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Why do parties fail? Cleavages, government fatigue and electoral failure in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary 1992–2012
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)During the first two decades after the collapse of communism 37 political parties won representation in the Czech, Slovak or Hungarian Parliaments. By 2012, 22 of these parties had failed in the sense that they have fallen ... -
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We show that family background matters significantly for children’s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents raising them. The ... -
Why does junior put all his eggs in one basket? A potential rational explanation for holding concentrated portfolios
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Empirical studies of household portfolios show that young households, with little financial wealth, hold underdiversified portfolios that are concentrated in a small number of assets, a fact often attributed to behavioral ... -
Will the locals benefit? The effect of wind power investments on rural wages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)An important and poorly understood question when communities consider wind power investments is whether the local population will benefit financially. I examine the effect of wind power investment on wages in rural counties ... -
Will the locals benefit? The effect of wind power investments on rural wages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)An important and poorly understood question when communities consider wind power investments is whether the local population will benefit financially. I examine the effect of wind power investment on wages in rural counties ... -
Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual ‘Society Opinion Media’ survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 December 2010 on Swedish ... -
Willingness to Pay for Crowdfunding Local Agricultural Climate Solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The recent rise in climate concern among citizens worldwide is coinciding with a rising interest in agricultural climate solutions. The future scaling-up of these solutions, however, requires more knowledge about the ... -
With a little help of my peers. The supportive role of online contacts for the unemployed
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Unemployment is an unfortunate reality, whose overcoming often depends on social support, among other factors. Online social media, such as social network sites and communities, may offer an additional source of such ... -
With or Against Others? Pay-for-Performance Activates Aggressive Aspects of Competitiveness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)While paying employees for performance (PfP) has been shown to elicit increased motivation by way of competitive processes, the present paper investigates whether the same competitive processes inherent in PfP can also ... -
Women and Employee-Elected Board Members, and Their Contributions to Board Control Tasks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)We present results from a study about women and employee-elected board members, and fill some of the gaps in the literature about their contribution to board effectiveness. The empirical data is from a unique data set of ... -
Women and multiple board memberships: Social capital and institutional pressure
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We show unintended consequences of quota regulations to get women on boards. Board members may have diferent characteristics, and even among women, there are variations. We assume that the characteristics of the board ... -
Women seek more variety in rewards when closer to ovulation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)We propose that women's increased generalized sensitivity to rewards during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle causes them to seek more variety in rewards when they are in the fertile phase than when they are not in ... -
Women’s Justification of White-Collar Crime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)In an empirical study of white-collar criminals in Norway, only 8 % out of 255 convicted criminals in recent years were women. There are many potential explanations for the low female share of crime. This paper concentrates ... -
Work motivation as a determinant of organisational and professional commitment in temporary organisations : theoretical lenses and propositions
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Working capital management: Evidence from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of whether working capital management (WCM) has an effect on the profitability of small- and medium-sized Norwegian firms. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Working in the digitized economy: HRM theory & practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In our introduction to this special issue on the gig economy, we provide some context to how and why this phenomenon should be studied, with a particular emphasis on Human Resource Management. We then describe the four ... -
Workplace bullying as predicted by non-prototypicality, group identification and norms: a self-categorisation perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Research and theory on deviance in work groups suggest that non-prototypical members risk devaluation and mistreatment by their peers. Drawing on the self-categorisation theory, we propose and test a contextual model to ... -
Workplace Deviance Investigations: A Case Study of the Application of Maturity Model to a University Investigation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article presents a case study from Norway that supplements previous research in other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom regarding lack of justice when corporate investigators ... -
Ye olde CSR: the historic roots of corporate social responsibility in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This essay traces the roots of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Norway. It is argued that a basic tenet of CSR, an orientation toward the concerns of stakeholders, has a long history in Norwegian business, predating ... -
You can't ‘fake it till you make it’: Cooperative motivation does not help proself trustees
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Cooperative motivation can be rooted in individual differences as well as in external factors, such as instructions from superiors, incentive schemes, policy agendas, or social relationships. Whereas cooperative motivation ...