Simon Westergaard Lex
Biographic Data
| ID | 4047100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Westergaard Lex |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon Westergaard |
| FAMILY NAME | Lex |
| SIGNATURE | LEX S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6106-6941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What to Submit to the JBA? That Is the Question
It is no surprise that editing an academic journal is hard work.Editors are, if not famous, then at least notorious for remarking on the rigors of publishing article after article, issue after issue.When one manuscript is <inally ready, another is usually already waiting in the wings, to be read, screened, reviewed, revised, edited, laid out, proofread, and uploaded.But the truth -the real truth, if you will -is that it is, above all, a privilege…
Diverging energy horizons
Business Anthropology
The Omnipresence of Business - and, Potentially, Business Anthropology
Writing this brief editorial from the city of Copenhagen in Denmark, the summer is :inally upon us.The sun is shining, and the temperatures have risen to almost 30 degrees Celsius.As always in Copenhagen, bikes are out, :illing the streets of what is often celebrated as one of the most bikefriendly cities in the world.What is not so usual, however, is that many of the cyclists are wearing the red national team shirt of the Danish football team, b…
In Search of Newness
In the past decades, it has been hard to ignore that a key characteristic of business is an unmistakable preoccupation, perhaps even obsession, with newness.In all corners of business, newness -along with its many allied notions such as creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are centered around newness in one way or another -is considered to be absolutely critical for survival."Create/Innovate or die.This is the takenfor-grant…
Business, Broadly Understood
Back to Copenhagen
Ever since Marcel Mauss wrote about the gift and Bronislaw Malinowski about the Kula, it has been something of an anthropological truism that things have social lives. As many readers of this journal will know, Arjun Appadurai (1986) made this particularly clear with his seminal anthology The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. While we will not rehearse the argument of the book here nor elaborate on its significance for t…
Interview med Diana Arsovic
Diana Arsovic, innovationschef i Innovationshuset i Københavns Kommune, giver i et interview med Simon Lex sit bud på, hvordan antropologer bidrager til innovationsprocesser. Hun fokuserer på de kompetencer og udviklingspotentialer, hun møder hos antropologer i arbejdet med innovation i den offentlige sektor
Innovation
I globale såvel som nationale politiske organisationer, i offentlige institutioner og i private virksomheder bliver innovation fremhævet som en ny nødvendighed for sikringen af økonomiske resultater og staters og organisationers fortsatte overlevelse på globaliserede og omskiftelige kommercielle markeder. Nationalstater investerer i disse år milliarder af kroner i innovationsfremmende initiativer, tillægger innovation en positivt samfundsforandre…
Innovationens Forbandelse
Denne artikel omhandler en organisatorisk forandringsproces i et skandinavisk statsselskab, hvor ledelsen ser innovation som et instrument til at sikre fremtidig overlevelse. Forfatteren beskriver, hvordan de organisatoriske enheder og mennesker, som repræsenterer det innovative, bliver mødt med kritik og modstand, da de kan være med til at forstyrre eksisterende arbejdsforhold og i værste fald medføre destruktion i form af omvæltninger og nedskæ…
In Search of Innovation
This essay explores innovation as a socially and culturally embedded practice, coming to life in correlation between structural organizational conventions and entrepreneurial performances. With an empirical departure, it describes a rational understanding of creation, and it identifies innovation as a retrospective concept that entails a “re-development” process from the final product to the initial idea. Furthermore, it (re)locates innovation “i…
Konvergens På Tværs Af Velfærdsstaten
Artiklen skitserer etnografisk en styringspolitisk vision og dennes aktuellepåvirkning af velfærdsstatslige organisationer i Øresundsregionen via enrække ledelsesteknologier og målrationaler. Empirien er hentet i offentligeog halvoffentlige organisationer inden for tre sektorer; kultur, forskning oglogistik (post), hvor arbejdsmiljøerne er præget af rationaliseringstiltag ogfusionsprocesser, der påvirker medarbejdere og borgere i hverdagen. Særli…
The Hype of Innovation
Konvergens På Tværs Af Velfærdsstaten
