• Barnehager som plattform for samskapt og bærekraftig samfunnsplanlegging 

      Heimburg, Dina von; Røiseland, Asbjørn (Chapter, 2023)
      Involvering av innbyggerne, og spesielt i levekårsutsatte og margina- liserte livssituasjoner, er vanskelig. Manglende involvering truer samfunnets sosiale bærekraft. Kapitlet utforsker hvordan barnehager kan brukes som ...
    • Beneath the Surface: Exploring the role of Individuals Learning in the Emergence of Absorptive Capacity 

      Breunig, Karl Joachim; Martinkenaite-Pujanauskiene, Ieva (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Drawing on the micro - foundations view of strategy, we examine the role of individuals in organizational learning and reveal the micro - macro interactions underpinning the emergence ...
    • Choral singers' perceptions of musical leadership 

      Jansson, Dag (Chapter, 2019)
      This chapter is about musical leadership and specifically the role of the choral conductor. The conductor role is familiar to anyone who has been singing in a school choir or have been the audience of live or televised ...
    • Digital entrepreneurship across P2P, B2C and B2B contexts: A bibliometric analysis deconstructing extant research on sharing economy business models 

      Breunig, Karl Joachim; Johansen, Henrik; Kristiansen, Jørgen Røste (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Digitalization has become known as one of the most extensive drivers of development in society and has put pressure on companies to innovate their business models, with an emphasis on the opportunities provided by applying ...
    • Digital Servitization: Strategies for Handling Customization and Customer Interaction 

      Hydle, Katja Maria; Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-27)
      This conceptual chapter utilizes extant servitization and digitalization theorization and discusses the impact of digital servitization on customization/standardization and customer interaction. The study argues that the ...
    • Dilemmaer i skandinavisk korlederutdanning 

      Jansson, Dag; Balsnes, Anne Haugland (MusPed: Research;Nr. 2 2021, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-20)
      Within higher education, programmes in choral conducting are offered of varying kinds and at different levels, from dedicated programmes to single courses that are embedded in other music programmes. The choral practice ...
    • Emerging Challenges in Innovation Portfolio Management: The Nordic Case 

      Mikkelsen, Kristian Hilmar; Breunig, Karl Joachim (Chapter, 2023)
      This empirical study revisits extant guidelines for portfolio management of research and innovation projects considering recent managerial challenges emerging such as artificial intelligence. The aim of the study is extending ...
    • The Extension of Sovereign Rights Beyond 200 Nautical Miles 

      Jensen, Øystein; Magnusson, Bjarni Mar (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This chapter examines legal aspects related to the extension of coastal states’ sovereign rights beyond 200 nautical miles, focusing on the legal framework of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The ...
    • Folkevalgt og politisk leder 

      Røiseland, Asbjørn; Vabo, Signy Irene; Sørensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob (Folkevalgt og politisk leder;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-18)
      This chapter introduces the book. In the first part, we discuss different meanings of “political leadership”, arguing that political leadership should be understood as three interrelated functions: Identifying problems, ...
    • Gendered challenges to fieldwork in conflict-affected areas 

      Jennings, Kathleen (The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-27)
      This chapter takes a gendered perspective on some of the challenges and opportunities of intervention fieldwork. Based on experiences from fieldwork in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Haiti, I consider ...
    • Measuring microfinance performance 

      Mersland, Roy; Strøm, R. Øystein (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      MFIs are measured according to two dimensions. One is their outreach to poor people, that is, their ability to provide poor families access to financial services. This is the MFIs’ social mission. The other dimension is ...
    • 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 ...
    • The Past and Future of Innovations in Microfinance 

      Mersland, Roy; Strøm, R. Øystein (Chapter, 2012-09)
      The microfinance industry carries every sign of an innovation in its take-off phase. The characteristic aspects of the microfinance innovation were developed in the 1970-1980’s, thirty years later the industry experiences ...
    • Performance management and accountability: the role of intergovernmental information systems 

      Askim, Jostein; Johnsen, Åge (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The chapter studies performance management as an integral part of local/central government relations, including the role this practice has in benchmarking, strategic planning, evaluation, policy making, and, not least, the ...
    • The Position of Technical Universities Within Changing frameworks of Institutional Organisation and Steering: The Case of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology 

      Vabø, Agnete; Langfeldt, Liv (Higher Education Dynamics;Volume 56, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-29)
      In Norway, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is regarded as the preeminent technological university. Within the framework of the massification of higher education, the institution’s status and ...
    • Product-Service Systems in the Digital Era: Deconstructing Servitisation Business Model Typologies 

      Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Hydle, Katja Maria (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-27)
      The identification of business model typologies of servitised firms is part of a long research tradition. However, the relevance of many existing typologies in the contemporary context, in which digitalisation is central ...
    • Putting your money where your mouth is: monetizing knowledge using communication roles 

      Breunig, Karl Joachim; Roberts, Hanno (European Conference on Knowledge Management;15, Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2014)
      In this paper we suggest that knowledge flows constitute the antecedences of value creation by means of its communication component. We bridge accounting theory with communication theory and explain how the role of ...
    • Refleksjoner rundt paradokser, lederskap og læring 

      Røiseland, Asbjørn; Sørensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-18)
      In this chapter we sum up and conclude the book. In the first part we summarize the four paradoxes that have structured the book. The four paradoxes relate to conflict, administration, openness and democracy. We then discuss ...
    • Systematic Evaluation of GPT-3 for Zero-Shot Personality Estimation 

      Ganesan, Adithya V; Lal, Yash Kumar; Nilsson, August; Schwartz, H. Andrew (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 ...
    • Åpenhetsparadokset. Åpne eller lukkede møter i lokalpolitikken? 

      Leirset, Espen; Røiseland, Asbjørn (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-08)
      This chapter focuses on the publicity of political meetings. While Norway has mandatory open meetings in all political bodies at the municipal level, in Denmark all the meetings apart from the council meetings are mandatory ...