Copenhagen Business School

About: Copenhagen Business School is a education organization based out in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Context (language use). The organization has 2194 authors who have published 9649 publications receiving 341898 citations.

Certify Sustainable Aquaculture

Abstract: Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic organisms, provides close to 50% of the world's supply of seafood, with a value of U.S. $125 billion. It makes up 13% of the world's animal-source protein (excluding eggs and dairy) and employs an estimated 24 million people ( 1 ). With capture (i.e., wild) fisheries production stagnating, aquaculture may help close the forecast global deficit in fish protein by 2020 ( 2 ). This so-called “blue revolution” requires addressing a range of environmental and social problems, including water pollution, degradation of ecosystems, and violation of labor standards.

Determinants of lean success and failure in the Danish public sector: A negotiated order perspective

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of lean implementation in Danish public sector organisations. It is proposed to structure the paper around a theoretical model based on a negotiated order perspective.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on interviews with 29 managers and employees from Danish public sector organisations who have been involved in the planning and implementation of lean projects over the past few years.Findings – The paper identifies a number of factors within the structural context and the negotiation context which are deemed important for the fate of lean projects in the public sector.Originality/value – The qualitative study brings new insights into the debate on the barriers and success factors in the lean transformation process in the public sector.

The flexible firm: strategies for a subcontractor’s management control

Abstract: A ‘‘flexible firm’’ is one which orients itself towards customers, new technology, lateral organisational arrangements and innovation. It is the ‘‘new organisation’’ where the customers and empowered employees—rather than organisational bureaucracy and capital markets—are said to govern the firm. BusinessPrint is a firm committed to flexibility. However, what flexibility is, how it is achieved and what its eAect is on the firm’s profitability are diAcult to resolve as flexibility may conflict with productivity. In BusinessPrint, flexibility is debated against two modes of management control: one is the ‘‘virtual organisation’’ and the other is the ‘‘political organisation’’. The former is predicated upon the possibility to inscribe not only the firm’s internal production processes but also its relations to customers and subcontractors in an information system and to let that inscription organise inter-organisational spaces of flows. In contrast, the latter is mobilised via labour processes in local places designed to motivate workers to show unconditional adaptability and improvisation in production activities. # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Facilitating knowledge sharing in Russian and Chinese subsidiaries: the role of personal networks and group membership

Abstract: The unprecedented escalation in the number of organizations that have decided to internationalize their operations in the last two decades, and the international movement of labor that has accompanied such expansion has meant that understanding the process of knowledge sharing within subsidiary operations has become an issue of increasing importance. Where the cultural distance between home and host nations is great, as it is between Western industrialized economies and the transition economies of the (former) Communist nations, there is even greater saliency for achieving effective knowledge sharing if its potential value for gaining organizational competitive advantage is to be harnessed. In examining knowledge sharing in Russia and China, this paper specifically addresses how group membership and personal networking in these countries facilitate and impede knowledge sharing. Ultimately, the paper provides important insights for Western managers about how to work with the national compositions to optimize knowledge sharing in their subsidiary operations in Russia and China.

The Economic Geography of Offshoring: The Fit between Activities and Local Context

Abstract: We draw from the literature on economic geography and from the thematic offshoring literature, and propose three hypotheses that rest on the assumption that the choice of offshoring location is based on the fit between the attributes of different destinations and the attributes of the offshored business activities. The study reveals a multi-faceted location pattern in which firms' location strategies, to some degree, follow a logic whereby manufacturing is relocated to low-cost destinations, and research and development is relocated to high-cost destinations. However, the picture is more nuanced when distinguishing between standardized and advanced activities. Asia attracts as many advanced activities as Western Europe while North America attracts more advanced activities even in manufacturing. Central and Eastern Europe attract offshoring in manufacturing and IT, but the activities that are offshored to these regions are typically not advanced. One important theoretical implication of this study is that a more detailed understanding of the nature of offshored activities is needed, since such attributes appear to be an important determinant of location choice.