Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2025)

Narratives in context of cluster globalization

European Planning Studies, 33(6) , s. 1020-1036. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2528888 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This article is inspired by recent concerns that history and context has not been taken into proper account in evolutionary economic geography, and by a call for narrative approaches to assess processes of path development, in our case more broadly processes of cluster evolution. We conduct a narrative study of globalization in the maritime cluster in Møre and Romsdal in Western Norway and ask how narratives and antenarratives are voiced to make sense of, and merge, regional and global considerations (processes in phenomenological time). By using a historical approach, we show that the dialogue between materiality and narratives is not a linear process but developed in historical time and reflects contextual changes in historical time. By drawing upon the distinction between narratives and antenarratives, defined as fragments of discourse that are articulated to make sense of things or give sense to them in a chaotic organizational reality, the study contributes to our understanding of regional development.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2025)

Protestantisk etikk og kapitalistisk ånd? Næringslivshistorie frå Møre og Romsdal MadsLangnes(Red.)Museumsforlaget2024ISBN: 9788283051551

Heimen - Lokal og regional historie, 62(3) , s. 260-263. Doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/heimen.62.3.6

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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Tomassen, Sverre (2025)

3. Sunnmøringen reiser ut, men ikkje alltid så langt: tidleg internasjonalisering i sunnmørsindustrien

Økonomisk utdanning og forskning i Ålesund, , s. 112-132. Doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069944-25-03

Kapittelet undersøker korleis vi kan forstå den tidlege internasjonaliseringsfasen av verksemder frå eit avgrensa geografisk område. Dette er gjort i lys av nyare teoriar innanfor fagområda strategi og «international business». Med tidleg internasjonalisering meinast verksemder som var først ute med å etablere dotterselskap med utgangspunkt frå regionen. Fokuset i kapittelet er på tre element ved verksemder si internasjonalisering, nemleg korleis dei er rusta for direkte utanlandsinvesteringar (FDI), kva som er motiva, og korleis dei internasjonaliserer seg. Kapittelet tar for seg dei elleve verksemdene som gjorde ei slik internasjonalisering med utgangspunkt i Sunnmøre før 1984. Gjennom dette viser kapittelet korleis internasjonaliseringa til desse sunnmørsverksemdene kan illustrere sentrale tema innanfor ulike teoriar om internasjonalisering.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Lluch, Andrea (2024)

The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina

Business History Review, 98(2) , s. 485-516. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680524000321 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This article addresses a new field of research in business history by exploring how the International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced management development programs in Argentina as a pilot project in developing countries in the late 1950s. By studying how the ILO worked together with actors at the national level, the article reveals how the ILO’s original idea to focus on top management development was reshaped through a dialogue with local actors within the context of tripartite cooperation between the government, business organizations, and unions. While the initiative was successful during the project period, it collapsed when Argentina’s government closed down the national productivity center with which the ILO was cooperating. While the tripartite principle was valuable for the first achievements, it was extremely vulnerable without the support of all partners.

Lluch, Andrea & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2024)

In the shadow of Americanisation: The origins and evolution of management education and training in Argentina (1940s–1960s)

Business History, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2364344

Abstract This article examines the development of educational programs for developing managers in Argentina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Research on management education during this period has tended to be US-European focused and has looked at the impact of American models. In Argentina, new institutions began to emerge in the 1940s. This process gained momentum in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s. Several American actors supported the institutionalization of management education. This paper analyses the relationship between American influence and Argentine national actors in two cases, business education within the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (FCE, Faculty of Economic Science) at the University of Buenos Aires, and executive education at the Instituto para el Desarrollo de Ejecutivos en la Argentina (IDEA, Argentine Institute for Executives Development) Rather than being clones of US models, they reflected a national re-interpretation of the overall US idea of the development of institutions for the education and training of people in managerial positions.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Lluch, Andrea (2024)

The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina

Business History Review, 98(2) , s. 485-516. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680524000321 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This article addresses a new field of research in business history by exploring how the International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced management development programs in Argentina as a pilot project in developing countries in the late 1950s. By studying how the ILO worked together with actors at the national level, the article reveals how the ILO’s original idea to focus on top management development was reshaped through a dialogue with local actors within the context of tripartite cooperation between the government, business organizations, and unions. While the initiative was successful during the project period, it collapsed when Argentina’s government closed down the national productivity center with which the ILO was cooperating. While the tripartite principle was valuable for the first achievements, it was extremely vulnerable without the support of all partners.

Lluch, Andrea & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2024)

In the shadow of Americanisation: The origins and evolution of management education and training in Argentina (1940s–1960s)

Business History, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2364344

Abstract This article examines the development of educational programs for developing managers in Argentina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Research on management education during this period has tended to be US-European focused and has looked at the impact of American models. In Argentina, new institutions began to emerge in the 1940s. This process gained momentum in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s. Several American actors supported the institutionalization of management education. This paper analyses the relationship between American influence and Argentine national actors in two cases, business education within the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (FCE, Faculty of Economic Science) at the University of Buenos Aires, and executive education at the Instituto para el Desarrollo de Ejecutivos en la Argentina (IDEA, Argentine Institute for Executives Development) Rather than being clones of US models, they reflected a national re-interpretation of the overall US idea of the development of institutions for the education and training of people in managerial positions.

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

Journal of International Business Studies, 54, s. 1313-1331. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00609-y - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

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

Journal of International Business Studies, 54, s. 1313-1331. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00609-y - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R.G. (2022)

Temporality and the first foreign direct investment

Journal of World Business, 57(5) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101363 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R.G. (2022)

Temporality and the first foreign direct investment

Journal of World Business, 57(5) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101363 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

Korhonen, Satu; Leppäaho, Tanja, Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Jack, Sarah (2021)

The “Unwritten Will” in Interpersonal Network Ties: Founder Legacy and International Networking of Family Firms in History

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization, , s. 199-233. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66737-5_7 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

In this study, we explore the role of interpersonal network ties in the context of internationalizing family firms. Through two historical cases—Alhström and Serlachius—we study how the founder-entrepreneurs’ domestic and international identity-based and calculative ties emerged and further evolved within and across country borders in the transitional incumbent–successor context. By using a longitudinal qualitative approach, we were able to build on the notions of “social legacy” of founders in family firms in conjunction with their interpersonal networks and the cultivation or disruption of the more or less embedded ties by their successors over an intergenerational period of time. Our contribution is found in illustrating how the different types of interpersonal network ties of the two founder-entrepreneurs embedded in historical contingencies together worked as the mechanism endorsing the founders’ “social legacies” in the successor generations’ international networking. On the basis of our findings, we introduce the concept of “international networking legacy”, which becomes considered by the next generation either as an advantage or a disadvantage for their own approaches to international networking.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Davila, Carlos (2021)

Making Managers in Latin America: The Emergence of Executive Education in Central America, Peru, and Colombia

Enterprise & Society, 24(1) , s. 90-122. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.25 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, in less than two decades. This article explores the phenomenon in three different Latin America contexts: Central America, Peru, and Colombia. In all these cases, initiatives led to successful executive programs, which contributed to the growth of business schools that gradually achieved high international reputation. By studying the way that various US actors interacted differently with local actors in the three cases, the article contributes to three discussions within business history: the history of Americanization, management education, and the alternative business history of emerging markets.

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir (2021)

Management qualification and dissemination of knowledge in regional innovation systems : the case of Norway 1930s–1990s

Knowledge management : dependency, creation and loss in industrial history, , s. 37-64. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429059001 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This chapter provides a detailed empirical foundation for discussing the role of dissemination of technical, organizational, and managerial knowledge within regional innovation systems. Accordingly, it focuses on qualification for management in regional innovation systems. In Norway, the policy of transferring knowledge to regional business has developed through three different regimes with its respective systemic traits. The first regime was active from 1917 until 1953, based on the cooperation between small business advisory branches in the regions, Smaindustrikontorer, and a semi-public advisory organisation Statens teknologiske institutt (STI), which was set up in 1916 to facilitate flow of knowledge to businesses by the use of liaisons or consultants. The second regime emerged in 1953 was created in connection with the Marshall Plan and the productivity drive in Europe. The third regime emerged after 1987, as the Government decided that the County authorities should take over the local branches of the STI and be responsible for developing the regional flow of knowledge.

Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh; Wang, Jinmin, Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2021)

The role of MNE subsidiaries in the practice of global business models in transforming economies

Management and Organization Review, 17(2) , s. 254-281. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2020.55 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This study provides new insights into the role of subsidiary managers in the practice of global business models of multinational enterprises in transforming economies. Drawing on the global business model literature and through semi-structured interviews with a leading Norwegian maritime multinational enterprise in China, we have developed and critically explored a theoretical framework for uncovering how subsidiary managers understand and manage the tensions between the headquarters based in a western country and the subsidiaries based in a transforming economy. More specifically, when implementing the global business model in the transforming economy, subsidiary managers need to undertake effective management of structural, behavioural, and cultural tensions along with the global integration-local responsiveness dilemma. Subsidiary managers can contribute to solving structural tensions between the headquarters and subsidiary by undertaking effective market sensing and knowledge transfer activities to integrate the transforming economies into the MNE's global production networks. Meanwhile, they need to make effective relationship management to solve behavioural and cultural tensions.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Elias, Allison Louise (2021)

Business schools and the roles of the executives' wives

Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(3) , s. 300-319. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0129 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

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

Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21(2) , s. 167-187. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0028 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

Korhonen, Satu; Leppäaho, Tanja, Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Jack, Sarah (2021)

The “Unwritten Will” in Interpersonal Network Ties: Founder Legacy and International Networking of Family Firms in History

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization, , s. 199-233. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66737-5_7 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

In this study, we explore the role of interpersonal network ties in the context of internationalizing family firms. Through two historical cases—Alhström and Serlachius—we study how the founder-entrepreneurs’ domestic and international identity-based and calculative ties emerged and further evolved within and across country borders in the transitional incumbent–successor context. By using a longitudinal qualitative approach, we were able to build on the notions of “social legacy” of founders in family firms in conjunction with their interpersonal networks and the cultivation or disruption of the more or less embedded ties by their successors over an intergenerational period of time. Our contribution is found in illustrating how the different types of interpersonal network ties of the two founder-entrepreneurs embedded in historical contingencies together worked as the mechanism endorsing the founders’ “social legacies” in the successor generations’ international networking. On the basis of our findings, we introduce the concept of “international networking legacy”, which becomes considered by the next generation either as an advantage or a disadvantage for their own approaches to international networking.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Davila, Carlos (2021)

Making Managers in Latin America: The Emergence of Executive Education in Central America, Peru, and Colombia

Enterprise & Society, 24(1) , s. 90-122. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.25 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, in less than two decades. This article explores the phenomenon in three different Latin America contexts: Central America, Peru, and Colombia. In all these cases, initiatives led to successful executive programs, which contributed to the growth of business schools that gradually achieved high international reputation. By studying the way that various US actors interacted differently with local actors in the three cases, the article contributes to three discussions within business history: the history of Americanization, management education, and the alternative business history of emerging markets.

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir (2021)

Management qualification and dissemination of knowledge in regional innovation systems : the case of Norway 1930s–1990s

Knowledge management : dependency, creation and loss in industrial history, , s. 37-64. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429059001 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This chapter provides a detailed empirical foundation for discussing the role of dissemination of technical, organizational, and managerial knowledge within regional innovation systems. Accordingly, it focuses on qualification for management in regional innovation systems. In Norway, the policy of transferring knowledge to regional business has developed through three different regimes with its respective systemic traits. The first regime was active from 1917 until 1953, based on the cooperation between small business advisory branches in the regions, Smaindustrikontorer, and a semi-public advisory organisation Statens teknologiske institutt (STI), which was set up in 1916 to facilitate flow of knowledge to businesses by the use of liaisons or consultants. The second regime emerged in 1953 was created in connection with the Marshall Plan and the productivity drive in Europe. The third regime emerged after 1987, as the Government decided that the County authorities should take over the local branches of the STI and be responsible for developing the regional flow of knowledge.

Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh; Wang, Jinmin, Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2021)

The role of MNE subsidiaries in the practice of global business models in transforming economies

Management and Organization Review, 17(2) , s. 254-281. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2020.55 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This study provides new insights into the role of subsidiary managers in the practice of global business models of multinational enterprises in transforming economies. Drawing on the global business model literature and through semi-structured interviews with a leading Norwegian maritime multinational enterprise in China, we have developed and critically explored a theoretical framework for uncovering how subsidiary managers understand and manage the tensions between the headquarters based in a western country and the subsidiaries based in a transforming economy. More specifically, when implementing the global business model in the transforming economy, subsidiary managers need to undertake effective management of structural, behavioural, and cultural tensions along with the global integration-local responsiveness dilemma. Subsidiary managers can contribute to solving structural tensions between the headquarters and subsidiary by undertaking effective market sensing and knowledge transfer activities to integrate the transforming economies into the MNE's global production networks. Meanwhile, they need to make effective relationship management to solve behavioural and cultural tensions.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Elias, Allison Louise (2021)

Business schools and the roles of the executives' wives

Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(3) , s. 300-319. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0129 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

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

Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21(2) , s. 167-187. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0028 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2020)

Creating the new executive: postwar executive education and socialization into the managerial elite

Management & Organizational History, 15(2) , s. 106-122. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2020.1776134 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This paper explores the development of executive education in the US from 1945 to around 1970, and its function in developing potential top executives’ cultural, symbolic, and social capital. The paper shows that postwar executive education was an expression of how the academic community acted according to its societal obligations by offering the new leaders norms and values that could replace what was lost during the transformation to managerial capitalism. This function legitimized executive education within the business schools, which was at the time primarily characterized by a very different logic of scientization.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lunnan, Randi, Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2020)

Keeping up with the neighbors: The role of cluster identity in internationalization

Journal of World Business, 55(5) , s. 1-13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101125 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This paper explores the implications of the collective identity of a regional cluster on firms’ internationalization. Prior research has established the value of cluster “insidership” through access to knowledge and resources. Through a longitudinal study, we find that cluster identity, through distinct identity claims, provides imperatives and shapes the motivation of firms to internationalize. These imperatives, we argue, stem from cluster identity seen as defined features of regional collectives, extending reference theory to encompass the role of social cues from similar firms located geographically close. The imperatives are particularly salient in the early stages of firms’ internationalization, adding the role of cluster identity to explain the differences between inexperienced and experienced firms in internationalization. Keywords: Cluster identity; Internationalization; Multinational enterprise; Longitudinal study.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne (2020)

Resilience and related variety : the role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region

Business History, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1822329 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Recent research in economic geography has introduced two notions that historical studies should explore: regional resilience and related variety. Regional resilience refers to a region’s ability to recover from external shocks. Related variety refers to the existence of related industrial sectors in a region, and the relatedness promotes economic development due to spill-overs between sectors. From an evolutionary perspective, external shocks result in new development paths in regions with related variety. This is a dynamic process well suited to historical studies. This article argues that historical studies can contribute to this literature by studying how related sectors interact in resilient regions. We propose that family firms may act as a micro-coordination mechanism by moving financial and human resources from one sector to another related sector as a response to shock. The paper develops this argument by studying how six major regional business families within ocean industries reacted to external shocks over time. Keywords: regional resilience, economic geography, family firms, regional history, related variety

Kipping, Matthias; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & McGlade, Jacqueline (2020)

Making managers: a fresh look

Management & Organizational History, 15(2) , s. 91-105. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2020.1842288 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several countries during the mid- to late 19th century (Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010, 2016). However, at that time, ‘business’ – or, more commonly, ‘commerce’ – was little respected within academia, with sociologist Thorstein Veblen (1918, 209–210) for instance, putting it at the same level as ‘athletics’ and suggesting that neither should have a place within ‘the corporation of learning’. Nor was a specific education widely seen as a prerequisite for successful businessmen – or the rare businesswoman –, though short, practical training for clerical positions was being offered since the mid-19th century at proprietary commercial schools (Conn 2019, Ch. 1). Well into the 20th century most of those running companies believed that leaders were ‘born, not made’ and that, if there was any training, it should be on the job (see, for examples from Germany, Kipping 1998a, 97). Often times, especially on the Old Continent of Europe, what sufficed was to be born into the family that owned the business. While managers hired from the outside had grown in importance earlier (e.g. Chandler 1977), they only started drawing more sustained attention by observers since the 1930s (Berle and Means 1932; see also, with a broader definition of manager, Burnham 1941). Since then, the notion that managers need to be made, i.e. educated, has become widely accepted. And even in multigenerational family firms, the heirs apparent are nowadays usually sent to some of the top business schools either in the country of origin or, more likely, in the US – followed, at times, by a stint at McKinsey or other elite consultants, portrayed by some as a kind of MBA squared (Mintzberg 1996; see also Gavett 2013; and, for examples Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2016, 251). Similarly, and relatedly, after struggling at the outset to find their place within academia (Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010) business and management education have developed into the most popular area of study in many countries. In the US, for instance, 386,000 out of close to 2 million bachelor’s degrees in 2017–18 were in business, followed by 245,000 in health professions.1 In the European Union countries, 24.3% of the tertiary education graduates were in business and law, followed by 14.6% in engineering and construction, and 13.8% in health and welfare.2 However, in China engineering is the most popular field among master’s students with 890,000 students in 2018, followed by business with 369,0003 (see also Conn 2019, 2–3). This transformation has inspired a large body of historical research (for an overview, see, among others, Amdam 1996a; Augier and March 2011; Daniel 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2016; Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Khurana 2007; Locke 1984, 1989; more critically Conn 2019; Locke 1996; Locke and Spender 2011). The extant studies have gone far to elucidate the rise of university-based degree programs with a particular focus on the graduate level, in particular the Master of Business Administration (MBA), which together with the US-based business schools has usually been portrayed as equivalent to the rise of formal ways to make managers. An additional, related focus has been the ‘scientization’ of research and teaching in most of these institutions since the 1950s and the gradual expansion of this American model around the world – though with studies focusing in particular on its influence in Europe, broadly defined, and, to a lesser extent, Japan. In contrast, making managers through other, non-degree types of education and training has yet to receive a similar interest and so does the content and process of these programs. There is also a need to examine more closely the actual people who receive management education in both degree- and non-degree programs as well as the wide range of stakeholders, beyond governments and educational institutions, associated with their development. Last not least, there continues to be a dearth of studies covering all of these issues outside the ‘global North’. This special issue aims to advance this research agenda with contributions that (i) go beyond the degree programs offered by business schools; (ii) discuss the roles of all actors involved in the creation of programs for making managers; (iii) examine the processes of socialization taking place within these programs; (iv) look at the gendering of management education (and management); and (v) extend research on making managers beyond the obvious institutional and geographic contexts. After summarizing the current state of research on the history of management education and its blind spots, the remainder of this introductory article will address each of these contributions in some detail.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2020)

