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Practices of isolation: The shaping of project autonomy in innovation projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)A project's autonomy, the degree to which a project can evolve without constant interference from the parent organization, is a key feature of innovation projects. The literature treats autonomy as a passive phenomenon and ... -
Practitioner involvement and support in children’s learning during free play in two Norwegian kindergartens
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This research focuses on how practitioners in two Norwegian kindergartens interact with children during free play. The purpose of the study is to draw attention to the way the practitioners supported children’s learning ... -
Practopoietic lens to conceptualize temporary organizing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize temporary organizing as a practopoietic system. We critically review the current conceptualizations of projects; from the traditional project management perspective, and the ... -
Pre-såkornordningen - et nytt bidrag til gründerbedrifters kamp for å overleve «dødens dal»
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)I Norge eksisterer det et finansieringsgap som gjør at det ikke er nok risikovillig kapital for å finansiere alle de gode gründerideene som egentlig burde ha “livets rett”. Tidligere har staten opprettet såkornfondene ... -
Predictability of Bond Risk Premia
(Master thesis, 2018)The notion of time-varying risk premia has great implications from an economic standpoint. We study the predictability of bond risk premia in the US, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, UK, and Japan, and whether ... -
The Predictability of Future IPO Volume Through Initial Returns, a Study of the European Market
(Master thesis, 2020)IPO volume is highly autocorrelated in the European market, unlike initial returns. We find more companies tend to go public the following quarter after periods of high initial returns, as well as some characteristics ... -
Predictability of Stock Returns: An application of presentvalue state-space models to the German Stock Market
(Master thesis, 2019)In my thesis, I introduce a state-space representation of the present-value model to analyze predictability in the aggregated German stock market. The proposed model uses the information contained in annualized price-dividend ... -
The Predicted Usage Model (PUM)
(Master thesis, 2023)This predictive analytics project explores how machine learning can contribute to increased customer usage of NTB’s foreign news articles. The result of this research is the Predicted Usage Model (PUM) – a regression model ... -
Predicting Default Loans using Machine Learning
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis aims to determine whether machine learning algorithms effectively predict default loans and which machine learning algorithms are better performers than others. The research started by gathering information ... -
Predicting Private Equity Fund Returns
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis investigates the potential of a Private Equity fund performance forecasting model, to assist Private Equity investors in their investment decision making process. Fund performance is measured by the fund’s ... -
Predicting Real Estate Price Variations using Machine Learning and Google Trends
(Master thesis, 2021)The goal of this paper is to create a modern model via the use of machine learning (such as support vector regression, regression tree and neural networks) and google trends to predict real estate price variations. The ... -
Predicting Stock Market Dynamics with Google Trends
(Master thesis, 2019)We investigate investor attention measured by search volume index (SVI) data from Google Trends, and its impact on returns. Moreover, we examine the features of SVI as both an explanatory variable at time zero and its ... -
Predicting survey responses: How and why semantics shape survey statistics on organizational behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Some disciplines in the social sciences rely heavily on collecting survey responses to detect empirical relationships among variables. We explored whether these relationships were a priori predictable from the semantic ... -
Predicting Takeover Targets in the US Technology Industry
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis explores which factors affect takeover prediction in the US technology industry and whether abnormal returns are achievable with an investment portfolio based on takeover probabilities. With a sample consisting ... -
Predicting the Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing Petroleum Activity in Norway: A Scenario Evaluation Approach
(Master thesis, 2022)In the late nineteen sixties Norway discovered large oil and gas reserves on the continental shelf. This changed the economy profoundly and Norway quickly became a resource-exporting economy. Today, around fifty years after ... -
Predicting the Volatility of Cryptocurrency Time–Series
(CAMP Working Paper Series;3, Working paper, 2018-02)Cryptocurrencies have recently gained a lot of interest from investors, central banks and governments worldwide. The lack of any form of political regu- lation and their market far from being “efficient”, require new forms ... -
Predictors of students’ preferences for assessment methods
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The aim of this study is to examine whether a preference for specific assessment methods in higher education is associated with personality and character strengths. Two-hundred and seventy Portuguese students completed a ... -
Preferences for scarce medical resource allocation: Differences between experts and the general public and implications for the COVID‐19 pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study concerns what lay people believe is the best way to allocate scarce medical resources. A sample of 515 individuals completed a short questionnaire asking them to rank‐order eight different ethical positions with ... -
Preparing for the crises of tomorrow: The role of balance between cognitive styles : A quantitative study of the explanatory power of balance between cognitive styles on task performance in a simulated crisis management setting
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis we sought to explore the extent to which balance between cognitive styles explains variation in task performance in a simulated crisis management setting. We conducted a quantitative study with a sample ... -
Preparing for the future: How to organize warehouse operations to secure a profitable e-commerce sales channel?
(Master thesis, 2016)The background and current setting of the topic and theme of this thesis is how a traditional logistics actor can profitably reconfigure warehouse operations with the purpose of preparing for increased e-commerce activities. ...