BI Norwegian Business School

About: BI Norwegian Business School is a education organization based out in Oslo, Norway. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Computer science. The organization has 525 authors who have published 2766 publications receiving 55406 citations. The organization is also known as: Handelshøyskolen BI.

Does Mandatory Gender Balance Work? Changing Organizational Form to Avoid Board Upheaval

Abstract: Norway is the first, and so far only, country to mandate a minimum fraction of female and male directors on corporate boards. We find that after a new gender balance law surprisingly stipulated that the firm must be liquidated unless at least 40% of its directors are of each gender, half the firms exit to an organizational form not exposed to the law. This response suggests that forced gender balance is costly. These costs are also firm-specific, because exit is more common when the firm is non-listed, successful, small, young, has powerful owners, no dominating family owner, and few female directors. These characteristics reflect high costs of involuntary board restructuring and low costs of abandoning the exposed organizational form. Correspondingly, certain unexposed firms hesitate to become exposed. Overall, we find that mandatory gender balance may produce firms with either inefficient organizational forms or inefficient boards.

Autopoietic organization theory : drawing on Niklas Luhmann's social systems perspective

Abstract: The anthology discusses aspects that are of particular interest to both theoretical and empirical organisation theory, and in doing so it enables students of organisations to acquire better appreciation of Luhmann's thinking.

The big oil change: a closer look at the Haber-Menaldo analysis

Abstract: This is the authors’ accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. Publisher's version is available at online.sagepub.com

The Role of Strategic Agility in Acquisitions

Abstract: The aim of the present study is to examine the role of strategic agility as a component of the acquisition process by investigating its constituent elements and effects on knowledge transfer in the context of acquisitions. The study also elaborates on the relationship between knowledge transfer and performance in acquisitions. We test our theoretical model on a quantitative data set of acquisitions conducted by Finnish companies.