political engagement in "the flighty world of online activism"
Organising Development. Power and Organisational Reform in the United Nations Development Programme
Arthur Mühlen-Schulte
How does an organisation remain resilient when its units are fragmented and under assault from multiple external threats?
Date for obtained PhD degree: 31 August 2010Read more about: Organising Development. Power and Organisational Reform in the United Nations Development Programme
Ephemeral connections and temporary mobilizations
Kristine Munkgård Pedersen
The dissertation explores how cultural production is unfolding at Roskilde Festival – the biggest music- and culture festival in Denmark. The overall question being adressed is how the festival is assembled. The question is explored through four subquestions related to the cultural expressions, identity and materiality of the festival.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 25. marts 2010Read more about: Ephemeral connections and temporary mobilizations
Traveling technologies and transformations in health care
Annegrete Juul Nielsen
Traveling technologies and transformations in health care” investigates how health care programs move between practices and are successful at spreading geographically.
When a health care program is widely disseminated it is often explained with reference to the program simply being the most effective solution at hand or because the program currently is an unavoidable solution to almost any problem.
With inspiration from science and technology studies (STS) the dissertation proposes to examine this subject through the notion of traveling technologies. This approach entails a focus on how the programs are done and un-done in encounters across spatiotemporal boundaries and how they in the process come to re-frame problems and places. In doing so, the approach does not only account for the “strong network” of circulating programs, but also details the travel expenditures involved.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 22. december 2010Read more about: Traveling technologies and transformations in health care
Hybrid Organisations - A study of the Open Source - business setting
Malgorzata Ciesielska
This dissertation is an exploratory research of Open Source –business hybrid organizations and is based on longitudinal cases of Nokia corporation, GNOME and Maemo.org projects.
The thesis provides insights in the areas of knowledge integration and organizational principles, trust, and hybrid identities in the Open Source Software development.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2. december 2010Read more about: Hybrid Organisations - A study of the Open Source - business setting
Knowledge Management Systems in Practice – A Work Place Study
Kristian Tørning
Kristian Tørning’s industrial PhD work contributes to the existing body of knowledge on how we design computer systems, particularly multiuser software for knowledge sharing and creation in globally diffused companies.
This is achieved by means of a work place study of a global industrial engineering conglomerate. The thesis explores the situation that workers are in, since they are meant to share and develop knowledge in a portal based Knowledge Management System (KMS).
The study indentifies a set of problems that prevents knowledge sharing from taking place. The study also explore whether these problems could, to some degree, be mitigated by employing persuasive design, which is a new stance towards design where the aim is to directly change the user’s behavior, i.e., persuading more knowledge sharing.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 27. september 2010Read more about: Knowledge Management Systems in Practice – A Work Place Study
Håndtering af usikkerhed i film- og byggeprojekter
Jesper Schlamovitz
Afhandlingen handler om usikkerhed i projekter og hvordan usikkerheden håndteres af projektledelsen i tre konkrete caseprojekter: To filmproduktioner og et byggeprojekt.
Udgangspunktet er en teoretisk fremstilling af usikkerhed, hvor især usikkerhedens sociale dimension er i fokus. Usikkerheden undersøges når den kommer til udtryk i de konkrete uventede begivenheder, der opstår i projektet undervejs. Desuden undersøger afhandlingen forskelle og ligheder i organiseringen mellem bygge- og filmprojekter og finder væsentlige forskelle i organiseringen af projekterne.
Analysen viser at disse forskelle har stor betydning for, hvordan projekterne håndterer uventede begivenheder, og konkluderer, at især den sociale dimension af usikkerhedsproblemet ikke lader sig løse ved planlægning og vertikal informationshåndtering.
Afhandlingen peger på alternative strategier, der i højere grad synes at præge praksis, og bidrager til en nuanceret teoretisk forståelse af usikkerhedsfænomenet i projektsammenhænge.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 4. juni 2010Read more about: Håndtering af usikkerhed i film- og byggeprojekter
Social læring og fælles praksis
Cecilie Moesby-Jensen
Social læring og fælles praksis: Et mixed method studier, der belyser læringskonsekvenser af et lederkursus for et praksisfællesskab af offentlige mellemledere
Denne afhandling handler om sociale processer og læring i arbejdslivet, og dette undersøges empirisk ved at afdække de tilsigtede og de utilsigtede læringskonsekvenser af et specifikt lederudviklingskursus for mellemledere på et kommunalt lokalcenter for ældre borgere. Kurset, der havde til hensigt at styrke ledernes ledelsesstil, udvikle og forbedre teamfunktionen og trivslen for de ansatte på lokalcenteret, var en del af en teamimplementeringsproces i kommunens afdeling for Ældreomsorg. Læringskonsekvenserne undersøges i afhandlingen ved hjælp af en kombination af kvalitative og kvantitative metoder og med Etienne Wengers sociale læringsteori som et overordnet perspektiv.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 04-06-10 (grad tildelt) Read more about: Social læring og fælles praksis
Markets of good Intentions
Adam Buchhorn
Markets of good Intentions. Constructing and Organizing Biogas Markets Amid Fragility and Controversy
How is an abundance of worthless animal manure transformed into a valuable green technology to realize the good intentions of mitigating climate change and agricultural pollution, securing national energy supply, and advancing exports, and job creation?
