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Ens, Nicola; Hukal, Philipp & Jensen, Tina Belgind
(2023)
Dynamics of control on digital platforms
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Veisdal, Jørgen
(2023)
A Definition of Platforms with Meaningful Policy Implications
Competition Policy International.
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Tunisini, Annalisa; Harrison, Debbie & Bocconcelli, Roberta
(2023)
Handling resource deficiencies through resource interaction in business networks
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Schou, Peter Kalum
(2023)
Coming Apart While Scaling Up – Adoption of Logics and the Fragmentation of Organizational Identity in Science-Based Ventures
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Bucher, Eliane; Schou, Peter Kalum & Waldkirch, Matthias
(2023)
Just Another Voice in the Crowd? Investigating Digital Voice Formation in the Gig Economy
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G. & Grøgaard, Birgitte
(2023)
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field
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The dominant narrative about the rise of international business (IB) focuses on early research and the institutionalization of a new academic field. In this study, we explore the role of case writing in the field’s formative period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Based on an analysis of teaching cases on IB topics, we demonstrate that case-based teaching, including the writing of cases, was an innovative pedagogical method that made a strong impact on the formation of the new academic field. Analyzing the cases and the background and affiliation of their authors offers new insights into the linkages to other disciplines from which the new academic field emerged. The analysis of the cases also provides new insight into how the case authors connected to the new practical experiences from an increasing number of multinational enterprises, particularly from the US, and conceptualized the experiences into a pedagogical language. The investigation covers 489 cases written by scholars located in 18 countries from the early 1950s to 1963, as well as archival studies of the business schools and institutions that initiated the production of cases.
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Dzikowska, Marlena; Gammelgaard, Jens & Andersson, Ulf
(2023)
Subsidiary capability and charter change: Making Birkinshaw and Hood's framework actionable
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Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi & Benito, Gabriel R G
(2023)
Dealing with high-risk environments: Institutional-based tools to reduce political risk costs
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Gadde, Lars-Erik & Håkansson, Håkan
(2023)
Network dynamics and action space
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Von Nitzsch, Jannis; Bird, Miriam & Saiedi, Ed
(2022)
Does Owners’ Experience Matter? The Influence of Matching and Governance Experience on Firm Growth
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Zilja, Flladina; Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi & Christopher, Sabel
(2022)
Do Environmental Policies Affect MNEs’ Foreign Subsidiary Investments? An Empirical Investigation
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Rygh, Asmund; Torgersen, Kristine & Benito, Gabriel R G
(2022)
Institutions and inward foreign direct investment in the primary sectors
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Purpose
Well-functioning institutions are repeatedly claimed to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by reducing the costs and uncertainty of economic activity. Nonetheless, it has been argued that institutions may matter less for FDI in the primary sector. This study aims to theoretically and empirically investigate the role of institutions for attracting FDI in agricultural and in extractive activities.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses worldwide country and sector-level data on inward FDI for the period 1996–2007. The key independent variables, property rights protection, corruption and democracy, are measured using World Bank Governance Indicators and Polity IV as data sources. Fixed effect panel regression, Tobit regression and generalized method of moments are used for data analysis.
Findings
The authors corroborate the importance of institutions for aggregate FDI. Disaggregating by primary subsector, the authors find that agricultural FDI, like aggregate FDI, is attracted by institutional features such as rule of law and property rights protection and democracy, whereas extractive FDI is not. The authors also find some evidence that corruption deters FDI in both primary subsectors.
Originality/value
The authors take a first step toward linking the largely empirical institutions-FDI literature more closely with the economics-based theoretical discussions of FDI risk grounded on a property rights approach, to discuss issues such as effective control rights over investments, which may vary between sectors. The authors also explore a novel idea that extractive activities may be less sensitive to institutions because the time horizon is limited by the depletion of the resource, resulting in an inherently relatively short-term commitment to a host-country location.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R.G.
