• Boyan Jovanovic: recipient of the 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 

      Minniti, Maria; Andersson, Martin; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Delmar, Frédéric; Rickne, Annika; Thorburn, Karin S.; Wennberg, Karl; Stenkula, Mikael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has been awarded to Professor Boyan Jovanovic at New York University in the USA. Boyan Jovanovic has developed pioneering research that advances our understanding of the ...
    • Competitive in the lab, successful in the field? 

      Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Pires, Armando; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to com-pete. But to what extent is competitive behavior in the lab associated with field choicesand outcomes? We address this question in a ...
    • Competitive in the lab, successful in the field? 

      Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Pires, Armando José Garcia; Tungodden, Bertil (Working paper;02/15, Working paper, 2015-01)
      A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to compete. But to what extent is competitive behavior in the lab associated with field choices and outcomes? We address this question in a ...
    • Firm size and the quality of entrepreneurs 

      Hvide, Hans K. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)
      A theory is proposed where the pay policy and size of established firms are determined together with individual workers' entrepreneurship decision. The main results are twofold. First, taking the firm size as given, larger ...
    • Generational links between entrepreneurship, management and puritanism 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Minde, Kjell Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper deals with relationships between puritanism, management and entrepreneurship. As this is an on-going debate among economic historians, it focuses on the period from the early 1800s until present times, where ...
    • The geography of rapid-growth firms : exploring the role and location of entrepreneurial ventures 

      Bastesen, Jarle; Vatne, Eirik (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-12)
      This paper reports from an ongoing study focused on Norwegian rapid-growth firms. It starts with a general discussion of the dynamics of firm growth and particularly on rapid-growth as an entrepreneurial achievement and ...
    • Liquidity constraints and entrepreneurial performance 

      Hvide, Hans K.; Møen, Jarle (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-09)
      If entrepreneurs are liquidity constrained and cannot borrow to operate on an efficient scale, those with more personal wealth should do better than those with less wealth. We investigate this hypothesis using a unique ...
    • Management of Knowledge Workers 

      Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-06)
      We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of ...
    • Management of knowledge workers 

      Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)
      We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects ...
    • Ownership and competitive dynamics 

      Foss, Nicolai Juul; Lien, Lasse B. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-05)
      Changes in ownership titles are essential to understanding crucial aspects of competitive dynamics and, more broadly, the market process. There is ample evidence that a crucial source of productivity growth, and hence ...
    • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Entrepreneurship of the Norwegian Puritan Leader Hans Nielsen Hauge. 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The present paper deals with Max Webers hypothesis on the linkage between protestant ethics and the development of capitalism and entreprenaurship. It does so by study industrial entrepreneurship the great Norwegian puritan ...