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Selecting characteristics using the Adaptive Group Lasso on U.S. industries
(Master thesis, 2020)Throughout the years, hundreds of factors have been proposed to forecast stock returns. Cochrane (2011) referred to these factors as the "zoo of new factors." In this thesis, we consider 62 of these factors and analyze ... -
Selecting Future Leaders - A validation study of the selection process for military leadership education in the Norwegian Armed Forces
(Master thesis, 2020)The ability to predict future performance is crucial for sustainable selection procedures. While several selection methods individually predict both performance in job training programs and subsequent job performance, ... -
Selection into Politics : The Significance of Local Government Revenue
(Master thesis, 2018)This master thesis investigates selection effects in Norwegian local governments and explores the effect of increased revenue in local governments on the quality of politicians. Quality is measured by educational level, ... -
Selective Startups: The importance of partnering experience on new ventures’ learning outcomes from collaboration with established ventures
(Master thesis, 2021)The blue economy has been recognized for its potential to meet future requirements and represent immense opportunities for economic growth, employment and sustainable development. Emerging ocean industries are particularly ... -
Self-Affirmation Reduces Delay Discounting of the Financially Deprived
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Financial deprivation is associated with excessive discounting of delayed rewards. In the present research, we argue that this counterproductive tendency may be driven, at least in part, by the aversive and self-threatening ... -
Self-Branding Strategies of Online Freelancers on Upwork
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Self-branding is crucial for online freelancers as they must constantly differentiate themselves from competitors on online labor platforms to ensure a viable stream of income. By analyzing 39 interviews with freelancers ... -
Self-other agreement in empowering leadership: Relationships with leader effectiveness and subordinates’ job satisfaction and turnover intention
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)In this paper we discuss key aspects of empowering leadership as a basis for conceptualizing and operationalizing the construct. The conceptualization resulted in eight behavioral manifestations arranged within three ... -
Self-Other agreement in Perspective Taking and Employee Affective Commitment: The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange
(Master thesis, 2022)This study seeks to establish and test the integrative theory of Leader- Member Exchange (LMX) that extends our understanding of self-other agreement in perspective taking and affective commitment. We predicted that ... -
Self-service technology versus human interaction : a study of how customers respond differently to human and machine in credence based service encounters
(Master thesis, 2017)Self-service technologies (SST) have been introduced extensively and promoted to replace traditional service encounters with human interaction (HI) in the last years. Advances in digital technologies and artificial ... -
Selfa Arctic AS
(Bachelor thesis, 2015-06-01)Vi har i vår bacheloroppgave tatt for oss Selfa Arctic AS og deres innovasjon innen maritim næring. Selfa er lokalisert i Trondheim og Rødskjær, og jobber med produksjon og reparasjon i hovedsak av kystfiskebåter. Våren ... -
Selfish memes: An update of Richard Dawkins’ bibliometric analysis of key papers in sociobiology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In the second edition of The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins included a short bibliometric analysis of key papers instrumental to the sociobiological revolution, the intention of which was to support his proposal that ideas ... -
Selvledelse - nøkkelen i en ny fleksibel hverdag?
(Master thesis, 2022)“From when to go to the office to why work in the first place, employees have a new “worth it” equation. And there’s no going back” (Microsoft 2022). Organisasjoner i dag står overfor et dilemma i forhold til hvordan den ... -
Selvledelse og superledelse: Å nå personlige og organisatoriske mål gjennom tillit, involvering og ansvar
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Det er fristende å skylde på omgivelsene når noe går galt. Dette hindrer imidlertid personlig læring. Man ødelegger for seg selv. Den enkelte medarbeider bør i større grad ta ansvar for å lede seg selv. Dette kan gjøres ... -
Selvoppfyllende profetier og selvforføring: Ekspressiv CSR som organisasjonsutvikler
(Journal article, 2017)I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg ekspressivitet som drivkraft for organisasjonsutvikling. Artikkelen er basert på en casebeskrivelse av kontorstolprodusenten HÅG og toppleders bruk av CSR i den eksterne kommunikasjonen. ... -
Semantic algorithms can detect how media language shapes survey responses in organizational behaviour
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Research on sensemaking in organisations and on linguistic relativity suggests that speakers of the same language mayusethis language in different ways to construct social realities at work. We apply a semantic theory of ... -
Seniority and Hierarchy in Thai Work Environment ; An Additional Factor Influencing Transfer of Training of Management Trainees in a Leading International Hotel Chain in Thailand
(Master thesis, 2016)With attention to the amount of money and other resources that company invests in training and developing its people, only minimal attention is, however, given to ensure that learned skills, knowledge and attitudes are ... -
Seniority purchase option in the norwegian housing market, and its effect on auction dynamics
(Master thesis, 2017)In our thesis, we study the effects of the presence of “forkjøpsrett”, or seniority purchase option (SPO), on the market for cooperative apartments. Norwegian housing is transacted via English auctions, and we hypothesize ... -
Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper investigates party use of seniority systems to allocate nominations for elected and appointed offices. Such systems, which can regulate party members’ access to offices at multiple levels of their careers, are ... -
The Sense of Us
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne prosjektoppgaven dreier seg om identitetsledelse i en virksomhet i sterk vekst. Vi ønsker i denne oppgaven å se på om det utøves identitetsledelse i Norsk helsenett (heretter omtalt som NHN) på nåværende tidspunkt, ... -
Sensemaking in business networks: introducing dottograms to analyse network changes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The issue of how different actors in a network understand changes to their industry remains an under-researched but crucially important area. According to the industrial network approach, companies interact according to ...