Executive Education

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.205 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Summary Executive education, defined as consisting of short, intensive non-degree programs offered by university business schools to attract people who are in or close to top executive positions, is a vital part of modern management education. The rationale behind executive education is different from that of the degree programs in business schools. While business schools enroll students to degree programs based on previous exams, degrees or entry tests, executive education typically recruits participants based on the their positions—or expected positions—in the corporate hierarchy. While degree programs grade their students and award them degrees, executive education offers courses that do not have exams and gives participants diplomas rather than degrees. Executive education expanded rapidly in the United States and globally after Harvard Business School launched its Advanced Management Program in 1945. In 1970, around 50 university business schools in the United States and business schools in at least 43 countries offered intense executive education programs lasting from three to 18 weeks. During the 1970s, business schools that offered executive education organized themselves into an association, first in the U.S. and later globally. From the 1980s, executive education met competition from the corporate universities organized by corporations themselves. This led the business schools to expand executive education in two directions: open programs that organized potential executives from a mixed group of companies, and tailor-made programs designed for individual companies. Despite being an essential part of the activities of business schools, few scholars have conducted research into executive education. Extant studies have been dominated by a focus on executive education in the context of the rigor-and-relevance debate that has accompanied the development of management education during the last 30 years. Other topics that are touched upon in research concern the content of courses, the appropriate pedagogical methods, and the effect of executive education on personal development. The current situation paves the way for some exciting new research topics. Among these are the role of executive education in creating, maintaining, and changing the business elite, the effect of executive education on socializing participants for managerial positions, and women and executive education.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2020)

Creating the new executive: postwar executive education and socialization into the managerial elite

Management & Organizational History, 15(2) , s. 106-122. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2020.1776134 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This paper explores the development of executive education in the US from 1945 to around 1970, and its function in developing potential top executives’ cultural, symbolic, and social capital. The paper shows that postwar executive education was an expression of how the academic community acted according to its societal obligations by offering the new leaders norms and values that could replace what was lost during the transformation to managerial capitalism. This function legitimized executive education within the business schools, which was at the time primarily characterized by a very different logic of scientization.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lunnan, Randi, Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2020)

Keeping up with the neighbors: The role of cluster identity in internationalization

Journal of World Business, 55(5) , s. 1-13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101125 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This paper explores the implications of the collective identity of a regional cluster on firms’ internationalization. Prior research has established the value of cluster “insidership” through access to knowledge and resources. Through a longitudinal study, we find that cluster identity, through distinct identity claims, provides imperatives and shapes the motivation of firms to internationalize. These imperatives, we argue, stem from cluster identity seen as defined features of regional collectives, extending reference theory to encompass the role of social cues from similar firms located geographically close. The imperatives are particularly salient in the early stages of firms’ internationalization, adding the role of cluster identity to explain the differences between inexperienced and experienced firms in internationalization. Keywords: Cluster identity; Internationalization; Multinational enterprise; Longitudinal study.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne (2020)

Resilience and related variety : the role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region

Business History, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1822329 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Recent research in economic geography has introduced two notions that historical studies should explore: regional resilience and related variety. Regional resilience refers to a region’s ability to recover from external shocks. Related variety refers to the existence of related industrial sectors in a region, and the relatedness promotes economic development due to spill-overs between sectors. From an evolutionary perspective, external shocks result in new development paths in regions with related variety. This is a dynamic process well suited to historical studies. This article argues that historical studies can contribute to this literature by studying how related sectors interact in resilient regions. We propose that family firms may act as a micro-coordination mechanism by moving financial and human resources from one sector to another related sector as a response to shock. The paper develops this argument by studying how six major regional business families within ocean industries reacted to external shocks over time. Keywords: regional resilience, economic geography, family firms, regional history, related variety

Kipping, Matthias; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & McGlade, Jacqueline (2020)

Making managers: a fresh look

Management & Organizational History, 15(2) , s. 91-105. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2020.1842288 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several countries during the mid- to late 19th century (Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010, 2016). However, at that time, ‘business’ – or, more commonly, ‘commerce’ – was little respected within academia, with sociologist Thorstein Veblen (1918, 209–210) for instance, putting it at the same level as ‘athletics’ and suggesting that neither should have a place within ‘the corporation of learning’. Nor was a specific education widely seen as a prerequisite for successful businessmen – or the rare businesswoman –, though short, practical training for clerical positions was being offered since the mid-19th century at proprietary commercial schools (Conn 2019, Ch. 1). Well into the 20th century most of those running companies believed that leaders were ‘born, not made’ and that, if there was any training, it should be on the job (see, for examples from Germany, Kipping 1998a, 97). Often times, especially on the Old Continent of Europe, what sufficed was to be born into the family that owned the business. While managers hired from the outside had grown in importance earlier (e.g. Chandler 1977), they only started drawing more sustained attention by observers since the 1930s (Berle and Means 1932; see also, with a broader definition of manager, Burnham 1941). Since then, the notion that managers need to be made, i.e. educated, has become widely accepted. And even in multigenerational family firms, the heirs apparent are nowadays usually sent to some of the top business schools either in the country of origin or, more likely, in the US – followed, at times, by a stint at McKinsey or other elite consultants, portrayed by some as a kind of MBA squared (Mintzberg 1996; see also Gavett 2013; and, for examples Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2016, 251). Similarly, and relatedly, after struggling at the outset to find their place within academia (Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010) business and management education have developed into the most popular area of study in many countries. In the US, for instance, 386,000 out of close to 2 million bachelor’s degrees in 2017–18 were in business, followed by 245,000 in health professions.1 In the European Union countries, 24.3% of the tertiary education graduates were in business and law, followed by 14.6% in engineering and construction, and 13.8% in health and welfare.2 However, in China engineering is the most popular field among master’s students with 890,000 students in 2018, followed by business with 369,0003 (see also Conn 2019, 2–3). This transformation has inspired a large body of historical research (for an overview, see, among others, Amdam 1996a; Augier and March 2011; Daniel 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2016; Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Khurana 2007; Locke 1984, 1989; more critically Conn 2019; Locke 1996; Locke and Spender 2011). The extant studies have gone far to elucidate the rise of university-based degree programs with a particular focus on the graduate level, in particular the Master of Business Administration (MBA), which together with the US-based business schools has usually been portrayed as equivalent to the rise of formal ways to make managers. An additional, related focus has been the ‘scientization’ of research and teaching in most of these institutions since the 1950s and the gradual expansion of this American model around the world – though with studies focusing in particular on its influence in Europe, broadly defined, and, to a lesser extent, Japan. In contrast, making managers through other, non-degree types of education and training has yet to receive a similar interest and so does the content and process of these programs. There is also a need to examine more closely the actual people who receive management education in both degree- and non-degree programs as well as the wide range of stakeholders, beyond governments and educational institutions, associated with their development. Last not least, there continues to be a dearth of studies covering all of these issues outside the ‘global North’. This special issue aims to advance this research agenda with contributions that (i) go beyond the degree programs offered by business schools; (ii) discuss the roles of all actors involved in the creation of programs for making managers; (iii) examine the processes of socialization taking place within these programs; (iv) look at the gendering of management education (and management); and (v) extend research on making managers beyond the obvious institutional and geographic contexts. After summarizing the current state of research on the history of management education and its blind spots, the remainder of this introductory article will address each of these contributions in some detail.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2020)

Executive Education

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.205 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Summary Executive education, defined as consisting of short, intensive non-degree programs offered by university business schools to attract people who are in or close to top executive positions, is a vital part of modern management education. The rationale behind executive education is different from that of the degree programs in business schools. While business schools enroll students to degree programs based on previous exams, degrees or entry tests, executive education typically recruits participants based on the their positions—or expected positions—in the corporate hierarchy. While degree programs grade their students and award them degrees, executive education offers courses that do not have exams and gives participants diplomas rather than degrees. Executive education expanded rapidly in the United States and globally after Harvard Business School launched its Advanced Management Program in 1945. In 1970, around 50 university business schools in the United States and business schools in at least 43 countries offered intense executive education programs lasting from three to 18 weeks. During the 1970s, business schools that offered executive education organized themselves into an association, first in the U.S. and later globally. From the 1980s, executive education met competition from the corporate universities organized by corporations themselves. This led the business schools to expand executive education in two directions: open programs that organized potential executives from a mixed group of companies, and tailor-made programs designed for individual companies. Despite being an essential part of the activities of business schools, few scholars have conducted research into executive education. Extant studies have been dominated by a focus on executive education in the context of the rigor-and-relevance debate that has accompanied the development of management education during the last 30 years. Other topics that are touched upon in research concern the content of courses, the appropriate pedagogical methods, and the effect of executive education on personal development. The current situation paves the way for some exciting new research topics. Among these are the role of executive education in creating, maintaining, and changing the business elite, the effect of executive education on socializing participants for managerial positions, and women and executive education.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

The internationalization of Executive education

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, , s. 125-137. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315277813-8 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Fredona, Robert & Reinert, Sophus (2019)

Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803

Business History Review, 93(2) , s. 275-317. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680519000631 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the eighteenth-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway’s immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway’s iconic Christiania Glasmagasin. The investors in the company, many of them among Norway’s “founding fathers,” were individually responsible for its losses and it operated, remarkably, at an annual loss for nearly five decades. The article asks why, beyond the anticipation of a royal import ban on foreign glass, private investors might have continued to accept such losses. It focuses on tensions between cameralist and liberal ideologies in the creation of an important national industry, and on older (and perhaps more sustainable) ways of thinking about profitability.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

