Browsing PhD theses (UiS Business School) by Issue Date
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Et sic operatur? : Exploring outcomes of organizational change in comtemporary hospitals
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Background and aims: Emergent trends in society and the expectations of authorities influence activities in public hospitals. The thesis has an overarching aim to contribute to knowledge on how changes in task management ... -
Risk, Luck and Deception: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
(PhD thesis UiS;435, Doctoral thesis, 2019-02)Two of the pillars in the field of behavioral economics which we are concerned with are motivation and rationality. In this thesis, which consists of three papers, I explore both these topics, and each of these papers are ... -
Exposure to diverse knowledge as driver of innovation and productivity
(PhD theses (HHUiS);472, Doctoral thesis, 2019-09)New and diverse knowledge is constantly being generated. How does this exposure to diverse knowledge affect us as economic actors? How does a firm’s exposure to diverse knowledge affect its innovation process? Is there any ... -
Divergent Organizational Change in Hospitals: Exploring how hospital leaders and employees can contribute to successful outcomes.
(PhD thesis UiS;492, Doctoral thesis, 2020-02)This thesis consists of three papers that aim to increase our understanding of how divergent changes to organizational structures and management systems in hospitals may be handled by leaders and employees in order to ... -
Essays on the Validity and Reliability of Non-Market Valuation Methods. Stavanger: University of Stavanger, 2020 (PhD thesis UiS, no. 532)
(PhD thesis UiS;532, Doctoral thesis, 2020-09)This dissertation makes important contributions to the literature of non-market valuation methods. A vast bulk of the literature has focused on ensuring the validity and reliability of non-market valuation methods, but ... -
Economics of Education: Peer Effects and Mindset
(PhD thesis UiS;539, Doctoral thesis, 2020-09)In a world where technology is becoming ever more important, children’s best chance to thrive in school, and later, succeed in the labor market is by striving towards exploiting their full potential and acquire an applicable ... -
Intersectoral collaborations of doctoral researchers and generic skills acquisition : A critical realist inquiry
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This dissertation aims to enrich the academic knowledge that can support policies around integration of doctoral graduates as a prominent group of knowledge workers, into industry and other non-academic career sectors in ... -
University-Industry Collaborations (UICs): A Matter of Proximity Dimensions?
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-03)Firms and universities interact with each other despite several barriers hindering their collaboration, such as distances in their worldviews, organizational structures and cognitive capabilities. This suggests that these ... -
Institutions and Regional Development : A panel data study of EU regions
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-03)This PhD thesis contributes to the body of knowledge that uses institutions to explain the differences in economic growth and development across regions. While theoretical (e.g., Rodríguez-Pose, 2013, Rodríguez-Pose, 2020) ... -
Promoting academic engagement in regions: How individual and contextual factors shape engagement activities
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-04)The need to harness knowledge to improve the innovativeness and economic development of regions has brought the regional role of universities to the fore of academic and policy discourses. Being producers and disseminators ... -
The Impact of Norwegian Government Funding Policies Through the Lens of an Entrepreneur
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-09)Norway, like many other industrialized countries, has a long tradition of implementing funding policies to shape and develop national innovation systems. These policies are often targeted at industries in which there is a ... -
Essays on the Economics of Education : Policies for Academic Transitions
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-01)This doctoral thesis builds on a rich literature investigating how education policy affects students’ learning, motivation, investment, and decisionmaking— all of which are determinants of the productivity of education ... -
Gender, Risk, and Leadership
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-04)Daily human interactions are likely to bear the weight of society’s gendered expectations. Gender stereotypes (i.e., descriptive beliefs) manifested through such gendered expectations, garnered throughout history across ... -
Human Capital Production in Childhood: Essays on the Economics of Education
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-05)The skills demanded in the labor market have changed (see, e.g., Acemoglu & Autor 2011).1 Just as technological innovations have increased demand for workers capable of performing non-routine and complex tasks, demand for ... -
Responsible innovation as a driver of regional policies and innovation and entrepreneurial practices: The context of digitalisation of healthcare and welfare services
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis explores the concept of responsible innovation (RI) and its implications for regional policies, innovation, and entrepreneurship policies and practices in the context of healthcare and welfare services. RI is ... -
Beliefs about learning : Social background, gender, and classroom environment
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Increasing students’ learning and their completion of high school has been a policy challenge for many years. This thesis investigates how the psychological mechanism of growth mindset is related to educational ... -
Determinants of registered nurses’ career choices : Studies from Norwegian health care organizations
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis consists of three papers that aim to increase our knowledge of the determinants of registered nurses’ career choices in the health care sector. In order to deliver services of high quality, health care organizations ... -
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 ... -
Three Essays in Financial Accounting
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The global business landscape is undergoing a paradigm shift. As stakeholders increasingly prioritize not only financial returns but also social and environmental impact, the concept of Environmental, Social, and Governance ... -
To Believe or not to believe in what patients say: Theoretical position, measurement and relevance of patient-reported experience for healthcare quality
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The concept of patient experience has gained traction in the past few decades regarding its relationships with patient outcomes and as an indicator of healthcare quality. Patient experience has been deemed a pillar of ...