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A Real Options Approach to growth opportunities and resilience aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose Facing the challenges posed by the pandemic of COVID-19, this paper aims to contribute to the resilience of businesses through the development of a real options approach (ROA) that provides alternatives and ... -
The Effects of a Structured Curriculum on Preschool Effectiveness: A Field Experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Abstract: This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year-olds into the universal preschool context of Norway, where the business as usual is an unstructured curriculum. We conduct a ... -
Large-scale fisheries during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the oceangoing groundfish fleet in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-10)Small-scale fisheries have received most of the attention in the literature investigating negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on seafood production. Larger fishing vessels are often perceived to be more resilient as ... -
Collected worker experiences, knowledge management practices and service innovation in urban Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Knowledge‐intensive services firms prefer to locate in cities that provide access to rich information flows and abundant opportunities for learning‐by‐recruiting. Focusing specifically on such locations, this paper explores ... -
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 ... -
Energy justice issues in renewable energy megaprojects: implications for a socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and discuss stakeholder issues faced by renewable energy megaprojects and in particular solar and wind power projects and their relevance to socioeconomic evaluation ... -
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 ... -
Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)To the surprise of many in the West, the fall of the USSR in 1991 did not lead to the adoption of liberal democratic government around the world and the much anticipated “end of history.” In fact, authoritarianism has made ... -
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 ... -
Pandemic, power and paradox: Improvising as the New Normal during the COVID-19 crisis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The global COVID-19 pandemic made salient various paradoxical tensions, such as the trade-offs between individual freedom and collective safety, between short term and long-term consequences of adaptation to the new ... -
Social capital and economic growth in the regions of Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Social capital is an important factor explaining differences in economic growth among regions. However, the key distinction between bonding social capital, which can lead to lock-in and myopia, and bridging social capital, ... -
Customer environmental concerns and profit margin: Evidence from manufacturing firms
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)This study evaluates the impact of customer environmental concerns on manufacturing firms’ profit margin. Eco-conscious customers may have a high demand for green products and are willing to pay a price premium for those ... -
The black box of regional growth
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Regional growth models leave a large share of variation unexplained. While we should continuously aim to improve these models, the unique combination of conditions and human agency in each region will also invariably lead ... -
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 ... -
Fish quality and market performance: The case of the coastal fishery for Atlantic cod in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study focuses on fish quality and resource utilization at the ex-vessel level of the value chain. Substantial waste in the form of reduced fish quality is revealed for Atlantic cod landed by the coastal fleet in Norway, ... -
Sustainable Business Models: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Challenges in Manufacturing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objective: there is an ongoing need for businesses to strive to maintain ideals within environmental, economic, and social values — commonly known as the triple bottom line. Manufacturing as a sector has advanced drastically ... -
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, ... -
Changing role of users : Innovating responsibly in digital health
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Despite the recognition of the importance of stakeholder inclusion into decisions about new solutions offered to society, responsible innovation (RI) has stalled at the point of articulating a process of governance with a ... -
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 ... -
Practice-based learning and innovation in nursing homes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose: This article investigates the conditions under which learning and innovation occur within nursing homes. It addresses the interplay between formal and informal learning situations and discusses how these processes ...