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Slotting allowances to coordinate manufacturers’ retail sales effort
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-07)Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to retailers’ shelf space. Although the main attention towards slotting allowances has been within the grocery industry, slotting allowances have also been ... -
Small family, smart family? : family size and the IQ scores of young men
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-08)How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of cognitive ... -
Small firm accountancy practices as business advisors : a dynamic capabilities view of the scope of their services
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-11)We propose that differences in the scope of services accountancy practices provide can be accounted for by differences in their dynamic capabilities. In order to test this we analyze 254 Norwegian small firm accountancy ... -
Small firm accountants as business advisers : accounting for the differences in their provision of business advisory services in Norway and Scotland
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-04)The European business scene is dominated by the SME sector. One important characteristic of smaller SMEs is that they rarely have the resources to conduct accounting duties in-house. Consequently they often seek external ... -
Small firms and business advisory services : variations in small firms' use of authorized accountants
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-11)The paper takes as its starting point the relatively high failure rate of small firms. It is argued that this might be lowered if small firms had improved access to external sources of business advice. It is further argued ... -
Små dytt for store valg : rapport fra et forskningsprosjekt om nudging for økt rekruttering til lærerutdanningen
(Arbeidsnotat;2017:2, Working paper, 2017-02)Bakgrunnen for prosjektet er at en betydelig andel av de som har lærerutdanning som førstevalg og får et tilbud om studieplass, aldri møter til studiestart. Kunnskapsdepartementet ønsket sammen med fem utdanningsinstitusjoner ... -
The SMS bandwagon in Norway : what made the market?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-06)Short Message Service (SMS) has been an overwhelming success in Europe, substantially larger than in the United States. In relative terms Norway represents one of the largest SMS markets in the world. The aim of the paper ... -
Snyte skatt hvis mulig? Hva fortalte Verdiundersøkelsen 2007?
(Arbeidsnotat;03/14, Working paper, 2014-02)Denne rapporten er basert på data fra Verdiundersøkelsen 2007, som er foreløpig Norges siste bidrag til World Values Survey (WVS). Undersøkelsen omfatter følgende spørsmål om holdningen til skattesnyteri: «Hvor på denne ... -
Social capital and organizational practice
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-11)There is need of a theory of social capital capable of informing practice in firms aiming to develop social capital. Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s (1998) paper on the relationship between social capital and intellectual capital ... -
South Africa : a developing country and net outward investor
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-06)South Africa is not an emerging market in the sense that modern industries are established in the country for the first time. Rather, South Africa is in transition from a mature, mineral-led and inward-looking economy to ... -
Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-07)Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty is analyzed. The habitat is divided into two areas, and the effort level in the two areas may be different. The migration of biomass between the areas follows a ... -
Specialisation strategies in Norwegian shipping : a Vernon product cycle approach
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)One of the most important developments in the postwar shipping industry from the 1960s onwards has been the introduction of specialised ship types that have gained market shares in the transport of a large number of cargoes. ... -
Sport i norsk radio 1982-2004
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2005-01)Sport i norsk radio 1982-2004 undersøker utviklingen av norsk radio generelt og av radiosport spesielt de siste 20 årene. Med utgangspunkt i teorier om politisk økonomi viser artikkelen hvordan faktorer som eierforhold, ... -
State-of-the-art research : optimal investment in market-based electric power systems
(Working paper, Working paper, 2008-04)The purpose of this state-of-the-art research paper is to surveying the literature on investment in market based electric power systems as a background for identifying and discussing some important issues in the optimal ... -
State-of-the-art research : reflections on a concerted Nordic-Baltic nuclear energy effort
(Working paper, Working paper, 2009-09)Quite a few hold the view that nuclear energy will have its renaissance in the not too distant future. Technology is, however, a necessary, but not sufficient condition. The needed prerequisites represent a complex issue. ... -
A statistical analysis of the swedish import of smoked salmon from Norway
(Working paper, Working paper, 2007-03)The analysis adresses the question of whether Sweden's membership in the EU has had any influence on the import of smoked salmon from Norway. After Sweden became a member of EU in 1995, the trade conditions changed from ... -
Stochastic feedback policies under alternative management regimes
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-02)A discrete-time stochastic bioeconomic model is developed and used to analyse the North Sea herring fishery under alternative management regimes. The analysis focuses on how catches and harvesting policies change with the ... -
Strategic control systems in action : managers' use of information devices in creational and institutionalising work
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-08)In recent years, the number of managerial processes and information devices with a claim to strategic importance has increased significantly, while the environments in which they are working have become increasingly chaotic ... -
Strategic informative advertising in a TV-advertising duopoly
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-08)We consider a model of strategic informative advertising where the advertising is done on TV and where the TV channels' advertising prices are endogenously determined. We discuss how these prices, and the advertising firms' ... -
Strategic investments with spillovers, vertical integration and foreclosure in the broadband access market
(Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)We analyze competition between two firms (ISPs) in the retail market for broadband internet connectivity. One of the firms is vertically integrated and controls the input market for local broadband access. The vertically ...