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    • Unchained from the chain: supply management from a logistics service provider perspective 

      Huemer, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The last few years have seen increasing recognition of the work of logistics service providers, as well as the significance of functioning supply relationships. This paper proposes an alternative view of supply management ...
    • Unconstrained Cholesky-based parametrization of correlation matrices 

      van Oest, Rutger Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Parameter estimation is relatively complicated for models containing correlation matrices, because the elements of correlation matrices are heavily constrained. We put forward a Cholesky-based parametrization that is easy ...
    • Understanding business offending: Survey research in Iran 

      Kamaei, Maryam; Gottschalk, Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Understanding business offending reflects the extent to which white-collar crime makes sense to respondents in the current survey research. Making sense implies a number of factors that influence understandability. An ...
    • Understanding Client-Consultant Collaboration within Information Systems Design: A Case Study 

      Ngoc Nguyen, Linh Thi; Fagerstrøm, Asle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This study provides an in-depth exploration of how clients and consultants collaborate in an outsourced design project and how this collaboration influenced the emerging design of an IS artifact. Findings show that the ...
    • Understanding Communities of Practice: Taking Stock and Moving Forward 

      Nicolini, Davide; Pyrko, Igor; Omidvar, Omid; Spanellis, Agnessa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This paper provides a comprehensive, integrative conceptual review of work on communities of practice (CoPs), defined broadly as groups of people bound together by a common activity, shared expertise, a passion for a joint ...
    • Understanding Cultural Factors which Affect Women Serving on Boards of Directors 

      Nguyen, Hanh Thi Hai; Bertsch, Andy; Warner-Søderholm, Gillian; Ondracek, Jim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This study explores the cultural factors that act as antecedents to women serving on boards of directors all over the world.We extend the theory proposed by several researchers before (e.g., Warner-Soderholm et al., 2016; ...
    • Understanding Knowledge Hiding in Organizations 

      Connelly, Catherine; Černe, Matej; Dysvik, Anders; Škerlavaj, Miha (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In our introduction to this special issue on understanding knowledge hiding in organizations, we provide some context to how and why this phenomenon should be studied. We then describe the five articles that comprise the ...
    • Understanding the Firm in the Informal Economy: A Research Agenda 

      Haarman, Amanda; Larsen, Marcus Møller; Namatovu, Rebecca (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Informal firms prevail and preoccupy a dominant share of the economic activity in many developing countries. Yet, few attempts have been made to systematically integrate dominant theories of the firm with the empirical ...
    • Understanding the governance of urban water services from an institutional logics perspective 

      Franco Torres, Manuel; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; Ugarelli, Rita Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In recent decades, the urban water sector has experienced accelerating social complexity that derives from conflicting goals and beliefs, making the sustainability of the sector primarily a governance issue. However, ...
    • Understanding the relationship people in their early adulthood have to small-town news and paywalls 

      Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Within the context of a high-choice, digital media environment, this study explores how people in their early adulthood perceive the value of news from the small town where they reside and their attitude towards paying for ...
    • Underveis: Menns og kvinners lederkarrierer 

      Colbjørnsen, Tom; Knudsen, Knud (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      I denne artikkelen undersøkes hvordan mannlige og kvinnelige lederes karrierer preges av stiavhengighet, ulike karrieredrivere og generasjonsforskjeller. Analysen er dels basert på paneldata fra AFFs lederundersøkelser, ...
    • Unfairness by Design? The Perceived Fairness of Digital Labor on Crowdworking Platforms 

      Fieseler, Christian; Bucher, Eliane; Hoffmann, Christian Pieter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Based on a qualitative survey among 203 US workers active on the microwork platform Amazon Mechanical Turk, we analyze potential biases embedded in the institutional setting provided by on-demand crowdworking platforms and ...
    • Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires 

      Grecu, Alina; Sofka, Wolfgang; Larsen, Marcus Møller; Pedersen, Torben (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We explore how companies with a history of offshoring attract their future employees. We reason that offshoring decisions send unintended signals about job insecurity to companies’ onshore labor markets. This signaling ...
    • Universal patterns in color-emotion associations are further shaped by linguistic and geographic proximity 

      Jonauskaite, Domicele; Abu-Akel, Ahmad; Dael, Nele; Oberfeld, Daniel; Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed M.; Al-Rasheed, Abdulrahman Saud; Antonietti, Jean-Philippe; Bogushevskaya, Victoria; Chamseddine, Amer; Chkonia, Eka; Corona, Violeta; Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo; Griber, Yulia A.; Grimshaw, Gina M.; Hasan, Aya Ahmed; Havelka, Jelena; Hirnstein, Marco; Karlsson, Bodil S.A.; Laurent, Eric; Lindeman, Marjaana; Marquardt, Lynn Anne; Mefoh, Philip; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta; Pérez-Albéniz, Alicia; Pouyan, Niloufar; Roinishvili, Maya; Romanyuk, Lyudmyla; Salgado-Montejo, Alejandro; Schrag, Yann; Sultanova, Aygun; Uusküla, Mari; Vainio, Suvi; Wąsowicz, Grażyna; Zdravković, Sunčica; Zhang, Meng; Mohr, Christine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Many of us “see red,” “feel blue,” or “turn green with envy.” Are such color-emotion associations fundamental to our shared cognitive architecture, or are they cultural creations learned through our languages and traditions? ...
    • Unobtrusive measures of prejudice: Estimating percentages of public beliefs and behaviours 

      Furnham, Adrian; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This study was concerned with how accurate people are in their knowledge of population norms and statistics concerning such things as the economic, health and religious status of a nation and how those estimates are related ...
    • Unpacking Joint Attributions of Cities and Nation States as Actors in Global Affairs 

      Buhmann, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Public diplomacy efforts of nation states and cities within these states inevitably develop alongside another, giving rise to joint attributions regarding these entities as actors in global affairs, though also potentially ...
    • Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter-Organizational Relationships through Action-Reaction Cycles 

      Swärd, Anna; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      To ensure cooperation, parties in inter-organizational relationships (IORs) draw upon both control and trust. Yet, how control–trust dynamics change as IORs evolve remains unclear. This study illuminates the interplay ...
    • Unpacking Value Creation Dynamics in Journalism Education. A Covid-19 Case Study 

      Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine; Olsen, Gunhild Ring; Røsok-Dahl, Heidi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The physical closure of universities and university colleges due to Covid-19 has accelerated the digitalization of journalism teaching to a record speed. The pandemic, and the severe restrictions on-campus attendance, ...
    • The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field 

      Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G.; Grøgaard, Birgitte (Others, 2023)
      The dominant narrative about the rise of international business (IB) focuses on early research and the institutionalization of a new academic field. In this study, we explore the role of case writing in the field’s formative ...
    • Urettferdig klagehåndtering: mine erfaringen, din respons 

      Brøto, Astri Åmellem; Lervik-Olsen, Line (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Når en frustrert kunde deler sine dårlige opplevelser fra klagehåndtering i sosiale medier – lar vi oss påvirke av det? Fører dette til at vi får negative holdninger til bedriften som håndterte klagen, eller får det ...