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EFFECT OF GENERATIONAL CEO TURNOVERS ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF PRIVATE NORWEGIAN FAMILY FIRMS IN THE OIL INDUSTRY
(Master thesis, 2020)Using data of private Norwegian family firms in the oil industry, we study the effect of generational CEO turnovers –between 2000 and 2017– on companies’ financial performance. We analyze firm performance by examining ... -
Time-varying stock market return predictability: Do we have what it takes?
(Master thesis, 2020)We use a dividend-yield model from Campbell and Shiller (1988) to forecast the future stock market return on the U.S and Norwegian data from 1984-2018. We use the method from Cochrane (2008), by regressing a Vector ... -
Swift transition and knowledge cycling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The organization of innovation labor is undergoing major changes in technology-based and engineering-intensive industries worldwide. Those changes reflect fluctuating market demands and increasing task uncertainty, and ... -
Paywalls? Impact on Local News Websites? Traffic and Their Civic and Business Implications
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In an attempt to manage a looming revenue crisis in their transition from print to digital, many local newspapers have implemented user payment (paywalls) in their online editions. This paper asks what the business and ... -
Time-Varying Trend Models for Forecasting Inflation in Australia
(CAMP Working Paper Series;09/2020, Working paper, 2020-11-18)We investigate whether a class of trend models with various error term structures can improve upon the forecast performance of commonly used time series models when forecasting CPI inflation in Australia. The main result ... -
Replication of Study 1 in "Differentiating Social and Personal Power" by Lammers, Stoker, and Stapel (2009)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We performed an independent, direct, and better powered (N = 295) replication of Study 1, an experiment (N = 113) by Lammers, Stoker, and Stapel (2009). Lammers and colleagues distinguished between social power (influence ... -
Where do we go from here? The future of B2B governance research.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose This paper aims to identify promising areas for future business to business (B2B) governance research. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a theoretical approach. Findings Most governance research in marketing ... -
Does it pay to be active? Norwegian mutual fund performance from 1991 to 2019
(Master thesis, 2020)This research paper shows that Norwegian active funds have first-order stochastically dominated Norwegian index funds for the subperiod 1991 to 2005, measured by net returns, not accounting for redemption and subscription ... -
Electronic word of mouth and new releases: An empirical study in video games industry
(Master thesis, 2020)In today's world, product iterations continue to accelerate, new product introduction becomes more and more frequent. Marketers are also utilizing digital marketing tools to realize a more efficient conversion from ... -
Debt heterogeneity: A study of how different debt instruments affect the performance of publicly listed U.S. firms.
(Master thesis, 2020)Academic literature has previously focused on capital structure as a whole; however, in more recent years, research has revolved around debt structure. Evidence from the last decade have proven the importance of debt ... -
The Effect of Functional, Symbolic and Experiential Framings on Attitudes Towards Luxury Fashion Products: A Comparative Study
(Master thesis, 2020)The purpose of this research is to investigate how different value framings, namely functional, symbolic and experiential ones, influence Italian customers’ attitudes within the fashion luxury category.Moreover, the role ... -
When a brand adds an ecolabel - is it worth it? “What effect does issuing a brand-made carbon-footprint label have on the perceived product quality, brand attitude and purchase intention of the consumer?”
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines the effect of a brand-issued carbon label on brand attitude, purchase intention and perceived product quality on the consumer. These effects are hypothesized to be moderated by the perceived fit ... -
Augmented Reality and Authenticity: An Experimental Study to Investigate their Impact on Luxury Perception
(Master thesis, 2020)Abstract In recent years, studies about luxury perception have proliferated. Nonetheless, few of these have investigated both product internal and external factors that may have an impact on it. On one side, a large ... -
Financial Shocks and Economic Fluctuations: Evidence form Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)In this paper, we evaluate the importance of shocks originating in the financial sector on the Norwegian macroeconomic variables. We estimate demand, supply, monetary policy, investment, and financial shocks in a Bayesian ... -
Comparison of classical RFM models and Machine learning models in CLV prediction
(Master thesis, 2020)This study analyzes the difference between classical RFM models and Machine Leaning (ML) models when calculating CLV with transactional data. In this paper we run different programs to analyze the CLV value by using ... -
The Behavioural Implications of Passive Robo-Advising on Personal Savings - Evidence from Kron AS
(Master thesis, 2020)The political shift and technological development since the 2008 financial crisis have shaped a new era, taking financial wealth management to robo-advisory (RA). This thesis studies the behavioural implications of a ... -
Government owned firms’ emphasis on ESG
(Master thesis, 2020)We investigate 489 firms’ emphasis on ESG during the period from 2009 to 2018. We expand existing research by investigating the impact of government ownership on a firm’s ESG scores. We find that government ownership ... -
Supply chain management - Wastage within the fresh produce supply chain: A case study of mangoes in Ethiopia.
(Master thesis, 2020)In recent years, there has been an increasing focus around the term sustainability and its practical implications. One major component in this development is the “accelerated productivity in food chains”. The relevance ... -
How do female CEOs affect the corporate capital structure in Norwegian private firms
(Master thesis, 2020)The effect of managerial characteristics on corporate financing policies has gained a growing attention during the last years. Thus, this thesis aims at investigating how the gender of the CEO affects the corporate capital ... -
Empowering Leadership: Its Link to Work Engagement Through Perceived Competence Mobilization, Organizational Cynicism and Motivational Climate
(Master thesis, 2020)Empowering leadership has long been proven to have several positive effects on employee outcomes such as work engagement. However, researchers have stressed that previous studies on empowering leadership lack consistency. The ...