By 2020, the Danish government expects production of renewable energy from so-called biogas plants to triple. But as the project demonstrates, the markets necessary for biogas plants to be constructed are neither adequately framed nor able to facilitate the transaction that renders such green technology valuable. In short, they are markets of good intentions. Unless steps are taken, the government will end up with are more ‘worthless’ green technology and good intentions.
By empirically studying the process of framing biogas markets in Denmark this project reveals the critical role of overflows and controversies in market-making, for instance when biogas technology ‘overflows’ with pungent manure or when political controversies over energy policy questions the value of biogas. One the one hand, they are essential in providing biogas with a license to operate. On the other hand, unless they are mitigated biogas plants cannot be constructed.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 11. maj 2010Read more about: Markets of good Intentions
Det faktiske livs forbindtlighed: Førsokratisk informeret, ny-aristotelisk ἦθος--tænkning hos Martin Heidegger
Tommy Moesby-Jensen
Dette filosofiske grundforskningsprojekt præsenterer og dokumenterer en ny og enhedsskabende læsning af Heideggers forfatterskab. Det sker ved at afdække det græske ἦθος som et af flere navne for sagen selv, og derfor som et absolut hovedanliggende i hans tænkevej, og det forsøges følgelig at forstå forfatterskabet ud fra dette perspektiv, således også orienteret af et lede-udsagn fra Heidegger selv om, at hans tænkning kan forstås og er tænkt som den oprindelige etik, og at en destruktion af tænkevejen, der genvinder den som en ἦθος-tænkning, derfor er mulig. Afhandlingens tematiske sag er en sådan frilæggelse af Heideggers tænkning som en rekonstruktion af antik etisk selv-ledelses-tænkning, der tematiserer den phronetisk-besindige og omsorgsfulde føren af den eksistente væren med henblik på en selv-indsigtsfuld væsens-selv-forligelse, og en væren-centrisk fordring om at tage vare på alt og dermed blive sin egen tilblivende ἦθος-væren, som er en in-die-Sorge-nehmen-sein.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 05-05-10 (grad tildelt)Read more about: Det faktiske livs forbindtlighed: Førsokratisk informeret, ny-aristotelisk ἦθος--tænkning hos Martin Heidegger
Emerging Organizations - In between local translation, institutional logics and discourse
Susanne Boch Waldorff
The thesis explores the efforts to reorganize the provision of health care services following the restructuring of the Danish public sector in 2007. The focus is on the meaning that municipalities used to legitimate a new organizational concept - a health care center. The results indicate that a heterogeneous context facilitated the construction of various local meanings including a traditional focus on disease treatment and a focus on disease prevention and health promotion.
The theoretical core of the dissertation is concerned with the ways in which the emerging health care centres are translated and legitimated by shifting logics and different discursive strategies. The thesis seeks to expand the neo-institutional approach with insights from analyses of translation processes and Critical Discourse Analysis.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 23. april 2010Read more about: Emerging Organizations - In between local translation, institutional logics and discourse
Værdi i rekruttering – den sikre beslutning
Ulrik Schultz Brix
God og effektiv rekruttering og udvælgelse af medarbejdere fremhæves ofte som en afgørende betingelse for virksomhedernes konkurrenceevne og overlevelse, hvilket måske er årsagen til, at både praktikere og forskere oplever denne del af HR-arbejdet som værdifuld.
Værdi i rekruttering – den sikre beslutning. En pragmatisk analyse af perception og synliggørelse af værdi i rekrutterings- og udvælgelsesarbejdet
Afhandlingen argumenterer for, at værdi i rekrutterings- og udvælgelsesarbejdet perciperes og opleves, det vil sige, at værdi er afhængig af konsulenternes og ledernes perception af og forventning til arbejdet.
Afhandlingen udspænder værdi som tredimensionelt som henholdsvis emotionel, kausal og logisk kvalitet. I kontrast til meget af den etablerede forskning argumenteres der i afhandlingen for, at værdi i rekruttering og udvælgelse ikke handler om at ansætte de rigtige medarbejdere, men om at ansætte dem på den rigtige måde. Værdi afhænger med andre ord ikke af hvem der ansættes, men om ansættelsesmetoden opleves som sikker.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 25. marts 2010Read more about: Værdi i rekruttering – den sikre beslutning
Strategic Change Management: Change Management Challenges in the Danish Police Reform
Rex Degnegaard
This PhD thesis is the result of a longitudinal study on change processes in the Danish Police Reform. The thesis focuses on unforeseen consequences of the Danish police reform in regards to change management and organizational implications. The study rests on a multi-sited methodology compromising an array of research methods.
The findings in the study point to the complex processes of change at many different levels of the police. Furthermore the study emphasizes the need for elevating managerial efforts in vast organizational transformation to a strategic level. The study shows how this is particularly relevant in reorganizing heavily institutionalized professional organizations and stresses how a strategic change management perspective must necessarily include the external level, the managerial level, and the operational level.
