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How entrepreneurial orientation can leverage innovation project portfolio management
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Innovation project portfolio management (IPPM) is a key task in R&D management because this decision‐making process determines which R&D projects should be undertaken and how R&D resources are allocated. Previous research ... -
How general is the Vale-Maurelli simulation approach?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The Vale-Maurelli (VM) approach to generating non-normal mul- tivariate data involves the use of Fleishman polynomials applied to an underly- ing Gaussian random vector. This method has been extensively used in Monte Carlo ... -
How has fear of COVID-19 influenced consumers' purchase intention of green products?
(Master thesis, 2022)On the 26th of February 2020, the first Norwegian citizen infected with COVID-19 was confirmed (Kolberg et al., 2020), and only a few days later, in March 2020, the Norwegian government introduced the most intrusive measures ... -
How has the mortgage regulation implemented in 2017 affected house prices in Oslo?
(Master thesis, 2018)We show that regulatory mortgage and equity restrictions, implemented in Oslo in 2017, leveled the abnormal house price surge. Results indicate that both regulatory measures analyzed in this thesis are causing the price ... -
How have airlines used alliances to internationalise their expansion? : A case study on Norwegian Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines’ behaviour
(Master thesis, 2018)This final paper proposes a framework which reviews strategic alliances in the context of the Airlines Industry and puts in contrast the two largest Nordic airlines. Strategic alliances, in this sight, are part of the ... -
How have the health effects of COVID-19 impacted municipal bond liquidity and trading activity?
(Master thesis, 2023)This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic’s health effects on the municipal bond market. We analyze liquidity and trading activity measures, and how they correlate with COVID-19 health variables. The goal ... -
How have two Norwegian organizations managed to enhance attitudes for change among employees to develop and use digital sustainability solutions?
(Master thesis, 2022)This master thesis aims to investigate how Mesta and Norsk Gjenvinning have enhance attitudes for change among employees in order to implement digital sustainable solutions. Through a qualitative method and a narrative ... -
How important are risk-taking incentives in executive compensation?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We consider a model in which shareholders provide a risk-averse CEO with risk-taking incentives in addition to effort incentives. We show that the optimal contract protects the CEO from losses for bad outcomes and is convex ... -
How Important Is Word of Mouth? Development, Validation, and Application of a Scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Companies spend large amounts of money to induce word of mouth (WOM) and spread it among consumers. This research introduces the concept of “WOM relevance,” which measures the importance of WOM for consumers’ purchase-decision ... -
How is ESG disclosure perceived in IPO context: An analysis of the Nordic market
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis aims to investigate how ESG factors disclosed in prospectuses affect underpricing in Initial Public Offerings of companies in the Nordic market. The thesis will reduce the gap in academic literature related to ... -
How Leadership Transitions Are Coordinated in Practice: A Comparative Multiple-Case Study of Large Private Companies in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022)This study explored an expected gap between Dale’s (2014; 2015) framework and how leadership transitions are coordinated in a Norwegian context. The aim was to test Dale’s framework against existing practice and clarify ... -
How Mergers and Acquisitions Created Value During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Empirical Evidence from the U.S. TMT Industry
(Master thesis, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the U.S. market, including merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. This thesis aims to identify potential factors influencing M&A success and also examines the long-term ... -
How much of the GPFG should NBIM actively invest in private real estate?
(Master thesis, 2018)The objective of this thesis is to assess the optimal allocation to private real estate in the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) portfolio. We aim to do so by combining quantitative analysis with qualitative ... -
How newcomers use role models in organizational socialization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)This study examines how newcomers use colleagues as role models in organizational socialization, taking a multiple level approach to organizational socialization as individual, social and cultural learning processes. The ... -
How police leaders learn to lead
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article examines how Norwegian police leaders learn to lead and what constitutes police practices. Twenty-seven police leaders were shadowed during and interviewed about their daily practices of policing. We found ... -
How pre- and post-recruitment factors shape role perceptions of European Commission officials
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Individuals' role perceptions are central guides to their behavior and choices as members of an organization. Understanding organizational dynamics thus requires knowledge about the determinants of such role perceptions, ... -
How priming influences elaboration and advertisement attitude : the underlying mechanism of conceptual fluency
(Master thesis, 2013-02-06)To our recollection, a theoretical gap in previous priming research, especially within contextual priming, is the failure to include fluency as the explaining mechanism behind priming effects. This is a limitation, as ... -
How private equity strategies impact the portfolio companies’ performance (Evidence from Norway)
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis studies the impact of private equity-backing on the portfolio companies they acquire, with evidence from Norway. We are researching the two main strategies in Norway, buyout and venture capital. The impact ... -
How Reforms Influence Organisational Practices: The Cases of Public Roads and Electricity Supply Organisations in Norway
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2005)With respect to how radical transformation of organisational practices a reform objective presuppose, both moderate and radical public management reforms can be identified. In addition, both radical and more limited ... -
How serial acquirers learn : A study on how deliberate learning mechanisms are affected by absorptive capacity
(Master thesis, 2016)This paper presents the underlying elements that affect a serial acquirer’s deliberate learning mechanisms. In this thesis, we took an exploratory case study approach. A total of ten serial acquirers were interviewed ...