Browsing Mohnsenteret for innovasjon og regional utvikling by Author "Aarstad, Jarle"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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. ... -
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 ... -
Norwegian Aquaculture Firms’ Emphasis on Environmental and Social Sustainability Compared to Firms in Other Industries
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Fløysand, Arnt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: There has been a strong focus on environmental sustainability in the aquaculture industry, but we do not know how firms in this industry emphasize the issue compared to firms in other industries. Methods: ... -
Norwegian Firms’ Green and New Industry Strategies: A Dual Challenge
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Today, there is strong pressure for firms, in Norway and abroad, to adopt green or sustainable strategies. Furthermore, many Norwegian firms, directly or indirectly dependent on the dominating but declining petroleum sector, ... -
R&D investments and employment decisions as a function of enterprise size and regional population density before and during COVID-19
Aarstad, Jarle; Jakobsen, Stig Erik; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Norwegian data show that from 2018 to 2020, enterprises in densely populated regions increased R&D investments relative to those in sparsely populated regions, but not from 2016 to 2018. Therefore, COVID-19 likely induced ... -
Structural networks and dyadic negotiations in tourism destination ecosystems
Ness, Håvard; Aarstad, Jarle; Haugland, Sven Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose: This study investigates how and to what extent structural network properties affect dyadic negotiation behavior in tourism destination ecosystems. Specifically, we address negotiation behavior in terms of ... -
Triadic embeddedness, sources of relational rents, and interfirm performance
Haugland, Sven Arne; Ness, Håvard; Aarstad, Jarle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Interorganizational research has largely ignored how dyadic relationships are embedded in a wider network context. Responding to this research gap, we study how triadic embeddedness – cooperating firms structurally and ... -
An unexpected external shock and enterprises’ innovation performance
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Previous research has shown that competition can affect innovation, but we do not know if an unexpected external economic shock, as it decreases demand that increases competition, also affects innovation. Responding to ... -
Wage Inequality’s Decreasing Effect on Enterprise Operating Revenues
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study assesses whether wage inequality affects enterprises’ operating revenues and whether operating revenues reversely affect wage inequality. To study our research questions, we analyze panel data from Norway and ... -
What Predicts Long-Term Absenteeism, and Who Disappears from the Workforce When Enterprises Downsize?
Aarstad, Jarle; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This paper primarily studies how wages predict long-term absenteeism in enterprises. In addition, it studies who disappears from the workforce when downsizing. Analyzing Norwegian enterprise data using dynamic unconditional ...