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A Taxonomy of Project Management Offices and Their Organizational Project Management Landscapes
Get PDFOrganizational project management (OPM) integrates project-related activities in organizations, including project management offices (PMOs) and their services. Using an organizational design perspective, this study models nine different PMO service delivery categories along scope, frequency, and delivery entity and identifies their particular OPM contexts (i.e., landscapes). Two hundred and sixty-five responses to a global survey identified nine types of OPM landscapes, grouped into three regions, with their particular logic of investment in OPM and their particular PMO service mix. The framework helps practitioners set up their PMOs in line with established practices. Academics benefit from a base for theorizing organizational designs using OPM.acceptedVersio
US Sustainable Mutual Funds: A COVID-19 Perspective
Get PDFMasteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Sustainable Finance, Handelshøyskolen BI, 2024We analyze the performance and flows of sustainable US active equity mutual funds from September 2018 to December 2023, focusing on the COVID-19 market crash. Utilizing panel data, we find that 5-globe funds outperform 1-globe funds during good economic times and underperform in bad times. Additionally, 5-globe funds performance is less resilient during the COVID-19 market crash than 1-globe funds. Analyzing fund flows, our research supports a ’flight to quality’ effect, where investors shift their funds away from 1-globe funds during times of crisis. Furthermore, we identify that 1-globe funds significantly accelerate their flows compared to 5-globe funds post-crash relative to pre-crash. This suggests that investors treat sustainability as a luxury, investing in it primarily
during good economic times
Correlates of money attitudes among Portuguese people
Get PDFThis study examined the psychometric features of the New Money Attitudes Questionnaire (NMAQ) in a Portuguese population and the relations between money attitudes, participant demographics, well-being, and personality factors. The sample comprised 241 participants aged between 18 and 66 years. They completed the NMAQ and measures of financial well-being, loneliness, and personality. The results of a CFA displayed a good fit for the five-factor model of the NMAQ, and adequate reliability. Men scored significantly higher than women in Power and Status, and women scored significantly higher than men in Mindful and Responsible. The effect of age on money attitudes was not significant. Participants with lower educational levels scored significantly greater than those with higher educational level in Power and Status and Financial Literacy Worries. Well-being and personality factors explained a significant amount of variance regarding money attitudes.acceptedVersio
A Comparative Study of ECKM Academic Papers 2017-23
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of ECKM in 2017 (Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conferences in Coventry 2020 and 2021. In 2022, the conference was arranged in Naples, and 2023, in Lisbon, both as hybrid conferences. The study classifies the papers according to methodology, analysis, discussion, and conclusion regarding their contribution to the four paradigmatic boxes. The approach uses the five philosophy of science framework and compares this to the content of the research papers. We will use the findings in four representations of knowledge, two typologies of concepts, four paradigmatic classifications, and the concluding framework for knowledge management research. The seven conferences heavily emphasize knowledge-itis and instrumental itis and much less on problem-itis. The papers are mostly centered around existing knowledge and accepted methodology and are less related to new problems. The results indicate a conference based upon as-is knowledge and less upon new and often unsolvable issues. The ECKM academic papers in 2017, 2018, and 2019 have relatively low complexity and are presented in an empirical and materialistic paradigmatic framework through definitive concepts representing a form of atomistic research. The papers in 2020, 2021, and especially 2022 and 2023 are delivered within a more robust, clarified subjectivity and action research-based framework through definitive and sensitizing concepts. What would ECKM have been with more complexity in action and subjective paradigmatic framework through sensitizing concepts representing holistic research? A more creative, engaged, and relevant conference. It will also be a more scientific conference discussing what is acceptable or not acceptable and what is adequate. Studies concerning sustainability, digitalization, and globalization might require another research approach. The more critical and green papers in the 2020 and 2021 conferences are open to new perspectives on methodology, problems, and knowledge. The 2022 and 2023 conferences represent a turning point for critical sustainability and digitalization papers that clarify subjectivity through action-based research. The 2022 and 2023 papers represent the turning point of ECKM into improved relevance through more critical and constructed studies based on the societal climate crisis and sustainable strategies and business modelsA Comparative Study of ECKM Academic Papers 2017-23acceptedVersio
The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research
Get PDFOnline crowdsourcing platforms have rapidly become a popular source of data collection. Despite the various advantages these platforms offer, there are substantial concerns regarding not only data validity issues, but also the ethical, societal, and global ramifications arising from the prevalent use of online crowdsourcing platforms. This paper seeks to expand the dialogue by examining both the “internal” aspects of crowdsourcing research practices, such as data quality issues, reporting transparency, and fair compensation, and the “external” aspects, in terms of how the widespread use of crowdsourcing data collection shapes the nature of scientific communities and our society in general. Online participants in research studies are informal workers who provide labor in exchange for remuneration. The paper thus highlights the need for researchers to consider the markedly different political, economic, and socio-cultural characteristics of the Global North and the Global South when undertaking crowdsourcing research involving an international sample; such consideration is crucial for both increasing research validity and mitigating societal inequities. We encourage researchers to scrutinize the value systems underlying this popular data collection research method and its associated ethical, societal, and global ramifications, as well as provide a set of recommendations regarding the use of crowdsourcing platforms.acceptedVersio
The housing channel of intergenerational wealth persistence
Get PDFWe use Norwegian micro data and a life-cycle model with housing to study how wealth transmits across generations through the housing market. A mediation analysis reveals large housing gaps based on parental wealth. A shift-share IV-analysis using stock mar ket returns supports a causal interpretation. Using the timing of intra-family deaths, we further show that housing outcomes when young are important determinants of later-in-life wealth. Nearly 15% of intergenerational wealth persistence occurs through the housing market, making housing equally important as the combined impact of parental wealth via a broad range of offspring characteristics, including income and education
Verdsettelse av Mowi
Get PDFBacheloroppgave i Økonomi og administrasjon fra Handelshøyskolen BI, 2024I denne oppgaven analyserer vi Mowi for å verdsette selskapet per 31.12.2023. Målet er å avgjøre om Mowi er underpriset, overpriset eller riktig priset på børs. Vi har steg for steg bygget opp analysen, som til slutt leder til vår konklusjon
Den første delen starter med å introdusere oppdretsbransjen og hvor viktig denne bransjen er for Norge. Norge har utviklet seg til en ledende nasjon innen havbruk takket være sin geografiske beliggenhet, og strenge miljøreguleringer siden 60-tallet. Næringen har sett betydelig vekst, med mange konsolideringer. Stort fokus på teknologi har ført til kostnadseffektiv drift og høy fiskevelferd. Samtidig som næringen står ovenfor miljøutfordringer og økt etterspørsel drevet av verdensbefolkningens vekst og helse bevissthet.
