Browsing Doctoral Dissertations (SOL) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Lederlegitimitet: en eksplorativ studie
(Doctoral thesis, 2004) -
Markedseksponering: konsekvenser for samarbeid i interne kunde-leverandør-relasjoner
(Doctoral thesis, 2002) -
Measuring the effects of strategic change on safety in a high reliability organization
(Doctoral thesis, 2008)This study explores how strategic organizational change affects safety as an outcome variable in a high reliability organization (HRO). High reliability organizations are defined as organizations operating in high-risk ... -
Medvirkning : mer enn medvirkning : effekter av ulike medvirkningsformer
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-07)Formålet med avhandlingen har vært å bidra til økt kunnskap om relasjonen mellom ulike former for medvirkning og utfall av endringsprosjekter. For det første ønsket jeg å teste om det er hold i antakelsen om at ulike ... -
Merkeutvidelser : effekter av trekk ved individ, objekt og kontekst på vurdering
(Doctoral thesis, 2000) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Now you see me, now you don't? : effects of choice set configuration in complex choice tasks
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-10)This dissertation considers stimulus-based influences on consumer decision-making. Context effects, referred to as set configuration effects in this dissertation, have repeatedly been shown to influence choices consumers ... -
On the nature and sources of normativity: Normativity as grounded in affective human nature
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-06)The overall aim of this project is to explore the foundations of human morality, or what is often referred to more formally as “ethics”. Consistent with widely accepted terminology in philosophy, I deploy the notion of ... -
Online Communities for Customer Support: A Study of Participation and its Antecedents
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)In this dissertation I study consumers’ participation in online communities for customer support. Based on an extensive literature review, I identify four different ways in which consumers participate in such communities: ... -
Performance measurement in local government: organisational control in political institutions
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-11-23)This thesis deals with how asymmetric information and uncertainty affect performance measurement in local government organisational control. Performance measurement was found to be extensively studied in the classics of ... -
Predicting Credit Card Delinquency: A Fundamental Model of Cardholder Financial Behavior
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-11)This thesis proposes a model of credit card customer delinquency based on theoretical advancements in financial decision-making. As follows, this thesis has two main research purposes. First, credit card delinquency is ... -
Psychological determinants of household saving behaviour
(Doctoral thesis, 2002)This dissertation reports the results of a study that examined the impact of psychological variables on household saving and borrowing behaviour. Understanding saving behaviour is important for policy makers and financial ... -
Rapid-growth firms in Norway: Characteristics of growth factors in benign and adverse environments.
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-09) -
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 ...