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Wage expenditures and sporting success: An analysis of Norwegian and Swedish football 2010-2013
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study examines the relationship between wage expenditures and sporting success in Norwegian and Swedish football. While previous studies have shown a strong correlation between wage expenditures and sporting success, ... -
Wages and Human Capital in Finance: International Evidence, 1970-2011
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We study the allocation and compensation of human capital in the finance industry in a set of developed economies in 1970–2011. Finance relative wages generally increase—but not in all countries, and to varying degrees. ... -
Wall street analysts as investor relations officers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper examines the practice of hiring financial analysts as investor relations officers (IRO). We posit that analysts-turned-IROs (AIROs) have a competitive advantage in communicating with investors, thereby lowering ... -
"Want to" Versus "Have to": Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators as Predictors of Compliance Behavior Intention
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)“Worthless,” “money burning,” or “black holes” is how media and professionals describe compliance practices today. Practitioners are unenthusiastic ab out con-trol systems, codes of conducts, and systems for compliance ... -
Was the grass trampled when the two elephants fought? Measuring societal cultures: project GLOBE vs. Hofstede
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)In quantitative-based research within the field of societal cultural studies, two of the foremost research teams, namely Hofstede (2001) and House et al. (2004), have held the limelight during the last half decade. During ... -
Was Weber Really Wrong? A Comment on Some Recent Empirical Studies on Economic Growth
(Journal article, 2021)In the last two decades, there have been two influential papers in empirical economic growth, Becker and Woessmann (2009) and Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001), which explicitly or implicitly claim that Weber's thesis ... -
Waste separation: a study among university students in the Netherlands.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Recycling waste is important to reduce the production of greenhouse gasses. The aim of this project was to understand determinants of cafeteria waste separation behavior among university students. First, the determinants ... -
We Are Projects: Narrative Capital and Meaning Making in Projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Research on projects has to a limited degree taken issue with how projects are chief producers of meaning at work. We develop the concept of narrative capital as a basic mechanism for how people can engender meaning in and ... -
We eat first with our (digital) eyes: Enhancing mental simulation of eating experiences via visual-enabling technologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This research examines how consumers’ intentions to purchase food change depending on the visualisation mode (3D vs. AR) and product format (served vs. packaged). In three studies, we demonstrate that mental simulation of ... -
We have performance appraisal every day and every hour”: Transferring performance management to Russia.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Performance management (PM) of employees is an important established practice in multinational corporations (MNC) and therefore one of the key practices to be transferred to subsidiaries. In this study, we use the concept ... -
Weakening trade union power: New forms of employment relations. The case of the Norwegian Air Shuttle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)For the past two decades – and in particular after the 2008 crisis – atypical employment has expanded across Europe. The crisis led to increased demand for more flexible labour markets, and thus atypical employment became ... -
Weighting Schemes and Incomplete Data: A Generalized Bayesian Framework for Chance-Corrected Interrater Agreement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Van Oest (2019) developed a framework to assess interrater agreement for nominal categories and complete data. We generalize this framework to all four situations of nominal or ordinal categories and complete or incomplete ... -
Western leadership development and Chinese managers : Exploring the need for contextualization
(Academic article, 2011)This paper explores if, and how, Chinese managers perceive Western theories of leadership and leadership development as useful in their business environment. Based on a text analysis approach analyzing term papers of ... -
What Can We Learn from #StopHateForProfit Boycott Regarding Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Corporate Social Responsibility?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In July 2020 more than 1,100 companies paused their paid advertising on Facebook to demand clear and unequivocal actions to stop its platform from being used to spread and amplify racism and hate. This Business-to-Business ... -
What Do We Value Most In Schools? An Empirical Study of Stakeholders’ Preference Rankings of School Attributes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objectives A key question in education policy as well as individuals’ school choice involves the characteristics of schools we value most. It is thereby important to understand any heterogeneity in parents’, teachers’, ... -
What drives sound symbolism? Different acoustic cues underlie sound-size and sound-shape mappings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Sound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary mappings that exist between phonetic properties of speech sounds and their meaning. Despite there being an extensive literature on the topic, the acoustic features and psychological ... -
What is music good for? A dialogue on technical and ritual rationality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)In different ways and in different contexts it has been and still is argued that music education should be prioritized because of its positive impact on pupils in terms of general development as good citizens and in terms ... -
What is the right thing to do? The constitutive role of organizational ethical frameworks in collective ethical sensemaking
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In the complex realm of ethical decision making, organizations are increasingly developing comprehensive ethical frameworks as guides. These frameworks prescribe ethical principles and decision-making processes to steer ... -
What makes employees stay? Mastery climate, psychological need satisfaction and on-the-job embeddedness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Job embeddedness was developed as a new perspective to explain employee retention, and recent research has demonstrated its predictive power of voluntary turnover. However, little is known about factors that might influence ... -
What makes NFTs valuable to consumers? Perceived value drivers associated with NFTs liking, purchasing, and holding
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique digital assets that exist in a given blockchain. NFT projects, containing unique collections of these assets, are blockchain-based companies that deliver value to customers. Why do ...