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Medarbeiderdrevet innovasjon : en analyse av to hoteller på Sørlandet

2014

Masteroppgave Innovasjon og kunnskapsutvikling ME513 - Universitetet i Agder 2014 Medarbeiderne er den viktigste ressursen i en virksomhet. Det er de som kan tenke, værekreative og bidra til utvikling av organisasjonen. Innovasjon er en viktig vekstfaktor forvirksomheter, men i følge Sjøberg (2013) er det få som legger til rette for dette. Det erenda færre som legger til rette for å inkludere medarbeiderne i innovasjonsarbeidet.Dermed har vi et uutnyttet potensiale når det kommer til å benytte seg av medarbeiderne iutvikling av virksomheten. Temaet for denne masteroppgaven er medarbeiderdrevetinnovasjon.Siden 1930 har det i følge Hansen & Skoglund (2008) vært en enorm sysselsettingsvekst.I …

International Franchising Governance Modes : An Emerging Market Perspective

2021

Paper I, Paper III, og Paper IV are not published yet. Paper IV was excluded from the dissertation with respect to copyright. This dissertation analyzes the governance mode choice of Brazilian franchisors expanding their operations abroad. The purpose is to understand which aspects influence the international governance mode choice from an emerging market franchisor standpoint. Four papers were developed. The first article offers an in-depth analysis of franchising literature in emerging and developing markets using bibliometric techniques. The following three articles address different theoretical lenses to provide a comprehensive understanding of a multidimensional decision-making process…

Essays on Auditors’ Judgments and Decisions in Negotiation and Communication

2022

Paper III is excluded from the dissertation until it will be published. Auditors conduct various audit tasks during an audit in order to arrive at an audit opinion regarding whether the financial statements are fairly presented in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework. To perform these audit tasks and arrive at a decision about the audit opinion, auditing standards require auditors to exercise their professional judgment. From this requirement, two important terms emerge, judgment and decision. Bonner (1999, p. 385) defines judgment as “forming an idea, opinion, or estimate about an object, an event, a state, or another type of phenomenon,” and a decision as “making u…

Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility in Franchising

2021

Paper III and Paper IV is not published yet. Paper IV was excluded from the dissertation with respect to copyright.

Institutions and Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurship in Indonesia

2020

Franchising, Knowledge Transfer Practices, and Institutions : Perspectives from Emerging Markets

2021

Paper III is not published yet. The popularity of franchising as a method for businesses expansion is increasing, from small, medium-sized, and large firms to social enterprises. To enjoy the benefits of franchising experienced by Western countries, Africa, through the African Development Bank, has put more effort in using the franchising model to promote SME development and the private sector with the goal of creating wealth and reducing poverty. Identifying the core practices of franchising is therefore essential in order to promote the general understanding of franchising among entrepreneurs, bankers, lawyers, management consultants, investors, donors, governments, and policymakers. By c…

Fostering Productive Entrepreneurship : An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective

2022

Entrepreneurial activities and entrepreneurs do not emerge in isolation rather in a very integrated and complex system (ecosystem) with multiple actors (Cowell et al., 2018). The magnitude of entrepreneurship’s contribution to socio-economic development is contingent upon the respective country’s entrepreneurial enabling environments (ecosystems)-EEs (Colombo & Dagnino, 2017). As the newly emerged research stream, entrepreneurial ecosystem has increasingly captured the attention of scholars, policy makers and practitioners (Malecki, 2018). Moreover, the term entrepreneurial ecosystem has been used to express and explicate the frameworks on how entrepreneurs and start-ups interact with other…

Essays on Crowdfunding Adoption and Behavior

2023

The aim of this dissertation is to examine aspects of crowdfunding adoption and behavior. Accordingly, the overarching research question answered by this dissertation is: what influences crowdfunding backers’ contribution intentions and behaviors? The dissertation answers this question while focusing on dimensions of trust, community, and technological acceptance. The dissertation is made up of three studies with one conceptual article (study 1), and two empirical studies (study 2 and 3). The conceptual study marries marketing and trust literatures and contextualizes their implications for the crowdfunding context. The result is the development of a framework of trust-based marketing strate…

Implications to the Audit Process of Auditing that uses Data Analytics Tools and New Business Models

2023

Paper II is excluded from the dissertation until it is published. New advances in information technology have created a wave of technological innovations which affect the audit firms. Audit firms are now investing large sums of money to acquire and adopt data analytics tools. Using three studies in this dissertation, I investigated questions relating to the impact of digital tools in the audit process. These studies are briefly summarized below. The first study investigates whether the audit evidence from a process mining tool provides information that adds to the appropriateness (relevance) of the audit evidence collected by traditional analytical procedures. The results shows that auditor…

The Impact of Internationalization on Performance in Hybrid Organizations

2021

Papers I - III are excluded from the dissertation until they will be published. With the growing demand for socially and environmentally conscious products and services, hybrid organizations that address social and environmental issues with a market-based solution are gaining widespread significance (Haigh et al., 2015; Miller et al., 2012; Hockerts, 2015). Hybrid organizations, or “social enterprises” or “the fourth sector” as they are sometimes called, appear to present a sustainable solution to a myriad of social causes such as unemployment, poor health, illiteracy, etc. (Haigh and Hoffman, 2011; Battilana and Lee, 2014). Hybrid organizations are an innovative solution to the institution…