UiS Business school: Recent submissions
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Diagnosing Insensitivity to Scope in Contingent Valuation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)Sensitivity to scope is considered a desirable property of contingent valuation studies and often treated as a necessary condition for validity. We first provide an overview of scope insensitivity explanations put forth ... -
Regulation of salmon aquaculture towards 2030: Incentives, economic performance and sustainability
(Research report, 2020)This report discusses how the future regulation of salmon aquaculture can be designed to provide appropriate incentives for producers to innovate and operate such that the Norwegian society achieve sustainable and economic ... -
What are the career implications of "seeing eye to eye"? Examining the role of leader-member exchange (LMX) agreement on employability and career outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Are there career benefits to leaders and followers agreeing about the quality of their leader–member exchange (LMX) relationship? Is LMX disagreement always detrimental for a follower's career? Can the examination of LMX ... -
Differentiation in the Atlantic salmon industry: A synopsis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The value chain for farmed salmon has experienced substantial changes over the past decades as a result of innovation in production technology, logistics, distribution and marketing that have helped facilitate the rapid ... -
Regional transformation; between policy intervention and knowledge dynamics?
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Regions have emerged as an important spatial scale through which to understand processes of economic development (Lundvall, and Borrás, 1997; Asheim and Isaksen, 2002; Boschma, 2005, 2015; Boschma et al., 2017; Isaksen and ... -
Still in the shadow of the wall? The case of the Berlin biotechnology cluster
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The evolution of knowledge networks has recently received a lot of attention from researchers. Empirical studies have shown that different types of proximities and network structural properties play a decisive role in tie ... -
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 ... -
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper investigates the role of human agency in 40 phases of regional economic development in 12 Nordic regions over 30 years. It contributes with a theoretical framework to study agency over time and a fuzzy-set ... -
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 ... -
Readiness for change and good translations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Translation studies have shown that management ideas and practices change as they travel between contexts, and that there are regularities in how they are translated through editing. We, however, know less about what ... -
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- ... -
Tools of the trade: trade flexibility with respect to margins and buyers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Access to highly disaggregated trade data allows for a more nuanced investigation of different margins of trade, and the factors known to influence them. In this paper, the number of importers and shipments to each importer ... -
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 ... -
Arctic Oil and Public Finance: Norway’s Lofoten Region and Beyond
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This study explores potential implications of Arctic oil and gas exploration for public finance, with the Norwegian Lofoten region as a valuation case. A model is calibrated to turn oil and gas resource estimates into ... -
Balanced Scorecards: A Relational Contract Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Reward systems based on balanced scorecards often connect pay to an index, i.e. a weighted sum of multiple performance measures. We show that such an index contract may indeed be optimal if performance measures are ... -
Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines the extent to which firms perceive different dimensions of proximity to be important for the formation of their interactions with universities. Furthermore, it investigates whether the importance of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...