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- Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, 1967, et al.
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The sustainability and serendipity of SCANCOR
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Ingår i: Nordiske organisasjonsstudier. - 1501-8237. ; 15:4, s. 23-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the question of what it takes to build a research institute. This is exemplified by the development of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR). SCANCOR is conceptualized as an ”agencement”, that is to say, as a hybrid collective of people, perspectives, place and material devices that together have a capacity to act. We focus on three spatial domains of particular importance for building and stabilizing, both figuratively and literally, SCANCOR. Over time SCANCOR has morphed from a handful of people tied together through mutual intellectual interests and letters of invitation to visit James G. March to a formal entity with an organizational charter, web page, membership and payment rules, a distinct visual presence and a growing number of people labeled visiting scholars. Although the interweaving of ideas, spatiality, materiality and action SCANCOR has stabilized as a research entity well worth visiting, it is vulnerable in the sense that its attractiveness depends on a continued flow of visiting scholars who bring and develop new ideas, and then take these ideas back home. Even though the place allows for a gentle programming of scholarly interaction and collaboration, the ways in which these unfold are serendipitous.
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- Knights, David, et al.
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Rethinking Diversity in Organizations
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Ingår i: the 22th NFF conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, 21-23 August, 2013. On Practice and Knowledge Eruptions.. - 2298-3112.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Koch, Christian, 1958, et al.
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Scandinavian engineering consultants doing offshoring engineering – new forms of knowledge and service sourcing
- 2013
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Ingår i: Conference Proceedings 22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference. - 2298-3112.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Offshoring, a strategy of transferring activities across national borders, is becoming increasing attractive for engineering consulting firms operating in Europe. The consulting companies are knowledge based and continually struggle creating and maintaining knowledge intensive processes and organisations. They may experience lack of skilled personnel and or an increasing pressure on costs. Moreover countries like India offers highly qualified engineers at a relative low pay.The aim of this contribution is to investigate Scandinavian based consulting engineers’ experiences using offshoring. A host of possible organizational forms can be used to source knowledge globally. It can encompass a single project, but can be a profound collaboration and encompass a strategic transformation of the Scandinavian firm.Theoretically the paper builds on international business, knowledge intensive professional services and strategic management approaches. A literature study on offshoring in general and a compilation of studies of engineering offshoring shows that offshoring involve significant strategic choices beyond single project endeavours. The empirical method is combining desk research of the 30 largest consulting engineering companies in Denmark, Sweden and Norway with two case studies of a long term commitment and a project based. The firm strategies in using offshoring are differentiated; in house, outsource, offshore, and captive local investment. Even within the project frame, trust, communication and proper (soft) management are important and in the project studied the communication is hampered and extra resources used for basic knowledge accumulation, such as knowledge related to the building code used in Sweden. The company with long term commitment on the other hand have modified its overall strategy to incorporate a ever increasing element of offshoring in their business.The results thus show that a transactional approach to the collaboration is insufficient and that the offshoring firm can be seriously challenged in its strategy when trying to enable knowledge integration.
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- Ladhe, Tobias, et al.
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Introducing the Platform Business Model Canvas: Adapting an existing business model conceptualization to challenging institutional logic
- 2013
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Ingår i: 22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Reykjavik 21-23 August. - 2298-3112.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to adapt an existing business model conceptualization to a challenging institutional logic. The business model conceptualization used is that of Osterwalder (2004), and the challenging institutional logic is that of platform strategies within the IT industry. The adaptation is discussed in line with the significant differences to business model conceptualizations that challenging institutional logic infers. The findings show that while six out of the nine building blocks remain largely unchanged, substantial adaption of the blocks “Value proposition”, “Channels” and “Customer relationships” is necessary. This adaption of the conceptualization is argued to be necessary in order for the business model to acknowledge and handle value that is co-created.
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- Pessi, Kalevi, 1957, et al.