The study contributes primarily to the literature on change management, neo-institutionalism, and to the scarce yet emerging theoretical strands of police management.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 25-03-10 (grad tildelt)Read more about: Strategic Change Management: Change Management Challenges in the Danish Police Reform
Kontraktsledelse: Relasjonen mellom virksomhetsledelse og kontraktshåndtering, belyst via fire norske virksomheter
Jan Ole Similä
Virksomheters kontraktshåndtering har både internasjonalt og nasjonalt fått stadig økende oppmerksomhet. Similä gjennomfører i sin PhD-avhandling analyser av virksomheters interne håndtering av kontraktsprosessen, i forhold til spørsmål om organisering, kompetanse, og tolkning av institusjonelle omgivelser. Avhandlingens sentrale bidrag, er at den gir innsikt i hvordan kontraktsledelse skjer i praksis, og at praksis er relativt lik i ulike virksomheter – privat, hybrid og offentlig. Avhandlingen bidrar også til å sette søkelys på områder innenfor kontraktsledelse hvor det trengs ytterligere forskning, slik som kompetanseområdet og forståelsen av de institusjonelle omgivelsene.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 25-03-10 (grad tildelt) Read more about: Kontraktsledelse: Relasjonen mellom virksomhetsledelse og kontraktshåndtering, belyst via fire norske virksomheter
What we talk about when we talk about space
Marianne Stang Våland
What we talk about when we talk about space. End user participation between processes of organizational and architectural design
In the thesis, she explores the link between two design processes that have traditionally been considered separate and sequential: the organizational and the architectural design processes. The study is based on the increasing interest in space and architecture as a potential strategic vehicle in contemporary management, an interest that is shared by some scholars within organization studies. However, only few research contributions are based on empirical studies of the processes involved.
Two contemporary building projects have been studied: the Town Hall of Hillerød Municipality and Danish architecture firm, Arkitema’s Copenhagen office domicile. Through the exploration of how organized end user participation was applied as an integrated part of these design processes, the thesis identifies some of the linkages that such activities generate, and discusses the mutual effects they seem to induce.
The study builds on two different theoretical schools: sensemaking in organizations and actor-network theory.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 17. februar 2010Read more about: What we talk about when we talk about space
Metaphysical Labour: Flexibility, Performance and Commitment in Work-Life Management
Anders Raastrup Kristensen
The thesis ‘Metaphysical Labour’ offers a critical contribution to the theories of work-life balance. Within the contemporary theoretical perspectives on work and life the individuals are constructed as being responsible for work-life balance by turning it into a problem of the personal behaviour, decisions, psychological traits and family condition of the human subject. Drawing on Deleuzian philosophy the thesis offers a different perspective that is not based on the individual constitution of the boundary between work and home. Instead, it is argued that the constitution of the relation of work and life is to be found in its individuating effects such as how the employees gives expression to flexibility, performance and commitment. In this sense the perspective of work-life management turns the theories of work-life balance on their head, because it begins with the constituting effects and not the constituting cause of the human subject. This transformation is shown and analyzed in two case studies.
The thesis is funded as an Industrial PhD project by Rambøll Management and the Danish Research Council.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 08-02-10 (grad tildelt)Read more about: Metaphysical Labour: Flexibility, Performance and Commitment in Work-Life Management
‘The Great Health of Melancholy – A Study of the Pathologies of Performativity’
Rasmus Johnsen
The thesis 'The Great Health of Melancholy' is an attempt to create a philosophical perspective on issues like stress and depression in contemporary society. Through a reading of three motifs in the broad and colourful history of melancholy - melancholy in Antiquity, Acedia in the Middle Ages and neurasthenia around the turn of the 19th century - it engages with themes associated with modern day lifestyles: management of the Self, self-development, self-regulation and the pathologies of failure in an attempt to understand the subjectivity of contemporary individuality.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 23-11-09 (grad tildelt)Read more about: ‘The Great Health of Melancholy – A Study of the Pathologies of Performativity’
”Collaborative R&D Capabilities: In Search of Micro-Foundations”
Line Gry Knudsen|
In many firms R&D collaboration is seen as an important mean to foster opportunities to learn, and to access, transfer and utilize knowledge to create innovative solutions. Yet, in spite of the adduced virtues of R&D collaboration high failure rates are often reported in inter-firm alliances. Thus, a better understanding of the internal organizational mechanisms that facilitate the collaborative processes are needed. How, we may ask, are specific collaborative capabilities developed to ensure collaborative success, and what is their composition in terms of organizational and individual level factors? This thesis addresses these and related questions.
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”Living the brand” som en brandorienteret dialogisk praxis: Om udvikling af medarbejdernes brandorienterede dømmekraft
Dorte Hermansen|
Hvordan kan servicevirksomheder få deres medarbejdere til at leve brandet ud? Det spørgsmål besvares i en dialog mellem praksis og teori. Arbejdet med at få medarbejderne til at leve brandet ud i TDC A/S diskuteres og analyseres i lyset af den fænomenologisk-hermeneutiske filosofi hos Gadamer, Arendt og Bakhtin. Dialogen mellem praksis og teori åbner op for en ny forståelse af ”living the brand” som udvikling af medarbejdernes brandorienterede dømmekraft, der kræver nye tilgange til intern branding. og der peges på den sokratiske dialoggruppe-metode som en mulig interventionsproces i den organisatoriske kontekst.
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The Business of Co-creation and the Co-creation of Business
Maja Lotz
Danish manufacturing companies collaborate and compete in a global environment characterized by relentless change and high ambiguity. In response firms have developed increasingly complex collaborative interdependencies within and among organizations. These collaborations call for (and enable) organizational members to engage in ongoing distributed search for co-creative innovations. The dissertation studies this poorly understood process, exploring how people in Danish manufacturing companies co-create new work practices, roles, communing relationships and products in experimental ways.
