Previous defences

Previous PhD defences at BI Norwegian Business School

2025

Title of the Thesis: "The Stuff of Us: Cultivating collective will for collaborative innovation in the Public Sector”

Title of the Thesis: “Connecting the Dots: Towards a Unified Understanding of Fixation in Problem-Solving”

Title of the Thesis: “Three essays on mood, trust, and financial markets”

Title of the Thesis: “Wealth, Gender and Labor: Essays on Entrepreneurship, Worker Mobility and the Gender Financing Gap”

Title of the Thesis: “Shocks, Breaks, and Long Shadows: Three Essays on Economic Disruption.”

Title of the Thesis: “Essays on Competitive Positioning: Exploration, Internationalization, and Vertical Integration”

Title of the thesis: “Investor Activity and Performance".

Title of the thesis: “Applied Econometric Studies in Political Representation and Mobilization”

Title of the thesis: “Essays on Marketing Finance".

2024

Title of the thesis: “Navigating the Landscape of Intrinsic Motivation: A Multi-Faceted Investigation into Temporal and Contextual Change in Motivation.”

Title of the thesis: “Essays in Household Finance”

Title of the thesis: “This Is Not My Job: Understanding Antecedents and Outcomes of Illegitimate Tasks”

Title of the thesis: “Equilibrium Default and Deep Learning”

Title of the thesis: “Measuring macroeconomics uncertainty and its drivers in high dimensional systems”

Title of the thesis: "User representation as organisational doing: A study of ignorance and vulnerability in Norwegian patient-centred care"

Title of the thesis: "Essays in Empirical Market Microstructure"

Title of the thesis: "Social, Biological and Cultural Foundations of Corporate and Investor Behaviors"

Title of the thesis: “When Should Organizations Outsource Problem-Solving? Balancing Functional and Technical Requirement Specifications in Public Procurement”

Title of the thesis: “Cognitive Distance, Network Embeddedness, and Alliance Performance: A Conceptual and Empirical Approach”

2023

Title of the thesis: “How Does an Acquisition Affect a Firm’s Alliance?”

Title of the thesis: “Essays on the determinants of oil, and the post-oil era and democracy”

Title of the thesis: “The Macroeconomic Consequences of the Green Transition”

Title of the thesis: “Three essays in portfolio management”

Title of the thesis: “On the Structure and Evolution of Marketing Science”

Title of the thesis: “Essays in prediction, expectation formation, and labor economics”

Title of the thesis: “Opportunities and obstacles to career success: A lifespan developmental perspective”

Title of the thesis: “How Repetition-Induced Learning Influences Consumers' Perceptions”

Title of the thesis: “Empirical Essays in Labor Economics and Housing Search”

Title of the thesis: “Creating room for innovation. A business history study of innovation in the Kongsberg Group. 2000 - 2015”

Title of the thesis: “Emotion Regulation via Self-Distancing: Consequences for Risk-Taking and Cognitive Processing”

Title of the thesis: “Doing Good and Doing Well: Creating Value through Corporate Social Responsibility”

Title of the thesis: “The party is on, get in line: Essays on the political economy of party discipline”

Title of the thesis: “Essays about Auctions and Bargaining: Theory and Experiments”.

Title of thesis: "Midsets in Organizations - How Fixed and Growth Beliefs Influence Employee Outcomes"

Title of the Thesis: “Trade and Worker Reallocation”.

2022

Title of the thesis: “Supply Heterogeneities and the Oil Market”

Title of the thesis: “Reconnecting Leader-Member Exchange and Social Exchange Theory”

Title of the thesis: “Leaders for art’s sake? Potentials and requirements for developing cross-functional leadership in the field of art”

Title of the thesis: “Essays in household finance and macroeconomics” Public lecture on the topic: “What monetary policy could learn from recent microeconomic studies”

Title of the thesis: “Marketing Communications for New Product Launches A Multiple Stakeholder Perspective"

Title of the thesis: “Essays on Positioning, Categorization, and Performance”

2021

Title of the thesis: “Crude Games: Essays on strategic competition in oil markets” Title of trial lecture: “Oil and conflicts: How can oil fuel conflicts and how can the risk of conflicts affect oil development?”

Title of the thesis: “No article is an island entire of itself. Extending bibliometric science mapping in the field of management with social network analysis.” Title of trial lecture: “How can bibliometric reviews contribute to theoretical advancement in management scholarship?”

Title of the thesis: “Macroeconomic Dynamics, Commodity Prices and Expectations” Title of trial lecture: “Oil Prices and the Macroeconomy”

Title of the thesis: “Some Consequences of Vulnerability in Consumers’ Life” Title of trial lecture: “Marketing to less affluent and poor consumers: challenges, opportunities and welfare considerations”

Title of the thesis: “Spinouts, Sharks, and Genealogy: Established Firms as Resource Acquisition Channel for Startups” Title of trial lecture: "Corporate Venture Capital Investments"

Title of the thesis: “Essays on Reputation” Title of trial lecture: “Strategic Posturing in Bilateral Bargaining”

Title of the thesis: “Theory and evidence on the effect of disagreement on asset prices” Title of trial lecture: “Asset Pricing Puzzles: Theory Meets Data”

Title of the thesis: The Social Side of Employee Pay. Exploring social–psychological outcomes and the explanatory mechanisms of employee pay standing from the social-effects perspective on pay. Title of trial lecture: Beyond Pay Dispersion and Communication: Next Steps in Reward Management Research

Title of the thesis: “Institutions, Policy Risk, and Firms Behavior: Foreign Investments in High-Risk Countries” Title of trial lecture: International expansion strategies across the mature/emergent divide and the role of institutions - how emerging markets can enhance host country attractiveness.

Title of the thesis: “Firms, Oil and Stocks” Public lecture on given topic

Title of the thesis: “Texts and texturing in and around organizations: A discursive perspective on temporal work, future constructions, and managers’ latitude of action” Public lecture on given topic.

Previous defences

2025

Keith Peavy

Yooeun Jeong

Oleh Korop

Vitor Gabriel Pereira Santos

Malin Charlotte Jensen

Prakash Raj Paudel

Espen Seidel

Max-Emil M. King

Aleksandra Jbara

2024

Frida Feyer

Renata Silva de Almeida

Haien Ding

Jonas Barth-Stenersen

Maximilian Schröder

Betina Riis Asplin

Obaidur Rehman

Andrew Sang Jun Rhee

Anna Stepanova

Audun Reiby

2023

Binh Minh Thi Truong

Jonas Hveding Hamang

Felix Kapfhammer

Vasyl Kotsovskyi

Ivan Korsak

Jon Ellingsen

Bryndís Steindórsdóttir

Farhana Tabassum

Morten Grindaker

Tine Malonæs

Lewend Mayiwar

Tohid Ghanbarpour

Oda Nedregård

Thomas McKay

Katarzyna M. Adamska

Linnea Lorentzen

2022

Thomas Størdal Gundersen

Ingvild Andersen

Christian Winther Farstad

Magnus A. H. Gulbrandsen

Olga Ungureanu

Sverre Ubisch

2021

Even Comfort Hvinden

Njål Andersen

Julia Zhulanova

Emanuela Stagno

Christopher Sabel

Magnus Våge Knutsen

Namhee Matheson

Ilka Ohlmer

Gilbert Kofi Adarkwah

Espen Skretting

Marius Andersson