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Meets the need for a fresh look at the narrative, technique, and industrial practices of media production and reception. The authors employ myriad analytical techniques, focusing on semiotics, auteur style, historical and political economic analysis to examine the dynamic interplay of popular media.

The aim of this book is to analyze the relationship between innovation, employment and competence development within the framework of new learning organization forms. Knowledge production and innovation are often seen as linear processes, assuming that scientific results are followed by technological invention, production and market introduction. An alternative approach, which is chosen in this book, is the interactive and learning approach to innovation. Here, product innovations are considered expressions of learning processes taking place inside firms and involving different functional groups and various decision levels, as well as relations with the firm’s customers and subcontractors. A theoretical framework is constructed which combines the system of innovation approach and the system of employment approach. This framework is applied in a dynamic empirical study of enterprises in the private urban sector in Denmark. The empirical study utilizes a unique longitudinal data set. The data set combines two large surveys and detailed register data on 524 Danish firms, and it includes infor- mation on the behavior of the firms and all employees employed in each of the 524 firms for shorter or longer tenures in the period 1990 to 2000. The book is primarily addressed to researchers, policy makers and students of innovation, organization and employment, but I sincerely hope that it will also find its way to real life actors: business leaders, employee representatives etc. The author is an associate professor in quantitative methods and study leader of Master of Labor Market Relations and Human Resources Management at Aalborg University. He has long experience in empirical research. He has been a member of the DISKO research group since the start and project manager on the National Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA) at Aalborg University.

Bogen fortæller om den nordjyske symfonis historie. Når koncerten er forbi, er musikken forsvundet og findes kun i erindringen. En musiker eller et orkester efterlader sig ikke et konkret blivende livsværk, men kun oplevelser til berigelse for publikum. Musikken kan naturligvis fæstnes på cd eller lignende, men selve koncertoplevelsen lader sig ikke fæstne. Aalborg Symfoniorkester med base ved Limfjorden har gennem sine 60 år oplevet perioder med magsvejr afløst af perioder med storm. Angrebene på orkestret har hovedsageligt været fra personer uden for landsdelen, som ikke kendte orkestrets omfattende betydning for musiklivet i Aalborg og Nordjylland. Overordnet set kan man dog sige, at orkestret har oplevet en konstant udvikling i alle årene og i de fleste perioder redet på en bølge af fremgang.

Udvikling af effektive kvalitetssystemer på virksomhederne forudsætter ledelsens initiativ, bevilling af ressourcer og bevågenhed. Men udviklingen forudsætter også, at de medarbejdere, som er involveret i udviklingsarbejdet, har viden og kunnen om kvalitetsstyring. Og at de behersker samarbejdets kunst. Denne bog beskriver en metode til etablering af kvalitetssystemer. Metoden og bogens eksempler er baseret på forfatterens arbejde med kvalitetsstyring i produktionsvirksomheder. Bogen henvender sig til alle, som har ansvar for, står i begreb med eller studerer udvikling og drift af kvalitetssystemer.

Bogen om Alf Schiøttz-Christensen fortæller om en personlighed, der fik et navn i både den danske og den internationale bladverden. Dansk presses ambassadør var hans uofficielle hæderstitel blandt kolleger. Men hans livsgerning var Aalborg Stiftstidende, som han gjorde til nordjysk regionsavis - og landets største aftenavis. Bogen om Alf Schiøttz-Christensen, udgivet af Aalborg Stiftstidendes Fond, går rundt om dette særprægede menneske i en alsidig og nuanceret skildring, bygget på arkivmateriale, samtaler med folk, der stod ham nær, og forfatterens eget erindringsstof. Schiøttz-Christensen var et generøst og gavmildt magtmenneske. Modstandere, der kom under hans hæl, fik den at føle. Men en granitstøtte af en chef, som man kunne regne med og stole på.

En indlærings-psykologisk og videnskabsteoretisk analyse og nyvurdering af problemorienteret projektarbejde på Åbent Universitet. Projektarbejdsformen tages op til kritisk vurdering i lyset af såvel indlærings- som videnskabsteoretiske synsvinkler. Følgende temaer behandles: indlæring, kreativitet og intuition i relation til projektarbejdsformen.

Cultural Text Studies is a research project initiated by the Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics at Aalborg University. The present intro­duct­ory volume launches a series of themed monographs which will be edited by researchers at the Dept., occasionally aided by friends and associates from other programmes. The purpose of the series is to be a forum for the publication of results of research in the broadly defined area of cultural text.This interdisciplinary field of research springs from an emergent interest in both studying texts culturally and in studying culture as text. Thus it is cultural text studies in the sense that the object of study consists of all readable cultural phenomena which are regarded as texts in a much more broadly defined sense than in the traditional field of literary studies. Yet it is also cultural text studies, in the sense that, while the approach is cultural as opposed to, say, formalist, the work often entails an intense engagement with texts and close readings thereof. CTS – An Introduction is a volume authored by present and past members of the English programme’s teaching staff in the fields of culture, literature and media studies. The essays range widely in terms of the period, genre, and medium of the texts investigated. Focus areas include Victorian literature and art; high modernism, especially approached from the point of view of a centre/margin discourse; and finally postmodernist aesthetics and its embedded move from literary into cultural studies, as witnessed by essays on world music, shoes, Hollywood, the post-ironic, the de-territorialized, and the post-human condition as cultural texts.

Hvordan forvaltes kollektiv ejendomsret til jord i den tidligere danske koloni? Hvorfor er der ikke blevet indført privat ejendomsret til jord? Bogen forsøger at besvare disse spørgsmål og sætter samtidig det moderne Grønlands administrationsapparat, bosætningsmønster og planlægningssystem ind i en historisk ramme. Den indeholder en kritisk analyse af den tidligere kolonimagts forvaltning af landet og beskriver, hvordan det er gået efter hjemmestyrets indførelse.