(2022)
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment
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This study examines the timing of the first foreign direct investment (FDI). It explores how the conceptualization and, hence, the understanding of time affects our insights into major internationalization decisions in organizations; specifically, that of navigating into the unknown waters associated with making a first FDI. We introduce a multitemporal approach by drawing on the different temporalities prevalent in history and in business and management to build a platform for analysis that provides a suitable combination of richness and contrast. By examining the process toward making a major internationalization decision in terms of clock, event, stages, and cyclical concepts of time, we gain valuable but also varied insights about a complex process. We conclude that to understand any organization's process of international strategy formation at a certain point (or period) in time, its particularities need to be appreciated in some detail. While the details in this study are unique to the case of Harvard Business School's decision in 1971 to make its first FDI, we argue that the main features of the process are common to conceptualizing the internationalization decision process. As such, the findings should apply more generally.
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Lavie, Dovev; Lunnan, Randi & Truong, Binh Minh Thi
(2022)
How Does a Partner’s Acquisition Affect the Value of the Firm’s Alliance with That Partner?
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Aleksin, Grigory & Kalbakk-Bøhler, Simen Christian
(2022)
Environmental entrepreneurship and inclusive growth: a three-fold approach to analysis
International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development (IJTLID), 14(1-2), p. 153-191.
Doi:
10.1504/IJTLID.2022.121479
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Sgourev, Stoyan V. & Aadland, Erik
(2022)
“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity
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Sgourev, Stoyan V.; Aadland, Erik & Formilan, Giovanni
(2022)
Relations in Aesthetic Space: How Color Enables Market Positioning
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Leiblein, Michael J.; Reuer, Jeffrey J., Larsen, Marcus Møller & Pedersen, Torben
(2022)
When are global decisions strategic?
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Nicolini, Davide; Pyrko, Ivor, Omidvar, Omid & Spanelli, Agnessa
(2022)
Understanding Communities of Practice: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
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This paper provides a comprehensive, integrative conceptual review of work on communities of practice (CoPs), defined broadly as groups of people bound together by a common activity, shared expertise, a passion for a joint enterprise, and a desire to learn or improve their practice. We identify three divergent views on the intended purposes and expected effects of CoPs: as mechanisms for fostering learning and knowledge-sharing, as sources of innovation, and as mechanisms to defend interests and perpetuate control over expertise domains. We use these different lenses to make sense of the ways CoPs are conceptualized and to review scholarly work on this topic. We argue that current debate on the future of work and new methodological developments are challenging the received wisdom on CoPs and offer research opportunities and new conceptual combinations. We argue also that the interaction between the lenses and between CoP theory and adjacent literatures might result in new theory and conceptualizations.
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Prenkert, Frans; Huang, Lei, Huemer, Lars, Kask, Johan, Landquist, Maria, Pagano, Alessandro, Perna, Andrea, Poblete, León, Ratajczak-Mrozek, Milena, Wagrell, Sofia, Hedvall, Klas, Hasche, Nina, Eklinder Frick, Jens, Abrahamsen, Morten H., Aramo-Immonen, Heli, Baraldi, Enrico, Bocconcelli, Roberta & Harrison, Debbie
(2022)
Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations
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Elia, Stefano; Larsen, Marcus Møller & Piscitello, Lucia
(2022)
Choosing misaligned governance modes when offshoring business functions: A prospect theory perspective
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Swärd, Anna ; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth
(2022)
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter-Organizational Relationships through Action-Reaction Cycles
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Benito, Gabriel R.G.; Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro, Mudambi, Ram, Pedersen, Torben & Tallman, Steve
(2022)
The future of global strategy
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Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Sand-Holm, Sanne, Pakoglu, Ceyda & Svalestuen, Fredrik
(2022)
Challenges of Performance Measurement in Lean Construction and the Last Planner System®: A Norwegian Case
Lean Construction Journal, 2022, p. 24-40.
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Ubisch, Sverre Søyland & Wang, Pengfei
(2022)
Typical Products for Outside Audiences: The Role of Typicality When Products Traverse Countries
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While organization theorists have established the importance of typicality, most studies examine situations where producers and audiences dwell within the same category system (e.g., a country, industry, or market). However, much less attention is paid to the role of typicality when products are introduced from one system to another. Since defining what is typical is commonly system-specific, typical products in one category system may be perceived as being atypical in others. It is therefore important to understand how typicality shapes market exchanges when products traverse category systems. To shed light on this, we introduce two key concepts—home typicality and host typicality—and examine specifically how they affect the performance of products distributed across countries. By analyzing a large sample of films, we find that films are more successful in international markets, when they are more typical of their home countries and/or more atypical of their host countries.
