Le droit communautaire – c’est moi !”: Statsmonopol, national ret og euro-integrationisme i tiden efter Danmarks indtræden i EF

“Le droit communautaire – c’est moi !“ – State monopoly, national law and euro-integration ism in the time following the Danish accession to the EC. The Danish accession to the European Communities 1973 provides – together with the cases of Ireland and the UK – a first example of how more than 20 years of accumulated legal canon from the EC could be integrated en bloc into the national legal spaces. Community law, constructed as a legal form sui generis on the European legal field during the 1950s and 1960s, contain fundamental, legal logical discrepancies to national law. Moreover, few legal actors in Denmark had practical knowledge within the area, leaving them prone to considering this new form of law a threat to their old positions in the legal field. In this article, I will show how the traditional symbolic hierarchies in Danish law were amalgamated following the accession in a process where the central administration won terrain relative to practitioners and judges concerning the right to define community law in Denmark.publishedVersio

AD MEMORIAM SANCTI - RELIKVIER OG RITUALISERET ERINDRINGSARBEJDE I MIDDELALDEREN

ABSTRACTI middelalderen var helgenrelikvier fokus for et omfattende og mangeartet erindringsarbejde, der ikke alene sigtede på at ihukomme de hellige døde, men også de troende selv, både gejstlige og lægfolk, og de sociale fællesskaber, der associeredes med helgeners memoria. På basis af kilder fra det 9.-12. århundredes Frankrig kastes i artiklen et blik på erindringsarbejdets konkrete praksis (ritualer, produktion og brug af artefakter og tekster m.v.) og på den betydning det havde for kollektividentitet, historie, prestige og magt i de religiøse fællesskaber og institutioner, der kontrollerede relikviekulten, og blandt aristokrater og bønder i det omgivende samfund. Der argumenteres for, at udforskningen af historisk fjerne historiekulturer bidrager til at historisere vor egen samtids omgang med fortid og erindring og til at udfordre begreber og kategorier i moderne erindringsforskning

Influence of Social Media Posts on Service Performance

Purpose Much research regarding social media posts and relevancy has resulted in mixed findings. Furthermore, the mediating role of relevancy has not previously been examined. This paper aims to examine the correlating relationship between types of posts made by hotels and the resulting occupancy rates. Then, the mediating role of relevancy is examined and ways that posts can increase/decrease relevancy of the post to potential hotel users. Design/methodology/approach Within the context of the hotel industry, three studies were conducted – one including hotel occupancy data from a corporate chain – to examine the impact of social media posts on relevancy and intentions to stay at the hotel. Experimental studies were conducted to explain the results of the real-world hotel data. Findings The findings show that relevancy is an important mediator in linking social media posts to service performance. A locally (vs nationally) themed post can decrease both the relevancy of a post and the viewer’s intentions to stay at a hotel. This relationship, however, can be weakened if a picture is included with the post, as a visual may increase self-identification with a post. Originality/value These results have important theoretical and practical implications as social media managers attempt to find the best ways to communicate to their customers and followers. Specifically, there are lower and upper limits to how many times a hotel should be posting to social media. The data also show many hotels post about local events, such as school fundraisers or a job fair, that can be harmful to stay intentions, likely due to the irrelevant nature of local posts to customers who are likely to stay in a hotel. National posts are seen as more relevant and likely to increase stay intentions, and the inclusion of a picture can help local posts seem more relevant

Interaction Privacy: A Study of Threats and Consequences

The purpose of the dissertation is to explore interaction privacy, a person’s ability to control the amount of access others have to the self during relational encounters in attempts to achieve ideal levels. According to marketing research, a positive shopping experience is becoming all the more important (Achrol & Kotler, 2012; Deighton et al., 2012), which could be enhanced with adequate levels of shopper privacy. Using reactance theory (Brehm 1966) as guidance, the model examines privacy encroachments through visual and physical dimensions which lead to threats that cause an individual to realize control has been lost and reactance then occurs. The research focuses on encroachments by employees. Using two written scenario and one video scenario experiments the dissertation tests the relationship of interaction privacy on identity threats, purchase pressure, loss of control, basket size and abandonment in the store. Legitimacy of threat is also examined as a moderator to further explore contextual influences to the relationships associated to interaction privacy

Transnational bureaucratic politics : an institutional rivalry perspective on EU network governance

This contribution introduces our symposium by highlighting four distinctive aspects of transnational governance from a bureaucratic politics perspective: the emergence of transnational institutions, their functioning, their impact on the domestic level, and the diffusion of regulatory standards. The general argument is that many accounts of transnational governance seem to be overly optimistic about the conditions for effective problem-solving and fail to take into account that institutional rivalry may either support or constrain the implementation of supranational policies. The aim of this piece is to review existing research, to highlight the contribution of the symposium articles in furthering an institutional rivalry perspective on transnational governance, and to sketch pertinent areas for further research building upon this perspective

Neptunism and transformism:Robert Jameson and other evolutionary theorists in early nineteenth-century Scotland

This paper sheds new light on the prevalence of evolutionary ideas in Scotland in the early nineteenth century and establish what connections existed between the espousal of evolutionary theories and adherence to the directional history of the earth proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner and his Scottish disciples. A possible connection between Wernerian geology and theories of the transmutation of species in Edinburgh in the period when Charles Darwin was a medical student in the city was suggested in an important 1991 paper by James Secord. This study aims to deepen our knowledge of this important episode in the history of evolutionary ideas and explore the relationship between these geological and evolutionary discourses. To do this it focuses on the circle of natural historians around Robert Jameson, Wernerian geologist and professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1804 to 1854. From the evidence gathered here there emerges a clear confirmation that the Wernerian model of geohistory facilitated the acceptance of evolutionary explanations of the history of life in early nineteenth-century Scotland. As Edinburgh was at this time the most important center of medical education in the English-speaking world, this almost certainly influenced the reception and development of evolutionary ideas in the decades that followed.</p

Multi-tier Loyalty Programs to Stimulate Customer Engagement

Customers differ in their purchase behavior, profitability, attitude toward the firm, and so on. These differences between customers have led to numerous firms introducing multi-tier loyalty programs. A multi-tier loyalty program explicitly distinguishes between customers by means of hierarchical tiers (e.g. Silver, Gold, Platinum) and assigns customers to different tiers based on their past purchase behavior. Next, customers in different tiers are provided varying levels of tangible rewards and intangible benefits, which are potentially powerful instruments to stimulate customer engagement. In this chapter, we focus on the design and effectiveness of such multi-tier loyalty programs. Building on loyalty program and customer prioritization research, we discuss whether, why, and how multi-tier loyalty programs are effective (or not) in influencing customer behavior, thereby enhancing customer engagement and financial performance