Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik"
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Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Fredona, Robert; Reinert, Sophus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the eighteenth-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway’s immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered ... -
Business schools and the roles of the executives' wives
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (Journal article; Others, 2021)This article shows how historical studies enrich our understanding of imprinting theory and can further our knowledge about gender in business schools. In the founding period of executive education following World War II, ... -
Creating the new executive: postwar executive education and socialization into the managerial elite
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper explores the development of executive education in the US from 1945 to around 1970, and its function in developing potential top executives’ cultural, symbolic, and social capital. The paper shows that postwar ... -
Executive Education
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020)Summary Executive education, defined as consisting of short, intensive non-degree programs offered by university business schools to attract people who are in or close to top executive positions, is a vital part of modern ... -
Making Managers in Latin America: The Emergence of Executive Education in Central America, Peru, and Colombia
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Davila, Carlos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin ... -
Making managers: a fresh look
Kipping, Matthias; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; McGlade, Jacqueline (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several ... -
Management qualification and dissemination of knowledge in regional innovation systems : the case of Norway 1930s–1990s
Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Gammelsæter, Hallgeir (Chapter, 2021)This chapter provides a detailed empirical foundation for discussing the role of dissemination of technical, organizational, and managerial knowledge within regional innovation systems. Accordingly, it focuses on qualification ... -
Opening the black box of international strategy formation: How Harvard Business School became a multinational enterprise
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article addresses the question of why some business schools internationalize by establishing units abroad. We study their internationalization by examining the process that led to Harvard Business School’s first ... -
Resilience and related variety: The role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove; Berge, Dag Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Recent research in economic geography has introduced two notions that historical studies should explore: regional resilience and related variety. Regional resilience refers to a region’s ability to recover from external ... -
The role of MNE subsidiaries in the practice of global business models in transforming economies
Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh; Wang, Jinmin; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study provides new insights into the role of subsidiary managers in the practice of global business models of multinational enterprises in transforming economies. Drawing on the global business model literature and ... -
The role of MNE subsidiaries in the practice of global business models in transforming economies
Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh; Wang, Jinmin; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study provides new insights into the role of subsidiary managers in the practice of global business models of multinational enterprises in transforming economies. Drawing on the global business model literature and ... -
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study examines the timing of the first foreign direct investment (FDI). It explores how the conceptualization and, hence, the understanding of time affects our insights into major internationalization decisions in ... -
The internationalization of Executive education
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The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G.; Grøgaard, Birgitte (Others, 2023)The dominant narrative about the rise of international business (IB) focuses on early research and the institutionalization of a new academic field. In this study, we explore the role of case writing in the field’s formative ... -
The “Unwritten Will” in Interpersonal Network Ties: Founder Legacy and International Networking of Family Firms in History
Korhonen, Satu; Leppäaho, Tanja; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Jack, Sarah (Chapter, 2021)In this study, we explore the role of interpersonal network ties in the context of internationalizing family firms. Through two historical cases—Alhström and Serlachius—we study how the founder-entrepreneurs’ domestic and ...