BUSINESS NEWS DECEMBER 2013

BUSINESS NEWS DECEMBER 2013 DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT AAU Project management: Multi-perspective leadership Bevilling til CIP projekt om social kapital Ph.D Course Profil af forskningsgruppen ved revisorkandidatstudiet Nyt tidsskrift fra CREBS The award that did not make it all the way Book publication annoncement L&E-Award for the best article of the year A quest to (re) define unversity autonomy Bevilling på 450.000 kr. til IKE-medlemmer

BEVILLING TIL PROJEKT OM SOCIAL KAPITAL BEVILLING TIL CIP S PROJEKT OM SOCIAL KAPITAL PÅ HOSPITALER AF MARIANNE G. JUST CIP har fået en bevilling på 2.380.560 kr til et projekt om social kapital på hospitaler i Region Hovedstaden. Projektet består af to dele, hvor CIP er ansvarlig for den ene del (et kvalitativt projekt), mens Folkesundhed på KU står for den anden del. Projektet gennemføres af Center for Industriel Produktion (CIP) (projektansvarlig) i et samarbejde med Region Hovedstaden (RH). Fra CIP deltager Peter Hasle, professor og projektleder, Anders Paarup Nielsen, lektor samt Post Doc forsker Thim Prætorius. Projektet forløber over 36 måneder og slutter til august 2016. Målsætningen for projektet er at afdække, hvordan social kapital kan bidrage til at forbedre trivsel, kvalitet og effektivitet på hospitaler i hovedstaden. Region Hovedstaden har de seneste år gennemført en række lokale projekter med fokus på udvikling af social kapital. Projektdeltagerne rapporterer typisk om positive erfaringer, men der foreligger ingen systematiske analyser af hvilke metoder og redskaber, der faktisk fører til udvikling af social kapital med positiv påvirkning af trivsel, kvalitet og effektivitet. En prioritering af social kapital resulterer bl.a. i en tværgående opsamling af erfaringer med social kapital som et centralt virkemiddel i organisatoriske udviklingsprocesser. Dette projekt gennemfører denne erfaringsopsamling i et forskningsmæssigt design, således at størst mulig kvalitet og anvendelighed af resultaterne sikres. Hovedelementet er et kvalitativt casestudie af konkrete erfaringer med at styrke kerneopgaven gennem øget social kapital. Resultater danner grundlag for at udarbejde et katalog over muligheder for at udvikle den sociale kapital på hospitaler, således at kerneopgaven løses på en effektiv måde til gavn for medarbejdere og patienter. Kataloget vil bestå i konkrete anvisninger (en værktøjskasse) på, hvordan man forbedrer samarbejdet, og dermed øger den social kapital og opnår en bedre opgaveløsning. Disse anvisninger vil både bygge på de internationale videnskabelige resultater og resultaterne fra de dyberegående casestudier. For yderligere oplysninger om projektet kontakt: Peter Hasle Mail: hasle@business.aau.dk Tlf: 9940 3008 2

PH.D COURSE 12-16 MAY, 2014 FINLAND PH.D COURSE BY ROMEO V. TURCAN The process of theorizing and theory building in management research Course date: 12-16 May, 2014 Venue: Oulu University, Finland Credit: 5 ECTS Website: http://www.tbrp.aau.dk/phd-course/ Registration deadline: 11 April, 2014 This PhD course aims to acquaint the PhD students with the process of theorizing and theory building in management research. We start from the premise that it is critical for PhD students to master the process of theorizing and theory development from the extant knowledge and empirical data quite early in their Doctoral studies. By the end of the course the PhD students will have gained skills and knowledge in (a) gaining sensitivity to theoretical development during the literature review process, and (b) analyzing and theorizing from qualitative data. This PhD course attracts PhD students in their first eighteen months of the doctoral programme on the basis of the common issue they face, i.e., how to theorize and build theory in management research. 1 To start the application procedure, please go to application section on the course website. Participation fee is 250 EUR. The fee will cover costs related to, for example, lunches, coffee breaks, two dinners, and course material. Each participant is responsible for his/her own travel and accommodation. The course is co-sponsored by the Oulu Business School and Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics. The PhD Course is a programme run jointly by Aalborg University (AAU, Denmark), Oulu University (OULU, Finland), and Halmstad University (HH, Sweden) on a rotating basis. 1 Priority is given to PhD students in their 18 months of their studies; PhD students beyond that time frame may also apply but their acceptance will be subject to the number of priority students. 3

