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Studentoppgaver (Business) [488]
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Where cities fail to triumph: The impact of urban location and local collaboration on innovation in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07)The role of cities in fostering innovation has for long been taken for granted. Agglomeration and the knowledge spillovers generated in dense urban environments have been considered fundamental drivers of innovation. This ... -
Essays on the Economics of Education : Policies for Academic Transitions
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-01)This doctoral thesis builds on a rich literature investigating how education policy affects students’ learning, motivation, investment, and decisionmaking— all of which are determinants of the productivity of education ... -
Relatedness and the resource curse: Is there a liability of relatedness?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Literature in evolutionary economic geography has emphasized knowledge spillover benefits of co-location with related industries. We draw on resource curse literature to demonstrate that relatedness also comes with costs ... -
Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)Human agency has become a core topic in economic geography complementing traditional, structural approaches to explain regional development. This paper contributes firstly with a discussion of the theoretical and conceptual ... -
One coast, two systems: Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial discovery in Western Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)This paper introduces an analytical framework for understanding how specialized and diversified regional innovation system (RIS) differ in the way an entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP) is likely to unfold. To analytically ... -
Measuring motivations for choosing ecolabeled seafood: Environmental concerns and warm glow
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)Ecolabels are supposed to reduce the information asymmetry between producers and consumers, but they may also produce a warm glow of “green” behavior. We design discrete choice experiments to measure the relative importance ... -
Fishing tactics and fish quality: The case of the coastal fishery for Atlantic cod in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)This study examined the effects of key fishing tactics such as the choice of fishing gear and catch size, an indicator of swift and intense fishing, on the quality of landed fish. The effects of changes in yearly TACs, and ... -
Auction versus direct sale: the effect of buyers and sellers on prices
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11-27)This study examines the question of selling agricultural commodities by auction or directly. Hedonic price analysis using transaction data from the sale of frozen cod in Norway shows that buyer–seller matches explain 32.4 ... -
Risks Shift Along Seafood Supply Chains
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Seafood is a highly traded commodity and 71% of the United States (U.S.) supply is imported. This study addresses questions about imported seafood safety and compares risks of outbreaks and recalls across countries of ... -
Policy instruments and the uptake of zero- emission solutions in international shipping of Norway – A study of Sea- Cargo A/S
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis researches the policy instruments implemented by the Norwegian Government to motivate international shipping to invest in zero- emission energy solutions. The perspective of the thesis is that for innovation ... -
Does a local knowledge base in Industry 3.0 foster diversification in Industry 4.0 technologies? Evidence from European regions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)The aim of the paper is to shed light on the role played by regional knowledge bases in Industry 3.0 in fostering new technologies in Industry 4.0 in European regions (NUTS 3) over the period 1991–2015. We find that 4.0 ... -
How environmental performance affects firms’ access to credit: Evidence from EU countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)In response to climate change and environmental degradation, the European Union has recently proposed a long-term strategy targeting a climate-neutral economy by 2050. Sustainable finance plays a crucial role in reducing ... -
Executive compensation disclosure, ownership concentration and dual-class firms: An analysis of Swedish data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)We study how executive compensation disclosure (ECD) is affected by the economic incentives of owners and managers in a Swedish setting where agency conflicts are not so much between managers and owners, but between ... -
Employees’ work-related well-being during COVID-19 pandemic: An integrated perspective of technology acceptance model and JD-R theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)Employees’ work-related well-being has become one of the most significant interests of researchers and organizations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines how job characteristics such as mental load and team ... -
Samanhengar mellom utanlandskfødd arbeidskraft og innovasjon: er det kjønnsmessige og geografiske skilnader? The relationship between foreign-born workers and innovation: Are there gender and geographical differences?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Tidlegare studiar viser både positive og negative samanhengar mellom utanlandskfødd arbeidskraft og innovasjon. Desse studiane har ikkje teke høgde for kjønn. Derfor undersøker vi samanhengen mellom andelen utanlandskfødde ... -
Open purpose : Embracing organizations as expressive systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)The concept of purpose gained prominence in organization theory in recent years but there are discrepant views of its meaning, which we review as evolving and different perspectives: economic theories of the firm; stakeholder ... -
What drives university-industry collaboration? Research excellence or firm collaboration strategy?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-13)Research and innovation policy aims to boost research output and university-industry collaboration (UIC) in part to allow firms access to leading scientific knowledge. As part of their mission, universities in many countries ... -
The geography of innovation and technology news - An empirical study of the German news media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Variations in the frequency and tone of news media are the focus of a growing literature. However, to date, empirical investigations have primarily confirmed the existence of such differences at the country level. This ... -
What motives shape the initial accounting for goodwill under IFRS 3 in a setting dominated by controlling owners?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)We investigate how different motives shape the initial accounting for goodwill in a setting dominated by controlling owners, using data from 1112 acquisition analyses reported by Swedish listed acquiring firms. In contrast ... -
Regional innovation strategy for resilience and transformative industrial path development: evolutionary theoretical perspectives on innovation policy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Many countries in the developed world are currently experiencing low rates of economic growth, which is furthermore regionally and socially unequal. This increasing inequality seems to have deepened during the Corona crisis. ...
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