The internationalization of Executive education

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, , s. 125-137. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315277813-8 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Fredona, Robert & Reinert, Sophus (2019)

Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803

Business History Review, 93(2) , s. 275-317. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680519000631 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the eighteenth-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway’s immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway’s iconic Christiania Glasmagasin. The investors in the company, many of them among Norway’s “founding fathers,” were individually responsible for its losses and it operated, remarkably, at an annual loss for nearly five decades. The article asks why, beyond the anticipation of a royal import ban on foreign glass, private investors might have continued to accept such losses. It focuses on tensions between cameralist and liberal ideologies in the creation of an important national industry, and on older (and perhaps more sustainable) ways of thinking about profitability.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Wang, Jinmin (2018)

The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks : Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China

Asia Pacific Business Review, 24(1) , s. 37-52. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2017.1358929 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This article examines the role of small- and medium-sized multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the dynamic development of global production networks (GPNs) in the maritime industry. It studies the dynamism between subsidiaries of Norwegian maritime firms and regional actors and institutions in the Greater Shanghai Region of China from the perspectives of the subsidiaries. It argues that strategic coupling, recoupling and decoupling are partly the results of regional selection mechanisms. However, in the cases where the subsidiaries are embedded within the host region, the strategies and behaviour of MNEs are of decisive importance for the dynamic development of GPNs. Keywords: China, global production networks, maritime industry, multinational enterprises, Norway, PRC, strategic coupling, operation modes

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Wang, Jinmin (2018)

The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks : Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China

Asia Pacific Business Review, 24(1) , s. 37-52. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2017.1358929 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

This article examines the role of small- and medium-sized multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the dynamic development of global production networks (GPNs) in the maritime industry. It studies the dynamism between subsidiaries of Norwegian maritime firms and regional actors and institutions in the Greater Shanghai Region of China from the perspectives of the subsidiaries. It argues that strategic coupling, recoupling and decoupling are partly the results of regional selection mechanisms. However, in the cases where the subsidiaries are embedded within the host region, the strategies and behaviour of MNEs are of decisive importance for the dynamic development of GPNs. Keywords: China, global production networks, maritime industry, multinational enterprises, Norway, PRC, strategic coupling, operation modes

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Det Romsdalske Practiske Landhuusholdnings-Sælskab og opplysningstida, 1773-1790

Årbok / Romsdalsmuseet, , s. 40-55.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Executive Education and the Managerial Revolution: The Birth of Executive Education at Harvard Business School

Business History Review, 90(4) , s. 671-690. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680517000010

The managerial revolution drove the rise of business schools in the United States and business schools contributed by graduating professional managers. Before World War II, however, the effect of an MBA degree was modest, causing great concern to leading business schools. Harvard Business School—in order to increase this impact—began in the mid-1920s to develop nondegree programs for potential top executives. In 1945, by drawing on the experiences of certain short-lived programs and the extraordinary situation during the war, Harvard Business School launched its Advanced Management Program, which became a global role model for executive education.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Det Romsdalske Practiske Landhuusholdnings-Sælskab og opplysningstida, 1773-1790

Årbok / Romsdalsmuseet, , s. 40-55.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Executive Education and the Managerial Revolution: The Birth of Executive Education at Harvard Business School

Business History Review, 90(4) , s. 671-690. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680517000010

The managerial revolution drove the rise of business schools in the United States and business schools contributed by graduating professional managers. Before World War II, however, the effect of an MBA degree was modest, causing great concern to leading business schools. Harvard Business School—in order to increase this impact—began in the mid-1920s to develop nondegree programs for potential top executives. In 1945, by drawing on the experiences of certain short-lived programs and the extraordinary situation during the war, Harvard Business School launched its Advanced Management Program, which became a global role model for executive education.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2016)

Ledelse som profesjon i Norge - fagkompetanse versus ledelseskompetanse

Profesjon og ledelse, , s. 233-254.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2016)

Ledelse som profesjon i Norge - fagkompetanse versus ledelseskompetanse

Profesjon og ledelse, , s. 233-254.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2015)

Globalization and the development of industrial clusters : comparing two Norwegian clusters, 1900–2010

Business History Review, 89(4) , s. 693-716. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515001051

This article explores how clusters have reacted to the recent process of globalization by comparing the development of two clusters that are located in the same region, the county of Møre og Romsdal in Norway. These are the furniture cluster and the maritime cluster on the west coast of Norway. When international competition increased, the first one declined while the other prospered and became more global. Structural differences explain only partly the different development paths of these clusters. In addition, firms’ strategic actions and the degree of collectively shared visions about international operations mattered for how the clusters developed.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2015)

Globalization and the development of industrial clusters : comparing two Norwegian clusters, 1900–2010

Business History Review, 89(4) , s. 693-716. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515001051

This article explores how clusters have reacted to the recent process of globalization by comparing the development of two clusters that are located in the same region, the county of Møre og Romsdal in Norway. These are the furniture cluster and the maritime cluster on the west coast of Norway. When international competition increased, the first one declined while the other prospered and became more global. Structural differences explain only partly the different development paths of these clusters. In addition, firms’ strategic actions and the degree of collectively shared visions about international operations mattered for how the clusters developed.

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Stability and change in managerial elites: The institution of management education in Norway from 1936 to 2009

Management & Organizational History, 9(3) , s. 272-287. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2013.879725 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Market transformations and organisational changes lead to new needs for managerial competence, and such changes are proposed to influence the institution of management education over time. However, in an examination of the educational backgrounds of Norwegian CEOs from 1936 to 2009, this paper finds that changes in the institution of management education cannot be interpreted as direct responses to the organisational and external changes that companies face. This study suggests that the institution of management education is modified rather than fundamentally changed. These modifications can largely be explained by the concepts of institutional solidarity (i.e. dominant agents define what management education is, and this understanding is difficult to change due to path dependencies in the recruitment of top managers) and institutional plasticity (i.e. the “stretching” of established institutional scripts to fit new contexts).

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Stability and change in managerial elites: The institution of management education in Norway from 1936 to 2009

Management & Organizational History, 9(3) , s. 272-287. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2013.879725 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Market transformations and organisational changes lead to new needs for managerial competence, and such changes are proposed to influence the institution of management education over time. However, in an examination of the educational backgrounds of Norwegian CEOs from 1936 to 2009, this paper finds that changes in the institution of management education cannot be interpreted as direct responses to the organisational and external changes that companies face. This study suggests that the institution of management education is modified rather than fundamentally changed. These modifications can largely be explained by the concepts of institutional solidarity (i.e. dominant agents define what management education is, and this understanding is difficult to change due to path dependencies in the recruitment of top managers) and institutional plasticity (i.e. the “stretching” of established institutional scripts to fit new contexts).

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2010)

Utdanning av norske næringslivstopper kontinuitet eller brudd?

Magma forskning og viten, 13(3) , s. 37-42.

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2010)

Utdanning av norske næringslivstopper kontinuitet eller brudd?

Magma forskning og viten, 13(3) , s. 37-42.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2009)

Mercury and Minerva: Scences from a Marriage

Exploring the Worlds of Mercury and Minerva. Essays for Lars Engwall, , s. 31-43.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2009)

The internationalisation process theory and the internationalisation of Norwegian firms, 1945 to 1980

Business History, 51(3) , s. 445-461. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790902844054

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2009)

Mercury and Minerva: Scences from a Marriage

Exploring the Worlds of Mercury and Minerva. Essays for Lars Engwall, , s. 31-43.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2009)

The internationalisation process theory and the internationalisation of Norwegian firms, 1945 to 1980

Business History, 51(3) , s. 445-461. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790902844054

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2008)

Business education

Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds), The Oxford Handbook in Business History, , s. 581-602.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2008)

The European Perspective

Business History Review, 82(2) , s. 343-347.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hansen, Marie Skogholt & Vasli, Karen Marie (2008)

Connecting People in Shanghai: The Norwegian Way

Lie, Lund, Hansen (red), Making it in China,

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2008)

Business education

Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds), The Oxford Handbook in Business History, , s. 581-602.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2008)

The European Perspective

Business History Review, 82(2) , s. 343-347.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hansen, Marie Skogholt & Vasli, Karen Marie (2008)

Connecting People in Shanghai: The Norwegian Way

Lie, Lund, Hansen (red), Making it in China,

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Lang, Reinhard (2007)

Management Research in East and West

Baltic Journal of Management, Special Issue(2) , s. 121-124.

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Djelic, Marie-Laure (2007)

Americanization in Comparative Perspective: The Managerial revolution in France and Norway, 1940-1970

Business History, 49(4) , s. 483-505.

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Lang, Reinhard (2007)

Management Research in East and West

Baltic Journal of Management, Special Issue(2) , s. 121-124.

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Djelic, Marie-Laure (2007)

Americanization in Comparative Perspective: The Managerial revolution in France and Norway, 1940-1970

Business History, 49(4) , s. 483-505.

Lunnan, Randi; Lervik, Jon Erland, Traavik, Laura E Mercer, Nilsen, Sølvi M., Amdam, Rolv Petter & Hennestad, Bjørn (2005)

Global transfer of management practices across nations and MNC subcultures

Academy of Management Perspectives, 19(2) , s. 77-80.

