Browsing Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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A Framework for Joint Financial and Technical Analysis of Service Platforms
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:2, Doctoral thesis, 2011) -
Accountability in the Value Chain: Product Declarations as a Tool for Measuring, Managing and Communicating CSR Performance
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2013:9, Doctoral thesis, 2013)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept applied to business organisations that choose to behave beyond the legal requirements for their impacts on society and the environment. A central activity of CSR is to ... -
Advancing safety management in construction: Additional inputs through information sharing and an integrated safety approach
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:321, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Summary of the thesis Managing safety is an essential function in construction projects, yet unwanted incidents continue to occur. Though injury and fatality rates in the Norwegian construction industry have decreased ... -
Anatomy of Strategic Legitimation: From Static to Dynamic View
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:83, Doctoral thesis, 2022) -
Are you looking for trouble? How nurses become entrepreneurial and why this matters in healthcare
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:220, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Summary of the thesis Are you looking for trouble? How nurses become entrepreneurial and why this matters in healthcare. This dissertation explores the combination of entrepreneurship and nursing: entrepreneurial ... -
Assessment of Entrepreneurship Education: Design, Learning and Objectives
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:310, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This thesis explores the assessment of entrepreneurship education at the university level. The development of entrepreneurship education has led to the introduction of new and progressive designs in which action-based ... -
At the Frontline: Enabling Teams to Adapt to Uncertainty and Ambiguity
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:25, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Summary of the thesis This thesis investigates various aspects that are important for developing teams that are able to excel through uncertainty. It is possible to read the Part I as a short summary of the whole work. ... -
Board of Directors, Top Management Team and the Developmentof Academic Spin-Off Companies
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2009:144, Doctoral thesis, 2009)This dissertation addresses the under-studied area of the role of the top management team (TMT) and board of directors in the development of academic spin-off companies (ASOs) originating from public research institutes. ... -
Business Control in a Theory-Practice Perspective
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2014:67, Doctoral thesis, 2014)There is a never-ending debate about practice relevance within management accounting and control research. This dissertation contributes to an understanding of the gap claimed between theory and practice. The concepts of ... -
Capital structure topics in European manufacturing– Endogenous, simultaneous and identifiable relations.
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2014:181, Doctoral thesis, 2014)How do firms finance their activities? How large are the piles of cash on average in these firms? Do dividend paying firms have more cash than firms that do not? Is trade credit something firms use actively? Is trade credit ... -
Commercialization of renewable energy in rural India: Entrepreneurial activities for building a profitable venture at the base of the pyramid
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2016:347, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Summary of the thesis This thesis seeks to achieve two objectives. First it aims to understand how entrepreneurs are able to provide products and services to the base of the pyramid (BoP) while simultaneously generate ... -
Company Learning in a Network: A Dual Organization-Development (OD) Process: Bridging the learning processes in a network and the local learning processes in the participating company
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Company-specific production systems: Managing production improvement in global firms
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2013:340, Doctoral thesis, 2013)How can a firm improve the production of all its plants simultaneously? Many multinational firms have suggested they can do so by developing strategic production improvement programmes and implementing them in their dispersed ... -
Constructing Clusters: How Politics Diverts Attention from Innovation
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2014:209, Doctoral thesis, 2014)Klynge- og innovasjonsteorier har i de senere årene fått økt oppmerksomhet, noe som har bidratt til en oppblomstring av offentlig strategier for innovasjon og næringsutvikling. Klyngeinitiativ er blitt promotert som regionale ... -
Constructing Inter-firm Networks: - an experiential learning approach
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2009:220, Doctoral thesis, 2009)This thesis explores the process of constructing an inter-firm network among eight electronics firms. Based on an experiential learning approach, I explore the social dynamics that help construct an inter-firm network with ... -
Corporate social responsibility as a business contribution to sustainable development
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2009:142, Doctoral thesis, 2009)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been framed as a business contribution to sustainable development, but there are diverging views on how this may be. In this thesis, the overall research question is: How does CSR ... -
Corporate Sustainability : Exploring a Case of Creating Value from Waste through a Transdisciplinary Methodology
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:105, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Summary of the thesis This thesis draws from a longitudinal case study focused on the company Plasto’s effort to create value from waste. Taking place from May 2014 to April 2018, the empirical research explores the ... -
Cost-effective development of small discoveries on the Norwegian continental shelf
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:79, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Today, the oil and gas sector remains Norway’s largest measured in terms of value added, government revenues, investments and export value. The Norwegian continental shelf is a maturing production area, which means that ... -
Creating organizational change and innovation: An action research oriented study of participative organizational change and innovation in the Norwegian AEC industry
(Dr.ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2002:93, Doctoral thesis, 2002)This thesis contributes to the understanding of how to create organizational change and innovation in companies of the Norwegian Architects, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. The thesis, then, inquires into the ... -
Cross-boundary relationships: The object, the social, and the health professional
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:268, Doctoral thesis, 2008)This thesis is about how health professionals at hospitals collaborate across professional boundaries. Societal and political reforms demand for more transparency and efficiency in health care work, yet history tells us ...