Browsing Publikasjoner fra CRIStin - BI by Issue Date
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Norway's Storting Election of September 2005: Back to the Left?
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Exploring PMOs Through Community of Practice Theory
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)This article explores project management offices (PMOs) through community of practice theory. Preliminary results from a national health care case study are used to confirm the legitimacy of this approach. Today’s ... -
Materialised Ideals: Sizes and Beauty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Author: Kirsi Laitala*, Ingun Grimstad Klepp** and Benedicte Hauge*** Affiliation: *National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Norway; Department of Product Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ... -
Companies Ethical Commitment: an analysis of the rhetoric in CSR reports
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)This paper investigates rhetoric applied in 80 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports in 2005. A taxonomy of five distinct rhetorical strategies for describing the purpose of CSR is applied; Agency (profit), Benefit ... -
Relationships between Leadership and Success in Different Types of Project Complexities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)We investigate the moderating effect of project complexity on the relationship between leadership competences of project managers and their success in projects. Building on existing studies in leadership and project ... -
Absorptive, innovative and adaptive capabilities and their impact on project and project portfolio performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This study explores how absorptive, innovative and adaptive capabilities within early project phases affect project and portfolio performance in pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D organizations. A sequential qualitative ... -
The governance of knowledge in project-based organizations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This research investigates patterns of knowledge governance practices in project-based organizations (PBOs). Five propositions about knowledge governance in PBOs were deductively and empirically tested using qualitative ... -
Measuring program success
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Growth in the use of programs has led to a requirement of understanding what constitute program success. A measurement construct for program success, which comprises four dimensions, namely, delivery capability, organizational ... -
Project Control Mechanisms in Non-Project-Based Organizations in Asia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Projects play a key role in implementing strategy. Organizations of all kinds implement projects. As the importance of the projects grow, their monitoring and controlling becomes crucial for strategy achievement. However, ... -
A Relational Typology of Project Management Offices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This explorative paper develops a relational typology of PMOs based on their roles with stakeholders. A multi-case study was used to identify these roles PMOs in multiple-PMO settings. A three dimensional role space allows ... -
Exploring societal cultural values and human rights and development
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This study is an exploration of the relationships between societal cultural values and various observable societal practices. We drew on extant data sources and explored relationships between societal values and human ... -
Why does junior put all his eggs in one basket? A potential rational explanation for holding concentrated portfolios
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Empirical studies of household portfolios show that young households, with little financial wealth, hold underdiversified portfolios that are concentrated in a small number of assets, a fact often attributed to behavioral ... -
The Interrelationship of Governance,Trust, and Ethics in Temporary Organizations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This study investigates the variety of ethical decisions of project managers and their impact from corporate governance and project governance structures. The roles of personal trust and system trust as a mechanism to steer ... -
Beyond a Literature Review of Hall’s Context Dimension: ScaleDevelopment, Validation & Empirical Findings Within a Norwegian Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This article describes this researcher's development and validation of a new attitudinal scale to measure Hall's seminal cross-cultural dimension of High-Low Context communication within a business setting. The article ... -
Attributional tendencies in cultural explanations of M&A performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This paper focuses on managers' attributions of M&A performance. Our analysis indicates that there is a linear association between performance and attributions to cultural differences, which is moderated by prior experience. ... -
Strategic brand management: Archetypes for managing brandsthrough paradoxes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Although brands are acknowledged as significant assets in a firm‟s value creation and differentiation process, branding literature often describes opposing perspectives and contradictory demands. This article develops a ... -
Constraint-Shattering Practices and Creative Action in Organizations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This study contributes insights on how actors cope with constraints in ill-structured problem-solving situations, and what implications this coping has for creative action. To date, most research on constraint handling ... -
Rethinking climate communications and the “psychological climate paradox”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Climate science has provided ever more reliable data and models over the last 20–30 years, thereby indicating increasingly severe impacts in the coming decades and centuries. Nonetheless, public concern for climate change ... -
Institutional dynamics in international organizations: Lessons from the recruitment procedures of the European External Action Service
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article examines how organisational designs develop by proposing a novel theoretical framework that views organisational change as resulting from a dialectic process between interpretive agents. The key claim is that ...