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Abandon Ship? Party Brands and Politicians’ Responses to a Political Scandal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Political scandals often trigger responses from voters and the implicated politicians. In this article, we extend the analysis to politicians who are only indirectly affected by a scandal through their affiliation with the ... -
Ability, Demographic and Personality Predictors of Work Success
(Journal article, 2020)794 working people aged around 30 years completed three intelligence (Ravens Progressive matrices: GMA Numerical and GMA Verbal) and one personality test (16PF) before entering jobs in public service. They were all graduates ... -
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 ... -
Abusive retaliation of low performance in low-quality LMX relationships
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In the current study, we investigated the occurrence of abusive retaliation in response to low performance. More specifically, we hypothesize an association between low work performance and abusive supervision, as well as ... -
“Academics´ motivation and well-being: A qualitative study of the effects the pandemic and the following digital changes has had on academics´ motivation and well-being”
(Master thesis, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes in the workday of academics and universities have experienced a radical shift towards becoming more digital. Restrictions have led universities to force their employees to ... -
Acceptability, usability and utility of a personalized application in promoting behavioral change in osteoarthritis patients: A feasibility study in Norway.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)AbstrACt Objective The dynamic and interactive mobile application Vett was designed to help change behaviour and is based on cognitive, motivational and visual techniques. Our aim is to investigate the acceptability, ... -
Access to Capital and its Effect on Capital Structures, Leverage Deficits, and Acquisition Probabilities
(Master thesis, 2019)By using a large sample of Norwegian public and private firms, we study the effect of access to public equity markets on the firm’s capital structure, leverage deficit, and acquisition probability. We find that publicly ... -
Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial ... -
Accounting Conservatism: An empirical study on financial reporting and stock returns in Norwegian listed firms
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis studies conditional and unconditional accounting conservatism in Norwegian listed firms. We address two hypotheses; 1) a positive coefficient on change in cash investments captures conditional accounting ... -
Accounting for Individual-Specific Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Income Mobility
(CAMP Working Paper Series;03/2024, Working paper, 2024-02-21)This paper proposes a fully nonparametric model to investigate the dynamics of intergenerational income mobility. In our model, an individual’s income class probabilities depend on parental income in a manner that accommodates ... -
ACHIEVING HIGH ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT DURING VIRTUAL ONBOARDING
(Master thesis, 2021)The world as we knew it changed dramatically during the year 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Organizations were forced to change their ways of working and many relocated their employees to home-office. Virtual ... -
Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals within 9 planetary boundaries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The world agreed to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Nine planetary boundaries set an upper limit to Earth system impacts of human activity in the long run. Conventional efforts to achieve the 14 socio-economic ... -
Actions on suspicion of white-collar crime in business organizations: An empirical study of intended responses by Chief financial officers
(Academic article, 2011)The most economically disadvantaged members of society are not the only ones committing crime. Members of the privileged socioeconomic class are also engaged in criminal behavior. The types of crime may differ from those ... -
Active Currency Management at the Swedish National Debt Office - A Case Study
(Master thesis, 2019)Swedish National Debt Office (SNDO) is responsible for managing Sweden’s central government debt. Since the mid-1970s, SNDO has issued bonds in foreign currency in addition to Swedish Krona (SEK) debt, thereby incurring ... -
Active Loan Trading
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Using a novel dataset of leveraged loan trades executed by managers of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), we document the importance of “active loan trades” – trades executed at a manager’s discretion. More active ... -
Active Share and Performance of Norwegian Equity Funds
(Master thesis, 2019)We measure the degree of active management in Norwegian equity mutual funds and investigate how it relates to fund performance in the period 2007-2018. Our measures of active management are active share and tracking ... -
Active vs Passive Portfolio Management in Norway - a study Management in Norway - a study
(Master thesis, 2018)This paper investigates whether money managers in Norway outperform their respective benchmarks and create value for their investors. To get a better understanding of this, an aggregated portfolio of Norwegian mutual ... -
ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE IN THE NORWEGIAN MARKET
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis examines the performance of active mutual funds in Norway and explores whether actively managed funds consistently outperform passive index funds net of fees. By analyzing a survivorship bias free dataset ... -
Adaptation to Sustainability in Norwegian Shipping Companies
(Master thesis, 2022)The most challenging issue that shipping companies are confronted with in the coming years is the need to become more sustainable. Accordingly, exploring critical factors in the implementation process is necessary. Whereas ... -
Adapting to Changing Job Demands: A Broadcast Approach to Understanding Self-Regulated Adaptive Performance and Cultivating It in Situated Work Settings
(Series of Dissertations;5/2017, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Although employees’ “adaptive performance” is increasingly important for maintaining both individual job performance and contributing to organizational performance, there continues to be only a superficial understanding ...