This thesis provides a framework for information retrieval based on a set of models which together illustrate how users of search engines come to express their needs in a particular way. With such insights, we may be able to improve systems’ capabilities of understanding users’ requests and...

This project studies the making of a market for wind power in France. Markets for wind power, as well as markets for other renewable energies, are often referred to as ‘political markets: On the one hand, wind power has the potential to reduce CO2-emissions and thus stall the effects of...

In the late 1990s, Google pioneered the idea of scraping and repurposing digital traces as a new form of data with which to understand people’s preferences and behaviour. This way of generating empirical sensitivity towards the world can be termed digital methods and the last five years have...

This dissertation examines how the multinational brewer Carlsberg Group responds to the issue of ‘alcohol-related harm’, expressed in its work with the focus area of ‘responsible drinking’ (RD). RD is associated with different initiatives aimed at reducing the misuse of alcohol, e.g.,...

Denne afhandling handler om selvledelsesfænomenets kommercielle konceptualisering. Afhandlingen baserer sig på et metodekombinerende forskningsprojekt bestående af aktionsforskning og fænomenologisk analyse. Projektet er etableret og finansieret efter erhvervsPhD-ordningen og er som sådan...

A thorough literature review shows how it is well established in the literature that performance appraisal (PA) in modern organisations is infused with many problems. However, at the same time PA is one of the most institutionalised features of running large corporations everywhere in the...

Governments in more than 55 countries have signed the international Open Gov-ernment Partnership and are currently implementing open government initia-tives, aiming to make governments and public sectors more collaborative, participatory, transparent, and technology-driven. If successfully...

Denne afhandling er en institutionsetnografisk undersøgelse af, hvordan det psykiatriske arbejde praktiseres og forstås af ledere og medarbejdere på et behandlingspsykiatrisk hospital (Hospitalet) og et socialpsykiatrisk bosted (Bostedet). I undersøgelsen besvarer jeg tre spørgsmål: Hvilke...

Denne afhandling er en artikelbaseret afhandling bestående af fire artikler og en kappe. Afhandlingen er et narrativt og etnografisk casestudie af, hvordan job- og personalekonsulenter i en specifik konsulentvirksomhed gennem arbejdspraksisfortællinger om selv, arbejde og organisation arbejder...