The dissertation contributes to a micro-level understanding of the dynamics of co-creation in modern organizations asking: what and who co-create(s), and how does this operate in contemporary organizational life? It seeks to analyze and understand these firm dynamics of co-creation by focusing on the level of everyday work roles, "communing" and "work organizing practices" that generate a constant sense of belief and doubt thus helping organizational members to redefine existing work practices, learn and improve.
By illuminating the inner mechanisms (or relational dynamics) of these work organizing practices and how they allow for human and organizational growth, the study gives content to the notion of the so-called "learning organization" and offers some promising routes towards co-creating such organizational forms. It thus casts light on the Danish transformation process towards new organizational patterns of production, organizing and innovation able to meet (and prosper from) the demands of the global economy and the rising competitive pressures it brings.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 8. juli 2009Read more about: The Business of Co-creation and the Co-creation of Business
Narrative Construction of Leader Identity in a Leader Development Program Context
Gitte Petersen Jakobsen
With the increasing globalization, new organizational structures, and rapid change the leader has been increasingly individualized and personalized. The leader has been put under pressure to reveal a leadership, in which the personality of the individual leader is increasingly important. Moreover, the individual leader has become central for creating and communicating organizational meaning, and the leaders’ personal conduct, ethics and identity are taken to be symbolic of the organizational brand. This is reflected in a growing demand for leader development programs with a personal orientation, and psychological oriented development focused on the individual leaders’ personal challenges.
This dissertation explores the narrative construction of leader identity in the context of a leader development program, examining the processes and the content of identity work of leaders. Empirically five Danish executives from five different industries have been studied in a three year period. The narrative analytical framework illuminates the thematic, temporal and relational aspects of the five leaders’ narrative accounts. Hence, the analytical strategy analyzes the narrative recourses of: problem stories, preferred stories, and the negotiation of subject positions used by the five leaders in constructing certain situated leader identities. The dissertation contributes to critical management theory by specifying the thematic content of identity work, and by empirically identifying five paradoxes of the leader occupation. The dissertation argues that these paradoxes of the leader occupation are ingrained in the leader occupation by force of the western capitalist societal organizing of life, which positions the leaders as a mediator of paradoxical circumstance.
The dissertation concludes that leader practice is less of an intrinsic problem-solving task and more of a reflective practice embedded in social context. Hence, acknowledging that the leader occupation entails paradoxes that cannot be solved, but only reflectively managed and continuously balanced in interaction with actual leader practice.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 8. juli 2009Read more about: Narrative Construction of Leader Identity in a Leader Development Program Context
Forestillinger om kvalitet og tværfaglighed på sygehuse
Jens Albæk
Forestillinger om kvalitet og tværfaglighed på sygehuse. Skabelse af forestillinger i læge- og plejegrupperne angående relevans af nye idéer om kvalitetsudvikling gennem tolkningsprocesser
Afhandlingen tager udgangspunkt i tre eksempler på udvikling af kvaliteten af behandlingen på sygehusafdelinger i Danmark. De tre eksempler adskiller sig med hensyn til indhold og fremgangsmåde i udvikling af kvaliteten, og udgør derfor tre cases, der belyser kvalitetsudvikling ud fra hver sit organisatoriske perspektiv. Afhandlingens analytiske perspektiv baseres på skandinavisk nyinstitutionel teori, og fokuserer på betydningen af lægers, sygeplejerskers og andre aktørers tolkninger af og forestillinger om praksis og idéer til udvikling. Dette analytiske udgangspunkt er valgt med henblik på at kunne placere aktørernes tolkninger centralt i analysen. Forståelsen af aktørernes tolkninger ses som et fundament for gennemførelse af sygehusenes udviklingsprocesser.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 8. juli 2009Read more about: Forestillinger om kvalitet og tværfaglighed på sygehuse
Sense from Silence – A Basis for Organised Action?
Tine Murphy
Sense from Silence – A Basis for Organised Action? How do Sensemaking Processes with Minimal Sharing Relate to the Reproduction of Organised Action?
How do mutually dependent actors in the same formal organisation become motivated to continue to perform coordinated non-routine actions when shared articulated sensemaking is limited? This is explored through a study of a voluntary organisation of young tutors. The results indicate that ambiguous and limited shared articulation can in certain cases support rather than undermine organised action. This contrasts with mainstream sensemaking theory.
The thesis seeks to expand, deepen and vitalise sensemaking theory in resolving the paradox. It is suggested that because of the absence of shared articulated sensemaking the actors can continue to meet in the act of tutoring while they negotiate and take up diverse subject positions by actualising multiple arenas spanning the boundary of the formal organisation. Behavioural cues flowing between organisational members are found to play a significant role in each members sensemaking process.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 17. juni 2009Read more about: Sense from Silence – A Basis for Organised Action?
Inspirations for a new sociology of art
Sara Malou Strandvad
Inspirations for a new sociology of art. A sociomaterial study of development processes in the Danish film industry
Based on a multi case study this thesis looks into the development of film projects in the Danish film industry; how ideas are transformed into realizable projects. The thesis presents a theoretical framework which is centred on the emergent perspective of a new sociomaterial sociology of art. By incorporating the product as an active participant in cultural practices, the sociomaterial sociology of art identifies the co-production of cultural products and the social relations around them. The thesis aims to further this perspective by means of empirical analyses of the development of cultural products.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 17. juni 2009Read more about: Inspirations for a new sociology of art
Position and Reposition in Networks – Exemplified by the Transformation of the Danish Pine Furniture Manufacturers.
