This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license. This open access book discusses how Norwegian shipping companies played a crucial role in global shipping markets in the 20th century, at times transporting more than ten per cent of world seaborne trade. Chapters explore how Norway...

This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization. The authors analyse political and institutional patterns alongside the various corporate responses to the many...

Since its invention in Italy in the fourteenth century, marine insurance has provided merchants with capital protection in times of crisis, thus oiling the gears of trade and commerce. With a focus on customs, laws, and organisational structures, this book reveals the Italian origins of marine...

This book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth. Rather, it examines the case of Norway to demonstrate that such industries can prove highly innovative and dynamic. Here, the case is compellingly made that a key empirical problem with the popular ‘resource...

This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly...

The book adds to the discussion about strategic approaches towards the translation of personalized medicine into clinical practice. It stresses the importance of non-science related, institutional barriers. A Law and Economics perspective is applied in order to examine the incentives induced by...

Praxisnah gewährt das Buch Einblick in die Mechanismen von Wirtschaftskriminalität und Non-Compliance. Im Fokus der Betrachtung stehen dabei die verschiedenen Ausprägungen menschlicher Risiken. Ziel des Buches ist es, Verantwortliche effektiv dabei zu unterstützen, Risikofaktoren und deren...

Deutschland ist weit entfernt, ein Gründerland zu sein. Umso mehr ist unternehmerischer Geist in deutschen Firmen begehrt. Viele Bemühungen werden angestellt, Führungskräfte zu mehr unternehmerischem Denken und Handeln zu bewegen oder Unternehmertypen zu gewinnen. Solche Bemühungen sind...

Rebekka Sputtek sheds light upon the question of how the personality and emotional traits of executives influence their decision making and leadership behavior. While recent strategic management research has started to recognize the relevance of an executive's personality traits as antecedents...

1 Introduction -- 2 Mobility and Mobile ICT's -- 3 The Historicity of Human Activity and Perception -- 4 The Co-evolution of Organization, Technology and Personality -- 5 Mobile Learning and Computing in the British NHS -- 6 Mobile Foreign Exchange Trading and Computing in a Bahrain Bank -- 7...