The management practice we examine performance management (PM)-can be regarded as an extension of the traditional performance appraisal, linking individual performance to corporate strategy.1 Researchers separate calculative PM (focus on individual contributions and rewards) and collaborative PM (focus on creating a partnership culture between employer and employee, for example through competency development).2 In the United States, PM practices contain both calculative and collaborative elements, whereas in Scandinavia the calculative element is downplayed.3 Norwegian firms have had a long tradition of holding annual "planning and development talks." This is, however, a single, once a year event intended to promote good working relations more than a managerial system for evaluating, developing and compensating employees.' We suggest that when introducing a "foreign best practice" into this setting, national values present initial barriers, whereas organizational capabilities and systems are crucial for the final shape of the practice.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Gran, Haakon, Hansen, Svein Olav & Sogner, Knut (2005)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling

Fagbokforlaget

Lervik, Jon Erland; Amdam, Rolv Petter, Hennestad, Bjørn, Lunnan, Randi & Nilsen, Sølvi M. (2005)

Implementing Human Resource Development Best Practice: Replication or Re-creation?

Human Resource Development International, 8(3) , s. 345-360.

Lunnan, Randi; Lervik, Jon Erland, Traavik, Laura E Mercer, Nilsen, Sølvi M., Amdam, Rolv Petter & Hennestad, Bjørn (2005)

Global transfer of management practices across nations and MNC subcultures

Academy of Management Perspectives, 19(2) , s. 77-80.

The management practice we examine performance management (PM)-can be regarded as an extension of the traditional performance appraisal, linking individual performance to corporate strategy.1 Researchers separate calculative PM (focus on individual contributions and rewards) and collaborative PM (focus on creating a partnership culture between employer and employee, for example through competency development).2 In the United States, PM practices contain both calculative and collaborative elements, whereas in Scandinavia the calculative element is downplayed.3 Norwegian firms have had a long tradition of holding annual "planning and development talks." This is, however, a single, once a year event intended to promote good working relations more than a managerial system for evaluating, developing and compensating employees.' We suggest that when introducing a "foreign best practice" into this setting, national values present initial barriers, whereas organizational capabilities and systems are crucial for the final shape of the practice.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Gran, Haakon, Hansen, Svein Olav & Sogner, Knut (2005)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling

Fagbokforlaget

Lervik, Jon Erland; Amdam, Rolv Petter, Hennestad, Bjørn, Lunnan, Randi & Nilsen, Sølvi M. (2005)

Implementing Human Resource Development Best Practice: Replication or Re-creation?

Human Resource Development International, 8(3) , s. 345-360.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Larsen, Eirinn (2003)

The Power of Content revisited

Rolv Petter Amdam, Ragnhild Kvålshaugen and Eirinn Larsen (eds.): Inside the Business Schools: The Content of European Business Education,

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Larsen, Eirinn (2003)

Inside the Business Schools: The Content of European Business Education

Abstrakt forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2003)

Changement d'organisation dans deux sociétés norvégiennes de production d'aluminium: ÅSV et Alnor

?, (1) , s. 57-62.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Larsen, Eirinn (2003)

The Power of Content revisited

Rolv Petter Amdam, Ragnhild Kvålshaugen and Eirinn Larsen (eds.): Inside the Business Schools: The Content of European Business Education,

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Larsen, Eirinn (2003)

Inside the Business Schools: The Content of European Business Education

Abstrakt forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2003)

Changement d'organisation dans deux sociétés norvégiennes de production d'aluminium: ÅSV et Alnor

?, (1) , s. 57-62.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Sogner, Knut, Kipping, Matthias & Tiratsoo, Nick (2002)

The Diffusion of American Organisational Models to Norwegian Industries 1945-1970

Americanisation in the 20th Century: Business, Culture, Politics,

Lunnan, Randi; Amdam, Rolv Petter, Hennestad, Bjørn, Lervik, Jon Erland & Nilsen, Sølvi M. (2002)

Standardised Leadership Tools in MNEs – Critical Reflections on the Conditions for Successful Implementations

Journal of European Industrial Training, 26(6) , s. 274-282.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Sogner, Knut, Kipping, Matthias & Tiratsoo, Nick (2002)

The Diffusion of American Organisational Models to Norwegian Industries 1945-1970

Americanisation in the 20th Century: Business, Culture, Politics,

Lunnan, Randi; Amdam, Rolv Petter, Hennestad, Bjørn, Lervik, Jon Erland & Nilsen, Sølvi M. (2002)

Standardised Leadership Tools in MNEs – Critical Reflections on the Conditions for Successful Implementations

Journal of European Industrial Training, 26(6) , s. 274-282.

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir (2001)

Management qualifications and dissemination of knowledge in regional systems : the case of Norway, 1930s-1990s

Journal of Industrial History, 4(2) , s. 75-93.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hennestad, Bjørn, Lunnan, Randi, Nilsen, Sølvi M. & Lervik, Jon Erland (2001)

Standardisering - en hemsko for fornyelse?

Magma forskning og viten,

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Gran, Haakon, Hansen, Svein Olav & Sogner, Knut (2001)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling

Fagbokforlaget

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Gammelsæter, Hallgeir (2001)

Management qualifications and dissemination of knowledge in regional systems : the case of Norway, 1930s-1990s

Journal of Industrial History, 4(2) , s. 75-93.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hennestad, Bjørn, Lunnan, Randi, Nilsen, Sølvi M. & Lervik, Jon Erland (2001)

Standardisering - en hemsko for fornyelse?

Magma forskning og viten,

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Gran, Haakon, Hansen, Svein Olav & Sogner, Knut (2001)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling

Fagbokforlaget

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2000)

Industrikomiteen i New York 1943-1945: Ein kanal for kunnskapsoverføring frå USA til Norge

Historisk tidsskrift, 79(1) , s. 3-21.

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Amdam, Rolv Petter (2000)

Etablering og utvikling av ledelseskulturer: Norsk kenningisme

Nordiske organisasjonsstudier, 2, 1, s. 84-106.

Artikkelen fokuserer på hvordan en ledelseskultur etableres og utvikles. Hovedvekten er lagt på å forklare hvilke faktorer som er viktige for lederes valg av ledelsesideer og årsakene til at disse ideene blir spredt utover flere bedrifter og over tid. Ledelseskulturen som bidrar til det empiriske grunnlaget for artikkelen er kenningisme - en ledelseskultur som utviklet seg blant norske bedriftsledere som brukte George Kenning (amerikansk ledelseskonsulent) og hans ledelsesprinsipper til å definere hva ledelse er, og som betraktet ham som en betydningsfull rådgiver. Studien viser at en ledelseskultur over tid kan utvikles til å bli en mote. Videre behøver ikke moten nødvendigvis å dø helt ut, men snarere gjenoppstå i en ny og mer moderne utgave. Funnene fra studien antyder også at man bør studere utviklingen av ledelseskulturer i et evolusjonært perspektiv, siden en slik kultur utvikles over tid og gjennomgår ulike utviklingsfaser. The paper focuses on how a management culture was established and developed. The emphasis is on explaining which factors that have major influence on managers' choices of management ideas and the reasons for the diffusion of these ideas among organizations and over time. The case used to exemplify these relationships is the diffu-sion of George Kenning's management philosophy in Norway. He was an American management consultant helping some Norwegian managers to define management and managerial roles. This study shows that a management culture develops over time and after a while even becomes a fashion. It also shows that a management fashion do not necessarily suddenly die. It might be revitalized and arise in new forms. The findings in the study, thus, suggest that applying an evolutionary perspective on the development of a management culture might enhance the understanding of this formation process.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2000)

Industrikomiteen i New York 1943-1945: Ein kanal for kunnskapsoverføring frå USA til Norge

Historisk tidsskrift, 79(1) , s. 3-21.

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Amdam, Rolv Petter (2000)

Etablering og utvikling av ledelseskulturer: Norsk kenningisme

Nordiske organisasjonsstudier, 2, 1, s. 84-106.

Artikkelen fokuserer på hvordan en ledelseskultur etableres og utvikles. Hovedvekten er lagt på å forklare hvilke faktorer som er viktige for lederes valg av ledelsesideer og årsakene til at disse ideene blir spredt utover flere bedrifter og over tid. Ledelseskulturen som bidrar til det empiriske grunnlaget for artikkelen er kenningisme - en ledelseskultur som utviklet seg blant norske bedriftsledere som brukte George Kenning (amerikansk ledelseskonsulent) og hans ledelsesprinsipper til å definere hva ledelse er, og som betraktet ham som en betydningsfull rådgiver. Studien viser at en ledelseskultur over tid kan utvikles til å bli en mote. Videre behøver ikke moten nødvendigvis å dø helt ut, men snarere gjenoppstå i en ny og mer moderne utgave. Funnene fra studien antyder også at man bør studere utviklingen av ledelseskulturer i et evolusjonært perspektiv, siden en slik kultur utvikles over tid og gjennomgår ulike utviklingsfaser. The paper focuses on how a management culture was established and developed. The emphasis is on explaining which factors that have major influence on managers' choices of management ideas and the reasons for the diffusion of these ideas among organizations and over time. The case used to exemplify these relationships is the diffu-sion of George Kenning's management philosophy in Norway. He was an American management consultant helping some Norwegian managers to define management and managerial roles. This study shows that a management culture develops over time and after a while even becomes a fashion. It also shows that a management fashion do not necessarily suddenly die. It might be revitalized and arise in new forms. The findings in the study, thus, suggest that applying an evolutionary perspective on the development of a management culture might enhance the understanding of this formation process.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Utdanning, økonomi og ledelse: Fremveksten av den økonomisk-administrative utdanningen 1936-1986

Unipub forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Bjarnar, Ove (1999)

Networks and the Diffusion of Knowledge: The Norwegian Industry Committee in New York during the Second World War

Business and Economic History, 28(1) , s. 33-43.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Foreign Influence on the Education of Norwegian Business Managers before World War II

