Browsing Doctoral Dissertations (SOL) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Service, innovation and dynamic capabilities : from conceptualization to explanation
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the role of dynamic capabilities in service innovation. However, I do not accept the notions of service innovation and dynamic capabilities as given, but instead ... -
Skjønnheten og udyret : kunsten å lede kunstorganisasjonen
(Doctoral thesis, 2002) -
Strategic flexibility and alliances
(Doctoral thesis, 1999) -
Strategic issue diagnosis as a cultural process of paradox and unobstrusive power
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The survivor principle meets corporate diversification
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The process of customer brand engagement in interactive contexts: Prerequisites, conceptual foundations, antecedents, and outcomes
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-11)The purpose of this thesis is to develop a conceptual and theoretical understanding of customer brand engagement (CBE) that is useful for practitioners, particularly for service firms utilizing interactive platforms in ...