The outset for this thesis is the contemporary risk management concept of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). ERM has for the last 20 years been advocated as a technology of managing with a potential impact for the value creation in corporate life. The idea of managing or controlling risk is...

Through an investigation of individual decision-making behavior and the impact it has on the perceived value of innovation, this thesis offers novel perspectives on key strategic management issues. We demonstrate how the value of innovation, when identified as a subjectively realized value by...

The main aim of this dissertation is to shed light on the contextual aspects that intervene with achieving strategically key behavioral outcomes in decision-making. Each of the chapters constitutes an independent research study exploring one of the following behaviors which are of wide interest...

Can employees' planned future actions and company strategy be aligned in a resource-scarce organization, and if so how? So begins this action research Industrial PhD study that zooms in on the time period that preceded the implementation of a deliberate, top-down strategy at a resource-scarce...

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...