• Who pays for the price wars? 

      Johannesen, Julie Sophie Eide; Bjørnseth, Caroline (Master thesis, 2023)
      All the major Norwegian newspapers cover the Norwegian grocery industry almost daily. In the past, manufacturers and distributors wielded significant influence over assortment and pricing. However, retailers have more power ...
    • Who resorts to sarcasm at work : A study on power, gender and personality 

      Dobrev, Daniel; Abrahamsen, Didrik (Master thesis, 2017)
      The current study investigates if power enhances the inclination to use sarcastic irony in a hypothetical work setting. In addition to gender, trait dominance is included as a potential moderator. Results suggest that ...
    • Who Should Pick up the Bill? Distributing the Financial Burden of Technological Innovations in Schools 

      Geys, Benny; Hassan, Mamdouh (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Technological innovations in classrooms generally come with substantial financial price tags. Although the distribution of such financial costs is of critical importance to practitioners, (potential) users, and policy-makers, ...
    • Who Trusts Social Media? 

      Warner-Søderholm, Gillian; Bertsch, Andy; Sawe, Everlyn; Lee, Dwight; Wolfe, Trina; Meyer, Josh; Engel, Josh; Fatilua, Uepati Normann (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Trust is the foundation of all communication, yet a profound question in business today is how can we psychologically understand trust behaviors in our new digital landscape? Earlier studies in internet and human behavior ...
    • Who’s Got The Time? Temporary Organising Under Temporal Institutional Complexity 

      Pemsel, Sofia; Söderlund, Jonas (Chapter, 2020)
      This chapter addresses the challenges associated with temporary organising under conditions of institutional complexity. The authors draw on findings from an in-depth case study of a megaproject initiated to reshape ...
    • Who’s got the time? Temporary organizing under temporal institutional complexity 

      Pemsel, Sofia; Söderlund, Jonas (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This chapter addresses the challenges associated with temporary organising under conditions of institutional complexity. The authors draw on findings from an in-depth case study of a megaproject initiated to reshape ...
    • Why and how motives (still) matter 

      Benito, Gabriel R. G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Purpose – The article provides a discussion of the relevance of motives for companies’ internationalization. Design/methodology/approach – Conceptual discussion building on established classifications of motives of ...
    • Why are consumers less loss averse in internal than external reference prices? 

      van Oest, Rutger D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The literature has produced mixed support for loss aversion in a reference price context and the outcome may depend on the type of reference price. One extant study has reported empirical evidence that consumers are less ...
    • Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation 

      Ozkan, Serdar; Hubmer, Joachim; Salgado, Sergio; Halvorsen, Elin (HOFIMAR Working Paper Series;7/2023, Working paper, 2023)
      We use Norwegian administrative panel data on wealth and income between 1993 and 2015 to study lifecycle wealth dynamics, focusing on the wealthiest households. On average, the wealthiest start their lives substantially ...
    • Why bother? Ekstrarolleatferd i et narrativt perspektiv 

      Searle, Mari Eggen; Røyrvik, Linda; Amundrud, Kaja (Master thesis, 2022)
      Hva driver de som yter mer enn de må på jobb? Vår studie startet med en undring over ekstrarolleatferd, som forskning viser at fører til prestasjoner i organisasjoner. Vi har valgt en narrativ tilnærming i studiet. Vi ...
    • Why Do Boards Exist? Governance in the Absence of Corporate Law 

      Burkart, Mike; Miglietta, Salvatore; Østergaard, Charlotte (CCGR Working Paper;1/2017, Working paper, 2017)
      We study how owners trade off the costs and benefits of establishing a board in a historical setting, where boards are optional and authority over corporate decisions can be freely allocated across the general meeting, the ...
    • Why do companies go public at MTFs? An empirical analysis of the Swedish market 

      Kjeverud, Stian (Master thesis, 2017)
      This thesis sets out to highlight the motivations to list at a multilateral trading facility rather than a regulated market. I use a sample of Swedish companies going public between 2007 and 2013 to document the difference ...
    • Why do compounding firms obtain significantly higher share price returns compared to other seruice and infrastructure firms? 

      Ugland, Katarina Karlsen; Iversen, Thea Enger (Master thesis, 2023)
      This thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of compounders and their ability to obtain significant and often unexplainably high returns on their acquisitions. It compares compounders with other service and infrastructure ...
    • Why do employees speak up? Examining the roles of LMX, perceived risk and perceived leader power in predicting voice behavior 

      Duan, Jinyun; Lapointe, Émilie; Xu, Yue; Sarah, Brooks (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The purpose of this paper is to understand better why employees voice. Drawing on social information processing theory and insights derived from the literature on power, the authors suggest that leader–member exchange (LMX) ...
    • Why do managers disclose risks accurately? Textual analysis, disclosures, and risk exposures 

      Lopez Lira Y Ramirez, Jose Alejandro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      I provide an economic model that justifies using bag-of-words, topic modeling, and machine learning techniques to measure firms’ risk exposures using the percentage they allocate to each risk in their financial statements. ...
    • Why do parties fail? Cleavages, government fatigue and electoral failure in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary 1992–2012 

      Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      During the first two decades after the collapse of communism 37 political parties won representation in the Czech, Slovak or Hungarian Parliaments. By 2012, 22 of these parties had failed in the sense that they have fallen ...
    • Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness. (Online appendix) 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar (CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2013, Working paper, 2013)
      In this online appendix we extend the basic model in the paper in several directions, discuss the robustness of the results, and moreover what new mechanisms our extensions implies as compared to the ones in the basic model.
    • Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children? 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We show that family background matters significantly for children’s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents raising them. The ...
    • Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children? 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We show that family background matters significantly for children’s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents raising them. The ...
    • Why does junior put all his eggs in one basket? A potential rational explanation for holding concentrated portfolios 

      Roche, Hervé; Tompaidis, Stathis; Yang, Chunyu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Empirical studies of household portfolios show that young households, with little financial wealth, hold underdiversified portfolios that are concentrated in a small number of assets, a fact often attributed to behavioral ...