THE EUNIAM PROJECT A QUEST TO (RE)DEFINE UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY BY VALERIA GULIEVA, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, EUNIAM PROJECT The EUniAM (Enhancing University Autonomy in Moldova) project held an international conference A Quest to (Re)Define University Autonomy on November 21-22, 2013. The conference was organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Education of Republic Moldova and was hosted by the Technical University of Moldova. The Minister of Education of Moldova, Maia Sandu (picture 1, right), welcomed the participants to the conference and shared her views on the importance of enhancing the university autonomy in Moldova and appreciated the support the EUniAM project is providing in this reform. Among other things, Maia Sandu pointed to autonomy, social responsibility, accountability, integrity, and efficiency as key indicators that shape or redefine today s universities. The conference hosted two key-note speakers, John Reilly of University of Kent, and Erik de Graaff of Aalborg University. John Reilly gave a lecture on university governance structures that ought to encourage closer scrutiny of accountability, size, composition (membership), responsibilities, appropriate relations between leaders, senior managers and governing bodies. (picture 1, left). Erik de Graaff presented the Aalborg PBL model and shared AAU experience in implementing it and its outcomes and implications in the context of university autonomy. Both speeches stimulated long discussions. The conference gathered approximately 30 speakers from Denmark, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Sweden, and UK and just over 100 attendees from various academic and other public institutions in Moldova (picture 2). Picture 1 Picture 2 4

THE EUNIAM PROJECT CONTINUED... The Aalborg University was represented by Erik de Graaff, Birgitte Gregersen, Valeria Gulieva, Olav Jull Sørensen, Romeo V. Turcan, and Witold Szwebs (pictures 3 and 4). Picture 3 Picture 4 such as organizational, financial, staffing and academic autonomy at eight parallel tracks: Track 1. Evolution of University Autonomy in the European Union: Current Challenges and Future Directions Track 2. Current Challenges and Future Directions in University Internationalization Track 3. Current Issues and Challenges in Staffing Autonomy Track 4. The Role of Students in University Governance and Quality Assurance Track 5. Governing and Managing a Modern University Track 6. Ensuring Academic Autonomy: Where does Research Funding Come from? Track 7. University and the Society: Collaboration with Business and beyond Track 8. Quality Issues of Higher Education and University Autonomy The conference proceedings and the program can be accessed at: http://www.euniam.aau.dk/international-conference/program-and-proceedings/. The speakers at the conference presented their papers and case studies addressing the relationship between various external and internal stakeholders of a modern university and university autonomy types, The EUniAM project is a structural measures project funded by Tempus. It seeks to contribute to the development and enrichment of education institutions and systems at the national level in the Republic of Moldova. More information about the project you may find at: www.euniam.aau.dk. 5

AWARD FOR YIMEI HU AND OLAV JULL SØRENSEN L&E-AWARD FOR BEST ARTICLE OF THE YEAR GOES TO.. BY NADIA NORDBERG NIELSEN PhD Yimei Hu and Professor Olav Jull Sørensen from the International Business Centre of our Department. The award for 2012 was announced and presented at the conference dinner of the annual conference of the Danish Management Academy at SDU, Dec. 1-2, 2013. The award was given for the article titled Open Innovation in Networks: Specifying Orchestration Capability for SMEs. It was published in the journal Ledelse og Erhvervsøkonomi, vol. 77, no. 2, 2012. This paper explores how a Danish SME successfully designs a two-level network organization, i.e. an open innovation networks with external partners, and an internal network organization that adopts market mechanism. Through an in-depth case study on the SME, the concept of orchestration capability was elaborated as the managerial role within a network organization. The paper has both practical and theoretical significance. The paper is part of Yimei Hu s PhD project and also an integral part of the Innovation Management programme under the Sino-Danish Center (SDC) in Beijing. Apart from the academic recognition, the award also includes a financial contribution. The award was presented by the Chief Editor of Ledelse & Erhvervsøkonomi, Professor Flemming Poulfeldt, CBS. 6

