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With or Against Others? Pay-for-Performance Activates Aggressive Aspects of Competitiveness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)While paying employees for performance (PfP) has been shown to elicit increased motivation by way of competitive processes, the present paper investigates whether the same competitive processes inherent in PfP can also ... -
Wittgenstein’s Revenge: How Semantic Algorithms Can Help Survey Research Escape Smedslund’s Labyrinth
(Chapter, 2020)Empirical research has shown how semantic algorithms can often predict the statistics of survey data a priori, particularly in topics like “leadership” and “motivation.” In those cases, the survey data reflect the language ... -
Women and Employee-Elected Board Members, and Their Contributions to Board Control Tasks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)We present results from a study about women and employee-elected board members, and fill some of the gaps in the literature about their contribution to board effectiveness. The empirical data is from a unique data set of ... -
Women and multiple board memberships: Social capital and institutional pressure
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We show unintended consequences of quota regulations to get women on boards. Board members may have diferent characteristics, and even among women, there are variations. We assume that the characteristics of the board ... -
Women and white-collar crime - A comparative study of Iranian and Norwegian offenders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Economic wrongdoing committed by privileged members of society’s upper social and economic elite is known as white-collar crime. The research on the gender gap among white-collar offenders is expanded in this study, where ... -
Women Entrepreneurship and Management in Norway
(Working paper, 2001)This paper presents a statistical analysis of the current situation for women and men in business. Based on the extraordinary access we have had to important Norwegian databases, the data gives the most comprehensive ... -
Women in Finance
(Master thesis, 2023)The percentage of women in executive positions within the finance industry is remarkably low. This evident gender disparity is frequently attributed to the “glass ceiling” phenomenon. This study seeks to examine the ... -
Women seek more variety in rewards when closer to ovulation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)We propose that women's increased generalized sensitivity to rewards during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle causes them to seek more variety in rewards when they are in the fertile phase than when they are not in ... -
Women’s Justification of White-Collar Crime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)In an empirical study of white-collar criminals in Norway, only 8 % out of 255 convicted criminals in recent years were women. There are many potential explanations for the low female share of crime. This paper concentrates ... -
Words are the new numbers: A newsy coincident index of business cycles
(CAMP Working Paper Series;4/2016, Working paper, 2016)In this paper I construct a daily business cycle index based on quarterly GDP and textual information contained in a daily business newspaper. The newspaper data is decomposed into time series representing newspaper topics ... -
Work motivation as a determinant of organisational and professional commitment in temporary organisations : theoretical lenses and propositions
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Work-Family Enrichment and Motiuation in the light of Flexible Working Arrangements
(Master thesis, 2022)Due to the covid pandemic the last couple of years have been dominated by a higher level of flexible working arrangement (Eiffe, 2021). In response to the new working life organizations have become more employee centric, ... -
Working capital management: Evidence from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of whether working capital management (WCM) has an effect on the profitability of small- and medium-sized Norwegian firms. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Working from Paradise? An Analysis of the Representation of Digital Nomads’ Values and Lifestyle on Instagram
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Digital nomads (DNs) are highly mobile professionals who work while travelling and travel while working. Their lifestyle has gained increasing academic attention, also from a communication perspective. Despite initial work ... -
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 ...