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Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Dubois, Anna & Jahre, Marianne
(2022)
The importance of resource interaction in strategies for managing supply chain disruptions
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Harrison, Debbie; Munksgaard, Kristin B. & Prenkert, Frans
(2022)
Coordinating Activity Interdependencies in the Contemporary Economy: The Principle of Distributed Control
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Loh, Johannes & Kretschmer, Tobias
(2022)
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis
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Grøgaard, Birgitte; Sartor, Michael A. & Rademaker, Linda
(2022)
What merits greater scholarly attention in international business?
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Colman, Helene Loe & Lunnan, Randi
(2022)
Pulling Together While Falling Apart: A Relational View on Integration in Serial Acquirers
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Wang, Pengfei
(2022)
Looking into the past: Audience heterogeneity and the inconsistency of market signals
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Kwok, Chuck C. Y.; Grosse, Robert, Fey, Carl & Lyles, Marjorie A.
(2022)
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalization students, faculty, and programs
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Reunamäki, Riku & Fey, Carl F.
(2022)
Strategies for adapting agile to virtual work
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In response to the increasing uncertainty and rapid change around them, firms are looking to implement new management methods to become more flexible and less hierarchical. One of the most popular of these methods is agile, which aims for reactiveness, collaboration, decentralized decision-making, and increased autonomy. However, agile was designed to work best with teams where members are co-located, whereas during the COVID-19 pandemic and likely in the post-COVID world, many employees are working remotely from home at least part of the time. We explore how to adapt agile to remote work, drawing from an in-depth case study of OP Financial
Group, the largest bank in Finland. We highlight five problems and solutions to implementing agile in a remote setting and discuss the situations and types of teams in which the different aspects of remote agile are likely to work and not work. Our findings provide guidance for
companies looking to become agile in “the new normal.”
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Haarman, Amanda; Larsen, Marcus Møller & Namatovu, Rebecca
(2022)
Understanding the Firm in the Informal Economy: A Research Agenda
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Grecu, Alina; Sofka, Wolfgang, Larsen, Marcus Møller & Pedersen, Torben
(2022)
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires
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Larsen, Marcus Møller & Witte, Caroline
(2022)
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms
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Colman, Helene Loe; Grøgaard, Birgitte & Stensaker, Inger G.
(2022)
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness
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Rognli, Eline B.; Støme, Linn Nathalie, Kvaerner, Kari Jorunn, Wilhelmsen, Christian & Arnevik, Espen Kristian Ajo
(2022)
The effect of employment support integrated in substance use treatment: A health economic cost-effectiveness simulation of three different interventions
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Jones, Marius & Schou, Peter Kalum
(2022)
Structuring the Start-up: How Coordination Emerges in Start-ups through Learning Sequencing
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Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Wiig, Heidi, McNeal, Kathryn, Wang, Sally, Zu, Sebrina, Cao, Ren, Fürst, Kathinka & Marsh, Robin
(2022)
Diversified Farming Systems: Impacts and Adaptive Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, Norway and China
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Sjøtun, Svein Gunnar; Fløysand, Arnt, Wiig, Heidi & Zenteno Hopp, Joaquin
(2022)
Multi-level agency and transformative capacity for environmental risk reduction in the Norwegian salmon farming industry
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Smith, Sheryl Winston; Giones, Ferran, Krishnan Shankar, Raj, Perkmann, Markus, Garcia Herrera, Cristobal, thiel, jana, basu, sandip & vandeweghe, laurens
(2022)
Corporate, Consortia & Moonshot Acceleration: Novel Approaches to Speed Up Entrepreneurial Innovation
Academy of Management Proceedings.