Salla Lutz
This PhD-project contributes to the enhanced understanding of how firms can change position in business networks. This is done by following three pine furniture manufacturers' transformation from own manufacturing activities to the purchases of ready-made furniture instead. The research indicates that in order to change position, amendments in a firm's role, relationships and capabilities are necessary. Moreover, change in a firm's position is also dependent on its ability to react upon change in terms of proactive versus reactive behaviour.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 7 maj 2009Read more about: Position and Reposition in Networks – Exemplified by the Transformation of the Danish Pine Furniture Manufacturers.
Tune in, Breakdown and Reboot – on the production of the self-managing employee
Michael Pedersen
The thesis focus on one particular feature in the on-going debate on occupational stress: how stress relates to the burgeoning interest in employees’ ability to activate and manage their subjectivity in ways that result in productive cooperation. In short how stress relates to self-management. However, the thesis argues that stress is more than an unfortunate pathology of particular features of self-management it also impacts what kind of employees we are expected to be when self-managing. The thesis suggest that being self-managing and stress-fit involve the ability of employees to tune in to a life of productivity without breaking-down their body and soul. In fact the potential break-down of stress should act as an internal limit for personal productivity. As a way of rebooting to an ever more efficient self-management. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s ontology of social machines the thesis analyze the nuts and bolts of this tune in, breakdown and reboot movement and suggest that we are dealing with a social machinery which produce assumptions about self-management and stress that centers on the individual rather than the collective as the preferred site of stress- intervention.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 7 april 2009Read more about: Tune in, Breakdown and Reboot – on the production of the self-managing employee
Wound Interrupted – On the Vulnerability of Diversity Management
Sara L. Muhr
Drawing on Levinasian ethics, the thesis is a critical investigation into the ethical foundations of diversity management. This field justifies its focus on differences by claiming it to be from an ethical wish to create equality and justice. Differences are then categorized and subordinated to guidelines and initiatives. But by focusing on the categorical differences, the initiatives often risk creating greater negative attention to minorities and thus even greater segregation. The thesis suggests a change in ethical perspective that shifts focus from categorization of difference to an exploration of otherness.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 7. april 2009Read more about: Wound Interrupted – On the Vulnerability of Diversity Management
De uvidende og de udviklingsparate
Trine Paludan
De uvidende og de udviklingsparate. Identitet som mulighed og restriktion blandt fabriksarbejdere på det aftayloriserede fabriksgulv
Afhandlingen udforsker identitetsmæssige paradokser blandt fabriksarbejdere. På baggrund af etnografiske metoder og med teoretisk inspiration fra Anthony Giddens, Judith Butler og ’SIT’ analyseres det højteknologiske og aftaylorisede danske fabriksgulv som en ’senmoderne identitetsscene’ – en skueplads hvor lokale kampe omkring samfundsmæssige forandringer i arbejdsidentitet, videnskrav og arbejdsetik udspilles i den daglige interaktion mellem ansatte.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 12. marts 2009Read more about: De uvidende og de udviklingsparate
Enabling Supply Networks with Collaborative Information Infrastructures
Chris Nøkkentved
This PhD Dissertation reports on a multi-year qualitative and quantitative study that explored the interdependency of business and technology in collaborative environments within companies’ supply networks, with the objective to identify transformation initiatives and contextual factors driving successful Business Model innovation enabled by IT Information Infrastructures. The analysis showed a significant causal relationship between initiatives and performance, yet mediated by IT-enablement and factors such as objectives, measurement and monitoring.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 12 marts 2009Read more about: Enabling Supply Networks with Collaborative Information Infrastructures
Public- Private Partnerships: Meaning and Practice
Guðrið Weihe
The dissertation unravels the conceptual perplexities that characterize the debate on public-private partnerships (PPPs). Weihe’s research provides a new understanding of how participants within PPPs develop relationships once contracts have been signed. Previous research on PPPs has been dominated by a concern with technical, legal and financial issues in the pre-contract phase. This dissertation provides a relational approach that provides a new typology of PPPs and fills in an important gap in the literature by specifying how PPPs operate in practice. As Weihe demonstrates, crucial to the management of PPPs in practice are participants’ perceptions of trust, reciprocity, joint decision-making processes, and performance.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 14 november 2008Read more about: Public- Private Partnerships: Meaning and Practice
Green and Fragile - A Study on Markets and the Natural Environment
Satu Reijonen
The thesis investigates construction of markets for environmentally friendly products by looking into environmental friendliness as a product quality in relation to a particular medical device, a urine bag. The role of environmental friendliness in the process of qualification of the product is followed in product development, marketing, procurement and use – as well as in other practices where the environmental friendliness of the product is at stake. Drawing on constructivist market studies, the dissertation shows environmental friendliness as a fragile product quality whose existence is negotiated in various locations. Furthermore, the modalities of relating environmental friendliness to other product qualities are analyzed.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 4. juli 2008Read more about: Green and Fragile - A Study on Markets and the Natural Environment
