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Transforming Economies: The Case of the Norwegian Electricity Market Reform
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2000)The topic of this thesis is the shaping of modern economies, represented by a case-study of the Norwegian electricity market reform process. The essential questions raised are: “Why are industries and economies organized ... -
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 ... -
The Antecedents of Management Competence: The Role of Educational Background and Type of Work Experience
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2001)This study investigates the relationship between managers’ demographic characteristics (educational background and work experience) and their management competence (preference for problem solving strategies and managerial ... -
Emergence of conflicts in complex project: The role of informal versus formal governance mechanisms in understanding interorganizational conflicts in the oil industry
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2002)This study is designed to explore conflict in buyer-seller relationships within complex projects. By focusing on conflict we can enhance our understanding of business relationships when these are put under pressure. The ... -
Modeling Equity, Satisfaction and Loyalty
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2002)The link between customer satisfaction and loyalty has had a tremendous impact on managerial decision-making and academic works over the years. Despite the lack of empirical research supporting this link, its existence ... -
Task Complexity and Expertise as Determinants of Task Perceptions and Performance: Why Technology-Structure Research has been unreliable and inconclusive
(Series of Dissertations;5/2002, Doctoral thesis, 2002)The revolutionary developments of new technologies are not paralleled in the research on consequences of technology in organizations. Approximately four decades have passed since Woodward’s (1958) findings of relationships ... -
The influence of stakeholder groups on organizational decision-making in public hospitals
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2003)he thesis presents a contextual analysis that makes an exposition of the structural contingencies of the Norwegian welfare state. A descriptive/ empirical analysis of the public hospital’s decision-making processes provides ... -
Trading in Equity Markets: A study of Individual, Institutional and Corporate Trading
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2004)This thesis is about the trading behavior of various participants in equity markets, how they trade in various settings, their transactions costs and how their trading activity affect prices. -
Intuition and its role in strategic thinking
(Series of Dissertations;4/2004, Doctoral thesis, 2004)Even though intuition is recognized as imperative in strategic thinking management literature is surprisingly silent on the issue. This inquiry thus provides an historical and hermeneutic review of philosophical, ... -
The Effects of Transaction Costs on the Performance of Foreign Direct Investments: An Empirical Investigation
(Series of Dissertations;10/2004, Doctoral thesis, 2004)The multinational companies’ (MNCs) use of foreign direct investments as a governance mechanism in the globalization of businesses has a cost. Together with expenses linked to production processes, additional costs are ... -
Topics in accounting for impairment of fixed assets
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2005)This dissertation consists of three topics related to the accounting for impairment of fixed assets, represented by five papers. The first topic is an empirical research into the functionality of the new generation of ... -
Not just a Matter of Taste – Disgust in the Food Domain
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2005)Higher competition in the market arena is forcing marketers and product developers to monitor and adjust the impact of their product in the marketplace more rapidly. Furthermore, in rapidly changing markets it is not ... -
How Reforms Influence Organisational Practices: The Cases of Public Roads and Electricity Supply Organisations in Norway
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2005)With respect to how radical transformation of organisational practices a reform objective presuppose, both moderate and radical public management reforms can be identified. In addition, both radical and more limited ... -
Transplants’ role stress and work performance in IT outsourcing relationships
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)This research investigates individual level effects of information technology (IT) outsourcing. The basis of this research rests on several organization and management theories typically applied to outsourcing separately. ... -
Facility based competition in telecommunications : three essays on two-way access and one essay on three-way access
(Series of Dissertations;5/2006, Doctoral thesis, 2006)In order to reap all benefits from telecommunications, competing firms typically have to cooperate in order to exploit economies of scale and scope. Thus, firms being active in the same market are supposed to compete ... -
Incremental product development : four essays on activities, resources, and actors
(Series of Dissertations;1/2006, Doctoral thesis, 2006)Most innovations are incremental, and incremental innovations play an important role for the firm. In spite of that, traditional NPD studies most often emphasize moderate to highly innovative product development projects. ... -
Switching Relations: The rise and fall of the Norwegian telecom industry
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)The last ten years have been marked by the increasing use of information and communication technologies, and particularly by different forms of telecommunications. At the same time, the telecom industry has gone through ... -
Votes Count but the Number of Seats Decides: A comparative historical case study of 20th century Danish, Swedish and Norwegian road policy
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)This dissertation about Danish, Swedish and Norwegian 20th century road policy is an attempt of elucidating some puzzles: Why did Norwegian authorities pursue a road policy contrary to most other West European industrialized ... -
Learning Across Firm Boundaries: The Role of Organisational Routines
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)The main purpose of the study is to contribute to the understanding of learning across firm boundaries. Such learning has often been associated with so-called knowledge-intensive firms engaged in learning alliances in order ... -
From Tool to Actor: How a project came to orchestrate its own life and that of others
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)The empirical study of this dissertation is informed by process theories. The collection of empirical material and the analysis of it have spun around the following concepts: connecting, heterogeneity, and contingency. The ...