Management Education, , s. 0-0.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Utdanning, økonomi og ledelse: Fremveksten av den økonomisk-administrative utdanningen 1936-1986

Unipub forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Bjarnar, Ove (1999)

Networks and the Diffusion of Knowledge: The Norwegian Industry Committee in New York during the Second World War

Business and Economic History, 28(1) , s. 33-43.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Foreign Influence on the Education of Norwegian Business Managers before World War II

Management Education, , s. 0-0.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1998)

American Influence on Management Education in Norway, 1945-1970s: The Role of Intermediate Organisations

Entreprises et Histoire, 19

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Knutsen, Sverre & Thue, Lars (1998)

Bedrift og samfunn

Fagbokforlaget

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Gran, Haakon & Sogner, Svein Olav (1998)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling - et kompendium

BI Forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Yttri, Gunnar, Gourvish, Terry & Tiratsoo, Nick (1998)

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education

Missionaries and managers: American influence on European management education, 1945-1960,

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (1998)

The regional dissemination of American productivity models in Norway in the 1950s and 1960s

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models, , s. 91-111.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Kipping, Matthias & Bjarnar, Ove (1998)

The Regional Dissemination of US Productivity Models in Norway in the 1950s and 1960s

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models,

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Amdam, Rolv Petter (1998)

Educational and Social Construction of Managerial Practice

Vezetéstudomány,

Yttri, Gunnar; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Amdam, Rolv Petter (1998)

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education, , s. 121-139.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hansen, Svein Olav & Sogner, Knut (1998)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling - studieguide

BI Forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Gemelli, Guiliana (ed) (1998)

Productivity and Management Education: The Nordic Countries

The Ford Foundation and Europe (1950s-1970s): Cross- fertilization of Learning in Social Science and Management,

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1998)

American Influence on Management Education in Norway, 1945-1970s: The Role of Intermediate Organisations

Entreprises et Histoire, 19

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Knutsen, Sverre & Thue, Lars (1998)

Bedrift og samfunn

Fagbokforlaget

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Gran, Haakon & Sogner, Svein Olav (1998)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling - et kompendium

BI Forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Yttri, Gunnar, Gourvish, Terry & Tiratsoo, Nick (1998)

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education

Missionaries and managers: American influence on European management education, 1945-1960,

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (1998)

The regional dissemination of American productivity models in Norway in the 1950s and 1960s

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models, , s. 91-111.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Kipping, Matthias & Bjarnar, Ove (1998)

The Regional Dissemination of US Productivity Models in Norway in the 1950s and 1960s

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models,

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Amdam, Rolv Petter (1998)

Educational and Social Construction of Managerial Practice

Vezetéstudomány,

Yttri, Gunnar; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Amdam, Rolv Petter (1998)

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education, , s. 121-139.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hansen, Svein Olav & Sogner, Knut (1998)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling - studieguide

BI Forlag

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Gemelli, Guiliana (ed) (1998)

Productivity and Management Education: The Nordic Countries

The Ford Foundation and Europe (1950s-1970s): Cross- fertilization of Learning in Social Science and Management,

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (1997)

Regional business networks and the diffusion of American management and organisational models to Norway 1945-1965

Business History, 39(1) , s. 79-90.

Knutsen, Sverre Richard; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Thue, Lars (1997)

Bedrift og Samfunn, 2. utg

Fagbokforlaget

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (1997)

Regional business networks and the diffusion of American management and organisational models to Norway 1945-1965

Business History, 39(1) , s. 79-90.

Knutsen, Sverre Richard; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Thue, Lars (1997)

Bedrift og Samfunn, 2. utg

Fagbokforlaget

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (1996)

Professional networks and the introduction of research in the British and the Norwegian pharmaceutical industry in the interwar years

History & Technology, 13, s. 101-111.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (1996)

Professional networks and the introduction of research in the British and the Norwegian pharmaceutical industry in the interwar years

History & Technology, 13, s. 101-111.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (1994)

Foreign influence on the education of Norwegian business managers before World War II

Business History, 36(4) , s. 79-94.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (1994)

Foreign influence on the education of Norwegian business managers before World War II

Business History, 36(4) , s. 79-94.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Intrevju om børsfallet i Kina

[Journal]

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Outsouring og utflagging i norsk industri

[Radio]

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Dette skjønner ikke kineserne

[Journal]

Otterlei, Inger; Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Dette skjønner ikke Kina : nettverkene viktig for maritime klyngen

[Journal]

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Outsouring og utflagging i norsk industri

[Radio]

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Dette skjønner ikke kineserne

[Journal]

Otterlei, Inger; Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Dette skjønner ikke Kina : nettverkene viktig for maritime klyngen

[Journal]

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

Verden på Vigra, DN 09.08.2013

[Kronikk]

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

Verden på Vigra, DN 09.08.2013

[Kronikk]

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2001)

Blårussen som bedriftsledere

[Kronikk]

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2001)

Slekter etter 1814

[Kronikk]

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2001)

Blårussen som bedriftsledere

[Kronikk]

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2001)

Slekter etter 1814

[Kronikk]

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

"Stavanger og Norges 5. universitet". Bokmelding av Bodil Wold Johnsen: Fra universitetsvisjon til høyskoleintegrasjon

[Kronikk]

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

"Stavanger og Norges 5. universitet". Bokmelding av Bodil Wold Johnsen: Fra universitetsvisjon til høyskoleintegrasjon

[Kronikk]

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2024)

The role of narratives and antenarratives in cluster development

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2023)

Reflections on narrative context and diverging paths in cluster evolution

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter (2023)

Bacalo and regional identity: The round-trip of cod, Norway-the Mediterranean

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2023)

Glasmagasinet i hjertet av Oslo og den norske glassindustri

[Professional Article]. St. Hanshaugen historielag, (7) , s. 17-23.

Lopes, Teresa da Silva; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Mata, Maria Eugenia & Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter (2023)

The Impact of Deglobalization and Trade Wars on Industry Dynamics: Norwegian Salted and Dried Cod Fish and Portuguese Port Wine, 1920s and 1930s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2023)

Bacalhao and regional identity: Norway—the Mediterranean tour and retour

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Lopes, Teresa da Silva & Mata, Maria Eugenia (2023)

The Impact of Deglobalization and Trade Wars on Industry Dynamics: Norwegian Salted and Dried Cod Fish and Portuguese Port Wine, 1920s and 1930s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Bjarnar, Ove; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2023)

Reflections on narrative context and diverging paths in cluster evolution

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter (2023)

Bacalo and regional identity: The round-trip of cod, Norway-the Mediterranean

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2023)

Glasmagasinet i hjertet av Oslo og den norske glassindustri

[Professional Article]. St. Hanshaugen historielag, (7) , s. 17-23.

Lopes, Teresa da Silva; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Mata, Maria Eugenia & Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter (2023)

The Impact of Deglobalization and Trade Wars on Industry Dynamics: Norwegian Salted and Dried Cod Fish and Portuguese Port Wine, 1920s and 1930s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2023)

Bacalhao and regional identity: Norway—the Mediterranean tour and retour

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Lopes, Teresa da Silva & Mata, Maria Eugenia (2023)

The Impact of Deglobalization and Trade Wars on Industry Dynamics: Norwegian Salted and Dried Cod Fish and Portuguese Port Wine, 1920s and 1930s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld; Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2022)

Is there an agency – context paradox in recent understandings of cluster evolution?

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Lluch, Andrea (2022)

ILO and the making of managers in Argentina

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Lopes, Teresa da Silva & Mata, Maria Eugenia (2022)

Cod Fish and Port Wine: The Impact of Bilateral Trade Agreements on Firm and Industry Dynamics, 1914-1940

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld; Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2022)

Is there an agency – context paradox in recent understandings of cluster evolution?

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Lluch, Andrea (2022)

ILO and the making of managers in Argentina

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Eikrem, Trudi Henrydotter; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Lopes, Teresa da Silva & Mata, Maria Eugenia (2022)

Cod Fish and Port Wine: The Impact of Bilateral Trade Agreements on Firm and Industry Dynamics, 1914-1940

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G. & Grøgaard, Birgitte (2021)

The untold story: Teaching cases on multinational enterprises in US business schools and the rise of International Business as a new academic field, 1955-1963

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Lluch, Andrea & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2021)

In the shadow of Americanization: The Origins and Evolution of Management Education and Training in Argentina (1940s–1960s)

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G. & Grøgaard, Birgitte (2021)

The untold story: Teaching cases on multinational enterprises in US business schools and the rise of International Business as a new academic field, 1955-1963

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Lluch, Andrea & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2021)

In the shadow of Americanization: The Origins and Evolution of Management Education and Training in Argentina (1940s–1960s)

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2020)

The use of the imprinting theory in history and organization studies

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2020)

The use of the imprinting theory in history and organization studies

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

Why does executive education exist? An historical explanation

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

French, European or American? The creation and development of INSEAD 1959-1970

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R G (2019)

Bringing temporality in organization theory and history to the study of strategy formation: Harvard Business School's first international strategy

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

Who should train the European executives? Executive education and the new business schools in Europe 1945-1970

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

Changes in global value chains in a period of de-globalization

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

The week of the wives: Women and Executive education in the 1960s and 1970s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Davilla, Carlos (2019)

Introducing executive education in Latin America: Comparing Colombia, Peru and Central America (1960-1980)

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

Why does executive education exist? An historical explanation

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

French, European or American? The creation and development of INSEAD 1959-1970

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R G (2019)

