Series of Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Consumers in Industrial Networks: a study of the Norwegian-Portuguese bacalhau network
(Series of Dissertations;4, Doctoral thesis, 2010)The way in which industrial activities are organised among firms has been a fundamental theoretical concern for a long time” (Dubois, 1994). Typical studies do not include the division of work between consumers and firms. ... -
Ports as Actors in Industrial Networks
(Series of Dissertations;6, Doctoral thesis, 2010)The purpose of this thesis is to consider how port authorities can be characterized as actors in industrial contexts. The thesis uses the Industrial Network Approach to avoid bringing in typical views of what a port is ... -
State Ownership and Corporate Governance: Empirical Evidence from Norway and Sweden
(Series of Dissertations;3/2010, Doctoral thesis, 2010)Since the late 1990s, the corporate governance of state-owned companies (SOCs) has moved to the forefront of the political agenda in several Western European countries and elsewhere. Triggered by large corporate scandals, ... -
Opportunities for learning and knowledge creation in practice
(Series of Dissertations 1/2010, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This study contributes to our understanding of opportunities for learning and knowledge creation at work. Through an interpretive case study the aim is to add insight to the theoretical debate on learning and knowledge ... -
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 ... -
Shipshaped: Kongsberg industry and innovations in deepwater technology, 1975-2007
(Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2009)Shipshaped is a thesis on the emergence of an innovative offshore supplier industry. Multiple influences combined to the success of various techniques to extract oil and gas without fixed platforms; this thesis put particular ... -
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 ...