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Are family firms more tax aggressive than non-family firms, especially if they have a male CEO?
(Master thesis, 2018)Taxes has received much attention the past years, with scandals like Enron and the Panama- and Paradise papers setting it on the agenda in many countries. Although there exists extensive research on individual tax ... -
Are Female Legislators Different? Exploring Sex Differences in German MPs’ Outside Interests
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article examines whether sex matters with respect to a type of legislator behaviour that has thus far been neglected in the literature analysing the distinctive nature of female and male legislators: parliamentarians' ... -
Are female-led start-ups in Norway at disadvantage of receiving external finance: A capital structure analysis
(Master thesis, 2022)Gender discrimination has gained a lot of attention more recently when it comes to receiving external finance. Despite Norway ranking third in closing the gender gap, statistics from Nordic countries find that male founded ... -
Are governance mode and foreign location choices independent?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article explores the relationship between organizational governance and location choices. While the existing literature provides significant intuition regarding the factors that influence these choices, it often assumes ... -
Are Human Resource Management (HRM) Systems Good or Bad for Employee Well-being? An Investigation of the Well-being Paradox from the Mutual Gains and Critical Perspectives
(Series of Dissertation;7/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This PhD consists of three individual studies, addressing two of the most controversial debates in the human resource management (HRM) literature today: the “good vs. bad” debate (whether HRM practices are good or bad for ... -
Are large portions always bad? Using the Delboeuf illusion on food packaging to nudge consumer behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Exaggerated portion sizes are generally pictured on the front of product packaging in order to stimulate food craving and encourage consumer purchasing decisions. However, one problem with such images is that they can set ... -
Are low frequency macroeconomic variables important for high frequency electricity prices?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Recent research finds that forecasting electricity prices is very relevant. In many applications, it might be interesting to predict daily electricity prices by using their own lags or renewable energy sources. However, ... -
Are millennials swiping left on sports? an analysis of the causes behind young people’s apparent lack of interest in sports
(Master thesis, 2019)A rising concern in many sports markets around the world is the seeming lack of interest in sports among younger people. TV sports viewership from this demographic is frequently down, event attendance is down, even ... -
Are modern health worries associated with medical conspiracy theories?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study was concerned with whether Medical Conspiracy Theories (MCTs), along with other variables (demographics, ideology and health perceptions) are associated with Modern Health Worries (MHWs). MCTs were significantly ... -
Are modern health worries associated with medical conspiracy theories?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study was concerned with whether Medical Conspiracy Theories (MCTs), along with other variables (demographics, ideology and health perceptions) are associated with Modern Health Worries (MHWs). MCTs were significantly ... -
Are non-financial (CSR) reports trustworthy? A study of the extent to which non-financial reports reflect the media’ perception of the company’s behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This study examines the strategies companies have adopted in their CSR or non-financial reporting when responding to media criticism related to poor CSR performance. Seven companies operation internationally and which ... -
Are Small-Scale SVARs Useful for Business Cycle Analysis? Revisiting Non-Fundamentalness
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2016, Working paper, 2016)Non-fundamentalness arises when observables do not contain enough information to recover the vector of structural shocks. Using Granger causality tests, the literature suggested that many small scale VAR models are ... -
Are Solar Panels Commodities? Evidence of Quality Differences and Asymmetric Information
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Solar panels should not be considered commodities. Considerable quality differences, as measured directly by degradation of production over time, are found between manufacturers. I test two implications from the theory of ... -
Are some interoceptive sensibility components more central than others? Using item pool visualisation to understand the psychometric representation of interoception
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Interoception refers to the processing of stimuli originating within the body and is widely considered a multidimensional construct. However, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the definition and measurement of ... -
Are they all equal? Uncovering adopter groups of battery electric vehicles
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Battery Electric Vehicles are regarded as highly important to reach environmental goals, such as CO2 savings in the transport sector. Despite governments making strong efforts to encourage their adoption and diffusion, ... -
Are we in this together? Knowledge hiding in teams, collective prosocial motivation and leader-member exchange
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose Although organizations expect employees to share knowledge with each other, knowledge hiding has been documented among coworker dyads. This paper aims to draw on social exchange theory to examine if and why knowledge ... -
Armlengdeprinsippet under press
(Master thesis, 2022)Armlengdeprinsippet er under press som følge av den digitale revolusjonen. Globalinntektsfordeling har blitt vurdert som et alternativ for allokering av skatteprovenyet. I denne oppgaven skal jeg vurdere styrkene og ... -
Artificial intelligence in communication management: a cross-national study on adoption and knowledge, impact, challenges and risks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose Artificial intelligence (AI) might change the communication profession immensely, but the academic discourse is lacking an investigation of the perspective of practitioners on this. This article addresses this ... -
Artificial Intelligence in Organizational Decision-Making
(Master thesis, 2023)Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around since the 1950s, but its potential is yet to be fully realized. Our findings suggests that AI can augment human intelligence and allow for more efficient and rational ... -
Artificial intelligence in the work context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Artificial intelligence (AI) reconfigures work and organization, while work and organization shape AI. In this special issue, we explore these mutual transformations and how they play out across industries and occupations. ...