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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 ... -
The Contrary Forces of Innovation: An Ethnography of Innovation Processes in the Food Industry
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2009)The purpose of the study is to contribute to our understanding of innovation processes. The overarching research question has been: How do innovation processes evolve over time, and, in particular, how are knowledge and ... -
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 ... -
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. -
Mellom profesjon og reform: Om fremveksten og implementeringen av enhetlig ledelse i norsk sykehusvesen
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2009)Avhandlingen består foruten en introduksjonsdel av tre artikler. Den første artikkelen (Fra fagstyre til enhetlig ledelse) er en historisk studie av utviklingen fra enhetlig legeledelse, som var den dominerende ledelsesmodellen ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Formation of research collaborations between universities and firms: Towards an integrated framework of tie formation motives, processes and experiences
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)The purpose of the study is to address the following research questions: What are the preconditions for forming ties between academic research environments and firms, and do such preconditions have anything to say for how ... -
The Relationship Between Intragroup Conflict, Group Size and Work Effectiveness
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)The relationship between dimensions of intragroup conflict and work group effectiveness (group delivery and work group job satisfaction), and the moderating effects of group size on this relationship, was investigated. ... -
The Capability to Commercialize Network Products in Telecommunication
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2007)When we consider buying food, clothes or furniture we normally appraise the goods based upon our personal needs independent of the number of other people who have bought or use the same type of item. Some types of goods, ... -
The Born Global - Redefined: On the Determinants of SMEs Pace of Internationalization
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The objective of this study was to describe the process of internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to explore the reason for the differences in the pace of internationalization of firms. This ... -
Interacting Strategically within Dyadic Business Relationships: A case study from the Norwegian Electronics Industry
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to our understanding of how firms can act strategically vis-à-vis others when the objective is to enhance the way resources are economised on across firm boundaries. The ... -
Organizing Local Democracy: The Norwegian Experience
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The dissertation traces empirically certain prerequisites for effective local democratic politics as viewed in terms of the functioning of the local democratic chain of delegation and in terms of the functional organization ... -
Managing Organizational Change during Institutional Upheaval: Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Higher Education in Transition
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2008)This study focuses on organizational change in non-stabile environments. Non-stabile environments are characterized by dramatic change at societal, economic and political levels caused by, for example, changes in political ...