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Forbedret prosjektgjennomføring hos Aker MH : med fokus på bemanningsplanlegging og porteføljestyring
2012
Masteroppgave industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse IND590 - Universitetet i Agder, 2012 Konfidensiell til / confidential until 01.07.2017
Data-driven & Theory-driven Science : Artificial Realities and Applications to Savings Groups
2021
Paper I and Paper II is not published yet. They are excluded from the dissertation until they will be published. The scientific process is neither unique nor nomic. Two processes of scientific inquiry are theory-driven and data-driven science. This dissertation analyzes savings groups using theory-driven and data-driven methods. Simulated realities-based on data-driven theory-are used to understand the emerging dynamics of savings groups. Savings groups are grassroots, community-based organizations composed of 15 to 30 members. These organizations-usually supported by international development agencies-have weekly meetings during a cycle of operations that typically lasts a year. In the gro…
Effects of home-based reablement : A micro-econometric approach
2020
The common theme of this thesis is estimating e ects of home-based reablement (HBR) by applying micro-econometrics. Estimating cost related e ects of HBR proved challenging, mainly due to speci cs of the Norwegian public health setting and the individual tailoring of the HBR treatment. However, important results for the Norwegian public sector have been generated through an immense data job and by applying state-of-the-art econometric techniques. This thesis adds to the growing literature assessing empirical e ects of new health interventions.
On the Concept of Exnovation – A Call for a Rebirth of the Concept, and for Exnovation Theory and Practice
2020
Early bird or early worm? First-mover (dis)advantages and the success of web-based social enterprises
2022
Achieving the optimal market entry time is of immense strategic importance for entrepreneurs, especially in online markets, where web-based social entrepreneurial activity continues to grow. This raises the question of whether first-mover market entry actually pays off or if market entry as a (later) follower might be the better option. First-mover research has so far not adequately answered this question. Our work contributes to closing this gap by transferring first-mover theory to web-based social enterprises. We expand upon first-mover theory by reflecting on the winner-take-all hypothesis to better illuminate the mechanisms of market structure development and entry decisions. Our empir…
Responsible I(m)ovation in Asia Pacific regions
2022
AbstractOver the past 20 years, a debate has developed on the differences between innovation and imitation strategies as mechanisms by which businesses operating in the Asia Pacific region may gain a competitive advantage. The current research contributes to this debate from a different perspective by exploring some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the combination of both strategies into what has been defined as imovation. Imovators and imovations do not stand alone in business ecosystems. Rather, they should be embraced in the context of sustainability-related virtues and emerging capabilities, such as ethical behaviour, co-responsibility and positive social impact. Taki…
The language of profit warnings: a case of denial, defiance, desperation and defeat
2021
PurposeTaking a communication perspective, the paper explores management's rhetoric in profit warnings, whose sole purpose is to disclose unexpected bad news.Design/methodology/approachAdopting a close-reading approach to text analysis, the authors analyse three profit warnings of the now-collapsed Carillion, contrasting the rhetoric with contemporaneous investor conference calls to discuss the profit warnings and board minutes recording boardroom discussions of the case company's precarious financial circumstances. The analysis applies an Aristotelian framework, focussing on logos (appealing to logic and reason), ethos (appealing to authority) and pathos (appealing to emotion) to examine h…
Information diffusion model with homogeneous continuous time Markov chain on Indonesian Twitter users
2022
In this paper, a homogeneous continuous time Markov chain (CTMC) is used to model information diffusion or dissemination, also to determine influencers on Twitter dynamically. The tweeting process can be modeled with a homogeneous CTMC since the properties of Markov chains are fulfilled. In this case, the tweets that are received by followers only depend on the tweets from the previous followers. Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) in Data Mining is used to be research methodology including pre-processing, data mining process using homogeneous CTMC, and post-processing to get the influencers using visualization that predicts the number of affected users. We assume the number of affected u…
Samfunnsøkonomisk analyse av AKT Svipp : en kartlegging av gevinster knyttet til pilotprosjektet AKT Svipp
2021
Master's thesis in Business administration (BE501) I denne masteroppgaven er det gjennomført en samfunnsøkonomisk analyse av AKT Svipp, som er en ny samkjøringstjeneste fra Agder kollektivtrafikk (AKT). Vi har vurdert nytten til tiltaket opp mot kostnaden, og sammenlignet det med nullalternativet som representerer situasjonen der tiltaket ikke eksisterer. Innen samfunnsøkonomiske analyser stilles det strenge krav til kvaliteten ved prosessene rundt samfunnsprosjekter, som har gjort at staten har utarbeidet en veileder de krever man skal følge. Oppgaven tar dermed utgangspunkt i veilederen fra direktoratet for økonomistyring. Innledningsvis vil vi introdusere tiltaket i dagens situasjon og p…
Perspectives of Norwegian Crowd Investors
2021
Master's thesis in Business administration (BE501) This thesis studies the reasoning of crowdinvestors when they invest in equity crowdfunding campaigns. The focus is placed on the Norwegian crowd investors who invest through a Norwegian equity crowdfunding platform, FolkeInvest. The research starts by understanding the crowdfunding market, the types of crowd investors, and criteria of investment presented by literature of crowd investors and business angels. The literature presents a lack in crowd investors’ perspective on their investment criteria, which this thesis can reveal.