Browsing UiS Business school by Subject "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200"
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How do Green Knowledge Management and Green Technology Innovation Impact Corporate Environmental Performance? Understanding The Role of Green Knowledge Acquisition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Increasing regulatory obligations to adapt and execute environmentally friendly operations make it critical for businesses to pursue strategies that can strengthen their competitive edge in the market. Academics and ... -
Impacts of credit constraints on innovation propensity and innovation performance: evidence from China and India
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In the literature, researchers generally focus on the impact of credit constraints on innovation activities as a whole. In this study, we investigated how a firm’s financial status affects its adoption of product, process, ... -
Implementing Industry 4.0 in the Manufacturing Sector: Circular Economy as a societal solution
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0 (I4.0), has disrupted the notions of economic transactions, value generation and appropriation to become a central interest among academics and practitioners. I4.0 is predicted ... -
Incentivizing knowledge exchange engagement: direct and indirect benefits of external engagement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Engagement in knowledge exchange (KE) with external actors has become widely accepted as an integral mission of universities. However, research and teaching performance remain more important for career progression, while ... -
Innovasjonsinvasjon – og hvorfor det?
(Chapter, 2016)I dette essayet tar forfatterne opp fenomenet innovasjon. Hvordan og hvorfor det kan synes som om samfunnet og særlig offentlig sektor for tiden invaderes av krav om innovasjon. Innovasjon knyttes her særlig til følgende ... -
Innovating Responsibly—Challenges and Future Research Agendas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Innovation involves creating value from ideas, but this raises the question of for whom is the value created? Especially when there is growing recognition of global challenges such as poverty, inequality, aging population ... -
Innovation networks and green restructuring: Which path development can EU Framework Programmes stimulate in Norway?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)With combined insights from evolutionary economic geography and transition studies, the article examines the engagement of different regions in Norway in the innovation networks created within the European Union’s environmental ... -
Institutions and spin-offs: determining factors for etablishment and early market entry success for innovation based spin-offs from KIBS. In "Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness", ISBN 9781138859364
(Chapter, 2016)Over the past few decades, activities of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) can be interpreted as an important trend in the economic evolution of industrialised nations. KIBS firms are private sector companies ... -
Interaction and Innovation across Different Sectors: Findings from Norwegian City-Regions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Interaction and innovation across different sectors: findings from Norwegian city-regions, Regional Studies. This article examines how different types of interaction are related to the capacity of firms to innovate in ... -
Interrelationships among Lean HRM Practices and their Impact on Firm Performance: A Comparison between the Jordanian and German Models
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Lean management (LM) is one of the contemporary management systems that firms have adopted to boost their performance. Human resource management (HRM) is one of the most important areas with which LM can be integrated to ... -
Involving, Countering and Overlooking Stakeholder Networks in Soft Regulation: Case study of a SME’s implementation of SA8000
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)To achieve effective stakeholder governance in the context of international social accountability certification (SA8000) requires constructing a network of agreement. In a case study of a small-to-medium-sized enterprise ... -
Job displacement and crime: Evidence from Norwegian register data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)We estimate the job displacement effect on criminal behavior for young adult Norwegian men separated from their plant of employment during a mass layoff. Displaced workers experience a 20 percent increase in criminal charge ... -
Knowledge networks and innovation among subsea firms
(Chapter, 2018)The chapter discusses the innovation of firms operating in the subsea industry. The subsea industry is a high technology industry making oil extraction possible and safer in deep seas and rough weather conditions. Norway ... -
Motivation of female entrepreneurs: a cross-national study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Abstract Purpose This paper focuses on the motivation of females to start businesses in developed and emerging economies. Although the issues related to the motivation of entrepreneurs have been widely studied, there are ... -
Nature is ours! – Psychological ownership and preferences forbwind energy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Psychological ownership (PO) is a phenomenon whereby individuals feel ownership of goods they do not necessarily formally own. A substantial body of literature in marketing, consumer psychology, and organizational sciences ... -
The New Ecological Paradigm, Pro-Environmental Behaviour, and the Moderating Effects of Locus of Control and Self-Construal.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)Acquiring a better understanding of what drives pro-environmental and sustainable behaviour is important for both researchers and practitioners alike. The purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating role of locus ... -
New insight regarding the ageing workforce : It is time to close this knowing-doing gap
(Chapter, 2023)The Western world faces an ageing of the population due to large cohorts born after the Second World War. Their life expectancies are increasing, their health is better as compared to previous generations, and smaller ... -
The new paradigm of economic complexity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. The underlying idea is that growth, development, technological change, income inequality, spatial ... -
New pathways for organic waste in land-based farming of salmon: The case of Norway and Denmark
(Chapter, 2019)Demand for farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has been increasing dramatically. Simultaneously, the industry faces increasingly large ecological challenges with the grow-out phase at sea. As a result, and with the aid ... -
Næringslivets samhandling med universiteter og høgskoler i og utenfor regionen: Funn fra en undersøkelse av norske bedrifter
(Chapter, 2019)The chapter examines collaboration with universities from the perspective of firms, drawing on survey data from 1200 Norwegian firms. Around one in five firms collaborate with a university. The firms provide various motives ...