Beta - Scandinavian Journal of Business Research

23/07/2024

Link to the just published Beta special Issue on Digital Transformation in Uncertain Times -

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23/07/2024

BETA- Scandinavian Journal of Business Research- New call for papers to a special issue: Strategic decisiveness and the scope of action in healthcare/Strategisk handlekraft og handlingsrom i helsetjenesten.

CFP Beta: Strategic decisiveness and the scope of action in healthcare

In this special issue of BETA, we invite articles that contribute to knowledge about strategic decisiveness and the scope of action among leaders in the healthcare sector, with a particular focus on Norway and the Nordic countries. The healthcare sector is among the largest and most important sectors in Norway. It provides services that are crucial for people's lives and quality of life at all stages, accounting for between 12 and 13 percent of GDP in mainland Norway. Over 70 percent of these are public services, with the specialist health service (state) making up 38 percent and municipalities 32 percent. An aging population with an increasing degree of concurrent diseases (comorbidities), more and more expensive treatments available, and higher and often somewhat conflicting expectations from citizens and various stakeholders in society, contribute to growing demand. On the supply side, there are constraints due to the availability of qualified personnel and financial resources. New technology offers opportunities for better quality and greater efficiency but also drives up complexity, investment needs, and new competency requirements. There is a demand for innovation, willingness and ability to change, collaboration and co-creation, prioritization, efficiency, and improved working conditions. At the same time, many leaders in the healthcare sector experience their scope of action as limited and/or find it challenging to mobilize for strategic influence.



We invite studies from areas such as strategy, organisation, innovation and service development, coordination, change and leadership. Theoretical and empirical studies that are relevant for, and most preferably from, Norway and the Nordic countries are welcome. We are particularly interested in studies that include the introduction or utilization of technology, new forms of organising and collaboration, but are also open to other angles.

17/01/2023

Beta vol. 36 - 2022 is out - Check out the seven high quality scientific articles

Beta � Scandinavian Journal of Business Research is an electronic journal that publishes two issues annually. This is the first issue for the new editorial team. One of our key aims is to advance BETA�s current high quality and therefore to further enhance its significance as a publication chann...

02/03/2022

Check the latest Beta article - Zang, Erland, and Kaiser(2022)The Impact of Covid-19 on The Norwegian Stock Market. https://doi.org/10.18261/beta.36.1.1

This paper studies the potential economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using Norwegian stock market data. We conduct event studies on three major events that are related to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, namely the first ...

01/11/2021

BETA-Call for manuscripts
Beta - Scandinavian Journal of Business Research (https://www.idunn.no/beta - edited by Professor Ingeborg Astrid Kleppe) welcomes new submissions. Beta publishes in English or any Scandinavian language, on all business areas. Established in 1987, Beta is a long-running journal published by the leading Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget. Recent authors include famous researchers, such as Professors Nicolai Foss and Peter Mollgaard. The editorial team makes every effort to develop papers with authors, provided they meet minimum requirements. Its orientation is towards constructive engagement and improvement, rather than rejection with minimal feedback. We aim to deal quickly with manuscripts at every stage of the review process.
Our authors’ experiences:
Professor Nicolai J. Foss, Copenhagen Business School and Norwegian School of Economics: "Publishing my paper in Beta was a great experience because of the high quality of the reviewer comments I received and because of the swiftness and flexibility of the whole process".
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-3134-2020-01-04

Professor Herbjørn Nysveen, Norwegian School of Economics and Per E. Pedersen, University of South Eastern Norway: “Starting with a rather narrow problem addressed in our manuscript, reviewers gave us thorough and insightful comments that absolutely contributed to improving the manuscript and helped us reach a broader audience of readers”. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-3134-2020-02-02
PhD Silje Rydland Skaar, winner of the Odd Nordhaug’s Memorial Prize for best Beta article 2019-2020. The article was included in her PhD-thesis, defended October 22nd, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-3134-2020-01-03

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23/06/2021

Recently published: Stability and accuracy of credit ratings. Examining credit assessments from two Norwegian banks, written by Eric Guangcheng Hua, Jesper Thuestad Jacobsen, Petter Eilif De Lange & Lars Ole Hjelkrem
NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

This paper examines the stability and accuracy of credit ratings from two Norwegian savings and loans banks, labeled Bank A and Bank B. Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) often claim that ratings are relative rankings of firms and largely independent of the business cycle. We find that the intensity of b...

21/05/2021

BETA starter fra nå av med løpende publisering!
Dette innebærer at forfatterne får artiklene sine publisert fortløpende etter at de har blitt akseptert av redaktøren, og at artikler vil bli delt med en gang de er publisert.

Vi gleder oss til å få flere innsendte artikkelmanus, og å se artiklene komme ut en etter en. De vil også samles opp i et årlig nummer som kommer mot slutten av året. Del meldingen, og fortsett med å sende inn gode vitenskapelige artikler.

Idunn er Nordens ledende nettsted for fagtidsskrifter og open access-bøker. Vi tilbyr unike søkemuligheter i kvalitetssikret innhold på tvers av over 60 ulike tidsskrifter.

06/04/2021

Gratulerer til Halvdan Haugsbakken ved Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, NTNU med Odd Nordhaugs minnepris for nest beste artikkel i de siste to årgangene av Beta. Artikkelen heter "A Research Literature Study of Enterprise Social Media Platforms in Organizations" og kan leses på Idunn

Media scholars have examined the effects of social media on society at large. The complex ways the same technology is adopted and implemented into organizational life is rather unclear. This aspect relates to a lack of research interest for new digital technologies among organizational researchers a...

06/04/2021

Gratulerer til årets vinner av Odd Nordhaugs minnepris for beste artikkel i de siste to årgangene av Beta: Silje Rydland Skaar for artikkelen "Someone to Lean On: First-Line Managers’ Change Agency Across Distance." I anledning prisen har NHH Bulletin gjort et flott intervju med henne om veien fra rørleggerutdannelse, til siviløkonom og til PhD-studier. Anbefales!
NHH Norwegian School of Economics Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning

Silje Rydland Skaar er tildelt Odd Nordhaugs minnepris. PhD-kandidaten får prisen for beste artikkel publisert i tidsskriftet «Beta» i 2019 og 2020.

10/02/2021

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09/02/2021

Hvordan påvirker digital teknologi prinsipper for gruppering, og samspillet mellom organisasjonsstruktur og lokalisering av arbeid?
Ola Lindberg, Daniel Lotsberg & Torstein Nesheim tar for seg Arkivverket, Skatteetaten, Statens vegvesen som har erstattet regionale enheter med organisering etter funksjoner eller formål. De undersøker to drivkrefter ligger bak denne utviklingen: nye muligheter gjennom digital teknologi, og en erkjennelse av at man utfører likeartede oppgaver på tvers av regioner. Les hele artikkelen her:
Ernst & Young Oslo Deloitte Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning

Landsomfattende statlige etater i Norge har tradisjonelt vært organisert etter geografi, med til dels sterke regionale enheter. I denne artikkelen går vi inn på tre etater (Arkivverket, Skatteetaten, Statens vegvesen) som har erstattet regionale enheter med organisering etter funksjoner eller for...