I den andre delen benyttes VRIO-analyse, for å vurdere selskapets nøkkelressurser og bestemme deres konkurransefortrinn. Gjennom betydelig investeringer i forskning og utvikling har Mowi utviklet teknologiske løsninger som øker kostnadseffektiviteten og konkurranseevnen. Videre har Mowi en sterk verdikjede som sikrer høy kvalitet og lave kostnader, samt en internasjonalt anerkjent merkevare som øker kundelojaliteten. PESTEL-analysen vurderer ulike faktorer som påvirker Mowi og bransjen. Porter-analysen vurderer konkurranseforholdene mellom Mowi og andre store aktører. SWOT-analysen oppsummerer styrker, svakheter, muligheter og trusler til Mowi.
Våre analyserer førte til en vektet kapitalkostnad på 8,21%, vi benyttet en DCF-modell til å diskontere de fremtidige kontantstrømmene. De fremtidige kontantstrømmene var basert på vårer estimater for salgsinntekter, kostnader og eiendeler. De fremtidige salgsinntektene var hoved driveren til disse kontantstrømmene. Vi beregnet disse ut ifra en regresjonsmodell vi bygget basert på historisk slaktevolum og laksepris. Denne beregningen ga en fundamental verdi på 199 kr per aksje. Vi gjennomførte en Monte Carlo simulering for å se på usikkerheten tilknyttet våre analyser.
Ved å sette sammen vår fundamentale verdsettelse med en relativ verdsettelse, endte vi opp med en vektet verdsettelse. Vi valgte en 80% vekting av den fundamentale verdsettelsen, og kom frem til en aksjeverdi på 200 kr per aksje. Vi konkluderer dermed med en potensiell oppside på 9,89%, og gir en kjøpsanbefaling på aksjen
The Illusion of Meritocracy
Get PDFMeritocracy claims to reward the meritorious with more resources, thereby achieving social efficiency and justice in a level playground. This article argues that the rise of meritocracy in a society is the institutional consequence of adopting progressive humanism, an ideal-type worldview that advocates the harmonious co-realization of individual achievement and social contribution. However, meritocracy is a self-defeating illusion because, even in a level playground, it only rewards conspicuous and wasteful display of ‘merit’ rather than genuine contributions to society. Similar to the promise of an afterlife to Catholicism, the illusion of meritocracy constitutes an indispensable theodicy to progressive humanism. For societies holding such worldviews, meritocracy is a necessary illusion that cannot be dispelled by institutional reforms or political movements.The Illusion of MeritocracypublishedVersionpublishedVersio
Evaluering av læringsutbyttet
Get PDFBacheloroppgave i Økonomi og administrasjon fra Handelshøyskolen BI, 2024Denne bacheloroppgaven utforsker hvordan læringsutbytte i utdanningssektoren
kan evalueres, særlig med hensyn til utfordringer introdusert av kunstig
intelligens. Oppgaven forsøker å besvare problemstillingen:
Hvordan evaluere læringsutbyttet i utdanningssektoren, i møte med utfordringer
introdusert av kunstig intelligens?
Den teoretiske forankringen definerer relevante begreper og sammenhenger som
er nødvendige for å få en fullstendig forståelse av oppgaven. I tillegg til dette
presenteres tidligere forskning som danner grunnlaget for analysene og
hypotesene i oppgaven. Hypotesene undersøker ulike aspekter knyttet til
evaluering og studenters holdning til kunstig intelligens i utdanningssektoren.
Undersøkelsen av evaluering innebærer i oppgavens sammenheng en analyse som
prøver å definere hvilke eksamensformer som sikrer at studenters karakterer
reflekterer det oppnådde læringsutbyttet.
Oppgavens resultat og funn er drøftet ut fra både kvantitative og kvalitative data.
For den kvantitative dataen ble det utført en spørreundersøkelse på 101 studenter i
høyere utdanning. Den kvalitative dataen består derimot av fem dybdeintervjuer
med individuelle studenter. Disse funnene gir et solid grunnlag for å besvare
problemstillingen