Artiklen skitserer etnografisk en styringspolitisk vision og dennes aktuellepåvirkning af velfærdsstatslige organisationer i Øresundsregionen via enrække ledelsesteknologier og målrationaler. Empirien er hentet i offentligeog halvoffentlige organisationer inden for tre sektorer; kultur, forskning oglogistik (post), hvor arbejdsmiljøerne er præget af rationaliseringstiltag ogfusionsprocesser, der påvirker medarbejdere og borgere i hverdagen. Særli…
Konvergens På Tværs Af Velfærdsstaten
Artiklen skitserer etnografisk en styringspolitisk vision og dennes aktuellepåvirkning af velfærdsstatslige organisationer i Øresundsregionen via enrække ledelsesteknologier og målrationaler. Empirien er hentet i offentligeog halvoffentlige organisationer inden for tre sektorer; kultur, forskning oglogistik (post), hvor arbejdsmiljøerne er præget af rationaliseringstiltag ogfusionsprocesser, der påvirker medarbejdere og borgere i hverdagen. Særli…
The Hype of Innovation
In Search of Innovation
This essay explores innovation as a socially and culturally embedded practice, coming to life in correlation between structural organizational conventions and entrepreneurial performances. With an empirical departure, it describes a rational understanding of creation, and it identifies innovation as a retrospective concept that entails a “re-development” process from the final product to the initial idea. Furthermore, it (re)locates innovation “i…
Innovationens Forbandelse
Denne artikel omhandler en organisatorisk forandringsproces i et skandinavisk statsselskab, hvor ledelsen ser innovation som et instrument til at sikre fremtidig overlevelse. Forfatteren beskriver, hvordan de organisatoriske enheder og mennesker, som repræsenterer det innovative, bliver mødt med kritik og modstand, da de kan være med til at forstyrre eksisterende arbejdsforhold og i værste fald medføre destruktion i form af omvæltninger og nedskæ…
Interview med Diana Arsovic
Diana Arsovic, innovationschef i Innovationshuset i Københavns Kommune, giver i et interview med Simon Lex sit bud på, hvordan antropologer bidrager til innovationsprocesser. Hun fokuserer på de kompetencer og udviklingspotentialer, hun møder hos antropologer i arbejdet med innovation i den offentlige sektor
Innovation
I globale såvel som nationale politiske organisationer, i offentlige institutioner og i private virksomheder bliver innovation fremhævet som en ny nødvendighed for sikringen af økonomiske resultater og staters og organisationers fortsatte overlevelse på globaliserede og omskiftelige kommercielle markeder. Nationalstater investerer i disse år milliarder af kroner i innovationsfremmende initiativer, tillægger innovation en positivt samfundsforandre…
Back to Copenhagen
Ever since Marcel Mauss wrote about the gift and Bronislaw Malinowski about the Kula, it has been something of an anthropological truism that things have social lives. As many readers of this journal will know, Arjun Appadurai (1986) made this particularly clear with his seminal anthology The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. While we will not rehearse the argument of the book here nor elaborate on its significance for t…
In Search of Newness
In the past decades, it has been hard to ignore that a key characteristic of business is an unmistakable preoccupation, perhaps even obsession, with newness.In all corners of business, newness -along with its many allied notions such as creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are centered around newness in one way or another -is considered to be absolutely critical for survival."Create/Innovate or die.This is the takenfor-grant…
Business, Broadly Understood
The Omnipresence of Business - and, Potentially, Business Anthropology
Writing this brief editorial from the city of Copenhagen in Denmark, the summer is :inally upon us.The sun is shining, and the temperatures have risen to almost 30 degrees Celsius.As always in Copenhagen, bikes are out, :illing the streets of what is often celebrated as one of the most bikefriendly cities in the world.What is not so usual, however, is that many of the cyclists are wearing the red national team shirt of the Danish football team, b…
Diverging energy horizons
Business Anthropology
What to Submit to the JBA? That Is the Question
It is no surprise that editing an academic journal is hard work.Editors are, if not famous, then at least notorious for remarking on the rigors of publishing article after article, issue after issue.When one manuscript is <inally ready, another is usually already waiting in the wings, to be read, screened, reviewed, revised, edited, laid out, proofread, and uploaded.But the truth -the real truth, if you will -is that it is, above all, a privilege…
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