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    • ESG and Socially Responsible Investment: A Critical Review 

      Gerard, Bruno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We review the literature on ESG and Socially Responsible Investment with a special focus on fixed-income investments. Most of the academic research is focused on the link between corporate CSR and ESG activities, investors’ ...

    • Estimating Pricing Rigidities in Bilateral Transactions Markets 

      Oglend, Atle; Asche, Frank; Straume, Hans-Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Many price indices are constructed using bilateral transaction prices. This paper shows how the time series behavior of cross-sectional price moments can reveal useful information about pricing behavior in bilateral ...

    • Et ekspansivt budsjett, preget av usikkerhet 

      Bjørnland, Hilde C (Journal article, 2020)
      ‘Regjeringen lot seg ikke lede inn i fristelsen, men har levert et overraskende nøkternt budsjett…’, kunne man lese i en kommentar i E24 etter at regjeringen la frem nasjonalbudsjettet 7. oktober. Og mange av kommentarene ...

    • The ethical dimension of public relations in Europe: Digital channels, moral challenges, resources, and training 

      Hagelstein, Jens; Einwiller, Sabine; Zerfass, Ansgar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Digital communication tools and practices improve the spread and impact of organisational messages. Quite often, however, they also pose moral problems. This article examines how often public relations practitioners encounter ...

    • Ethical navigation in leadership training 

      Kvalnes, Øyvind; Øverenget, Einar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Business leaders frequently face dilemmas, circumstances where whatever course of action they choose, something of important value will be offended. How can an organisation prepare its decision makers for such situations? ...

    • Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya 

      Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel; Tungodden, Bertil; Zhang, Kelly (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Ethnicity has been shown to shape political, social, and economic behavior in Africa, but the underlying mechanisms remain contested. We utilize lab experiments to isolate one mechanism—an individual's bias in favor of ...

    • Ettervirkning - grunnlag, rekkevidde og betydning 

      Skjønberg, Alexander Næss (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Artikkelen er et innlegg i den pågående debatten om ettervirkning. Forfatteren mener at det er endel misoppfatninger om hva den alminnelige regelen om ettervirkning går ut på. I artikkelen utdypes regelens rettsgrunnlag, ...

    • EU Energy Union: A Critical View 

      Noreng, Øystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper discusses the Energy Union project of the current European Union (EU), asmanifest in the 2018 Clean Energy for All.1 The focus is on energy policy objectives in relation to wider political ambitions, using energy ...

    • Euro-zone equity returns: country versus industry effects 

      Eiling, Esther; Gerard, Bruno; Roon, Frans A. de (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper investigates whether Euro-zone equity returns are driven by country or industry effects over the 1990 to 2008 period. Using a style analysis approach, we find that before the introduction of the Euro country ...

    • The EU’s Enfants Terribles: Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe since 2010 

      Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In the academic literature, Hungary and Poland are often cited as paradigmatic cases of democratic backsliding. However, as the backsliding narrative gained traction, the term has been applied to the rest of the post-communist ...

    • Evaluating Efficient Public Good Provision: Theory and Evidence from a Generalised Conditional Efficiency Model for Public Libraries 

      De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, libraries, education, police, fire protection, utilities) can be characterized by a two-stage production process. In the first-stage, basic inputs (e.g., labor and capital) ...

    • Evaluating store location and department composition based on spatial heterogeneity in sales potential 

      Hunneman, Auke; Bijmolt, Tammo H.A.; Elhorst, J. Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In this paper, we extend a retail location evaluation model with the possibility to include the effect of department size adaptation at the store level. We relate department-level store sales to a store's competitive and ...

    • Evaluation of fraud examinations: The case of inappropriate accounting practices at Fuji Xerox 

      Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      There is a growing business for global auditing firms and local law firms as well as independent detectives to conduct forensic investigations at client organizations when there is suspicion of white-collar misconduct and ...

    • Evaluation of fraud examinations: The case of inappropriate accounting practices at Fuji Xerox 

      Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      There is a growing business for global auditing firms and local law firms as well as independent detectives to conduct forensic investigations at client organizations when there is suspicion of white-collar misconduct and ...

    • Evaluation stasis continues in PR and corporate communication: Asia Pacific insights into causes. 

      Zerfass, Ansgar; Macnamara, Jim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The first comprehensive study of public relations (PR) and corporate communication practices across Asia-Pacific countries has found that, despite being an area of rapid growth, evaluation remains limited, is often not ...

    • Evaluation und Controlling derUnternehmenskommunikation 

      Rolke, Lothar; Buhmann, Alexander; Zerfass, Ansgar (Chapter, 2020)
      Kommunikationsmanager wissen heute um die Wirkung ihrer Arbeit und umihren Beitrag zur Erreichung von Unternehmenszielen. Dabei handelt es sich umLeistungen für eine gute Berichterstattung in den Medien, für die Reputation ...

    • Evidence of Industry Scale Effects on Audit Hours, Billing Rates, and Pricing 

      Dekeyser, Simon; Gaeremynck, Ann; Willekens, Marleen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Using a proprietary dataset consisting of all private firm audit engagements in 2000 from one Big 4 firm in Belgium, we investigate: (1) whether audit office industry scale is associated with a reduction of total, partner ...

    • Evolution of a field: Swiss media and communication studies 

      Probst, Carole; Buhmann, Alexander; Ingenhoff, Diana; Lepori, Benedetto (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In this paper, we present the evolution of Swiss Media and Communication Studies over the last decade by summarizing the main results from a project funded by the Swiss University Conference (2008–2017). We give an overall ...

    • Examining the impact of social intelligence, demographics, and context for implementing the dynamics of the situational leadership model 

      Thompson, Geir; Aarset, Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      We focus on factors that may impact the implementation of Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Theory (SLT). Four are examined: (1) social perceptiveness - an accurate awareness of situational demands, (2) behavioral ...

    • Examining the Performance of the Modified ADF Goodness-of-fit Test Statistic in Structural Equation Models 

      Foldnes, Njål; Marcoulides, George A.; Olsson, Ulf H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The asymptotically distribution-free (ADF) test statistic depends on very mild distributional assumptions and is theoretically superior to many other so-called robust tests available in structural equation modeling. The ...