Bringing temporality in organization theory and history to the study of strategy formation: Harvard Business School's first international strategy

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

Who should train the European executives? Executive education and the new business schools in Europe 1945-1970

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

Changes in global value chains in a period of de-globalization

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2019)

The week of the wives: Women and Executive education in the 1960s and 1970s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Davilla, Carlos (2019)

Introducing executive education in Latin America: Comparing Colombia, Peru and Central America (1960-1980)

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

The formation of post-war top executives through executive education: A global history

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Creating the New Executive: Post-War Executive Education and Socialization into the Managerial Elite

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Business history meets organizational theory: International operation modes

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Creating the New Executive: Post-War Executive Education

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2018)

Narratives and the Financialization; The Narrative that Transformed Capitalism in Norway in the 1980s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Leppäaho, Tanja; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Jack, Sarah & Korhonen, Satu (2018)

Embeddedness of international new ventures during the first global economy

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Changing operation modes in the maritime industry. Norwegian firms in China and Brazil, 1990s-2012

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne (2018)

Resilience and related variety: The role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Ove, Bjarnar (2018)

Cluster reconfiguration and regional resilience: The development of related clusters in a Norwegian region over time

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

The formation of post-war top executives through executive education: A global history

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Creating the New Executive: Post-War Executive Education and Socialization into the Managerial Elite

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Business history meets organizational theory: International operation modes

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Creating the New Executive: Post-War Executive Education

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2018)

Narratives and the Financialization; The Narrative that Transformed Capitalism in Norway in the 1980s

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Leppäaho, Tanja; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Jack, Sarah & Korhonen, Satu (2018)

Embeddedness of international new ventures during the first global economy

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2018)

Changing operation modes in the maritime industry. Norwegian firms in China and Brazil, 1990s-2012

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne (2018)

Resilience and related variety: The role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Ove, Bjarnar (2018)

Cluster reconfiguration and regional resilience: The development of related clusters in a Norwegian region over time

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

“Creating the new executive: Post-war executive education in a civilization perspective”

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2017)

Making sense of organizations in globalized clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2017)

Norske toppledere og deres utdanningsbakgrunn i 2016

[Professional Article]. Magma forskning og viten, 20(5) , s. 64-69.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R G (2017)

When do organizations internationalize? The development of Harvard Business School’s first international strategy 1950-1972

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

The Globalization of Executive Education: 1945-1970

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R G (2017)

Timing and history. Harvard Business School and the development of a strategy for first international entry

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Timing and history in internationalization processes: Raymond Vernon and the development of Harvard Business School’s first international strategy

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

The US and the International Professionalization of Top-Managers

[Report Research]. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Colombia, Latin-America and the American model of executive education

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

“Creating the new executive: Post-war executive education in a civilization perspective”

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2017)

Making sense of organizations in globalized clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild (2017)

Norske toppledere og deres utdanningsbakgrunn i 2016

[Professional Article]. Magma forskning og viten, 20(5) , s. 64-69.

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R G (2017)

When do organizations internationalize? The development of Harvard Business School’s first international strategy 1950-1972

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

The Globalization of Executive Education: 1945-1970

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R G (2017)

Timing and history. Harvard Business School and the development of a strategy for first international entry

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Timing and history in internationalization processes: Raymond Vernon and the development of Harvard Business School’s first international strategy

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

The US and the International Professionalization of Top-Managers

[Report Research]. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2017)

Colombia, Latin-America and the American model of executive education

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Choices, changes and combinations of operation modes in China in the context of global production networks

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Entrepreneurs in business education: The international diffusion of executive education 1945-1980

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Reintepretation of the role of business schools in the formation of the professional managers: The birth of executive education at Harvard Business School

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2016)

"Dynamic and flexible clusters as determinants for localization: The relationship between ocean-related industries on the west coast of Norway in the 19th and 20th century"

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Pettersen, Inger Beate; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Tobiassen, Anita Ellen (2016)

Perception gaps in headquarter-subsidiary relationships: Comparing the role of subsidiary managers in China, Brazil and USA

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Perspektiver på Kinas utvikling

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Choices, changes and combinations of operation modes in China in the context of global production networks

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Entrepreneurs in business education: The international diffusion of executive education 1945-1980

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Reintepretation of the role of business schools in the formation of the professional managers: The birth of executive education at Harvard Business School

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2016)

"Dynamic and flexible clusters as determinants for localization: The relationship between ocean-related industries on the west coast of Norway in the 19th and 20th century"

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Pettersen, Inger Beate; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Tobiassen, Anita Ellen (2016)

Perception gaps in headquarter-subsidiary relationships: Comparing the role of subsidiary managers in China, Brazil and USA

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2016)

Perspektiver på Kinas utvikling

[Lecture]. Event

Pettersen, Inger Beate; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Tobiassen, Anita Ellen (2015)

Coping With perception gaps in headquarter-subsidiary relations: the role of subsidary managers in China, Brazil and USA

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Executive Education and the Transformation of Business Education

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Dynamic and flexible clusters as a determinant for localization in the Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) industry

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Norsk arbeidslivskultur sett utenfra

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lunnan, Randi, Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2015)

The in-between firm specific and country factors : the role of clusters in internationalization decisions

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Holm, Marie; Lemaire, Jean-Paul & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Yara’s International Challenges: From its 2004 inception up to the 2008 financial crisis

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Slik oppfattes norske ledere av utlendinger

[Popular Science Article]. BI Business Review,

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Challenges in the offshore service industry after falling oil prices – A North-European perspective

[Lecture]. Event

Pettersen, Inger Beate; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Tobiassen, Anita Ellen (2015)

Coping With perception gaps in headquarter-subsidiary relations: the role of subsidary managers in China, Brazil and USA

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Executive Education and the Transformation of Business Education

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Dynamic and flexible clusters as a determinant for localization in the Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) industry

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Norsk arbeidslivskultur sett utenfra

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lunnan, Randi, Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld (2015)

The in-between firm specific and country factors : the role of clusters in internationalization decisions

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Holm, Marie; Lemaire, Jean-Paul & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Yara’s International Challenges: From its 2004 inception up to the 2008 financial crisis

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Slik oppfattes norske ledere av utlendinger

[Popular Science Article]. BI Business Review,

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2015)

Challenges in the offshore service industry after falling oil prices – A North-European perspective

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Sharing knowledge in network organization

[Popular Science Article]. Wilhelmsen HELM magazine, (1)

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

The Maritime Silk Road for Knowledge Transfer

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

How to succeed internationally

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Fra brev og penn til hva? Jakten på Kristiania Campus identitet

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Kapitalens gravitasjonskraft

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

"The maritime cluster and the Norwegian economy"

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

"Verden på Vigra" - Globalisering av den maritime klyngen

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Internasjonalisering av maritim klynge

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

The Internationalization of the Norwegian Maritime Industry

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Sharing knowledge in network organization

[Popular Science Article]. Wilhelmsen HELM magazine, (1)

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

The Maritime Silk Road for Knowledge Transfer

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

How to succeed internationally

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Fra brev og penn til hva? Jakten på Kristiania Campus identitet

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Kapitalens gravitasjonskraft

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

"The maritime cluster and the Norwegian economy"

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

"Verden på Vigra" - Globalisering av den maritime klyngen

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

Internasjonalisering av maritim klynge

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2014)

The Internationalization of the Norwegian Maritime Industry

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

What happened in China? Facts, storries and interpretations

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Wang, Jinmin (2013)

Connecting clusters across the globe through global production networks: Norwegian maritime multinationals in the Yangtze River Delta

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

Norsk arbeidskultur som konkurransefortrinn

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

Hvilke utfordringer representerer Kina for norsk utdanning

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

What happened in China? Facts, storries and interpretations

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Wang, Jinmin (2013)

Connecting clusters across the globe through global production networks: Norwegian maritime multinationals in the Yangtze River Delta

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

Norsk arbeidskultur som konkurransefortrinn

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2013)

Hvilke utfordringer representerer Kina for norsk utdanning

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2012)

Internationalization and the life cycles of regional clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2012)

Internationalization and the life cycles of regional clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2011)

Small MNEs and the development of global production networks

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2011)

Investing in China: reflections on the role of subsidiaries

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2011)

The embeddeness of subsidiaries in local clusters: Norwegian maritime subsidiaries in Singapore

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2011)

Small MNEs and the development of global production networks

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2011)

Investing in China: reflections on the role of subsidiaries

[Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2011)

The embeddeness of subsidiaries in local clusters: Norwegian maritime subsidiaries in Singapore

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2010)

Globalization and the dynamic development of clusters: A comparative study of two clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2010)

Globalization and the transformation of clusters: A comparative study of two clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lervik, Jon Erland Bonde & Ove, Bjarnar (2010)

Regional innovasjonspolitikk i et internasjonalt vakuum?

[Report Research]. Høgskolen i Molde

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Brekke, R & Wahl, Ove (2010)

The integration of Norwegian firms in the maritime cluster in Singapore

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2010)

Globalization and the dynamic development of clusters: A comparative study of two clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2010)

Globalization and the transformation of clusters: A comparative study of two clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lervik, Jon Erland Bonde & Ove, Bjarnar (2010)

Regional innovasjonspolitikk i et internasjonalt vakuum?