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Managing Alignment in Enterprise Architecture: Four Essential Dimensions
- 2013
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Ingår i: 22nd Nordic Academy of Management Conference. - 2298-3112.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Facing the complexities of environmental contingencies and increasingly interdependent business relationships, more and more organisations look to Enterprise Architecture as a means to manage its resources. Yet the guidance offered by research as well as practice is insufficient as the tools presented are suitable for the homogeneous system rather than the heterogeneous enterprise. This is particularly true of alignment where research and practice seem preoccupied solely with aligning IT with business strategy rather than the enterprise as a whole. In an effort to develop the concept of architectural alignment, we draw upon a rich heritage of IS research in formulating and rationalising four essential dimensions of alignment. We perceive the relationship between the business architecture and IS-architecture as comprised of four dimensions: Functional alignment, structural alignment, socio-cultural alignment and infological alignment. While other dimensions may be justified, we emphasise that these four dimensions are essential to a sound, value-based architecture. This paper thereby contributes to establishing a more multidimensional view of alignment as applied to Enterprise Architecture.
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- Torfason, Asgeir B., 1972
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Kings of cash - Actual flow and accounted flow in banks
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Ingår i: NFF Conference Proceedings, Nordic Academy of Management, conference in Reykjavik. University of Iceland Reykjavík, 21-23 August, 2013. - 2298-3112. ; 2013:31.34
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Vast majority of the biggest bankruptcies in the world are banks or financial institutions. On the current top-ten list, all the firms have gone bankrupt during the first decade of the millennium, and the biggest one, Lehman brothers investment bank in 2008 was for example ten times the size of the Enron bankruptcy in 2001, measured as total assets. This increase in both the size of the bankruptcies and the dominance of financial firms indicate serious problems in the global financial system that demands further analysis. The European banking system has been under severe liquidity constraints during the last years and banks are still reluctant to lend to each other internationally. The liquidity and cash flow numbers are difficult to make comparable and a common language for the financial communication of financial institutions is lacking. Many Nordic banks went through local financial crisis in the 1990s but during the global financial crisis ongoing since 2007 most of the big ones avoided serious problems, (excluding the Icelandic banks). The accounting statements of Scandinavian banks were selected as study objects in this research. It investigates the accounting in banks through four aspects; the international accounting framework, historical data, financial reports and the bankers view on the statement of cash flow. The aim is to make sense of the reported cash flow numbers in the banking sector. The study describes flow of cash in Scandinavia’s biggest banks over fourteen years period to show failures in the existing international accounting standard for cash flow statements and concludes with an urgent need for a new and special accounting regime for banks. It will have to be based on transparency of the internal financial situation in banks and demands accountability of the bankers.
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- Torfason, Asgeir B., 1972
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Methods for Making Sense of Cash Flow in Banks : NFF 2013, Nordic Academy of Management, conference in Reykjavik
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Ingår i: NFF Conference Proceedings, Reykjavik, Island, August 21-23, 2013. - 2298-3112. ; 2013:18.07
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- From its start in August 2007 the financial crisis has been complicated to analyze and difficult to explain using the financial accounting information published in annual reports of financial firms like banks. Accounting is often said to be the language of business but something was missing in this communication. Most of the financial statements looked fine, even during the first year of the crisis until September 2008, when the world suddenly changed. The financial communication collapsed and it became apparent that no common language for finance existed – the world’s economy stopped. To investigate why the global finance system almost meltdown, multiple methods are required. The complexity of these events is large and the unpreparedness of specialists in the fields of finance is perplexing. Emphasis in the debate has been on debt and the balance sheet of banks but less focus has been put on banks’ cash flow statements. This is surprising, because cash flow statements are prepared to illustrate financial strength and liquidity of a firm, by providing additional information about operations, investment and financing activity. Two of the four big banks in Sweden nearly collapsed in 2008, but they survived and are now going strong. The other two were in 2011 ranked among the most secure banks in the world. The accounting statements of big banks in Scandinavia were thought to be a good sample for the analysis of the functioning of the cash flow. The possibility to interview senior bankers in the biggest banks in the Nordic countries provided unique insight for interpretation of the financial numbers in order to get explanation of the cash flow issues in banks. The overall research question of the thesis became: Why are cash flow statements of banks not used? And the underlying questions regarded: How does, or can, the cash flow statement in banks fulfill its functions or purpose? Why are the cash flow numbers negative? What is used instead of the cash flow? The research is broken down in four studies focusing on the cash flow standard, comment letters on the standard, financial statements in Scandinavian banks and interviews there. This paper describes different methods used and how they contributed to concluding the research.
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