Current PhD candidates
| Candidate | Principal supervisor | Phd Project |
|---|---|---|
| Mari Haugerud Sjøgren | Professor Leif Egil Hem | Sjøgren`s research interests include consumer behavior and brand management. Has taught the subjects brand management and marketing channels at bachelor level. |
| Babak Haghpour | Professor Halgeir Halvari | Haghpour mainly focuses on the research on consumer behavior and behavioral economics. The candidate`s research contains consideration of opportunity cost by the consumers. Haghpour investigates about both antecedents (e.g., consumer’s type of motivation) and outcomes of opportunity cost consideration by consumers (such as well-being). |
| Mehrnaz Moghaddam | Professor Elsa Kristiansen | Moghaddam`s research focuses on consumer participative behavior and their psychological needs in the event setting. |
| Huong Giang Nguyen | Professor Kåre Sandvik | Nguyen`s research focuses on business crisis context and how different strategies impact marketing and business performances. The candidate`s methodologies are experiments, SEO, and time series analysis. |
| Luying Zhou | Professor Marit Engeset | Zhou`s research interest lies at the intersection between consumer behavior and new technologies. In Zhou`s primary line of research, the candidate studies how to use incentives and nudging to increase adoption of sustainability-oriented technology. Additionally, Zhou conducts research on how service robots affect consumer behavior and well-being in frontline services. |
| Ivie Porto | Professor Elsa Kristiansen | Porto`s research focus on how message framing/rhetoric can affect choice for sustainable goods/services. |
| Sinuo Wu | Professor Karen Stendal | Wu`s research focuses on Extended reality (AR\VR\MR) in the Virtual teams and how XR technologies could impact team collaboration. |
| Hamza Siddique | Professor David S. A. Guttormsen | Siddique`s research focuses on Inclusion of Marginalized Groups of People: Role of psychological safety to create positive team climate in Global Virtual Teams. |
| Cathrine Hansen Furseth | Professor Cathrine Seierstad | Furseth`s research interests are in the field of corporate governance, specifically the board of directors. How can boards be effective, what is an effective board, and what are the best ways for boards to accomplish this? |
| Tor Erik Nyberg | Trond Løyning, Associate Professor | Nyberg’s research focuses on co-creation and collaborations for work inclusion. His project will be part of the research project Migrant Work Inclusion (MWInc). |
| Monish Bajracharya | Martin Falk, Professor | Bajracharya's research is investigating bilateral relationship between climate risks and world cultural heritage sites in the context of Europe and beyond. |
| Helle Østbye | Susann Gjerde, Assoicate Professor | Østbye's project is aiming to gain a better understanding of how levels of affect integration in leadership teams influence adaptive functioning in complex situations. |
| Heidi Kvale | Martin Falk, Professor | Kvale's research aims to investigate what factors of agenda setting leading to political decisions that address environmental sustainability challenges in a selection of Norwegian municipalities. |
| Seyedehmehrsa Fatemi | Professor Behzad Behdani | Fatemi’s research focuses on interorganizational collaboration and coordination for digital transformation from a value chain perspective and how this digital transformation can contribute to sustainability improvement in an industrial cluster. |
| Susana Gabriela Garcia Mendez | Associate Professor Ingeborg Nordbø | García's research focuses on Social and Solidarity Economy in rural agrarian communities in Guatemala, exploring its role in sustainable development and economic transformation. |
| Simon Dittrich | Associate Professor Ingeborg Nordbø | Dittrich's research is concerned with the development and management of tourism/reiseliv in the coastal municipalities of Bamble and Kragerø. The aim of the project is to better understand structures, processes and practices of governance, entrepreneurship and collaboration on the way to a more sustainable tourism- and overall destination development. |
| Tinh Tran | Professor Anja Hagen Olafsen | Tran’s research investigates the effects og digitalization in work design om employees’ motivation, performance, and occupational health. The project focuses on how digital tools influence autonomy, task distribution, and stressors to support sustainable digital work practices. |
| Margarida Vasconcelos | Professor Daryl Powell | Vasconcelos' research seeks to explore the development and implementation of a learning-centered Company-Specific Production System (XPS) within the electronics and defense sectors. The study specificallyexamines how such a system can serve as a catalyst for Lean transformation within a global industrial context. |
| Thale Tveita | Professor Elsa Kristiansen | Tveita's research investigates how multiple stakeholders co create social sustainability through events. |
| Kagan Cakmak | Associate Professor Carl Åberg | Çakmak’s research lies at the intersection of family business research and artificial intelligence. He studies how family firms govern, assess risk, and adapt to emerging digital technologies.” |
| Malek Ben Achour | Professor Karen Stendal | Ben Achour's research examines how Norwegian organizations developing or deploying high-risk artificial intelligence translate the obligations of the EU AI Act into operational compliance practice. The project investigates, across cases in public administration, healthcare and finance, how legal, ethical and technical considerations are reconciled inside organizations before formal enforcement begins. |
| Alessandro Bonfanti | Associate Professor Niklas Valter Kreander | Bonfanti’s research focuses on sustainable sovereign investing and climate transition risk, using the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global as the main case. The project investigates how responsible investment practices, such as exclusions, ESG integration and active ownership, can influence portfolio resilience, downside risk and long-term financial stability. |
| Tore Basmo Bergh | Associate Professor Rannveig Røste | Bergh's research examines how permanent innovation labs in the public sector build organizations' capacity to innovate over time. The empirical case is Testlab, an innovation lab which Bergh currently leads, located at Oslo's primary emergency care clinic (Allmennlegevakten), part of the Oslo Health Agency (Helseetaten). The project traces how sustained interaction between Testlab and Allmennlegevakten changes Allmennlegevakten's capacity to innovate. Testlab's way of working is also being lifted out of Allmennlegevakten and introduced in a different part of Helseetaten, allowing the project to examine how Testlab builds innovation capacity in a new context. As an insider researcher, Bergh brings a background in sociology and service design to the study of how labs actually work in practice. |
| Verena Hennersberger | Associate Professor Sinem Acar-Burkay | Verena's research interests lie within information asymmetries, digital advancements, and social inequality, with tax literacy in Norway as her empirical focus. She will examine how differences in individuals' and businesses' understanding of the tax system translate into unequal economic outcomes, and what this means for fairness in a highly digitalized and automated tax administration context." |