Doctoral Dissertations (SOL)
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The Imbalanced Consumer: The Effect off Physical Imbalance on Brand Recall and Construal Level
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06)The role of physical imbalance in consumer behavior is an understudied topic in consumer psychology. This dissertation investigated the effect of physical imbalance on consumers. In a consumer environment, imbalance ... -
Safe Today, Tomorrow, and Together: A Dynamic Perspective on Team Psychological Safety
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06)There is an increasing focus in organizations on building psychologically safe teams. This follows a large—and rapidly growing—body of research supporting the importance of team psychological safety for effective ... -
Governing Knowledge Sharing and Transfer in MNCs by Organizational Mechanisms Enabling Social Interaction
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-04)This dissertation aims to contribute to the understanding of how multinational companies (MNCs) use organizational mechanisms enabling social interaction to govern knowledge sharing and transfer within the company. The ... -
Studies on Interorganizational Networks: The Case of Two Regional Clusters in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-05)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to study interorganizational networks. Firms are open systems and simultaneously embedded in interorganizational networks of various kinds. Interorganizational networks consist ... -
LEADING BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION IN ESTABLISHED FIRMS
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-10)The aim of this dissertation is to explore how established firms innovate their business models, including the organizational and managerial underpinnings of such innovations. The dissertation focuses on the following ... -
Collective employee narratives and responses to subtractive change
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Alignment Between Firms and Board Directors: Implications for New Ventures
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06)The focus of this dissertation is the alignment between firms and their boards of directors in relation to outcomes such as firm growth and director exit from the firm. The thesis asks the following overarching question: ... -
Mind the Gap: Building Bridges in lnterprofessional Teams
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Business Model Innovation : the Role of The Top Management’s Composition, Cognition, and Knowledge Sourcing Strategy
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Learning to Lead: An Ethnographic Study of an Experiential Leadership Course
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-05)It is widely accepted that leaders learn from experience (Day, 2010; Klimoski & Amos, 2012; Kolb, 1984; McCall, 2004, 2010a). However, learning experiences that are too challenging or that lack a sense of safety, can ... -
Gather your employees: Digital transformation in incumbent firms - Insights from the Norwegian grid sector
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It’s About Time A Study of Norwegian managers’ handling of time at work
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-11)This thesis enhances existing insights and knowledge about how managers handle their time through exploring how Norwegian managers handle time at work. More specifically, this thesis aims at answering the following research ... -
Human capital and new firm performance: founders, employees and board members
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Knowledge Workers’ Preferences for Leadership: Reimagining a Follower-Trait Perspective
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-04)This dissertation contributes to the research on the leadership of knowledge workers. The dissertation comprises four articles and joins the discussion on why there is still little agreement among scholars as to how ... -
Rapid-growth firms in Norway: Characteristics of growth factors in benign and adverse environments.
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Transaction Cost Economics, Firm Power, and Negotiation Strategies: An Empirical Study of Buyer-Supplier Relationships in the Oil and Gas Industry
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-12)There are two main research purposes in this dissertation. First, it aims to refine transaction cost economics (TCE) by including the scope condition of power structure in the TCE framework. This study develops a model ... -
Data presentation formats And decision making effectiveness
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-06)The purpose of this thesis is to enhance the understanding of how data presentation formats may affect managerial decision processes. Compared to previous studies in this area, I have examined decision makers’ need for ... -
"We care, and we meant it": Psychological mechanisms influencing perceptions of sincerity in CSR communication
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-09)The overarching topic in this dissertation is psychological mechanisms involved in the perceptions of sincerity in CSR communication. The dissertation consist of three papers, all revolving around sincerity-perceptions in ... -
"When my relationship partner fails me..." The Role of Consumer-Product Relationship in Responses to Functional Failures
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-01)This research examines consumers’ responses to a functional failure with an ambiguous cause. Empirical evidence shows that following a functional failure which involves a product service bundle (PSB), the consumer’s ... -
Middle managers’ role as change agents - Variations in approaches and their contributions to the progress of change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the various ways in which middle managers approach their role as change agents. Existing research on organizational change has primarily emphasized the implementation of change as ...
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