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Kolbjørnsrud, Vegard & Sannes, Ragnvald
(2022)
Problemløsing med kunstig intelligens: Bruk av Spacemaker i tidligfase eiendomsutvikling
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Lu, Ren; Zhao, Xiangying, Peng, Xiangcai, Liu, Yinglin, Reve, Torger & Lv, Daguo
(2022)
Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship
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The purpose of this paper is to study how changes in unrelated variety influence individuals’ poverty alleviation. Drawing on the LiTS III database, we employed the Oprobit model to test 5007 individual-level observations from 23 regions in four former Yugoslavian countries. All results imply that the changes in unrelated variety have a U-shaped relationship with individuals’ poverty alleviation. Our findings enrich the unrelated variety research by providing micro-level evidence and offer practical insights for governments, organizations and individuals aiming to reduce poverty.
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Gillmore, Edward; Andersson, Ulf & Dellestrand, Henrik
(2022)
Between a rock and a hard place: The consequences of complex headquarters configurations for subsidiary R&D activities
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Ryan, Paul; Buciuni, Giulio, Giblin, Majella & Andersson, Ulf
(2022)
Global Value Chain Governance in the MNE: A Dynamic Hierarchy Perspective
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Lu, Ren; Zong, Zhe, Reve, Torger & Song, Qing
(2022)
The mediating role of cash slack in the related variety and sales growth relationship: Evidence from Norway
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Schou, Peter Kalum & Bucher, Eliane
(2022)
Divided we fall: The breakdown of gig worker solidarity in online communities
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Tvedt, Jostein
(2022)
Floating offshore wind and the real options to relocate
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Real options to relocate may improve the profitability of the floating offshore wind industry. Location and market switching can contribute to mitigating parts of the cost disadvantage of floating versus fixed-bottom offshore wind. The article derives optimal relocation strategies and real options values under uncertainty. Risk factors that may increase the value of relocation options include electricity prices, capacity factors, political uncertainty, collateral valuation, environmental issues and technological progress.
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Kratochvil, Renate; Gruenauer, Johanna, Friesl, Martin & Güttel, Wolfgang
(2022)
Deliberate simple rule creation and use: Activities and challenges
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Using ‘simple rules’ may enable managers to take organizational decisions more rapidly. While prior research presents advantages of simple rule use during strategy formation, we lack insights into how firms can deliberately create simple rules and mitigate the challenges therein. This is particularly interesting for established firms struggling to leverage their wealth of experience. We explore how managers of a multinational corporation deliberately create and use simple rules to implement the firm’s growth strategy. Drawing on interviews and secondary data, we reveal the activities through which managers ensure the relevance and legitimacy of codified simple rules, yet also establish causality between simple rules and outcomes. Simple rule creation is accomplished via bottom-up identification and lateral validation, its use via consistent top-down guiding and timely adaptation. Our findings contribute to the growing body of research on the evolution of simple rules and aspects of strategy implementation more generally.
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Tvedt, Jostein
(2022)
Optimal Entry and Exit Decisions Under Uncertainty and the Impact of Mean Reversion
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R.G.
(2021)
Opening the black box of international strategy formation: How Harvard Business School became a multinational enterprise
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This article addresses the question of why some business schools internationalize by establishing units abroad. We study their internationalization by examining the process that led to Harvard Business School’s first international strategy and its first foreign direct investment. The study elaborates how internationalization theories are applicable to research on the internationalization of business schools by exploring the role of environment and agency. The analysis shows that in an academic organization characterized as a loosely coupled system, individuals may influence the collective cognition in a strategy process by using new theoretical insights to conceptualize experiences and legitimize decisions. This demonstrates that agency is a multifaceted concept and its function depends on who has agency and how it is used. By exploring how a new academic discipline, international business, contributed both to the conceptualization and the legitimization of a new strategy, the study provides new insight into the process that leads to the formation of an international strategy.
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Rygh, Asmund & Benito, Gabriel R.G.
