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La creación de valor en los consejos y la diversidad de género: Cómo progresar para incrementar el número de mujeres en los consejos de administración en España
(Research Report;2/2016 (Spanish version), Research report, 2016)España fue uno de los primeros países en establecer una normativa que contemplaba la igualdad de género en los consejos de administración de las empresas a través de la ley orgánica 3/2007 de 22 de marzo. A pesar de ello, ... -
Labor conflicts in the Toronto construction industry, 1968?1973. A crossroads of ethnic issues, business innovations, class struggle, and union action
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article concerns a case study in labor history which represents an interesting example of union action in a workers’ community characterized by intersections between ethnic and class belonging. The focus of the ... -
Labor income, relative wealth concerns, and the cross section of stock returns
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The finance literature documents a relation between labor income and the cross-section of stock returns. One possible explanation for this is the hedg-ing decisions of investors with relative wealth concerns. This implies ... -
Labor Protection Laws and Corporate Cash Holdings
(Master thesis, 2016)The research is conducted to find empirical evidence of labor laws impact on cash holdings for Norwegian firms in the timespan between 1998 and 2013. Further, it relates the main research with factors such as firm size, ... -
Laboratory safety and research productivity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking death of a ... -
Labour market returns to higher education: An empirical analysis of marginal students Evidence from BI Norwegian Business School
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis targets the returns to higher education in Norway, respectively if a selection of students experienced positive labour market gains from graduating. The selection refers to bachelor students in business-adm ... -
Lack of ear care knowledge in nursing homes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Rising life expectancy means an increase in the number of elderly people with hearing loss in the population. Many elderly people live in nursing homes, with varying care needs. A substantial proportion of these ... -
Laddering in Initial Public Offering Allocations
(CCGR Working Paper;2/2011, Working paper, 2011)Tying Initial Public Offering (IPO) allocations of common stock to after-listing purchases in the IPO shares, a process referred to as IPO laddering, has resulted in large-scale investigations of the major investment ... -
Lagring av forskningsdata i Norge - hva tilbyr de største arkivene? Prosjektrapport
(Others, 2015)I løpet av de to siste årene er det kommet krav fra forskningsfinansiører omkring tilgjengeliggjøring av forskningsdata når prosjekter har fått økonomisk støtte (European Commission, 2013; Norges forskningsråd, 2014b). ... -
Lakselus gir strategiske utfordringer i norsk fiskeoppdrett: en strategisk analyse av eide fjordbruk
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)I 2017 innførte regjeringen et tiltak for å bekjempe de miljømessige problemene relatert til lakselus innenfor oppdrettsbransjen og for å sikre fremtidig bærekraftig vekst. Dette systemet kjenner vi som Trafikklyssystemet. ... -
Language in multilingual organizations: power, policies and politics
(Chapter, 2023)This book chapter offers a review of existing literature on the topic of power struggles around language use in multilingual organizations. Theories and empirical evidence from language-sensitive research in international ... -
Language use by two newly elected French presidents: Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The aim of this paper is to compare Jacques Chirac’s ten most frequently used words - nouns and adjectives - during the months that followed his inauguration as French president in 1995 with Nicolas Sarkozy’s use of the ... -
Lansering av sukkerfri sjokolade - Nidar
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Det finnes et marked for sukkerfritt godteri i utlandet, mens i Norge er dette svært dårlig utnyttet. Det kan være risikabelt for en godteriprodusent å tilby sukkerfri sjokolade som et av sine produkter, da en sukkerfri ... -
Large classes: Better results with blended learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This study shows that adding blended learning elements in a large classroom course has a positive impact on students’ perception of the course, which leads to better course evaluations as well as betterlearning results. ... -
Large Time-Varying Volatility Models for Electricity Prices
(CAMP Working Paper Series;05/2020, Working paper, 2020-07-02)We study the importance of time-varying volatility in modelling hourly electricity prices when fundamental drivers are included in the estimation. This allows us to contribute to the literature of large Bayesian VARs by ... -
Large Time-Varying Volatility Models for Hourly Electricity Prices*
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We study the importance of time-varying volatility in modelling hourly electricity prices when fundamental drivers are included in the estimation. This allows us to contribute to the literature of large Bayesian VARs by ... -
'Large' versus 'Small' Players: A Closer Look at the Dynamics of Speculative Attacks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)What is the role of “large players” (e.g., hedge funds) in speculative attacks? Recent work suggests that large players move early to induce smaller agents to attack. However, many observers argue that large players move ... -
"The Lasso Way"
(Master thesis, 2023)TV-serien Ted Lasso ble lansert på Apple TV+ i 2020. Vi lot oss begeistre av den underholdende og hjertevarme serien under pandemiens tåke. Samtidig vokste det frem en gryende nysgjerrighet på lederskikkelsen Ted Lasso. ... -
Last in, first out? Length of service as a moderator of the relationship between exposure to bullying behaviors and work-related outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In the present study, we proposed and tested a conceptual model of length of service in the organization as a moderator of the relationship between exposure to workplace bullying behaviors and turnover intention, as mediated ... -
Latent Dirichlet Allocation-based method and Cosine Similarity: Aligning Research Publications with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
(Master thesis, 2022)According to the United Nations Statistics Division (2021) the development of the Sustainable Development Goals is running behind schedule. Higher education plays a significant role in prioritising and implementing ...