NEW BOOK BY SVETLA T. MARINOVA AND MARIN A. MARINOV BOOK PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT BY SVETLA T. MARINOVA This announcement brings to your attention the book Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals edited by Marin A Marinov and Svetla T Marinova that was published by Palgrave Macmillan on 19th November 2013. The book s web page is http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=703897 The global business area has witnessed a remarkable radical change. The recent spectacular rise of emerging economy multinationals sets numerous questions requiring explanation and understanding. Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals investigates cases of fast successful internationalization of emerging economy multinationals originating not only from big economic players such as China, India and Russia, but also from other successfully internationalizing emerging countries, namely South Africa and Poland. In terms of size, the firms vary from huge multinational firms such as Huawei, Tata and Gazprom, to really small high technology firms. The in-depth analysis conducted in this book leads to the indication of numerous novel directions for further theoretical expansion and new empirical research. The chapters in the book are: 1. Emerging Economy Multinationals: Successes and Challenges by Marin A Marinov and Svetla T Marinova 2. Alignment of Top-Down Pro-Internationalization Policies of Outward Foreign Direct Investment by Miguel Torres and Francisco de Lemos 3. Entry Motives, Psychic Effects and Post-Acquisition Strategies of Emerging Economy Multinationals in Developed Countries by Huu Le Nguyen and Jorma Larimo 4. Catching-Up by Chinese Multinational Firms Using Network Strategies by Ying Zhang 5. Outward Foreign Direct Investment from India: Tata Group in the Period 2000-2010 by Laura Rienda, Enrique Claver and Diego Quer 6. Foreign Expansion of Russian Firms Based on Natural Resources and Technology and Andrei Panibratov and Marina Latukha 7. Early Rapidly Internationalizing Small Firms from South Africa by Shingairai Grace Masango and Svetla T Marinova 8. Internationalization of Polish Firms via Foreign Direct Investment: A Multiple-Case Study Approach by Marian Gorynia, Jan Nowak, Piotr Trapczynski and Radoslaw Wolniak 9. The Rise of Emerging Economy Multinationals: Policy Responses of European Investment Promotion Agencies by Sergei Filippov 10. What the Future Holds by Marin A Marinov and Svetla T Marinova 7

BOOK PRESENTATIONS BY BENGT-ÅKE LUNDVALL AND MAX ROLFSTAM BOOK PRESENTATIONS BY MARIANNE G. JUST Thursday 21. November Jan Fagerberg and Bengt-Åke Lundvall presented the book Innovation Studies: Evolution and Future Challenges. The book covers 215 pages and it is published simultaneously as hardback, paperback and e-book by Oxford University Press. The book originates in a 2012 symposium held at the Utzon Centre, with financial support from the Obel Family Fund. The lead chapter is by Bengt-Åke Lundvall. Further contributors by the innovation scholars Richard Nelson, Giovanni Dosi, Carlota Perez, Luc Soete, Ed Steinmueller, Ben Martin, Edward Lorenz and Mariana Mazzucato. Thursday 12. December Max Rolfstam presented his book Public Procurement and Innovation Max Rolfstam examines the increasing emphasis on public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation and the teheoretical implications of this policy development. While regular public procurement may be regarded as the outcome of anonymous market processes, public procurement of innovation must be understood as a special case of innovation, where social processes - and consequently the instituttions governing these social processes - need to be considered. This book contributes to our understanding with a detailed institutional analysis of the public procurement of innovation. Quote from Edward Elgar Publishing (www.e-elgar.co.uk) 8

