Institutt for internasjonal forretningsdrift
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Unlocking Sustainability: Using Emerging Technologies in Global Value Chains
(Master thesis, 2024)Formål – Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke hvordan nye teknologier, som for eksempel Blockchain-teknologi, kan hjelpe selskaper med å tilpasse bærekraftig praksis i globale verdikjeder. Ved å undersøke bærekraftig ... -
SME Internationalization: The Influence of Development Agency Support
(Master thesis, 2024)SMBer representerer en betydelig del av den globale økonomien, både som drivere av innovasjon, sysselsetting og økonomisk vekst – dette til tross for at de står ovenfor flere ressursbegrensninger i forhold til større ... -
Sustainable Horizons: Exploring the Impact of Internationalization on Corporate Sustainability Practices – A Dual Case Study
(Master thesis, 2024)Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ studie om undersøker forholdet mellom internasjonalisering og adopsjon av bærekraftige forretningspraksiser innen verftsindustrien. Ved å undersøke to bedrifter fra et kvalitativt ... -
Research Challenges for Eco-Efficient and Circular Industrial Systems
(Chapter, 2024)The field of industrial sustainability is rapidly expanding with new concepts and frameworks emerging almost daily. At the same time, mature ones are being used in new applications and combined with new technologies and ... -
Standardization cycles in sustainability reporting within the Global Reporting Initiative
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)To analyze whether Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards could reduce transparency in sustainability reporting, we performed a longitudinal content analysis of sustainability reports for 15 large Norwegian organizations ... -
An Urban Digital Twin Framework for Reference and Planning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Urban management systems evolve from merely overseeing urban growth to comprehending interactions among cities’ natural, physical, cyber, and social systems. Urban digital twins leverage emerging technologies and serve as ... -
Financial Distress Prediction in the Nordics: Early Warnings from Machine Learning Models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper proposes an explicable early warning machine learning model for predicting financial distress, which generalizes across listed Nordic corporations. We develop a novel dataset, covering the period from Q1 2001 ... -
Trading off autonomy for convenience: Four essays in the impact of algorithmic marketing on consumer autonomy
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:292, Doctoral thesis, 2024)English summary The dissertation contributes to the debate on consumer–algorithm interactions and the role that algorithms have assumed in consumers’ daily lives and decision-making. In particular, the dissertation addresses ... -
Innovating Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education: Exploring the Impact of a Grassroots Community of Practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Skills in interdisciplinary collaboration are required to address many complex problems facing society. As such, interdisciplinarity is a critical competency for students to develop. However, teachers’ effectiveness in ... -
Freedom from interference: Decisional privacy as a dimension of consumer privacy online
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The introduction of AI-based technologies has dramatically altered the premises for consumer privacy, enabling the unprecedented manipulation of consumers’ decision-making online. Given these recent threats to consumer ... -
Board Gender Diversity and CSR Performance: Do Societal Harmony/Mastery Orientation and Cultural Tightness-Looseness Matter?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to investigate the moderating effect of the cultural value orientation of harmony/mastery on the relationship between board gender diversity (BGD) and corporate social responsibility ... -
Disentangling circular economy practices and firm's sustainability performance: A systematic literature review of past achievements and future promises
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper systematically and critically reviews the literature on the intersection of circular economy practices (CEPs) and sustainability performance (SP). We synthesize and analyze the extant literature to uncover the ... -
A missed opportunity to implement a 3D digital twin in strategic planning in the Ålesund region, Norway: What to blame?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While there have been academic discussions regarding the strategic and relational shift in spatial planning, and the potential of digital geospatial planning support systems (PSS) in this regard, the integration between ... -
Constant relative risk aversion utility and consumption CAPM: discount factors and risk aversions for Norway, Sweden, and the UK
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper applies the newly suggested Markov chained Monte Carlo Surface Sampling Algorithm of Zappa estimating European discount factors and relative risk aversions for the CRRA utility functions based on the consumption ... -
Forecasting implied volatilities of currency options with machine learning techniques and econometrics models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Developing an effective modeling framework to minimize foreign exchange (FX) risk is of vital importance for hedgers and traders in FX markets. In this study, we compare the ability of long short-term memory (LSTM) models ... -
Language Dynamics: Navigating Trust and Innovation in International Team Environments
(Master thesis, 2024)Språk er en avgjørende faktor for å forme oppfatninger om kulturell avstand og fremme tillit innenfor ulike kulturelle kontekster (Henderson, 2005; Saunders, 2010). Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke hvordan språk ... -
Studentrekruttering for IIF
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)I dagens samfunn er det populært å dra til de store byene for å studere, som for eksempel Oslo og Trondheim. Store byer har ofte et konkurransefortrinn siden de er kjente byer blant studenter, og ofte så blir ikke Ålesund ... -
Benytter studenter i Ålesund seg av butikkenes egne merkevarer, og påvirker denne bruken valg av dagligvarebutikk?
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)Denne bacheloroppgaven utforsker bruken av egne merkevarer (EMV) blant studenter i Ålesund og deres valg av dagligvarebutikker. Gjennom en kombinasjon av kvantitative og kvalitative metoder analyseres studentenes handlevaner ... -
Intersecting Knowledge Dynamics and Strategic Partnerships: A Pathway to International Market Expansion
(Master thesis, 2024)Masteroppgaven utforsker hvordan kunnskapsdynamikk i strategiske partnerskap påvirker global ekspansjon for robotikkfirmaer. Gjennom intervjuer med representanter fra både vårt hovedfirma og eksterne selskaper, analyseres ...