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Diving into Corporate Social Responsibility and the United Nations Global Compact
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Introduced after the Second World War, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept that is endlessly changing and developing. The concept has birthed multiple CSR certificate programmes that aid organisations around ... -
Diving into the uncertainties of open innovation: A systematic review of risks to uncover pertinent typologies and unexplored horizons
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The open innovation paradigm has created substantial new opportunities for firms in various sectors. However, scholars have long expressed concern that open innovation also entails a dark side, which can result in value ... -
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent ... -
Do grandchildren perform better at school if maternal and paternal grandparents live close-by versus when they don’t?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IØL/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)This study investigates whether grandchildren from intact families perform better at school when their maternal and paternal grandparents live close-by versus when they don’t. The answer to this question is based on ... -
Do international non governmental organizations have a corporate social responsibility?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)The assumption that International Non Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are actors without social, economic, or political impact is becoming increasingly untenable. With an average of 270 million people affected by natural ... -
Do Investors Value Green Initiatives? A Study of the ISO 14001 Certification and the Issuance of Green Bonds
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-HH/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)The aim of this thesis is to explain the impact on stock prices for publicly traded firms from certifying to the ISO 14001 standard. Through the event study methodology, we study 28 firms listed in Norway or Sweden who ... -
Do low-quality leader-member relationships matter for subordinates? Evidence from three samples on the validity of the Norwegian LMX scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06)Theories on the relations between leaders and subordinates have been of interest to researchers for decades; however, these theories have received less attention in the Nordic countries. The aim of this study is twofold: ... -
Do political risks harm development of oil fields?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-11)We examine the impact of political risks and financial development on investments in the petroleum industry utilizing a unique dataset of investments in individual oil and gas fields around the world. We find that the ... -
Do private investors understand diversification, and do they take advantage of diversification benefits in practice?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-HH/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)We found our Master thesis to be the optimal opportunity to examine the important phenomenon of diversification, but from a different angle than what earlier researchers have done. Diversification is a useful technique for ... -
Do public comments matter? Exploring narrow openings in closed policy subsystems: Nuclear waste governance in St. Louis Superfund sites
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08)The St. Louis region was home to the earliest large-scale processing of uranium for the U.S. nuclear weapons program and is facing ongoing efforts to clean up the resulting waste under the Superfund contaminated site ... -
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Do scientific capabilities in regions translate into technological leadership? This is one of the most pressing questions in academic and policy circles. This paper analyzes the matching of scientific and technological ... -
Do synthesis centers synthesize? A semantic analysis of topical diversity in research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)Synthesis centers are a form of scientific organization that catalyzes and supports research that integrates diverse theories, methods and data across spatial or temporal scales to increase the generality, parsimony, ... -
Do we need the "laws" of filmmakingnto craft a good film.
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)This paper takes a look at "STAY", "Lost Highway", and my own film"FILM". It analyses how they have broken the "laws" of filmmaking, and what effect that has had on the films. -
Do we need the users' voice? : An empirical research example comparing views of service providers and ex-prisoners : Implications for practice
(Chapter, 2021)User involvement in service development is seen as important to the credibility of these interventions but involving prisoners or ex-prisoners in this process can be problematic because of the vulnerability of this group ... -
Document.no satt i sammenheng med den internasjonale klimaskeptiske diskursen.
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Denne oppgaven tar for seg nettstedet Document.no og klimadiskursen som foregår der. Forskningsspørsmålet lyder som følger: Til hvilken grad gjenspeiler klimadiskursen på Document.no den internasjonale klimaskeptiske ... -
Does a Change in Performance Pay have an Effect on Workers’ Productivity? - An empirical analysis of a change in performance pay in Company X.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-HH/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis investigates whether a change in performance payment (PP) have an effect on workers’ productivity. During the period 2009 to 2015, dealer stores affiliated Company X experienced several PP changes. Some dealer ... -
Does an integrated care intervention for COPD patients have long-term effects on quality of life and patient activation? A prospective, open, controlled single-center intervention study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01)Background Implementation of the COPD-Home integrated disease management (IDM) intervention at discharge after hospitalizations for acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) led to reduced hospital utilization during the ... -
Does Assimilation Shape the Economic Value of Immigrant Diversity?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)A growing literature has shown that greater diversity among immigrants offers material benefits in terms of higher wages and productivity. One limitation of existing work is that it has considered immigrants from a given ... -
Does increased access to finance enhance entrepreneurial activity among students? How perceived access to finance affects entrepreneurial intentions
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06-12)This study uses Liñán and Chens entrepreneurial intention model, which is based on the theory of planned behavior. In this study their entrepreneurial intention model is used to measure how perceived access to finance ... -
Does Medical Staffing Influence Perceived Safety? An International Survey on Medical Crew Models in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)Objective: The competence, composition, and number of crewmembers have generally been considered to influence the degree of patient care and safety in helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS), but evidence to support ...