Norges Handelshøyskole: Recent submissions
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A tool kit for measurement of organisational learning: Methodological requirements and an illustrative example
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003)Few studies attempt to measure organisational learning. Measurement is critical to evaluate relationships between initiatives to support learning and organisational performance. This paper proposes a theory-based tool kit ... -
Education and mobility
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the whole ... -
Paying Respect
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Priceless: The nonpecuniary benefits of schooling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and affects many dimensions of skill that, in turn, ... -
Endogenous Verifiability and Relational Contracting
(Journal article, 2009)Principal-agent models usually invoke the strong assumption that the parties know for sure ex ante whether a variable is verifiable or not. This paper assumes that only the probability of verification is known, and that ... -
Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize
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Further Unbundling Institutions.
(SAM;13/2016, Working paper, 2016-10-07)This paper analyzes the effects of institutions on economic development, and focuses on separating political institutions from contracting and economic institutions. For a sample of former European colonies, I find that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays on urban wage premium, returns to internal migration and migrants' selection in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-02)Even though there is plenty of space on this planet (the entire world population would take up approximately as much space as is the area of Norway - with the same population density as in Paris), we choose to live closer ... -
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 ... -
Teamkontraktens betydning for hvordan team arbeider og presterer : direkte og medierende effekter mellom teamkontrakt, arbeidsprosesser og prestasjoner
(Rapport;2015:15, Research report, 2015-12)Studien har som formål å undersøke betydningen av teamkontrakt for hvordan team arbeider og presterer, samt å undersøke hvorvidt teamkontraktens påvirkning på prestasjon medieres av utvalgte sider ved arbeidsprosessen. ... -
What makes employees trust forecasted numbers?
(Report;2015:19, Research report, 2015-12)Volatile and changing market conditions have made financial planning tools of increasing importance for managers and practitioners. In recent years, the use of traditional budgets has been criticised as a management control ... -
Tilpasning av bemanning og valg av nedbemanningstiltak i bedrifter rammet av oljekrisen
(Rapport;2015:16, Research report, 2015-12)Denne masterutredningen studerer hvordan den aktuelle oljekrisen har påvirket bemanningsavveininger i den norske olje- og gassektoren. Innfallsvinkelen er hvordan nedbemanning omfatter fast ansatte og innleide konsulenter. ... -
Beyond Budgeting og ledelsesfokus i Coloplast
(Rapport;2015:17, Research report, 2015-12)Formålet med denne utredningen har vært å forstå sammenhengen mellom styringsmodellen Beyond Budgeting og ledelse. Beyond Budgeting-filosofien argumenterer for at budsjettet er uegnet som styringsverktøy. For å være mer ... -
Effektivitet i lederteam : hvordan kan et lederteams etableringsaktiviteter påvirke teamets videre prosesser og effektivitet?
(Rapport;2015:10, Research report, 2015-12)I denne masterutredningen utforskes etableringsaktiviteters betydning for prosesser og effektivitet i lederteam. Det finnes en del forskning som tar for seg effektivitet i team, men det finnes begrenset med kunnskap om ... -
The Café Femenino Peru story : evaluating the potential of a for-profit gender equitable value chain
(Working paper;2016:1, Working paper, 2016-04)The focus of this paper is on evaluating how Café Femenino Peru, an organically grown coffee produced by women, is successful in promoting gender equity, while being a for-profit business. Using the ‘pro-poor perspective’ ... -
PCAIDS and growth index demand modelling for imported cod products in Portugal : ‘Special issue – fisheries and aquaculture’
(Working paper;2016:5, Working paper, 2016-05)The demand function represents the fundamental building block in economics and provides important information for investment and policy purposes. The aim of this paper is to characterize and measure the demand structure ... -
Fish processing in Portugal : an industry in expansion
(Working paper;2016:4, Working paper, 2016-05)This paper analyses developments in the Portuguese fish processing industry from the 1960s to the present as well prospects for future expansion. Fish processing has expanded in recent decades gaining market share in the ... -
Effekter av lederatferd : en studie av mellomstore regnskapsbedrifter i Norge
(Rapport;2015:11, Research report, 2015-12)Formålet med denne utredningen har vært å undersøke effekter av lederatferd. Vi har tatt utgangspunkt i tre typer lederatferd. Disse tre typene er relasjonsorientert, oppgaveorientert og endringsorientert lederatferd. Vi ...