• Agency and economizing in interacted economies 

      Håkansson, Håkan; Olsen, Per Ingvar; Bakken, Tore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This paper discusses some core implications of the bulk of IMP research over the years for the understanding and conceptualization of what we call “interacted agency”. The discussion is also rooted in the two fundamental ...
    • Below the surface: how (seafood-)networks work - and how they change 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The objective of this editorial is to provide a broader context for five papers presenting different aspects of seafood industries, distribution networks and markets. It also discusses in brief some of their propositional ...
    • Cognitive model of entrepreneurship and its reflection in education 

      Ojastu, Deniss; Chiu, Richard; Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This paper employs a novel method for assessing the appropriateness of different types of entrepreneurial education. With the help of cognitive mapping as a research tool, it visualizes entrepreneurship as a skill-and-at ...
    • Eierstyring, innovasjon og internasjonalisering i integrerte samvirkekonsern 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar; Lervik, Jon Erland (Forskningsrapport;1/2006, Research report, 2006)
      Denne rapporten er leveransen fra fase III av forskningsprogrammet ”Norsk jordbruksvaresektor. Strategi og forretningsutvikling mot år 2010”. Den representerer en avrunding av et program som over 4 år har utforsket ulike ...
    • IMP theory in light of process- and system theories 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This paper compares and discusses IMP theory in relation to Process Theory and Systems Theory, and also relates it to the ANT. It contrasts and illuminates ontological and epistemological underpinnings, methodologies and ...
    • Innovation management in networked economies 

      Håkansson, Håkan; Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Business network research, service-dominant logic and service system thinking all reflect an interactional interpretation of value creation as the fundamental approach to understanding modern economies and business ...
    • Internationalization of an academic invention through successive science-business networks: The case of TAVI 

      Mikhailova, Olga; Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The aim of this paper is to explain how new technology ventures move, grow, and scale. Such ventures internationalize much faster than depicted by the traditional Uppsala model (Johanson and Vahlne, J Int Bus Stud 8:23–32, ...
    • Jordbruksvaresektorens muligheter i sjømatbasert næringsutvikling 

      Hernes, Tor; Olsen, Per Ingvar; Espelien, Anne (Research Report, Research report, 2004)
      Hovedfokuset i dette prosjekt har vært å avdekke noen av de mulighetsrom som måtte finnes i krysningen mellom agro- og marin sektor. At det foreligger slike muligheter er for så vidt allerede vel forstått innenfor ...
    • Knowledge, Transparency and Power in Business Networks 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This article explores into the relationship between food suppliers and supermarket-chain retailers in the concentrated and import protected Norwegian dairy market. It aims at developing and discussing analytical constructs ...
    • Næringsutvikling i norsk jordbruksvaresektor: Kommersialisering av teknologiske nisjer 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar; Espelien, Anne (Research Report, Research report, 2003)
      Denne rapporten utgjør den teknologiorienterte delen av fase 2 av forskningsprosjektet ”Norsk jordbruksvaresektor: Strategi og forretningsutvikling mot år 2010”. Prosjektet ledes av førsteamanuensis Per Ingvar Olsen, ...
    • Perspektiver for norsk jordbruksvaresektor 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar; Gripsrud, Geir (Research Report, Research report, 2002)
      Rapporten diskuterer situasjonen for den norske jordbruksvaresektoren i et overordnet strategisk perspektiv. Perspektivet tar utgangspunkt i fire ulike fokus: 1) Den internasjonale ny-liberale transformasjonen av økonomiske ...
    • The contrary forces of innovation: a conceptual model for studying networked innovation processes 

      Hoholm, Thomas; Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      In this paper, we argue that industrial innovation processes can productively be analyzed as consisting of two sub-processes that over time create and mobilize contrary forces within both internal and external interactions ...
    • The dynamics of networked power in a concentrated business network 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar; Prenkert, Frans; Hoholm, Thomas; Harrison, Debbie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics of networked power in a concentrated business network. Power is a long standing theme in inter-organisational research, yet there is a paucity of studies about how ...
    • The Relevance and Applicability of Process Metaphysics to Organizational Research 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Process metaphysics (process philosophy) has been suggested as a route, to a more “process-based” approach to organizational studies, as opposed to a “substance-based” view said to be dominant in Western thinking - including ...
    • The roles of deals and business networks in innovation processes 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar; Håkansson, Håkan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the roles of deals in innovations processes, based on the definition of a deal as the interaction of social-material value-creating processes with money-handing processes. ...
    • The roles of money and business deals in network structures 

      Håkansson, Håkan; Olsen, Per Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      In this article we attempt interpreting and conceptualizing the roles of monetary processes and business deals in relation to IMP methodology and theory. This suggests that we have to separate the way the money is handled. ...
    • Transforming Economies: The Case of the Norwegian Electricity Market Reform 

      Olsen, Per Ingvar (Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2000)
      The topic of this thesis is the shaping of modern economies, represented by a case-study of the Norwegian electricity market reform process. The essential questions raised are: “Why are industries and economies organized ...