The Performative Power of Competence. An Inquiry into Subjectivity and Social Technologies at Work
Anders Bojesen
The thesis examines what it means to be competent in today's working practice. As its empirical foundation the thesis accounts for competence development processes in four public institutions: Biocentrum - DTU (DTU Biosys), Center for Videregaaende Uddannelse Storkoebenhavn (Centre for Higher Education, Copenhagen), Danmarks Miljoeundersoegelser (National Environmental Research Institute) and Vejdirektoratet (the Danish Road Directorate).*
The main argument of the thesis is that competence as concept and event cannot be contained; it does not hold an essence, rather it works through a performative power, which perpetually makes us seek the competent.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 4. juli 2008Read more about: The Performative Power of Competence. An Inquiry into Subjectivity and Social Technologies at Work
Holdning for handling - en etnologisk undersøgelse af virksomheders sociale ansvar
Anne Roepstorff
Anne K. Roepstorff undersøger i afhandlingen, hvordan Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) etablerer sig som begreb og praksis i internationale, dansk-baserede virksomheder og deres omverden. Med hendes kulturvidenskabelige og konstruktivistiske tilgang viser Roepstorff at CSR ikke er en veldefineret, fast størrelse; men at CSR etablerer sig løbende ved at blive italesat og praktiseret af forskellige aktører, ikke mindst virksomheder. Roepstorffs analyse bygger på et stort empirisk materiale af dokumenter, kvalitative interviews og længere etnografisk feltarbejde. På denne baggrund gennemgår hun hvorfor, hvad og hvordan virksomheder arbejder med CSR, og hvad dette arbejde har af konsekvens for virksomhedens praksis. Hun konkluderer at CSR på en og samme tid er uundgåelig og uoverskuelig; men at CSR er et centralt element i formning og definering af virksomheder i en moderne, globaliseret verden. Afhandlingen ”Holdning for Handling” bidrager på denne måde med interessante pointer og udfordringer til både kulturvidenskab, erhvervsøkonomi og CSR-feltet.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 27 maj 2008Read more about: Holdning for handling - en etnologisk undersøgelse af virksomheders sociale ansvar
Aesthetic Design as an Element of Service Innovation in New Technology-based Firms.
Marina Candi
Current international trends increase the pressure on the companies' supply chain in terms of speed, product diversity, integration etc. In this dissertation it is assumed these developments result in an increased need for risk management within supply chain management. Theories most often applied within the SCM domain are analysed against a number of supply chain risks - and against the chosen perspective on SCM. Empirically SCM and Supply Chain Risk Management practices are described in ten case studies of Danish manufacturing companies. Despite rejecting the 'Innovation Perspective' on SCM Innovation seems to play a role within Supply Chain Risk Management
Date for obtained PhD degree: 8 maj 2008Read more about: Aesthetic Design as an Element of Service Innovation in New Technology-based Firms.
Teknologi og tværfaglighed - en analyse af diskussionen omkring indførelse af EPJ på en hospitalsafdeling.
Morten Schnack
I afhandlingen analyseres den elektroniske patientjournals (EPJ’s) mulige betydning for konstitutionen af det tværfaglige samarbejde mellem læger og sygeplejersker. En konstitution, der bl.a. kommer til udtryk i de måder, læger og sygeplejersker italesætter sig selv og hinanden på, og i de problemer og løsningshorisonter, der tilbydes. EPJ er en anledning, der er bestemmende både for ledelsens egne muligheder for handlen, dvs. ledelsens muligheder for at lede, og for de muligheder for handlen, de professionelle (lægerne og sygeplejerskerne) har at kæmpe om i bestræbelserne på at sikre den mest fordelagtige organisering af arbejdsgange og opgavefordelinger.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 8 maj 2008Read more about: Teknologi og tværfaglighed - en analyse af diskussionen omkring indførelse af EPJ på en hospitalsafdeling.
Management Consulting in Action. Value creation and ambiguity in client-consultant relations.
Irene Skovgaard Smith
The PhD thesis is an empirically based study of management consulting in the context of two assignments undertaken by two Danish consulting firms. The assignments were characterised by extensive consultant involvement in change implementation and engagement with a range of managers and employees in the client organisation. The thesis explores patterns of how the consultants and what they do are experienced and defined by these different internal actors in the two client organisations. The purpose is to show how consultants become positioned in the social contexts they enter and what opportunities and limitations this position creates.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 8 maj 2008Read more about: Management Consulting in Action. Value creation and ambiguity in client-consultant relations.
Kampen om telefonen. Det danske telefonvæsen under den tyske besættelse 1940-1945.
Mark Mau
Den tyske besættelse af Danmark 1940-45 ramte det danske telefonvæsen midt i en omfattende organisatorisk ombrydningsproces der kunne have ført fra en blandet privat-statslig driftsfrom til ren statsdrift under P&T. Denne afhandling viser, hvordan P&T’s og de danske telefonselskabers reaktioner på den tyske besættelsesmagts krav og ønsker forskubbede magtforholdene i telefonvæsenet til fordel for telefonselskaberne. Besættelsen sikrede dermed på afgørende vis telefonselskabernes eksistens op til 1980’erne.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 14 december 2007Read more about: Kampen om telefonen. Det danske telefonvæsen under den tyske besættelse 1940-1945.
Differing perceptions of customer value.
Lars Mikkelsen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2007Read more about: Differing perceptions of customer value.
Spaces for learning and working:
Heidi Lund Hansen
A qualitative study of the change of work, management, power and social practices in open offices.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2007Read more about: Spaces for learning and working:
Discipline in the Global Economy. Panopticism and the Post-Washington Consensus.
Jacob Vestergaard
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2007Read more about: Discipline in the Global Economy. Panopticism and the Post-Washington Consensus.
Evaluative Technologies: Quality and the Multiplicity of Performance.
Tobias Lindeberg
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2007Read more about: Evaluative Technologies: Quality and the Multiplicity of Performance.
A Different Story – Seduction, Conquest and Discovery
Finn Janning
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: A Different Story – Seduction, Conquest and Discovery
Early Phases of Corporate Venturing
Christian Vintergaard
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: Early Phases of Corporate Venturing
Volatile Visions: Transactions in Anticipatory Knowledge
Cynthia Selin
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: Volatile Visions: Transactions in Anticipatory Knowledge
The Discursive Constitutions on Organizational Governance – Between unity and Differentiation.
Thomas Nicolai Pedersen
The case of the Governance of environmental risks by Word Bank environmental staff
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: The Discursive Constitutions on Organizational Governance – Between unity and Differentiation.
Et praksisbaseret perspektiv på dynamisk læringsnettverk i topidretten
Kjell Åge Gotvasli
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: Et praksisbaseret perspektiv på dynamisk læringsnettverk i topidretten
REMERGER - skabende ledelseskræfter i fusion og opkøb
Gitte Nielsen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: REMERGER - skabende ledelseskræfter i fusion og opkøb
Linking Healthcare – An Inquiry into the changing performances of web based technology for asthma monitoring
Henriette Langstrup Nielsen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: Linking Healthcare – An Inquiry into the changing performances of web based technology for asthma monitoring
Finding a Path – Labour market Life Stories of Immigrant Professionals
Anika Liversage
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2006Read more about: Finding a Path – Labour market Life Stories of Immigrant Professionals
Making space – An outline of place branding
Søren Buhl Pedersen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Making space – An outline of place branding
A.s erfaring – Om mellemværendets praktik i en transformation af mennesket og subjektiviteten
Christine Mølgaard
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: A.s erfaring – Om mellemværendets praktik i en transformation af mennesket og subjektiviteten
Mellem Konflikt og konsensus – Dialogudvikling på hospitalsklinikker
Helle Hedegaard Hein
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Mellem Konflikt og konsensus – Dialogudvikling på hospitalsklinikker
Styring af kommunale forvaltninger
Rigmor Lond
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Styring af kommunale forvaltninger
The TDF-PMI Case – Making Sense of the Dynamics of Business Relationships and Networks
Jens Geersbro
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: The TDF-PMI Case – Making Sense of the Dynamics of Business Relationships and Networks
Egos and Ethics of Management Consultants
Marianne Thejls Ziegler
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Egos and Ethics of Management Consultants
Ledelse i fællesskab – De tillidsvalgtes fornyende rolle
Birgit Rasmussen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Ledelse i fællesskab – De tillidsvalgtes fornyende rolle
De gjorde Danmark større… Danske entreprenører i krise og krig 1919-1947
Steen Andersen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: De gjorde Danmark større… Danske entreprenører i krise og krig 1919-1947
Institutional Genesis: Micro-Dynamic Foundations of Institutional Change
Eva Boxenbaum
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Institutional Genesis: Micro-Dynamic Foundations of Institutional Change
Gentagelsens Metamorfose – om organisering af den kreative gøren i den kunstneriske arbejdspraksis
Susanne Dee Pedersen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Gentagelsens Metamorfose – om organisering af den kreative gøren i den kunstneriske arbejdspraksis
Differences that matter – An analysis of practices of gender and organizing in contemporary workplaces
Camilla Funk Ellehave
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2005Read more about: Differences that matter – An analysis of practices of gender and organizing in contemporary workplaces
Organisasjonsidentitet. En teoretisk og empirisk studei av endring i organisasjonsidentitete
Stein Valstad
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Organisasjonsidentitet. En teoretisk og empirisk studei av endring i organisasjonsidentitete
Den sosiale konstruksjon av aktører og organisasjonsoppskrifter ved Aker Verdal 1971-2002
Harald Ness
En institutsjonell analyse av import og eksport av organisasjonsoppslrifter ved en offshorebedrift
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Den sosiale konstruksjon av aktører og organisasjonsoppskrifter ved Aker Verdal 1971-2002
Sociale partnerskaber
Jeanet Hardis
Et socialkonstruktivistisk casestudie af partnerskabsaktørers virkelighedsopfattelse mellem identitet og legitimitet
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Sociale partnerskaber
Work System Transformation: Factory re-organisation in Multinational Companies
Robson Silva Rocha
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Work System Transformation: Factory re-organisation in Multinational Companies
Controversy and Collectivity
Maja Horst
Articulations of Social and Natural Order in Mass Meditated Representations of Biotechnology
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Controversy and Collectivity
Virksomheder i samtale med samfundet – Udviklingen i Shell’s identitet fra Rio til Johannesburg
Lise Backer
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Virksomheder i samtale med samfundet – Udviklingen i Shell’s identitet fra Rio til Johannesburg
LIKENESS – A Philosophical Investigation
Thomas Basbøll
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: LIKENESS – A Philosophical Investigation
Beslutningens vaklen – En systemteoretisk analyse af moderniseringen af et amtskommunalt sundhedsvæsen 1980-2000
Morten Knudsen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Beslutningens vaklen – En systemteoretisk analyse af moderniseringen af et amtskommunalt sundhedsvæsen 1980-2000
De Profesjonelle i endring
