• Consequences of imitation by poor countries on international wage inequalities and global growth 

      Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      This paper presents an endogenous growth model where the level of international transaction costs may be decisive for whether the poor East specializes in agriculture production, imitates goods from the rich West, or makes ...
    • Experimenting with sustainable business models in fast moving consumer goods 

      Bashir, Hussnain; Jørgensen, Sveinung; Pedersen, Lars Jacob Tynes; Skard, Siv E. Rosendahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The transition to more sustainable business requires comprehensive transformations of business models, and such innovation can benefit from business experimentation for sustainability (BES). In this paper, we investigate ...
    • 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 ...
    • Innovation, competition, and investment timing 

      Koskinen, Yrjö; Mæland, Jøril (Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)
      In our model multiple innovators compete against each other by submitting investment proposals to an investor. The investor chooses the least expensive proposal and when to invest in it. Innovators have to provide costly ...
    • Innovation, human capital and exogenous shocks 

      Knudsen, Eirik Sjåholm; Lien, Lasse B. (Working paper;33/13, Working paper, 2013-12)
      Strategic entrepreneurship is about the simultaneous exploitation of existing advantages and the creation and exploitation of new opportunities. These are often referred to as the strategy-and the entrepreneurship dimension, ...
    • Keep searching and you'll find: what do we know about variety creation through firms' search activities for innovation? 

      Laursen, Keld (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper critically reviews and synthesizes the contributions found in theoretical and empirical studies of firm level innovation search processes. It explores the advantages and disadvantages of local and non-local ...
    • 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 ...
    • The issue of design in managerial decision making: Leadership and human resources perspectives. 

      Selart, Marcus; Patokorpi, Erkki (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      It is argued that the design of decisions is a process that in many ways is shaped by social factors such as identities, values, and influences. To be able to understand how these factors impact organizational decisions, ...