Browsing Doctoral Dissertations (SOL) by Issue Date
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Essays on middle management responses to change initiatives
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Communication effects in sponsorships : an assessment of how different communication strategies can enhance incongruent sponsorships
(Ph.D. thesis NHH, Doctoral thesis, 2010)Collateral communication of sponsorships is considered a prerequisite for sponsorship success. Sponsorship is a communication form that is passive and indirect by nature and is therefore increasingly leveraged with ... -
Dual and unitary leadership : managing ambiguity in pluralistic organizations
(Ph.D.thesis, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis is about different leadership models in pluralistic organizations such as hospitals, universities, cultural organizations and newspapers, the kind of competing logics leaders meet in such organizations, and ... -
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 ... -
The creative consumer : exploring consumer behavior from a creativity perspective
(Ph.D. thesis, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This research focuses on consumer creativity and uses frameworks from creativity theory to understand consumer behavior. Because this ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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: ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Rapid-growth firms in Norway: Characteristics of growth factors in benign and adverse environments.
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-09) -
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 ... -
Business Incubators and Entrepreneurial Perfomance: The Influence of Network Value and Absorptive Capacity
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-02)The vast majority of businesses are either small- or medium-sized enterprises (OECD, 2003; Reijonen & Komppula, 2007; Small Business Administration, 2008). Most larger companies also started out as small businesses, sometimes ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
When Leadership Matters More Than Leaders: Developing a Processual Prespective on Leadership During Organizational Crises
(Ph.d. thesis (Norges handelshøyskole), Doctoral thesis, 2017) -
"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 ...