Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (UiS-HH) by Title
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Corrupting Perceptions: The Impact of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption on Corruption Perceptions Index Scores
(Journal article, 2019)This paper examines the impact early ratification of the United Nations Convention against Corruption has on a country’s Corruption Perceptions Index score. It builds on much of the recent scholarly work that explores ... -
Covid-19 Disaster relief projects management: an exploratory study of critical success factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04)The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented socio-economic devastation. With widespread displacement of population/ migrants, considerable destruction of property, increase in mortality, morbidity, and poverty, infectious ... -
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 ... -
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 dark side of phubbing in the workplace: Investigating the role of intrinsic motivation and the use of enterprise social media (ESM) in a cross-cultural setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04)Despite the increasing phenomena of supervisor phubbing (a counterproductive workplace behaviour of managers), very few studies have explored its outcomes in organisations. This study aims to bridge this gap by investigating ... -
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 ... -
Decentralisation, quality of government and economic growth
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The effect of decentralisation on regional economic growth is a hotly debated topic. In theory, decentralisation should entail welfare benefits by bringing government closer to the people. In practice, the benefits of ... -
Delivering the Goods: The Determinants of Norwegian Seafood Exports
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Seafood is the world’s most traded food product. In recent years, aquaculture has become an increasingly important part of seafood production, facilitating increased trade. However, despite evidence that fish farmers have ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Disruptive innovation in the higher education sector : The case of the one planet MBA
(Chapter, 2023)In 2010 the MBA team at the University of Exeter in the UK faced a strategic challenge: how to differentiate and grow their MBA provision in a context in which there were major players with size, location and branding ... -
Diversifying in green technologies in European regions: does political support matter?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)New green activities in regions tend to build on regional capabilities. This paper makes a first attempt to test the impact of political support for environmental policy at the national and regional scales, besides regional ... -
Do President Trump's tweets affect financial markets?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)Frequent tweets of the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, provide a unique opportunity to study how financial markets respond to his statements. To do this, we utilize a precise timestamp of each tweet ... -
Doctoral graduates’ transition to industry: networks as a mechanism? Cases from Norway, Sweden and the UK
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Increased public investment in PhD education to drive innovation has led to a recent rapid growth in the number of PhD graduates. Academic labour markets have not developed at the same pace. An ever-larger share of the ... -
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 ... -
Does Assimilation Shape the Economic Value of Immigrant Diversity?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)A growing literature has shown that greater diversity among immigrants offers material benefits in terms of higher wages and productivity. One limitation of existing work is that it has considered immigrants from a given ... -
Does combining different types of collaboration always benefit firms? Collaboration, complementarity and product innovation in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03)Product innovation is widely thought to benefit from collaboration with both scientific and supply-chain partners. The combination of exploration and exploitation capacity, and of scientific and experience-based knowledge, ...