BEST PAPER AWARD - NEW BOOK IN ENGLISH ABOUT PROJEKT MANAGEMENT THE AWARD THAT DID NOT MAKE IT ALL THE WAY BY JESPER LINDGAARD CHRISTENSEN PROJEKT MANAGEMENT: MULTI-PERSPECTIVE LEADERSHIP AF JENS OVE RIIS Jesper Lindgaard Christensen presented in November a joint paper with Daniel Hain at the annual ISBE conference in the UK. The paper was on financial constraints for businesses and was well received, in fact won the Best Paper award in the track Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, and Regulation. A few years ago Barclays Bank generously sponsored a nice monetary prize, however, it is now a very heavy, some would say not very pretty, glass statuette. It is not clear if that affected the fact that Jesper was not sufficiently careful when bringing it back: When he presented the award to Daniel the morning after returning he could show a two-thirds piece of it plus a large number of smaller fractions. The authors hope it is not a sign of the future faith of the paper. The paper is based on survey data from the North Jutland business cycle indicator that the Department is running. After supplementing the paper with the data that will be collected in January they will revise the paper and submit it to Small Business Economics. Adjungeret professor, konsulent Hans Mikkelsen og professor emeritus Jens Ove Riis har fået oversat deres Grundbog i Projektledelse til engelsk bl.a. i lyset af, at adskillige kurser afholdes på engelsk. De har taget udgangspunkt i den seneste 10. udgave af grundbogen, men har ændret strukturen i de første kapitler. De bliver indledt med en gennemgang af få, centrale modeller, hvilket skulle gøre det lettere for nytilkomne at få en overkommelig introduktion. Sidste halvdel af kapitlerne diskuterer modellerne og indfører supplerende betragtninger. Titlen Project Management: Multi-perspective Leadership er valgt for at understrege en bred tilgang til projektledelse. Det er bl.a. afspejlet i deres portrætmodel med fire perspektiver. Endvidere markerer titlen en ledelsestilgang, f.eks. ved at behandle organisatorisk forandring og forankring, og ved at diskutere, hvordan projektledelse kan indgå som led i virksomhedsudvikling. Opdeling af bogen i en teoridel og en metodedel med en gennemgang af metoder og praktiske værktøjer er bibeholdt. 9 Bogen kan bestilles direkte på www.prodevo.dk eller e-mail: info@ prodevo.dk - eller gennem boghandelen. Anvendelse af bogen i undervisning kan støttes af hjemmesiden www.prodevo.dk, hvorfra centrale figurer fra bogen kan downloades. Endvidere er der opgaver og supplerende artikler.

BEVILLING TIL IKE-MEDLEMMER - NYT TIDSSKRIFT FRA CREBS - BLOGS OM ARTIKEL BEVILLING PÅ 450.000 TIL IKE-MEDLEMMER AF POUL HOUMAN ANDERSEN NYT TIDSSKRIFT - JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MODELS AF MARIANNE G. JUST Poul Houman Andersen og Ina Drejer fra IKE-gruppen har fået en bevilling på 450.000 kr. fra brancheforeningen Vindmølleindustrien til at udarbejde en analyse af forretningsvilkår og virksomhedsrelationer indenfor offshore vindenergi-området i Danmark. Analysen er en del af et større projekt i regi af Vindmølleindustrien, som er finansieret af Syddansk Vækstforum, og også omfatter forskere fra Syddansk Universitet. Analysen gennemføres sammen med Allan Næs Gjerding fra FIRM-gruppen. Undersøgelsen baserer sig blandt andet på cirka 15 interviews med virksomheder i forskellige dele af offshorenetværket og en kortlægning af videns- og handelsrelationer i blandt de cirka 300 virksomheder i Danmark, som er aktive inden for offshore vindenergi. Analysen forventes afsluttet i april 2014. Analysen skal bruges fremadrettet i brancheforeningens arbejde for at bidrage til kompetenceløft blandt især underleverandørvirksomheder inden for offshore vindenergi (gennem uddannelse og virksomhedsrådgivning) og til at identificere samarbejdsinitiativer, der kan styrke dansk konkurrenceevne på området yderligere. CREBS har fået et nyt tidsskrift Journal of Business Models. Se det her Referencer til artikel Både kommunikationsforum.dk og Medskaber.dk refererer i en blog til artiklen Did Intellectual Statements ever become an Institutionalized practice? Evidence from a decade of Intellectual Capital reporting in Denmark. Forfatterne til artiklen tæller Christian Nielsen, Robin Roslender og Stefan Schaper. Se blog en på Kommunikatiosnforum her Se blog en på Medskaber.dk her Datamaterialet forventes også at kunne anvendes i forskningsmæssigt i regi af IKE-gruppen. Undersøgelsen er den tredje i en række af undersøgelser, som Poul Houman Andersen og Ina Drejer har gennemført for Vindmølleindustrien siden 2006. 10

