Doctoral Dissertations (SOL)
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Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Leading in the Face of Competing Demands: A Phenomenological Study of Top Executives
(Doctoral thesis, 2025-01)This dissertation explores how executives cognitively and emotionally relate to competing demands. As organizational life becomes increasingly complex, leaders’ ability to address organizational paradoxes may determine ... -
Understanding the Role of Textual Paralanguage in Electronic Word of Mouth
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-12)Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) refers to online communication about products and brands among consumers. eWOM influences the consumer decision-making process and subsequently affects sales. Currently, consumers are ... -
Strategy and Digital Transformation: Exploring the Relationship Between Strategy and Digital Transformation in Established Firms
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-12)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how strategy and digital transformation work together to enhance firms' ability to compete in a digital landscape. Digital technology has fundamentally altered market dynamics ... -
Essays on Moral Decisions
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-09)People are often faced with decisions about right and wrong. Undoubtedly, individual dispositions and material incentives can influence those decisions to a large extent. However, beyond personal characteristics and ... -
Collaborative Digital platform Ecosystems: A Governance Perspective - A Literature Review Combined with Insights From the Norwegian Aquaculture Industry
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-06)Digital platform ecosystems are increasingly shaping how business is conducted in all industries. However, building them is far from straightforward. Specifically, building a digital platform ecosystem refers to the ... -
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 ... -
Servant Leadership in a Marketing Context
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-03)Research on Servant Leadership (SL) is gaining momentum in the management literature, but the role and effects of this style of leadership have not received much attention in the marketing literature. The purpose of ... -
New Insights into Freelancers' and Independent Contractors' Experiences
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11)This PhD thesis provides new insights into freelancers’ and independent contractors’ experiences. This group of workers has increasing relevance to companies and organization scholars. Many countries have seen significant ... -
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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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 ...
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