(2021)
Governmental goals and the international strategies of state-owned multinational enterprises: A conceptual discussion
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Weiss, Gerhard; Hansen, Eric, Ludvig, Alice, Nybakk, Erlend & Toppinen, Anne
(2021)
Innovation governance in the forest sector: Reviewing concepts, trends and gaps
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Innovation in the forest sector is a growing research interest and within this field, there is a growing attention for institutional, policy and societal dimensions and particular when it comes to the question of how to support innovativeness in the sector. This Special Issue therefore focuses on governance aspects, relating to and bridging business and political-institutional-societal levels. This includes social/societal factors, goals and implications that have recently been studied under the label of social innovation. Furthermore, the emergence of bioeconomy as a paradigm and policy goal has become a driver for a variety of innovation processes on company and institutional levels. Our article provides a tentative definition of “innovation governance” and attempts a state-of-art review of innovation governance research in the forest sector. For structuring the research field, we propose to distinguish between organizational/managerial, policy or innovation studies. For the forestry sector, specifically, we suggest to distinguish between studies focusing on (i) innovative governance of forest management and forest goods and services; on (ii) the governance of innovation processes as such, or (iii) on specific (transformational) approaches that may be derived from combined goals such as innovation governance for sustainability, regional development, or a bioeconomy. Studies in the forest sector are picking up new trends from innovation research that increasingly include the role of societal changes and various stakeholders such as civil society organizations and users. They also include public-private partnership models or participatory governance. We finally should not only look in how far research approaches from outside are applied in the sector but we believe that the sector could contribute much more to our general scientific knowledge on ways for a societal transformation to sustainability.
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Békes, Gabor; Benito, Gabriel R G, Castellani, Davide & Muraközy, Balazs
(2021)
Into the unknown: The extent and boldness of firms' international footprint
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Wang, Pengfei
(2021)
Gain initial endorsement from the core: market entry, initial partners, and embeddedness in the venture capital market
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This study draws attention to the embedding process of market entrants, by examining the initial and subsequent partnerships of de alio entrants versus de novo entrants. Although de alio entrants have access to superior resources from their parents, they may encounter more resistance from the market as they project impure identity, introduce different logics, and pose greater competitive threats. Analyzing a sample of new entrants in the venture capital market, we find that while de alio entrants are less likely to establish initial partnerships with mainstream incumbents (i.e. receiving an overall initial resistance from the market), they are more likely than de novo entrants to establish ties with high-status incumbents (i.e. gaining more initial endorsement from the core). Results also show that initial network positions allow de alio entrants to sustain gaining prestigious endorsement in the later period, and at the same time to offset the overall resistance from mainstream incumbents. Our findings contribute to the literature on market entry and corporate demography.
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Saiedi, Ed; Broström, Anders & Ruiz, Felipe
(2021)
Global drivers of cryptocurrency infrastructure adoption
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A vast digital ecosystem of entrepreneurship and exchange has sprung up with Bitcoin’s digital infrastructure at its core. We explore the worldwide spread of infrastructure necessary to maintain and grow Bitcoin as a system (Bitcoin nodes) and infrastructure enabling the use of bitcoins for everyday economic transactions (Bitcoin merchants). Specifically, we investigate the role of legal, criminal, financial, and social determinants of the adoption of Bitcoin infrastructure. We offer some support for the view that the adoption of cryptocurrency infrastructure is driven by perceived failings of traditional financial systems, in that the spread of Bitcoin infrastructure is associated with low trust in banks and the financial system among inhabitants of a region, and with the occurrence of country-level inflation crises. On the other hand, our findings also suggest that active support for Bitcoin is higher in locations with well-developed banking services. Finally, we find support for the view that bitcoin adoption is also partly driven by cryptocurrencies’ usefulness in engaging in illicit trade.
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Flygansvær, Bente Merete; Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth & Harrison, Debbie
(2021)
Hvordan få kraft i bærekraft?
Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, nr 5, p. 104-110.
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Leiblein, Michael J.; Larsen, Marcus Møller & Pedersen, Torben
(2021)
Are governance mode and foreign location choices independent?
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Peprah, Augustine Awuah; Giachetti, Claudio, Larsen, Marcus Møller & Rajwani, Tazeeb S.
(2021)
How Business Models Evolve in Weak Institutional Environments: The Case of Jumia, the Amazon.Com of Africa
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Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi; Sabel, Christopher Albert & Zilja, Flladina
(2021)
Changes in political affinity and firms’ subsidiary investments
Academy of Management Proceedings.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Elias, Allison Louise
(2021)
Business schools and the roles of the executives' wives
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This article shows how historical studies enrich our understanding of imprinting theory and can further our knowledge about gender in business schools. In the founding period of executive education following World War II, rather than excluding women from participation, U.S. business schools included women as wives in the socialization process as their husbands trained for top corporate manager positions. We contend that the imprint of the separate spheres ideology, whereby men and women engaged in different aspects of social and economic life, persisted in subsequent decades despite business schools’ efforts to more fully integrate women into the classroom. The article makes two contributions to imprinting theory. First, it shows how a historical approach to studying ideological imprints from a founding period develops our knowledge as to why some imprints persist over time. Second, it extends our understanding on how to study imprints in a multilevel context. Our empirical data draws from the archives of leading business schools, as well as from academic literature, popular business articles, media reports, and a literary novel.
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Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live
(2021)
A Routine Dynamics Lens on the Stability-Change Dilemma in Project-Based Organizations
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Mæhle, Per Magnus; Hajdarevic, Senada, Håland, Erna, Aarhus, Rikke, Smeland, Sigbjørn & Mørk, Bjørn Erik
(2021)
Exploring the triggering process of a cancer care reform in three Scandinavian countries
International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36(6), p. 2231-2247.
Doi:
10.1002/hpm.3278
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Osman, Shahrin; Sundarakani, Balan & Reve, Torger
(2021)
Benchmarking of Singapore maritime cluster: the role of cluster facilitators
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Reichstein-Scholz, Harriet; Giroud, Axèle, Yamin, Mo & Andersson, Ulf
(2021)
Sales to centre stage! Determinants of the division in strategic sales decisions within the MNE
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Lohne, Jardar; Holm, Hans Thomas, Hunn, Lars Kristian, Kalsaas, Bo Terje, Klakegg, Ole Jonny, Knotten, Vegard, Kristensen, Kai Haakon, Olsson, Nils, Rolstadås, Asbjørn, Skaar, John, Svalestuen, Fredrik, Torp, Olav, Vaagen, Hajnalka, Wondimu, Paulos, Lædre, Ola, Andersen, Bjørn Sørskot, Aslesen, Sigmund, Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth, Bølviken, Trond, Drevland, Frode, Engebø, Atle & Fosse, Roar
(2021)
The emergence of lean construction in the Norwegian AEC industry
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Huemer, Lars & Wang, Xiaobei
(2021)
Resource bundles and value creation: An analytical framework
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All organizations intend to create some form of value. Yet, the most influential analytical frameworks focusing
on resources emphasize competitive advantage, which is a concern for only some organizations. This study proposes
a novel analytical framework focusing on value creation. Moreover, the framework returns to the emphasis
on the bundled nature of resources stressed in earlier strategy theory. The concepts of resource interfaces, resource
imprints and cogency effects, are combined to (i) highlight the bundled and interdependent nature of resources
(ii) reinterpret the classical emphasis on rareness and inimitability and (iii) redefine the meaning of a
strategic resource. With help of a longitudinal case study, the scope of value creation is broadened by reconsidering
the meaning of the ‘best resource’ and the ‘weakest link’; focusing on being ‘better with…’ rather than being
‘better than….’.
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Stoknes, Per Espen; Bjerke Soldal, Olav, Hansen, Sissel, Kvande, Ingvar & Skjelderup, Sylvia Weddegjerde
(2021)
Willingness to Pay for Crowdfunding Local Agricultural Climate Solutions
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Bjerke Soldal, Olav; Wærp, Hilde Kristine Lyby & Fledsberg Vatne, Camilla
(2021)
Mind the gap(s)! Ressursmegling for å kutte det norske matsvinnet
Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, 25(5), p. 95-103.
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Bass, Erin & Grøgaard, Birgitte
(2021)
The long-term energy transition: Drivers, outcomes, and the role of the multinational enterprise
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The pre-eminence of the production and consumption of nonrenewable fossil fuels is waning with the growth of renewable energy solutions. This long-term energy (LTE) transition is one of the global grand challenges, characterized by uncertain and evolving markets. Although this is a global issue, there are regional differences and non-linear trajectories that suggest that the LTE transition is a complex challenge for firms and countries. For international business scholars, questions related to the role and effect of multinational enterprises in the context of the LTE transition have opened new avenues for advancing theoretical, managerial, and policy understanding. Thus, we advance this body of research by presenting a framework that delineates important drivers and outcomes of the transition. In this way, we emphasize how MNEs both influence and are being influenced by the LTE transition. We identify theoretical perspectives that may be useful to address LTE transition challenges, and suggest avenues for future research on this global grand challenge.