PROFIL AF EN FORSKNINGSGRUPPE PROFIL AF FORSKNINGSGRUPPEN VED REVISORKANSITATSTUDIET AF ERIK WERLAUFF Forskning og hovedfokus Forskningsgruppen ved Revisorkandidatstudiet (AUD) har hovedfokus på de emneområder, der har betydning for betjening af en erhvervsvirksomhed eller en offentlig myndighed med rådgivning, regnskab, revision, økonomistyring mv. Der er et betydeligt fokus på de tjenester, der ydes af en statsautoriseret revisor, men området omfatter også de funktioner, der udføres af en økonomichef, CFO, økonomimedarbejder, controller eller selvstændig konsulent. Etableringstidspunkt Forskningsgruppen er etableret i tiden siden begyndelsen af 2012, efter at professor, dr. jur. Erik Werlauff i oktober 2011 tiltrådte som studienævnsformand for Revisorkandidatstudiet. Undervisningstilknytning Forskningsgruppen har tilknytning til alle de fag, der undervises i på Revisorkandidatstudiet, dvs. rådgivning, eksternt regnskab, internt regnskab, revision, skatteret, erhvervsret (selskaber, finansiering og insolvens) økonomistyring, organisation samt en række specialfag (valgfag), som fx ansættelsesret, omstrukturering af virksomheder, generationsskifte, international skatteret, it-revision mv. selskabs-beskatning, finansiering, kontrakter, juridisk metode mv. Professor, ph.d. Liselotte Madsen beskatning af virksomheder og personer (associeret gruppen) Adjunkt, ph.d. Lone L. Hansen, advokat (L) HR, ansættelse, kollektiv arbejdsret, medbestemmelse, EU-regler, finansiering, juridisk metode mv. Seniorrådgiver, statsautoriseret revisor Hans Henrik Berthing revision og regnskab, it-regnskaber, danske og internationale revisions standarder mv. Ph.d.-stipendiat, cand. jur. Alex Fomcenco rådgivning, M&A, EU-selskabs- og virksomhedsret, internationale kontrakter mv. Ph.d.-stipendiat, cand. merc. aud. Allan Sort Dahl regnskab og revision, koncernregnskaber mv. Ph.d.-stipendiat, cand. merc. aud. Janne Adamsen regnskab og revision, bankers hensættelser på engagementer mv. Ph.d.-stipendiat, Gitte Søgaard, advokat koncernbegrebet, koncern regnskabet, selskaber, kreditaftaler, business development mv. Navne, titler og forskningsområder Forskningsgruppen ved Revisorkandidat-studiet består af: Professor, dr. jur. Erik Werlauff, advokat (H) selskaber, M&A, 11

PROFIL AF EN FORSKNINGSGRUPPE FORTSAT... Samarbejde og formidling Medlemmer af forskningsgruppen ved Revisorkan-didatstudiet har inden for de seneste år blot eksempelvis samarbejdet med følgende eksterne samarbejdspartnere: - Ekstern lektor ved CBS, vicedirektør i TDC Peer Schaumburg-Müller - Advokat, videnpartner i Bech Bruun Advokatfirma, Lars Linden crone - Partner, cand. merc. jur. Nikolaj Vinther, Deloitte - Partner, statsautoriseret revisor Jan Guldmand, Deloitte - Direktør Claus Holstein, Aalborg Havn A/S - Genan Business & Development A/S, Viborg - Axzon A/S, Herning Forskningsprojekter Som eksempler på typiske forskningsprojekter inden for de seneste år kan nævnes: a) Analyse af behov for og konsekvenser af ændringer i havnelovgivningen i Danmark i et internationalt perspektiv. b) Udgivelse af en serie af kompendier om koncernregnskaber, EU-selskabsregler, vedtægter og ejeraftaler, ledelses- og ejeransvar, finansie-ring, selskaber mv. c) Analyse af forskrifterne om gruppesøgsmål til brug for verserende banksager. d) Medvirken ved Verdensbankens (IFC s) finansiering af dansk-polske virksomheder til udvikling af svinefarme i Østeuropa. e) Danske og internationale publiceringer om regnskab, revision, it-revision mv. f) Danske og internationale publiceringer om kontraktklausuler, gruppeforlig mellem virksomheder og kunder mv. Kontakt: Professor Erik Werlauff: Mail: ew@business.aau.dk Tlf. 2879 6622. Klik her og se artiklen Rådgivning på skoleskemaet om Cand. merc. aud. studiet på Institut for Økonomi og Ledelse, der blev offentliggjort i december-udgaven af revisorernes magasin Signatur, som læses af tusinder af ledende erhvervsfolk over hele landet. 12