• Digitizing the chemical senses: Possibilities & pitfalls 

      Spence, Charles; Obrist, Marianna; Velasco, Carlos; Ranasinghe, Nimesha (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Many people are understandably excited by the suggestion that the chemical senses can be digitized; be it to deliver ambient fragrances (e.g., in virtual reality or health-related applications), or else to transmit flavour ...
    • Director compensation and related party transactions 

      Hope, Ole-Kristian; Lu, Haihao; Saiy, Sasan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper examines whether independent directors’ compensation is associated with related party transactions. We focus both on directors’ total compensation and their equity-based compensation. Employing hand-collected ...
    • Discriminative multimodal learning via conditional priors in generative models 

      Andrade Mancisidor, Rogelio; Kampffmeyer, Michael Christian; Aas, Kjersti; Jenssen, Robert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Deep generative models with latent variables have been used lately to learn joint representations and generative processes from multi-modal data, which depict an object from different viewpoints. These two learning mechanisms ...
    • Disentangling the Effect of Services on B2B Firm Value: Trade-Offs of Sales, Profits, and Earnings Volatility 

      Nezami, Mehdi; Worm, Stefan; Palmatier, Robert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In the face of declining business and growing pressures from low-cost competitors, many business-to-business (B2B) manufacturers have moved from their previously successful product-centric strategies to more service-oriented ...
    • Diverging assessments of learning organizations during reform implementation 

      Borge, Baard Herman; Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Skogmo, Per Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose This study aims to explore whether hierarchical position and organizational size affect perceptions of a learning organization (LO) during reform implementation. Design/methodology/approach An electronic survey ...
    • Dividends and taxes: The moderating role of agency conflicts 

      Berzins, Janis; Bøhren, Øyvind; Stacescu, Bogdan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We find that potential conflicts between majority and minority shareholders strongly influence how dividends respond to taxes. When the controlling shareholder has a smaller stake, the incentives to extract private benefits ...
    • Do Central Banks Respond Timely to Developments in the Global Economy? 

      Bjørnland, Hilde C; Thorsrud, Leif Anders; Zahiri, Sepideh Khayati (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Our analysis suggests; they do not! We arrive at this conclusion by showing that revisions to the published interest rate path projections from the central banks in New Zealand, Norway and Sweden can be predicted by timely ...
    • Do industry-specific accounting standards matter for capital allocation decisions? 

      Fiechter, Peter; Landsman, Wayne; Peasnell, Ken; Renders, Annelies (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This study examines whether the implementation of industry-specific accounting standards helps capital market participants in making decisions about providing capital to firms. We predict and find an, on average, increase ...
    • Do Voluntary Associations Show their Bright or Dark Side under Adverse Societal Shocks? Evidence from 9/11 

      Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this article, we reassess the relation between association membership and individuals’ feelings about immigrants, thereby focusing on possible shifts in this relation in the wake of negative societal shocks (i.e., the ...
    • Do you get what you pay for? Sales incentives and implications for motivation and changes in turnover intention and work effort 

      Kuvaas, Bård; Buch, Robert; Gagne, Marylene; Dysvik, Anders; Forest, Jacques (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This study investigated relations between pay-for-performance incentives designed to vary in instrumentality (annual pay-for-performance, quarterly pay-for-performance, and base pay level) and employee outcomes (self-reported ...
    • Do you have to be mad to believe in conspiracy theories? Personality disorders and conspiracy theories 

      Furnham, Adrian; Grover, Simmy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This study explored the relationship between belief in conspiracy theories and the personality disorders. A sample of 475 British adults, aged around 30 years, completed measures of Belief in Conspiracy Theories (CTs) and ...
    • Does information sharing reduce the role of collateral as a screening device? 

      Stacescu, Bogdan; Karapetyan, Artashes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Information sharing and collateral are both devices that help banks reduce the cost of adverse selection. We examine whether they are likely to be used as substitutes (information sharing reduces the need for collateral) ...
    • Does Oil Promote or Prevent Coups? the Answer Is Yes 

      Nordvik, Frode Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      A large literature investigates the relation between oil and conflict, yet no empirical study has found any link between oil and coups d’état. Using a new data set on oil production separated into onshore and offshore ...
    • Does Service Employees’ Appearance Affect the Healthiness of Food Choice? 

      Huneke, Tabea; Benoit, Sabine; Shams, Poja; Gustafsson, Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Derived from previous research on social influence on food consumption and social comparison theory, this article examines the effect of service employees’ appearance on consumers’ food choice using an experimental study, ...
    • Does special education predict students’ math and language skills? 

      Lekhal, Ratib (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A large number of children are today receiving special education in Norway. The high cost to society and possible long-term consequences for the students make it important to understand the interrelationship of the causes ...
    • Does the Use of Diagnostic Technology Reduce Fetal Mortality? 

      Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Skau, Irene; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Eskild, Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objective: To examine the effect that the introduction of new diagnostic technology in obstetric care has had on fetal death. Data Source The Medical Birth Registry of Norway provided detailed medical information for ...
    • Does the Use of Diagnostic Technology Reduce Fetal Mortality? 

      Grytten, Jostein Ivar; Skau, Irene; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Eskild, Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objective: To examine the effect that the introduction of new diagnostic technology in obstetric care has had on fetal death. Data Source The Medical Birth Registry of Norway provided detailed medical information for ...
    • Does the ‘Non-Traditional Expatriate’ Exist? A Critical Exploration of New Expatriation Categories 

      Guttormsen, David S. A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Non-Traditional Expatriates (NTEs) are rapidly increasing in the global talent pool, but remains a ‘black-box’ in the Expatriate Management and Global Mobility literatures. This article advances the conceptualisation of ...
    • Does thrive by three, a quality-building intervention in childcare centres, strengthen children’s language skills? 

      Lekhal, Ratib; Drugli, May Britt; Karlsen, Lisa-Marie; Lydersen, Stian; Buøen, Elisabet Solheim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This study examined the effectiveness of the Thrive by Three intervention for 1- to 3-year-old’s language development. Data from 78 childcare centres, 187 toddler classrooms, and 1561 children (91.4% native Norwegian) were ...
    • Doing Business in Norway: An International Perspective 

      Warner-Søderholm, Gillian; Bertsch, Andy; Abdullah, ABM; Saeed, M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      With the recent economic crisis, in having a petroleum-based economy, Norway has withstood the fluctuation in the international business sector. Indeed, the Norwegian economy is prosperous despite the global recession. ...