• Population Ageing and Capital Accumulation: A Simple OLG Model with PAYGO Pensions 

      Thøgersen, Joachim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-25)
      Population in developed countries has dramatically aged in recent years. At the same time, most of these countries finance their old - age public pension benefits on a pay - as - you - go (PAYGO) basis. Such ...
    • Audit Quality and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry 

      Beisland, Leif Atle; Mersland, Roy; Strøm, R. Øystein (International Journal of Auditing;Volume 19, Issue 3, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-19)
      This study uses a unique, hand-collected sample of microfinance institutions from 73 countries that typically are not investigated in accounting research to analyze the relationships between audit quality and governance ...
    • Innovation Management Practices in Production-Intensive Service Firms 

      Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hydle, Katja Maria; Pedersen, Per Egil (International Journal of Innovation Management;19(5), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06-22)
      This paper posits that innovation management practices are contingent upon the type of industry, and examines the innovation management practices in a distinctive set of service firms: production-intensive service firms. ...
    • Gender discrimination before mandated quotas? Evidence from Norway: 1989 to 2002 

      Strøm, Øystein R. (Scandinavian Journal of Management;31(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-01)
      Is the low percentage of women on boards due to discrimination? Discrimination has a time dimension; it is repeated period after period and is thus highly persistent. This persistence is tested with data from Norway before ...
    • The emergence of absorptive capacity through micro-macro level interactions 

      Martinkenaite-Pujanauskiene, Ieva; Breunig, Karl Joachim (Journal of Business Research;69(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-12)
      A firm's absorptive capacity involves two dimensions: horizontal and vertical. The horizontal dimension refers to a dynamic interplay between internal and external environments of the firm, which is extensively covered in ...
    • Hvorfor kjøper bedrifter forsikring? 

      Nordahl, Helge A. (Magma;18(8), Academic article, 2015-12-15)
      De fleste bedrifter bruker forsikring som en del av sin risikostyring. For mange praktikere er dette en selvfølge, men klassiske teoretiske verk innen finans predikerer det motsatte, nemlig at bedriftene bør overlate ...
    • Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in China: An unsustainable situation in search of a solution 

      Vennemo, Haakon; Aunan, Kristin (Working Paper;3/2016, Working paper, 2016)
      Each year air pollution in China claims hundreds of thousands of lives. The root cause is an economy dependent on coal and heavy industry in combination with continued emissions from inefficient household stoves in ...
    • Intergenerational living: an international comparison 

      Grum, Bojan; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This article explores the factors behind young adults living in shared households with their parents for an extended period of time. We were interested in finding out if they think the state should implement ...
    • What Causes Stock Market Volatility in Pakistan? Evidence from the Field 

      Ghufran, Bushra; Awan, Hayat M.; Khakwani, Aftab; Qureshi, Muhammad Azeem (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We examined the presence of volatility at the Karachi Stock Exchange (recently changed the name to Pakistan Stock Exchange) (KSE) by fitting Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) ...
    • Open Innovation or Innovation in the Open? An Exploration of the Strategy–Innovation Link in Five Scale-Intensive Services 

      Breunig, Karl Joachim; Aas, Tor Helge; Hydle, Katja Maria (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This chapter explores the strategy–innovation link in open service innovations. The increased attention to the role of the firm's external environment on innovation has important implications for strategy. However, our ...
    • Included, but still not equal? Gender segregation at quota regulated boards 

      Storvik, Aagoth Elise Lossius; Gulbrandsen, Trygve Jens (Peer reviewed; Journal article; Journal article, 2016)
      In 2003 Norway introduced a new regulation that required at least 40 percent of each gender on company boards. Norway was the first country in the world to introduce such a law, but several countries have since proposed ...
    • Do you get what you pay for? Sales incentives and implications for motivation and changes in turnover intention and work effort 

      Kuvaas, Bård; Buch, Robert; Gagne, Marylene; Dysvik, Anders; Forest, Jacques (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This study investigated relations between pay-for-performance incentives designed to vary in instrumentality (annual pay-for-performance, quarterly pay-for-performance, and base pay level) and employee outcomes (self-reported ...
    • Exploring New Service Portfolio Management 

      Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hydle, Katja Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Most research on the management of innovation portfolios has focused on new product portfolios, whereas the management of new service portfolios has not been researched correspondingly. This paper addresses this literature ...
    • The virtual future of professional service firms: Identifying emerging interpretive schemes caused by technology enactment 

      Breunig, Karl Joachim; Skjølsvik, Tale (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
    • Medgeneracijsko sobivanje mladih in starih: Medkulturna primerjava 

      Grum, Bojan; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka (Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      V članku raziskujemo, kaj vpliva na podaljšano sobivanje mladih v skupnem gospodinjstvu s starši. Zanima nas, ali mladi menijo, da bi jim država z regulativnimi ukrepi mo - rala pri osamosvojitvi pomagati. Izhajamo ...
    • Business incubation and the network resources of start-ups 

      Pettersen, Inger Beate; Aarstad, Jarle; Høvig, Øystein Stavø; Tobiassen, Anita Ellen (Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship;5(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-02-03)
      The focus in this paper is to study whether business incubation can provide entrepreneurial start-ups with critical network resources. We make a distinction between incubator-provided network resources and start-ups’ ...
    • Developing sustainable energy efficient buildings – A transnational knowledge transfer experience between Norway and Kosovo 

      Hoxha, Visar; Haugen, Tore; Bjørberg, Svein; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-05)
      As transnational institutional development programs are often advocated as a knowledge transfer opportunity between the partner universities, this case study “Sustainable Energy Efficient Buildings –Knowledge Transfer ...
    • Initial Public Offering Allocations, Price Support, and Secondary Investors 

      Fjesme, Sturla (Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis;Volume 51, Issue 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-16)
      Tying initial public offering (IPO) allocations to after-listing purchases of other IPO shares as a form of price support has generated much theoretical interest and media attention. Price support is price manipulation and ...
    • Lesefrø - fra prosjekt til hverdag 

      Stadskleiv, Mariken; Molvig, Una (Bachelor thesis, 2017)
      Vi har undersøkt hvordan enkelte barnehager som er en del av Lesefrø-prosjektet i regi av Deichmanske bibliotek, har arbeidet med implementeringen av denne metoden. Vi ville se på hvordan barnehagene har valgt å tolke ...
    • Conceptualizing Innovation Capabilities: a Contingency Perspective 

      Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Empirical research has confirmed that a positive relationship exists between the implementation of innovation activities and the future performance of organizations. Firms utilize resources and capabilities to develop ...