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Franco Torres, Manuel; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Ugarelli, Rita Maria
(2021)
Understanding the governance of urban water services from an institutional logics perspective
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In recent decades, the urban water sector has experienced accelerating social complexity that derives from conflicting goals and beliefs, making the sustainability of the sector primarily a governance issue. However, existing governance models do not reflect the new reality. There is thus an urgent need to develop an urban water governance model reflecting this increasing complexity, to support sustainable governance. We integrate concepts from sociology, institutional theory and sustainability transitions to build a governance framework that includes interactions of social structures, and practices, shaped by different institutional logics and categorised at strategic, tactic, operational, and reflexive level.
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Nicolini, Davide & Korica, Maja
(2021)
Attentional engagement as practice: A study of the attentional infrastructure of healthcare chief executive officers
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In this paper, we investigate the attentional engagement of chief executive officers (CEOs) of large healthcare organizations in England. We study attention ethnographically as something managers do—at different times, in context, and in relation to others. We find that CEOs match the challenges of volume, fragmentation, and variety of attentional demands with a bundle of practices to activate attention, regulate the quantity and quality of information, stay focused over time, and prioritize attention. We call this bundle of practices the CEO’s attentional infrastructure. The practices that compose the attentional infrastructure work together to ensure that CEOs balance paying too much with paying too little attention, sustain attention on multiple issues over time, and allocate attention to the issues that matter, while avoiding becoming swamped by too many other concerns. The attentional infrastructure and its component practices are constantly revised and adapted to match the changes in the environment and ensure that managers remain on top of the things that matter to them. The idea of a practice-based attentional infrastructure advances theory by expanding and articulating the concept of attentional engagement, a central element in the attention-based view of the firm. We also demonstrate the benefits of studying attention as practice, rather than as an exclusively mental phenomenon. Finally, we contribute to managerial practice by introducing a set of categories that managers can use to interrogate their existing attentional practices and address attentional traps and difficulties.
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Raziq, Muhammad Mustafa; Benito, Gabriel R G & Kang, Yuanfei
(2021)
Multinational enterprise organizational structures and subsidiary role and capability development: The moderating role of establishment mode
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Namatovu, Rebecca & Larsen, Marcus Møller
(2021)
Responding to COVID-19: Insights from African firms
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Seljom, Liselotte; Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth, Riis, Christian, Petkovic, Gordana & Berg, Hallvard
(2021)
Klimatilpasning av vårt bygde miljø og utfordringer ved dagens kost-nytteanalyser
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Rødvik, Arne Kirkhorn; Myhrum, Marte, Larsson, Evelina Lisa Algi, Falkenberg, Eva-Signe & Kværner, Kari Jorunn
(2021)
Sustained Reduction of Tinnitus Several Years after Sequential Cochlear Implantation
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Objective
This study aimed to explore the short- and long-term effects of a second cochlear implant (CI-2) on the reduction of tinnitus annoyance and tinnitus handicap.
Design
In a combined retrospective and prospective cohort study, tinnitus annoyance was measured before receiving the CI-2 (Pre), more than two years after (Post1) and more than seven years after (Post2), using the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), the Visual Analog Scale for the assessment of perceived tinnitus loudness (VAS-L) and annoyance (VAS-A), and a self-report questionnaire.
Study sample
Twenty sequentially bilaterally implanted adults with bothersome tinnitus.
Results
CI-2 implantation resulted in a statistically significant reduction of tinnitus handicap from severe at Pre to mild at Post1 (THI mean score reduced from 61.3 [SD = 19.4] to 29.3 [SD = 23.5]). The reduction in tinnitus annoyance was statistically significant from Pre to Post 2 (VAS-A reduced from 7.1 [SD = 1.5] to 3.4 [SD = 2.2]). The reduction in tinnitus loudness was not statistically significant.
Conclusions
The provision of a CI-2 for severely and profoundly hearing-impaired individuals with bothersome tinnitus is an effective method of providing long-term tinnitus relief.
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