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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 ... -
You care about me, but can I count on you? Applying a psychological contract perspective to investigate what makes employees willing to be internally employable
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)For this study, we adopted a psychological contract-based perspective to investigate whether the fulfillment of perceived developmental promises made to employees is positively related to their willingness to accept internal ... -
Youth enfranchisement, political responsiveness, and education expenditure: Evidence from the US
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We examine the link between the political participation of the young and fiscal policies in the United States. We generate exogenous variation in participation using the passage of preregistration laws, which allow the ... -
The zero-rent society: Evidence from hydropower and petroleum windfalls in Norwegian local governments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Economic theory and evidence suggest that political leaders take advantage of government revenue windfalls – particularly from natural resource exploitation – to enrich themselves. We revisit this hypothesis by combining ... -
Å estimere handelsområder uten å følge kundene hjem
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Det er svært viktig å forstå den geografiske utstrekningen for varehandelsområder i detaljhandel. Gjeldende metoder for å tegne opp varehandelsområder er basert på undersøkelser og data fra lojalitetskort. Disse tilnærmingene ... -
Å skape verdier sammen med kundene: hva er viktig?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Det er en ny trend blant ledere og markedsførere å involvere kundene i tjenesteproduksjonen og leveransen. Fenomenet kalles blant annet «co-production » og «co-creation». I denne artikkelen kaller vi det for kundedelaktighet. ... -
Åpent samarbeid gir innovative bedrifter
(Journal article, 2010)De senere årene har verden fått innovasjoner som oppslagsverket Wikipedia, nettleseren Firefox og operativsystemet Linux. Disse innovasjonene er resultat av en internasjonal dugnad basert på åpent ... -
Ærlighet varer lengst: Åpen bloggsponsing er mer effektiv enn skjult
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Bloggsponsing dreier seg om at en blogger mottar betaling fra en annonsør (for eksempel en bedrift) for å anmelde eller promotere annonsørens produkter i sin blogg. Til tross for at omfanget av blogging stadig øker (NM ...