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The Role of Identity in Access-Based Consumption
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-05)Previous research has shown a wide range of examples of people preferring products and brands that are associated with their identity. However, most of this research has investigated consumption in the form of acquiring ... -
The Role of Labor Unions in Immigrant Integration
(DP SAM;24/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)We examine if unions narrow or widen labor market gaps between natives and immigrants. We do so by combining rich Norwegian employer-employee matched register data with exogenous variation in union membership obtained ... -
The Role of Leadership in Managing Tensions and Ambivalence in a Coopetitive Innovation Strategy. A Case Study from the Insurance Industry
(Master thesis, 2021)In today’s dynamic, competitive, and complex business world, cooperating with your competitor is increasingly used as a firm-strategy to achieve innovation. However, such a relationship, known as coopetition, is paradoxical, ... -
The role of M&A in managing emission risk: Do acquirers use M&A to improve their emission risk, and how does emission risk affect equity performance?
(Master thesis, 2022)We study if companies use, or can use, M&A to reduce their emission risk and how this affects their short and long-term returns accounting for the materiality of emission-related issues. Our findings suggest that acquirers, ... -
The role of patents in M&A transactions in Scandinavia : An event study of patents´ effect on short-term shareholder return for acquirers and targets
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates whether patents affect the acquirer´s or the target´s cumulative average abnormal returns on M&A announcements in Scandinavia. The event study methodology check for the abnormal shareholder returns ... -
The role of projected synergies in M&A : an empirical study on management projected synergies, and its implications for bid premiums and overpayment
(Master thesis, 2019)This master thesis examines different aspects of projected synergies made by the management of acquiring firms. We study how synergies are estimated, how they affect bid premiums, and if disclosing acquirers are likely ... -
The role of regulatory focus and trustworthiness in knowledge transfer and leakage in alliances
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The Role of Sustainability Indicators and their Impact on Decision-making and Control: A Case Study of Mestergruppen
(Master thesis, 2021)The climate crisis is happening much faster than anticipated and the construction industry has a big responsibility to become more sustainable since it stands for more than 15% of Norway’s total emissions. While the ... -
Rollen som bærekraftsansvarlig i Norge : hvordan kan de oppnå innflytelse? : en studie av bærekraftsansvarlige i norske virksomheter
(Master thesis, 2020)Verden står i dag overfor store utfordringer knyttet til bærekraftig utvikling. Det forventes i økende grad at virksomheter bidrar til å løse utfordringene og i den forbindelse har mange opprettet egne stillinger som ... -
Rolling forecasts in a Beyond Budgeting environment : a case study on the use of rolling forecasts as a management tool
(Report;2014:1, Research report, 2014-02)By adopting a case study approach, this thesis aims to illustrate how rolling forecasts are implemented in a Beyond Budgeting environment. The thesis places emphasis on the middle managers’situation and their changed ... -
Rom for læring: betydningen av handlingsrom for ledelse
(Journal article, 2012)I ledelseslitteraturen framstilles handlingsrom som en faktor som gir a) ledere endringskapasitet eller evne til å fatte endringsrelaterte valg og b) mulighet til å gjennomføre valgene (endringene). Endringskapasitet er ... -
Rotasjon i revisjonsbransjen : hvordan påvirker firma- og partnerrotasjon revisjonskvalitet og revisors uavhengighet?
(Master thesis, 2014)I Norge er det allerede fastsatt lovgivning om rotasjon av revisor. Bestemmelsen finnes i Revisorloven § 5a-4, og krever at børsnoterte selskap skal rotere ansvarlig revisor hvert syvende år. Den 17. desember 2013 kom ... -
Rounding up performance measures in German firms: Earnings cosmetics or earnings management on a larger scale?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We use Benford's Law to provide evidence that German firms round up both their net income and earnings per share. We use the introduction of the euro to show that round earnings numbers are likely the result of earnings ... -
Royalty Taxation under Profit Shifting and Competition for FDI
(Discussion paper;11/20, Working paper, 2020-09-09)Multinational corporations increasingly use royalty payments for intellectual property rights to shift profits globally. This threatens not only the tax base of countries worldwide, it also affects the nature of competition ... -
RPA i norske kommuner : hvordan kan norske kommuner benytte robotisert prosessautomatisering til å automatisere oppgaver til nytte for brukere, ansatte og for å nå sine overordnede mål.
(Master thesis, 2017)Kommunal sektor opplever et økt press for å tilby bedre tjenester og oppnå bedre ressursbruk gjennom mer effektive prosesser. Da arbeidsmengden på områder som helse og omsorg er forventet å øke betraktelig de neste tiårene ... -
Rullerende gjennomsnittlig MTB : konsekvenser av et endret reguleringsregime for produksjons- og markedstilpasningen for norsk laksenæring og for utfordringer knyttet til miljømessig bærekraft
(Master thesis, 2014)Fiskeri- og kystdepartementet sendte høsten 2013 ut et høringsbrev om en mulig endring av reguleringsregimet for oppdrettsnæringen hvor dagens system med en fast maksimalt tillatt biomasse (MTB) ble vurdert erstattet ... -
The Russian private equity sector in the aftermath of the current economic crisis
(Master thesis, 2010)How has the modern financial crisis impacted Private Equity sector in Russia? This thesis argues that although the implications of the global economic recession on Russia are significant, in certain ways more so than for ... -
RuttOpt : a decision support system for routing of logging trucks
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007)We describe the decision support system RuttOpt, which is developed for scheduling logging trucks in the Swedish forest industry. The system is made up of a number of modules. One module is the Swedish road database NVDB ... -
Røde penger, grønne tall? : en femfaktoranalyse av det uetiske investeringsuniverset i Europa
(Master thesis, 2018)Vi har i denne utredningen undersøkt om investeringer i uetiske selskaper i Europa gir høyere avkastning enn markedet generelt, og i så fall i hvilke sektorer man kan oppnå høyest avkastning. Vi undersøker dette ved å ...