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Working in Tandem: A Longitudinal Study of the Interplay of Working Practices and Social Enterprise Platforms in the Multinational Workplace
(Series of Dissertations;7/2015, Doctoral thesis, 2015-09-17)This thesis aims to contribute to our understanding of the implications of the social technology use in the work settings, and through this, how value is created in organizations. If enterprise platforms shall replace ... -
Working in the digitized economy: HRM theory & practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In our introduction to this special issue on the gig economy, we provide some context to how and why this phenomenon should be studied, with a particular emphasis on Human Resource Management. We then describe the four ... -
Working Smarter and Greener in the age of Digitalization: The Corporate Knowledge Work Design in the Future
(Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2020)This paper investigates what forms the knowledge work design in the future on a corporate level. The future is 2030. The methodology includes 20 in-depth interviews with researchers working with these issues in the Swedish ... -
Workplace bullying as predicted by non-prototypicality, group identification and norms: a self-categorisation perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Research and theory on deviance in work groups suggest that non-prototypical members risk devaluation and mistreatment by their peers. Drawing on the self-categorisation theory, we propose and test a contextual model to ... -
Workplace Deviance Investigations: A Case Study of the Application of Maturity Model to a University Investigation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article presents a case study from Norway that supplements previous research in other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom regarding lack of justice when corporate investigators ... -
Worldwide Virtual Ed.?: an empirical study of ICT for and in internationalization processes in a business school
(Research Report, Research report, 2003)This report addresses the issues of internationalization and how information and communication technologies are parts of internationalization processes in higher education. It is frequently assumed that Information and ... -
Would you eat it? An investigation of how perceived sustainability and perceived risk influence consumer acceptance of edible food packaging.
(Master thesis, 2020)One of the recent innovations for food packaging materials is edible packaging which is initiated to deal with environmental issues. However, research into edible food packaging is still in its infancy, especially in ... -
Would you like to bid higher for additional information? Examining consumers’ willingness to pay for blockchain proven goods in the Norwegian food industry
(Master thesis, 2020)This study focuses on the effect blockchain technology has on consumers’ willingness to pay, when used to record and present food provenance information. This was done through an experimental auction, where consumers bid ... -
Wrangler : Hvordan har relanseringen av Wrangler nådd ut til ønsket målgruppe?
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)Denne bacheloroppgaven omhandler relanseringen til merkevaren Wrangler, der vi har kommet frem til følgende problemstilling: «Hvordan har relanseringen av Wrangler nådd ut til ønsket målgruppe?» Innledningsvis presenteres ... -
X and Y leadership
(Master thesis, 2012-05-10)The purpose of this study was to find support for McGregor’s Theory X and Y. Our aim was to investigate whether the relationship between leaders’ X/Y attitude would have a significant impact on employee work behaviour. ... -
Ye olde CSR: the historic roots of corporate social responsibility in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This essay traces the roots of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Norway. It is argued that a basic tenet of CSR, an orientation toward the concerns of stakeholders, has a long history in Norwegian business, predating ... -
The Yield Curve as a Predictor of Business Cycle
(Master thesis, 2020)In the Master Thesis, we study the yield curve's predictability power for the business cycle in developing countries. For this research, we want to answer the question if the inverted yield curve can predict the recessions ... -
Yngre lederes kjennskap til og kunnskap om den norske ledelsesmodellen
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne oppgaven undersøker yngre lederes kjennskap til, og kunnskap om, den norske ledelsesmodellen. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i professor Tor Grenness forsiktige konklusjon om at det er mulig å identifisere en norsk form ... -
You are on mute! The relationship between virtuality, extraversion and organizational socialization
(Master thesis, 2022)The purpose of this study is to understand how one can incorporate virtual work in the organizational socialization that finds place when onboarding new employees, while still taking individual differences into consideration. ... -
You break it, you fix it? : costumer participation in service recovery
(Master thesis, 2012-05-09)Customer participation represents numerous positive effects for companies in terms of productivity gains and profitability. It has in recent years emerged as a powerful tool for companies to customize their service offerings ... -
You can't ‘fake it till you make it’: Cooperative motivation does not help proself trustees
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Cooperative motivation can be rooted in individual differences as well as in external factors, such as instructions from superiors, incentive schemes, policy agendas, or social relationships. Whereas cooperative motivation ... -
You care about me, but can I count on you? Applying a psychological contract perspective to investigate what makes employees willing to be internally employable
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For this study, we adopted a psychological contract-based perspective to investigate whether the fulfillment of perceived developmental promises made to employees is positively related to their willingness to accept internal ... -
Young media use 2019. Media preferences and behavior
(Research report, 2018)This is a report on aspects of media usage among young people. The results are based upon a survey among business school students on Bachelor level at BI Norwegian Business School – campus Bergen. The survey was distributed ... -
Youth enfranchisement, political responsiveness, and education expenditure: Evidence from the US
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We examine the link between the political participation of the young and fiscal policies in the United States. We generate exogenous variation in participation using the passage of preregistration laws, which allow the ... -
You’re fired: A study of public leader exits from 1945 to 2018
(Master thesis, 2018)The present thesis examines if exiting leaders is a viable solution to problems in organizations, or if exiting leaders has become a practice of its own. To investigate what involuntary public leader exits (i.e. leader ...