Knut Arne Hovdal
– En analyse av de profesjonelles konstruksjon av identitet i relasjon til ledelse administration og innbyggerne i Forsta kommune i perioden 1997-1999
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: De Profesjonelle i endring
Industriel forskningsledelse – på sporet af mønstre og samarbejde i danske forskningsintensive virksomheder
Lars Frode Frederiksen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Industriel forskningsledelse – på sporet af mønstre og samarbejde i danske forskningsintensive virksomheder
Business Perspectives on e-learning
Jakob Rasmussen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Business Perspectives on e-learning
The Governance of GN Great Nordic – in an age of strategic and structural transitions 1939-88
Martin Iversen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: The Governance of GN Great Nordic – in an age of strategic and structural transitions 1939-88
Making Events work – Or how to Multiply Your Crisis
Bent Meier
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Making Events work – Or how to Multiply Your Crisis
Markedets politiske fornuft – Et studie af velfærdsorganisering i perioden 1990-2003
Holger Højlund
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2004Read more about: Markedets politiske fornuft – Et studie af velfærdsorganisering i perioden 1990-2003
Demarcation Lines and Boundary Objects: Scientific Balancing Acts in Molecular Microbiology
Julie Sommerlund
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Demarcation Lines and Boundary Objects: Scientific Balancing Acts in Molecular Microbiology
Patientforløb i praksis – analyse af en idés oversættelse i mødet med praksis
John Kaare Damm Scheuer
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Patientforløb i praksis – analyse af en idés oversættelse i mødet med praksis
Mangfoldighedens dilemmaer – Hvad livshistorier fortæller om identitet, arbejde og integration
Lars Nellemann Thisted
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Mangfoldighedens dilemmaer – Hvad livshistorier fortæller om identitet, arbejde og integration
Arrangements of Knowing
Niels Christian Nickelsen
Coordinating Procedures Tools and Bodies in Industrial Production – a case study of the collective making of new products
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Arrangements of Knowing
Becoming a company – Narrative temporalities in new start ups
Sami Boutaiba
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Becoming a company – Narrative temporalities in new start ups
Electronic Patient Records and Medical Practice
Signe Svenningsen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Electronic Patient Records and Medical Practice
Organization and Reorganization of Medical Work in Hospitals
Sidsel Vinge
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Organization and Reorganization of Medical Work in Hospitals
Partnering mellom foretak
Øystein Rennemo
en studie av organiseringen av partering og en analyse av resjonalitetens rolle i denne prosessen
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2003Read more about: Partnering mellom foretak
DJØFernes kompetencer og kompetenceudvikling
Bent Gringer
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2002Read more about: DJØFernes kompetencer og kompetenceudvikling
Strategy Formation From a Loosely Coupled Perspective. The Case of Fjordland
Fred Strønen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2002Read more about: Strategy Formation From a Loosely Coupled Perspective. The Case of Fjordland
Målstyret ledelse
Niels Thyge Thygesen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2002Read more about: Målstyret ledelse
The war Machines of Madness A transversal Inquiry into The Sectored Psychiatry in Denmark
Peter Engelschmidt
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2002Read more about: The war Machines of Madness A transversal Inquiry into The Sectored Psychiatry in Denmark
To lead from a distance:
Anne Marie Jess Hansen
The dynamic interplay between strategy and strategizing – A case study of the strategic management process
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2002Read more about: To lead from a distance:
The Deleuzian Other of Organizational Change – Moving Perspectives of the Human
Peter Lohmann
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2002Read more about: The Deleuzian Other of Organizational Change – Moving Perspectives of the Human
To Create Predictability in a World of Change
Eirik J. Irgens
A Study of continuity, change and ideology in a hyperturbulent organization
Read more about: To Create Predictability in a World of Change
Development at Work – emerging practices in integrated rural development in Cambodia
Morten Schmidt
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2001Read more about: Development at Work – emerging practices in integrated rural development in Cambodia
Begær & Kærlighed – Menneske og læring i New Telecom World
Per Lindved Madsen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2001Read more about: Begær & Kærlighed – Menneske og læring i New Telecom World
Kompetence-i-praksis
Pia Bramming
En udforskning af, hvordan kompetence-i-praksis kan begrebliggøres og studeres med henblik på at forstå hvordan kpmpetence-i-praksis vurderes.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2001Read more about: Kompetence-i-praksis
The doctrine of rationality and its behavioral challenges
Mie Augier
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2001Read more about: The doctrine of rationality and its behavioral challenges
Mobilitet og bæredygtighed – miljømål og styringsmidler i transportsektoren
Henrik Gudmundsson
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 2001Read more about: Mobilitet og bæredygtighed – miljømål og styringsmidler i transportsektoren
The Affect of Embeddedness on Strategic Action
Claus Nygaard Jørgensen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 1999Read more about: The Affect of Embeddedness on Strategic Action
Knowledge Assimilation. A case Study of Learning & co-operation between Communities of Practice
Kristina Lee ATV
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 1999Read more about: Knowledge Assimilation. A case Study of Learning & co-operation between Communities of Practice
Cooperation, Confrontation and Change
Lars Engberg-Pedersen
Under udarbejdelse.
Date for obtained PhD degree: 1998Read more about: Cooperation, Confrontation and Change
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