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A Touch of Words: Influencing Consumers’ Purchase Intentions Using Touch-Describing Adjectives in Digital Advertisements
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate whether touch-describing adjectives in a digital advertisement can trigger consumers purchase intention. We answer this question by conducting an online survey-based ... -
A user-friendly earth system model of low complexity: The ESCIMO system dynamics model of global warming towards 2100
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We have made a simple system dynamics model, ESCIMO (Earth System Climate Interpretable Model), which runs on a desktop computer in seconds and is able to reproduce the main output from more complex climate models. ESCIMO ... -
A value structured approach to conflicts in environmental management
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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
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ...