Browsing HVL Open by Author "Aarstad, Jarle"
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Assessing drivers of export orientation in the subsea oil and gas industry
Aarstad, Jarle; Pettersen, Inger Beate; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015) -
Business incubation and the network resources of start-ups
Pettersen, Inger Beate; Aarstad, Jarle; Høvig, Øystein Stavø; Tobiassen, Anita Ellen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016) -
Business incubator management and entrepreneur collaboration with R&D milieus: Does the regional context matter?
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Foss, Lene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We study whether business incubator management collaboration with R&D milieus affects incubated entrepreneurs to also collaborate with R&D milieus in different regional contexts. Empirically, we analyse 281 Norwegian ... -
Deaths among young people in England increased significantly in 10 of 11 weeks after COVID-19 vaccination and doubled in three
Aarstad, Jarle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024) -
Destination cobranding in interorganizational networks: Assessing the role of central tourism organizations
Aarstad, Jarle; Ness, Håvard; Haugland, Sven Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study examines whether tourism organizations influence each other to cobrand with the destination brand as a function of the interorganizational network structure. Empirically, it combines questionnaire and ... -
Do New Firms Recruit Employees From Small or Large Firms, and Do Small or Large Firms Recruit Employees From Firms That Cease to Operate?
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Panel data of Norwegian industries show that when they increase in the number of firms, firm size inequality in employees decreases. Decreasing firm size inequality implies that large firms become smaller in employees, and ... -
Effect of Long-Term Absenteeism on the Operating Revenues, Productivity, and Employment of Enterprises
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: Previous studies have shown that absenteeism is negatively associated with employee-level performance, but we do not know how exactly absenteeism affects enterprise-level performance. To bridge this knowledge ... -
External shocks and enterprises' dynamic capabilities in a time of regional distress
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas; Solheim, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We study if dynamic capabilities alleviate enterprises' revenue losses after an external shock. Contextually, we study Norwegian enterprises before and after the price decline of crude oil in 2014, which strongly affected ... -
Governmental Revenue Compensation during COVID-19: Did Firm Resources and Institutional Factors Explain Who Received It?
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)During COVID-19, the Norwegian Government provided compensation to amend firms’ decreased revenues, yet it should be neutral and tailored to losses only. However, firm resources or institutional factors may have influenced ... -
Has Firms' Emphasis on Environmental and Social Sustainability Impacted How They Have Been Affected by and Responded to COVID-19?
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper's major focus is to study if firms' emphasis on environmental and social sustainability has impacted how they have been affected by and responded to COVID-19. A survey of Norwegian firms across industries shows ... -
Has the popularity of battery electric vehicles in Norway affected total new car sales? A synthetic control method study
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have gained popularity in Norway, chiefly due to generous tax incentives. Using the synthetic control method, we study if BEVs’ popularity has complemented or substituted for conventional ... -
How eco-innovative firms were affected by and responded to the unexpected external shock of the COVID-19 pandemic
Vai, Faraimo Jay; Aarstad, Jarle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The impact of COVID-19 on different types of firm strategies, and how those firms responded to the effects of the pandemic is a subject of great interest for researchers, policymakers and firm managers. This paper studied ... -
How Norwegian aquaculture firms across the value chain were affected by and responded to COVID-19
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Previous research has shown that Norwegian aquaculture did not report being much affected by COVID-19 but had a strong response to the pandemic regarding cost reductions, market development, and business network development. ... -
Imitation strategies and interfirm networks in the tourism industry: A structure–agency approach
Aarstad, Jarle; Ness, Håvard; Haugland, Sven Arne; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)The paper investigates the association between tourism firms’ imitation strategies and the interfirm network structure in which they are embedded. In particular, it analyzes how imitation contributes to (1) tie formation ... -
Institutional work, regional key actors, and green industrial restructuring
Fløysand, Arnt; Sjøtun, Svein Gunnar; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Njøs, Rune; Tvedt, Helge Lea; Gjelsvik, Martin; Aarstad, Jarle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Departing from evolutionary economic geography, the objective of the article is to reveal the dynamics of institutional work by regional key actors with a need to achieve green restructuring in regions dependent on the oil ... -
Interfirm resource integration in destination contexts
Ness, Håvard; Haugland, Sven Arne; Aarstad, Jarle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In a co-producing tourism destination context, interdependent firms providing the destination product need to coordinate their relationships to achieve resource integration. We focus on two key dimensions of resource ... -
Is Industry Size a Carrier for Wage Inequality? A Panel Study Addressing Independent Variables of Inherently Different Sizes across Units
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We address how independent variables of inherently different sizes across units, e.g., small vs. large industries, in panel regression is an advantage interpretively. Analyzing a Norwegian industry panel, we find that wage ... -
Is There a Link between the 2021 COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in Europe and 2022 Excess All-Cause Mortality?
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose: We primarily study a possible link between 2021 COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Europe and monthly 2022 excess all-cause mortality, that is, mortality higher than before the pandemic. Methods and Results: Analyses ... -
Local buzz, global pipelines, or simply too much buzz? A critical study
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)he conceptual framework of local buzz and global pipelines has received much attention. It suggests that regional collaboration (local buzz) in particular will induce value creation if combined with international collaboration ... -
Location decisions of enterprise R&D investments as a function of related and unrelated regional industry structures: A multilevel study
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)