Blar i UiS Business school på emneord "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200"
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Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Regional capabilities are regarded a pillar of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3). There is yet little focus in S3 policy on the role of interregional linkages. This study on 292 NUTS-2 regions in Europe finds that ... -
Credit constraints and the severity of COVID-19 impact: Empirical evidence from enterprise surveys
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic decreases firm revenue and raises the demand for liquidity, resulting in increased financial stress for firms throughout the world. In attempts to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, governments ... -
The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)As regions evolve, their economies become more complex, and they tend to diversify into related activities. Although there is a bright side to this diversification process in terms of economic development, there may also ... -
Determinants of capital structure in the hospitality industry: Impact of clustering and seasonality on debt and liquidity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Volatile seasonal demand and geographic clustering of firms are two important factors affecting the capital structure of hospitality firms. In this paper, we investigate the capital structure determinants of hospitality ... -
Development and investigation of a new model explaining job performance and uncertainty among nurses and physicians
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose of this paper is to develop and investigate a new theoretical model explaining variance in job performance and uncertainty among nurses and physicians. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey. Data was ... -
DUI it yourself: Innovation and activities to promote learning by doing, using, and interacting within the firm
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Implicitly or explicitly, much innovation policy treats investments in research and development (R&D) as the main input to innovation. A large body of literature in innovation studies has challenged this, highlighting the ... -
Economic geography as regional contexts reconsidered-implications for disciplinary division of labour, research focus and societal relevance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The aim of the article is to discuss whether a definition of economic geography as contextual analysis still is viable and relevant. The author argues that the definition remains the key to the production of high quality ... -
Economic geography of innovation and regional development
(Chapter, 2022)Research in economic geography on innovation and regional development is an important and thriving research area in Scandinavia, which has contributed significantly to theoretical and empirical advancements beyond the ... -
Effect of gender composition of committees
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Does having more women on a committee matter? Interestingly, answers to this question are unknown, despite a significant push toward greater gender diversity on committees and boards. This article uncovers the mechanism ... -
Effectuated sustainability: Responsible Innovation Labs for impact forecasting and assessment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Considering intractable uncertainties and the wicked nature of many sustainability challenges, there is a need to both forecast and assess the potential for improvements in sustainability with new ventures. While it is ... -
Energy Intensity and Long- and Short-Term Efficiency in US Manufacturing Industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We analyze energy use efficiency of manufacturing industries in US manufacturing over five decades from 1960 to 2011. We apply a 4-component stochastic frontier model, which allows disentangling efficiency into a short- ... -
An Estimation of the Effect of Green Financial Policies and Constraints on Agriculture Investment: Evidences of Sustainable Development Achievement in Northwest China
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Farming' community actively participating as micro-actors in green finance schemes is critical for regional planning and development. On the basis of the extent to which financial progress and sustainable development are ... -
Evaluating hospital performance with plant capacity utilization and machine learning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study extends the measurement of plant capacity utilization by incorporating undesirable outputs. We select indicators through feature selection in machine learning and also introduce an undesirable output for assessment ... -
Evolving Conceptions of Work-Family Boundaries: In Defense of The Family as Stakeholder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In the management and organization studies literature, a key question to explore and explain is that of the family as an organizational stakeholder, particularly when working-from-home became the “new normal”. Departing ... -
Exploring the Travel Behavior and Experiences of Norwegian Surfers: Cold- Versus Warm-Water Surfing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)More affordable travel opportunities have facilitated a swift rise in surf tourism, which is a growing multibillion dollar global business niche within the broader sport tourism industry. It is argued that a growing number ... -
FPIC and geoengineering in the future of Scandinavia
(Chapter, 2023-05)This chapter focuses on procedural and intergenerational justice within the context of solar radiation management and ice-geoengineering in the Arctic. Research has framed geoengineering as an option to avoid the more ... -
Fully Embracing the Paradoxical Condition:Banksy to Organization Theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Management and organization studies has recently expressed heightened interest in the concept of paradox. Paradox, etymologically para-doxa, is that which challenges the norm. Frequently representative cases drawn from the ... -
The geographical dimension of innovation collaboration: Networking and innovation in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This paper looks at the geographical dimension of firm networking in Norway, by examining the impact of manager-level, firm-level and regional-level variables on the decisions of firms to collaborate with partners at ... -
Global value chains from an evolutionary economic geography perspective: a research agenda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The research agendas of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global value chains (GVCs) have developed more or less independently from each other, with little interaction so far. This is unfortunate because both streams ...