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| Title: Competition or Cooperation? |
| Sub-title: A Longitudinal Study of NPM Reforms' Influence on Strategic Management in Upper Secondary Schools |
| By (author): Jesper Rosenberg Hansen, Christian Botcher Jacobsen |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119178 : 9788793119178 |
| NPM reforms are often argued to promote efficiency, because they enhance strategic and competitive behaviour among public organisations. Oppositely, critics argue that strategic behaviour can be problematic for public organisations, because co-operation and collaboration is needed to increase the general public value rather than just maximising organisational profit. In this paper, we study how an NPM reform (introducing self-government for upper secondary schools coupled with quasi-markets with activity based funding) in the Danish secondary school sector changes strategic management both in regard to strategic orientation and strategic processes. |
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Pages: 29
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - September 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Business & management |
| List Price: 5.25 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 1 of: 10 |
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| Title: Efficiency of Educational Production |
| Sub-title: A Comparison of Denmark with Other OECD Countries |
| By (author): Peter Bogetoft, Eskil Heinesen, Torben Tranæs |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119135 : 9788793119130 |
| Denmark, Norway, New Zealand, Canada and the USA are the OECD countries that spend most on education, measured in relation to GDP. Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the heavy expenditure on education in Denmark is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of a large number of students enrolled in educational programmes and a high completion rate. The methodology used is to compare (benchmark) Denmark with a relevant group of countries and to calculate how much cheaper Denmark could teach the same number of students and maintain the same graduation/completion rates as today if the country could achieve the same level of cost effectiveness as its most efficient counterparts. |
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Pages: 69
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - September 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Education |
| List Price: 5.25 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 2 of: 10 |
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| Title: Entrepreneurs versus Incumbents |
| Sub-title: Who Creates the Better Jobs? |
| By (author): Johan M Kuhn, Nikolaj Malchow-Moller, Anders Sorensen |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119283 : 9788793119284 |
| What are the characteristics of jobs in entrepreneurial firms as compared to jobs in incumbent firms? Even though this question has been addressed by many researchers before us, we provide new evidence to the field since we measure the entrepreneur as the organic new firm. In the literature, the majority of studies have focused on entrepreneurs as measured by small or new firms. By organic new firms, we mean new firms that are not the result of restructurings or organizing existing or additional activities in a formally new firm. Moreover, we distinguish entrepreneurial firms by different types and distinguish between growing and declining industry-region clusters. Our results differ from the findings in the existing literature. Specifically, we find that compared to incumbents, entrepreneurial firms have higher total factor productivity, are more skill intensive, and pay higher wages. The differences are more pronounced in growing clusters. Moreover, the results show important differences between different types of entrepreneurial firms. Specifically, spin-offs are found to enjoy the largest productivity advantage. The wage and skill premiums at the firm level disappear at the job level, as larger incumbents are both more skill intensive and pay higher wages than smaller incumbents. |
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Pages: 129
Size: 235x170mm
Illustrations: illus
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - November 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Employment & unemployment : Entrepreneurship |
| List Price: 4.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 3 of: 10 |
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| Title: Goal Prioritization & Commitment in Public Organizations |
| Sub-title: Exploring the Effects of Goal Conflict |
| By (author): Camilla Denager Staniok |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119151 : 9788793119154 |
| Public personnel policies increasingly adapt performance management systems that focus on goal attainment making goal commitment a critical issue in contemporary public administration research. Few studies have however empirically investigated how context factors such as goal conflicts reduce or hinder goal commitment. Accordingly, this paper investigates the interplay between public managers' goal prioritisation, goal conflict and employees' goal commitment. Multilevel data from two electronic surveys of 67 principals and 1362 teachers in secondary education show that goal conflict moderates the association between principals' goal prioritisation and teachers' goal commitment. |
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Pages: 30
Size: 235x165mm
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - September 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Business & management |
| List Price: 5.25 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 10 |
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| Title: Introduction to the Project |
| Sub-title: Employment Effects of Entrepreneurs |
| By (author): Johan M Kuhn, Nikolaj Malchow-Moller, Anders Sorensen |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119267 : 9788793119260 |
| In this note a short introduction to the project "Employment Effects of Entrepreneurs" is presented. First, we describe the purpose of the project; second, we present the background; third, we briefly describe the three papers that constitute the output of the project, and fourth, we discuss two important qualifications for the understanding of the contributions and results established in the project. |
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Pages: 11
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - November 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Employment & unemployment : Entrepreneurship |
| List Price: 4.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 5 of: 10 |
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| Title: Is Leadership in the Eye of the Beholder? |
| Sub-title: A Study of Intended & Perceived Leadership Strategies & Organizational Performance |
| By (author): Christian Botcher Jacobsen, Camilla Denager Staniok |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119186 : 9788793119185 |
