This study investigates how and why companies engage in private governance in varied ways and the implications thereof. It compares how companies - as 'political actors' - engage in private governance differently, even if in response to the same institutional pressures. In doing so, it examines...

The fundamental research question posed in this thesis is: Can commercialization explain entrepreneurial choices in firm strategy, including beliefs and actions, in relation to increasing the likelihood of the entrepreneurdesired results? The thesis considers entrepreneurship as the exercise of...

This study investigates an under-researched complex communicative act called “cancellation of an obligation”, produced by Chinese, Danish and British business professionals in both L1 and ELF contexts. It is embedded in an implicitly meta-interactional context consisting of a speaker’s...

What a ects the economic and cultural development tracks of societies? We know that large events such as political changes, natural disasters and migration can change a society dramatically at the macro level, but what exactly happens at the individual level? When conditions change, people are...

The increasing digitalization in the process and the end-result of public service, a phenomenon widely known as e-government, is changing the range and ways of collaboration among governments and their stakeholders. Especially with the pervasive use of social media for knowledge sharing,...

This PhD thesis, entitled "Essays in Empirical Studies Based on Administrative Labour Market Data", is composed of three independent chapters, a general introduction for all three chapters at the beginning, and a brief conclusion in the end. While all three chapters are independent research...

As a function of the digitized world that we live in and the idea about a cashless society, we have experienced how the phenomenon mobile payments has grown in recent years. The work carried out in order to create electronic payment systems for implementation in situations where cash typically...

This thesis is submitted in partial ful lment of the requirements for a PhD degree in Finance. Admittedly, the thesis is more closely related to the eld of maritime economics and focuses on crude oil tanker markets. This thesis studies freight rates, which have sparked the interest of maritime...