Series of Dissertations
This collection contains doctoral dissertations in full text (monographs), and article based dissertations' mantels since the start of BI's doctoral programme in 2000.
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All you need is love? Investigating leadership from leaders’ attachment experiences in close relationships
(Series of Dissertation;1/2019, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The influence of Bowlby’s attachment theory on leadership research is growing. Most studies support the view that leaders’ attachment style, mirroring their experiences with significant others (e.g., parents) early in life, ... -
On entrepreneurial teams and their formation in science-based industries
(Series of Dissertation;10/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This thesis focuses on entrepreneurial teams and is positioned in the literature that conceptualize entrepreneurship as a collective action. Writing this PhD thesis could also be explained in the same way. Although it ... -
Essays on decision making dynamics in politics and consumer choice
(Series of Dissertation;8/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Individuals’ choices are the foundation in economics; an individual makes the choice that maximizes her utility. Doing nothing or maintaining a previous decision is also a choice—the status quo choice (Samuelson and ... -
Are Human Resource Management (HRM) Systems Good or Bad for Employee Well-being? An Investigation of the Well-being Paradox from the Mutual Gains and Critical Perspectives
(Series of Dissertation;7/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This PhD consists of three individual studies, addressing two of the most controversial debates in the human resource management (HRM) literature today: the “good vs. bad” debate (whether HRM practices are good or bad for ... -
Innovation in Public Services: Wicked Problems and Multi-layered Solutions
(Series of Dissertation;6/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)During the last decade, innovation in public services has been addressed as a universal tool for improving existing public services and solving grand social challenges. The problem is that a range of promising concepts ... -
Antecedents and Consequences of Unplanned Alliance Terminations
(Series of Dissertation;4/2018, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Despite their evident advantages, more than 50 percent of strategic alliances terminate prematurely. Still, little is known about causes of alliance terminations and even less is known about subsequent performance consequences ... -
Reorganizing healthcare services: Sensemaking and organizational innovation
(Series of Dissertation;11/2017, Doctoral thesis, 2017)The purpose of this thesis is to provide a rich account of organizational innovation processes in order to gain novel insights into such processes. The study is based on two longitudinal empirical case studies from a ... -
Experimental Markets with Frictions
(Series of Dissertations; 9/2017, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Included in this dissertation are four articles: (1) Market Entry with Frictional Matching and Bargaining: Labor Search in the Lab (2) Discrimination in Small Markets with Directed Search: Part I Theory (3) Discrimination ... -
Adapting to Changing Job Demands: A Broadcast Approach to Understanding Self-Regulated Adaptive Performance and Cultivating It in Situated Work Settings
(Series of Dissertations;5/2017, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Although employees’ “adaptive performance” is increasingly important for maintaining both individual job performance and contributing to organizational performance, there continues to be only a superficial understanding ... -
Breakdown of Team Cognition and Team Performance: Examining the influence of media and overconfidence on mutual understanding, shared situation awareness and contextualization
(Series of Dissertations;1/2017, Doctoral thesis, 2017)In several settings, such as counter-terrorism operations and aviation, avoiding breakdowns in team cognition is essential for coordination and team performance. This dissertation examines two assumptions concerning ... -
A mid-range theory of monitoring behaviors, shared task mental models, and team performance within dynamic settings
(Series of Dissertations;11/2016, Doctoral thesis, 2016-11-04)This dissertation is an enterprise in building a mid-range theory of teamwork within emergency settings wherein I attempt to explain some contrasting findings in the literature. I focus on a limited number of variables in ... -
Innovating in Practice: A Practice-Theoretical Exploration of Discontinuous Service Innovations
(Series of Dissertations;9/2016, Doctoral thesis, 2016-08-18)The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of technology-based service innovations. The overarching research question has been: How can we understand service innovation from a practice-theoretical ... -
Effective Diversity Management on the Line – Who and How? On the role of line managers in organisations with a diverse workforce
(Series of Dissertations;8/2016, Doctoral thesis, 2016-08-17)Using three separate studies in the context of ethnic and gender diversity, this dissertation will contribute to theory and research on diversity and human resource management by extending knowledge of how line managers’ ... -
Corporate governance and international business: Essays on multinational enterprises, ownership, finance and institutions
(Series of Dissertations;06/2016, Doctoral thesis, 2016-04-29)This Thesis contributes to the literature on corporate governance in international business, with a focus on corporate ownership, corporate finance and institutions. It consists of five theoretical and empirical studies. Three ... -
Working in Tandem: A Longitudinal Study of the Interplay of Working Practices and Social Enterprise Platforms in the Multinational Workplace
(Series of Dissertations;7/2015, Doctoral thesis, 2015-09-17)This thesis aims to contribute to our understanding of the implications of the social technology use in the work settings, and through this, how value is created in organizations. If enterprise platforms shall replace ... -
Evolutionary and power perspectives on headquarters-subsidiary knowledge transfer: The role of disseminative and absorptive capacities
(Series of Dissertations;4/2015, Doctoral thesis, 2015-06-02)Through longitudinal case studies of headquarters-subsidiary knowledge transfer, I explore knowledge sender and receiver capabilities, and the underlying micro-mechanisms that have implications on knowledge transfer processes ... -
The Perils of Self-Brand Connections: Consumer Response to Changes in Brand Imageoppdrag
(Series of Dissertations;3/2015, Doctoral thesis, 2015-04-24)Companies commit considerable resources to build brand associations that resonate with consumers’ identities and facilitate strong consumer-brand bonds. This dissertation investigated a potential disadvantage of this popular ... -
Organizational form, local market structure and corporate social performance in retail
(Series of Dissertations;2/2015, Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-20)I study how organizational form and local market structure influence retail firms' corporate social performance (CSP). The theoretical model is based on agency theory, which in its origin focuses on the dyad between the ... -
Trading in Foreign Exchange Markets. Four Essays on the Microstructure of Foreign Exchange
(Series of Dissertations;2/2001, Doctoral thesis, 2001)This dissertation is a collection of four essays on the trading activities in the foreign exchange market. Trading has traditionally not been an issue in research on the foreign exchange market. This has changed during the ... -
Essays on relational outcomes in mixed-motive situations
(Series of Dissertations;7/2014, Doctoral thesis, 2014-06-19)The current dissertation comprises three chapters, each of which is a separate research article, on relational outcomes in mixed-motive situations. Chapter 1 uncovers how trustors’ social-cognitive motivation to manage ...
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