| The HRM literature argues that intended leadership practices can be perceived entirely different by employees, and that perceived practices are more likely to be related to performance than intended practices, because perceived practices are closer related with motivation and commitment. Using a sample of 1,621 teachers and 79 Danish high schools, we find that intended and perceived transformational and transactional leadership strategies are only weakly correlated, and that only perceived strategies (both transformational and transactional) are significantly related to objectively measured school performance. |
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Pages: 25
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - September 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Business & management |
| List Price: 5.25 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 6 of: 10 |
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| Title: Job Creation & Job Types |
| Sub-title: New Evidence from Danish Entrepreneurs |
| By (author): Johan M Kuhn, Nikolaj Malchow-Moller, Anders Sorensen |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119275 : 9788793119277 |
| We extend earlier analyses of the job creation of start-ups vs. established firms by taking into consideration the educational content of the jobs created and destroyed. We define education-specific measures of job creation and job destruction at the firm level, and we use these to construct a measure of "surplus job creation" defined as jobs created on top of any simultaneous destruction of similar jobs in incumbent firms in the same region and industry. Using Danish employer-employee data from 2002-7, which identify the start-ups and which cover almost the entire private sector, these measures allow us to provide a more nuanced assessment of the role of entrepreneurial firms in the job-creation process than previous studies. Our findings show that while start-ups are responsible for the entire overall net job creation, incumbents account for more than a third of net job creation within high-skilled jobs. Moreover, start-ups "only" create around half of the surplus jobs, and even less of the high-skilled surplus jobs. Finally, our approach allows us to characterize and identify differences across industries, educational groups and regions. |
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Pages: 52
Size: 235x170mm
Illustrations: illus
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - November 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Employment & unemployment : Entrepreneurship |
| List Price: 4.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 7 of: 10 |
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| Title: Job Quality by Entrepreneurial Spinoffs |
| By (author): Johan M Kuhn, Nikolaj Malchow-Moller, Anders Sorensen |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119291 : 9788793119291 |
| We study whether entrepreneurial spinoffs are important drivers of industry dynamics. More precisely, we investigate whether the quality of jobs in spinoff entrepreneurs are higher than for other entrepreneurs. We distinguish spinoff firms by different types and distinguish between growing and declining industry-region clusters. We find that spinoffs on average have higher wages, are more skill intensive, have higher sales per worker and are more productive than non-spinoff entrepreneurial firms. The differences are more pronounced in growing clusters. The results even hold when we control for worker heterogeneity and industry and region clusters characteristics. An important feature of the analysis is that we measure the entrepreneur as the organic new firm. By organic new firm, we mean new firms that are not the result of restructurings or organising existing or additional activities in a formally new firm. |
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Pages: 35
Size: 235x170mm
Illustrations: illus
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - November 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Employment & unemployment : Entrepreneurship |
| List Price: 4.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 8 of: 10 |
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| Title: Leading Public Service Organizations |
| Sub-title: How to Obtain Employees with High Self-Efficacy |
| By (author): Christian Botcher Jacobsen, Lotte Bogh Andersen |
| ISBN10-13: 8793119194 : 9788793119192 |
| Public management literature has often debated the usefulness of transactional leadership. Some scholars are concerned that transactional leadership strategies will harm public employees' perceived competence (ie: their self-efficacy), but in fact there are also arguments for the opposite result - that feelings of competence are strengthened by conditional rewards, because they provide feedback about performance. This study explores how 91 high school principals' reported use of rewards and sanctions affect perceived professional competence among their 1,921 teachers. The results show that the use of rewards strengthens self-efficacy, and that the use of sanctions does not seem to have negative effects. Furthermore, the teachers' self-efficacy can be linked positively to organisational performance. This suggests that rewards can be an important tool for managers in the public sector. |
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Pages: 25
Size: 235x165mm
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - September 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Business & management |
| List Price: 5.25 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 9 of: 10 |
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| Title: Sharing the Fire |
| Sub-title: The Igniting Role of Transformational Leadership on the Relationship Between Public Managers' & Employees' Organizational Commitment |
| By (author): Camilla Denager Staniok, Christian Botcher Jacobsen |
| ISBN10-13: 879311916X : 9788793119161 |
| Seminal articles on organisational commitment in public organisations have assumed that employees reciprocate the attitudes of their peers, but recent studies suggest that the impact of managers' organisational commitment on employees' organisational commitment depends on how leaders convey their organisational commitment. In this study we investigate how transformational leadership moderates the relationship between mangers' and employees' organisational commitment. Multilevel data from surveys of 68 principals and 1,349 teachers in the area of upper secondary education show that there is no direct relationship between principals' and teachers' organisational commitment, but that transformational leadership moderates the relationship. |
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Pages: 29
Size: 235x165mm
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| Published: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - September 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Business & management |
| List Price: 5.25 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 10 of: 10 |
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