[Report Research]. Høgskolen i Molde

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Brekke, R & Wahl, Ove (2010)

The integration of Norwegian firms in the maritime cluster in Singapore

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2009)

Strategy, knowledge transfer in clusters, and external pressure

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2009)

Strategy, knowledge transfer in clusters, and external pressure

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter (2008)

Global pipelines And diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters

Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter (red.). Regions : the Dilemmas of Integration and Competition? - Abstract Book

Over the last decades we have seen a major shift in the main sources of wealth in modern capitalism from natural assets, to tangible assets and to intangible resources, notably knowledge and knowledge flow. In light of an allegedly global and free flow of knowledge across any boarders, it seems like a paradox however, that we are witnessing increasing geographical concentrations of economic activity - referred to as the paradox of "sticky places within slippery space". An expanding pattern of alliance capitalism has been observed across national boarders as well as within geographical concentrations of firms. Multinational corporations (MNCs) play a central role in globalisation of knowledge flow as well as in regional clustering of economic activity, even inmicro regions. It seems that the more complex the knowledge firms need to access is, and the more tacit it is, the more likely it is that they will use a variety of organisational routes to tap into clusters knowledge pool. Clustering is, accordingly, likely to be most marked where the critical decision takers in firms need to be in close physical proximity to exchange, or share, tacit knowledge. Porter-inspired cluster studies seem to stress region-converging patterns of knowledge flow in clusters as an outcome of globalisation processes. Multinational corporations add new knowledge to clusters and include- cluster based firms in new knowledge networks and also strengthens them financially. A growing part of knowledge exchange in clusters flows through global channels and networks. Transformation processes attach economic activity in clusters to more tightly woven and global production networks, market networks and knowledge networks. At the same time, however, we may be witnessing a more penetrating institutionalisation of new forms of collaboration and new managerial solutions and perspectives in clusters than before. Recent studies within a variety of social networks approaches have tried to address this central question. They have focused on a tendency towards diverging local and regional learning processes as firms and organisations are exposed to internationalisation and globalisation, like when incoming MNCs are buying up innovative local firms, or conversely, when local firms become MNCs themselves through foreign direct investments. It is argued that global corporations necessarily establish activity in clusters based on their own corporate managerial and administrative models. Subsequently, these models cannot be disregarded altogether in interaction with cluster based firms. This may create institutional tensions and dualities in regional clusters between the "hierarchy" and its weight on dissemination of formal encoded knowledge, and the cluster "milieu" which is dependent on diffusion of tacit knowledge. Cluster-based firms are from the outset more linked to this diffusion, since clusters accumulate formal and tacit knowledge which no single business can fully contain within its organisation. Accordingly, specialised knowledge is accessed through networking within clusters. This flow of knowledge may increasingly be disturbed and replaced by institutionalisation of new forms of knowledge creation and sharing. The paper will address these partly contrasting views based on empirical evidence from internationalisation and globalisation processes in the maritime cluster in the region of Møre and Romsdal in Mid-West Norway. ... (Forkortet)

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2008)

Global pipelines and diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter (2008)

Global pipelines and diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter (2008)

Global pipelines And diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters

Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter (red.). Regions : the Dilemmas of Integration and Competition? - Abstract Book

Over the last decades we have seen a major shift in the main sources of wealth in modern capitalism from natural assets, to tangible assets and to intangible resources, notably knowledge and knowledge flow. In light of an allegedly global and free flow of knowledge across any boarders, it seems like a paradox however, that we are witnessing increasing geographical concentrations of economic activity - referred to as the paradox of "sticky places within slippery space". An expanding pattern of alliance capitalism has been observed across national boarders as well as within geographical concentrations of firms. Multinational corporations (MNCs) play a central role in globalisation of knowledge flow as well as in regional clustering of economic activity, even inmicro regions. It seems that the more complex the knowledge firms need to access is, and the more tacit it is, the more likely it is that they will use a variety of organisational routes to tap into clusters knowledge pool. Clustering is, accordingly, likely to be most marked where the critical decision takers in firms need to be in close physical proximity to exchange, or share, tacit knowledge. Porter-inspired cluster studies seem to stress region-converging patterns of knowledge flow in clusters as an outcome of globalisation processes. Multinational corporations add new knowledge to clusters and include- cluster based firms in new knowledge networks and also strengthens them financially. A growing part of knowledge exchange in clusters flows through global channels and networks. Transformation processes attach economic activity in clusters to more tightly woven and global production networks, market networks and knowledge networks. At the same time, however, we may be witnessing a more penetrating institutionalisation of new forms of collaboration and new managerial solutions and perspectives in clusters than before. Recent studies within a variety of social networks approaches have tried to address this central question. They have focused on a tendency towards diverging local and regional learning processes as firms and organisations are exposed to internationalisation and globalisation, like when incoming MNCs are buying up innovative local firms, or conversely, when local firms become MNCs themselves through foreign direct investments. It is argued that global corporations necessarily establish activity in clusters based on their own corporate managerial and administrative models. Subsequently, these models cannot be disregarded altogether in interaction with cluster based firms. This may create institutional tensions and dualities in regional clusters between the "hierarchy" and its weight on dissemination of formal encoded knowledge, and the cluster "milieu" which is dependent on diffusion of tacit knowledge. Cluster-based firms are from the outset more linked to this diffusion, since clusters accumulate formal and tacit knowledge which no single business can fully contain within its organisation. Accordingly, specialised knowledge is accessed through networking within clusters. This flow of knowledge may increasingly be disturbed and replaced by institutionalisation of new forms of knowledge creation and sharing. The paper will address these partly contrasting views based on empirical evidence from internationalisation and globalisation processes in the maritime cluster in the region of Møre and Romsdal in Mid-West Norway. ... (Forkortet)

Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove (2008)

Global pipelines and diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Bjarnar, Ove & Amdam, Rolv Petter (2008)

Global pipelines and diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Lunnan, Randi & Ramanauskas, Gediminas (2007)

FDI and the Transformation from Industry to Service Society in Emerging Economies: A Lithuanian - Nordic Perspective

[Professional Article]. Engineering Economics, 51(1) , s. 22-28.

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Lunnan, Randi & Ramanauskas, Gediminas (2007)

FDI and the Transformation from Industry to Service Society in Emerging Economies: A Lithuanian - Nordic Perspective

[Professional Article]. Engineering Economics, 51(1) , s. 22-28.

Hansen, Svein Olav; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Sogner, Knut & Gran, Haakon Herman (2005)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling

[Textbook]. Fagbokforlaget

Hansen, Svein Olav; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik, Sogner, Knut & Gran, Haakon Herman (2005)

Markedsøkonomiens utvikling

[Textbook]. Fagbokforlaget

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2004)

Europeanization or Americanization of Business Education in Europe

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Lunnan, Randi (2004)

FDI and the transformation from industry to service society in emerging economies: A Lithuanian - Nordic perspective

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hagberg, Anne & Sissener, Elin Helene (2004)

A.L. 1903-2003: Internasjonalisering med lånte penger

[Report Research]. A.L Industrier

Amdam, Rolv Petter (2004)

Europeanization or Americanization of Business Education in Europe

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter & Lunnan, Randi (2004)

FDI and the transformation from industry to service society in emerging economies: A Lithuanian - Nordic perspective

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter; Hagberg, Anne & Sissener, Elin Helene (2004)

A.L. 1903-2003: Internasjonalisering med lånte penger

[Report Research]. A.L Industrier

Traavik, Laura E. Mercer; Lervik, Jon Erland Bonde, Lunnan, Randi & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2001)

What is repatriate competence?

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Traavik, Laura E. Mercer; Lervik, Jon Erland Bonde, Lunnan, Randi & Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik (2001)

What is repatriate competence?

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Lervik, Jon Erland; Amdam, Rolv Petter, Lunnan, Randi & Traavik, Laura Mercer (2000)

Organizational recipes and Management Practice in Multinational Corporations

[Report Research]. Handelshøyskolen BI

In this paper we explore potential factors explaining how organizational recipes are spread within Multinational Companies. Implementation of organizational recipes has become a widespread phenomenon, but most current research have focused on diffusion between companies and not within companies. We distinguish between formal adoption and putting a recipe to use, i.e. whether the concept leads to changes in work processes and management practice. We develop a number of propositions, where we aim to explain spreading by the following factors: i) Role of the corporate center as a change agent, ii) Recipient units’ previous experience with organizational concepts, and iii) National culture of recipient units.

Lervik, Jon Erland; Amdam, Rolv Petter, Lunnan, Randi & Traavik, Laura Mercer (2000)

Organizational recipes and Management Practice in Multinational Corporations

[Report Research]. Handelshøyskolen BI

In this paper we explore potential factors explaining how organizational recipes are spread within Multinational Companies. Implementation of organizational recipes has become a widespread phenomenon, but most current research have focused on diffusion between companies and not within companies. We distinguish between formal adoption and putting a recipe to use, i.e. whether the concept leads to changes in work processes and management practice. We develop a number of propositions, where we aim to explain spreading by the following factors: i) Role of the corporate center as a change agent, ii) Recipient units’ previous experience with organizational concepts, and iii) National culture of recipient units.

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Hans Berg

Amdam, Rolv Petter (red.). Norsk Biografisk Leksikon bind I

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Towards Homogenisation of European Management Education?

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Hans Berg

Amdam, Rolv Petter (red.). Norsk Biografisk Leksikon bind I

Amdam, Rolv Petter (1999)

Towards Homogenisation of European Management Education?

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Yttri, Gunnar; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Amdam, Rolv Petter (1996)

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education

[Report Research]. Universitetet i Oslo

Yttri, Gunnar; Amdam, Rolv Petter & Amdam, Rolv Petter (1996)

The European Productivity Agency, the Norwegian Productivity Institute and management education

[Report Research]. Universitetet i Oslo