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Stock prices’ variability around earnings announcement dates at Karachi Stock Exchange
(Economics Research International;2012, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The purpose of this study is to investigate how earnings announcement event affects stock returns at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). For this purpose we use the KSE-100 Index as our sample. We use the CAR Analysis to analyze ... -
Strategic Management in Finnish and Norwegian Government Agencies
(Administrative Sciences;Volume 9, Issue 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-30)The purpose of this article is to analyse the design and implementation of strategic planning and performance management in governmental agencies in two Nordic countries, Finland and Norway. Nordic countries are an interesting ... -
Strategic planning in turbulent times: Still useful?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)A common criticism of strategic planning is that it is of little use when the environment is turbulent and the future is unpredictable. The last decade has witnessed great environmental turbulence and uncertainty in many ... -
Strategic planning in turbulent times: Still useful?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)A common criticism of strategic planning is that it is of little use when the environment is turbulent and the future is unpredictable. The last decade has witnessed great environmental turbulence and uncertainty in many ... -
Strategic planning in turbulent times: Still useful?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A common criticism of strategic planning is that it is of little use when the environment is turbulent and the future is unpredictable. The last decade has witnessed great environmental turbulence and uncertainty in many ... -
Strategy as innovation: Exploring the role of innovation in strategic thinking
(Proceedings IFKAD;IFKAD 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose – Whereas innovation and strategy theory traditionally have been treated as two separate fields of expertise and research, this conceptual paper seeks to explore how these two fields have been interlinked in recent ... -
Supreme audit institutions in a high-impact context: A comparative analysis of performance audit in four Nordic countries
(Financial Accountability and Management;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-14)This article analyses survey data regarding the impact of supreme audit institutions’ (SAIs) performance audit on public administration in four Nordic countries. Regression analysis with pooled data from Denmark, Finland, ... -
Sustainable Business in Norway: The Firm or the Industry Effect?
(Sustainability;Volume 12 Issue 8, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-17)Explaining sources of profitability has been a major research stream in corporate finance and strategic management literature for decades. However, we have limited understanding of the sources of variations in firm profitability, ... -
Swing options in commodity markets: A multidimensional Lévy diffusion model
(Mathematical Methods of Operations Research;79(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-29)We study valuation of swing options on commodity markets when the commodity prices are driven by multiple factors. The factors are modeled as diffusion processes driven by a multidimensional Lévy process. We set up a ... -
A system dynamics model of capital structure policy for firm value maximization
(Systems research and behavioral science;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-16)The complexity surrounding the maximization of firm value agenda demands a comprehensive causal model that effectively embeds the intertwining relationships of the variables and the policies involved. System dynamics ... -
Systematic Evaluation of GPT-3 for Zero-Shot Personality Estimation
(ACL Anthology;, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2023)Very large language models (LLMs) perform extremely well on a spectrum of NLP tasks in a zero-shot setting. However, little is known about their performance on human-level NLP problems which rely on understanding psychological ... -
The Systemic Turn and Participatory Budgeting: The Case of Rio Grande do sul
(Journal of Latin American Studies;Volume 53, Issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10-09)Participatory budgeting (PB) has been one of the most popular local democratic reforms in Latin America in recent decades. This article examines what happened to PB when it was scaled up to the state level and integrated ... -
Taming The 'Alpha-Male' In The Space Between Art And Business
(Organizational Aesthetics;Volume 9, Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Arts-based interventions may expand how team members and leaders understand their roles and impact. For an intervention to be useful, there needs to be a way for the aesthetic experience to translate back into the regular ... -
Testing, Disclosure and Approval
(Journal of Economic Theory;Volume 187, May 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-06)Certifiers often base their decisions on a mixture of information, some of which is voluntarily disclosed by applicants, and some of which they acquire by way of tests or otherwise. We study the interplay between the ... -
The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Psychological job control has typically been negatively related to work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Based on the job demand-resource model and boundary theory, we argue that psychological job control may indirectly ... -
The virtual future of professional service firms: Identifying emerging interpretive schemes caused by technology enactment
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Ticket to rate: antecedents to turnover intention among teachers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Since the millennium, marketization of upper secondary education involving control, accountability, and performance has changed the working life of many teachers in the Western world. The objective of this paper is to ... -
Tildeling av ostekvoter
(Bachelor thesis, 2017-05)Oppgaven drøfter og svarer på hvorfor valg av tildelingsmetode for ostekvoter er viktig for Norge. -
Tillit i Norge og Norden - Er den politiske tilliten under press eller vil den bestå?
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Norge og Norden kjennetegnes av høye nivåer av tillit. I denne bacheloroppgaven tar vi for oss tillit, og særlig tillit til politiske institusjoner. Tillit er en grunnleggende forutsetning for et velfungerende samfunn, og ... -
Tillitsbasert styring og ledelse i offentlig sektor i Norge: Mye hørt, men lite sett?
(Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Denne artikkelen utforsker utbredelsen av tillitsbasert styring og ledelse (TBSL) og hvordan tillitsbasert styring og ledelse påvirker tillit mellom ledere og ansatte og organisasjoners resultater i offentlig sektor i ...