Browsing Doctoral Dissertations (SOL) by Title
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Rapid-growth firms in Norway: Characteristics of growth factors in benign and adverse environments.
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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
(Doctoral thesis, 2003) -
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 ... -
Three papers on evaluations : the "what if" in the evaluation of public programs
(Ph.D. thesis NHH, Doctoral thesis, 2010)SUMMARY: The “What if” in the evaluation of public programs: An appraisal of methodologies and practices Three papers on related topics concerning methodologies and practices of the evaluations of public ... -
Toppledelsens troverdighet ved kriser : en studie av legitimitetsprosesser ved Åsgard-overskridelsene og Åsta-ulykken
(Doctoral thesis, 2004-11)I denne avhandlingen settes søkelyset på hvordan symbolske sider ved toppledelsens respons på ulike kriser, påvirker deres legitimitet. Dette undersøkes gjennom to kvalitative case- studier: (1) Statoil i forbindelse med ... -
Toward a Management Control System for Service Innovation Activities
(Doctoral thesis, 2010)The doctoral project reported in this thesis was carried out as an integral part of the larger TIPVIS project (Service Innovation Research Project in the Norwegian Graphic Arts Industry). This project aimed to improve ... -
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 ... -
Trust in initial encounters : a motivational, cognitive theory
(Doctoral thesis, 2007)In this dissertation I develop a theoretical model on the effects of risk on the formation of trust in the initial stages of a relationship. Risk is proposed to influence trust in two ways: First, risk exerts a direct ...