Best Master's Thesis Award

Best Master's Thesis Award

The Department of Strategy and Management invites all the students who have written a master's thesis to compete for the Best Master's Thesis Award.

The Department of Strategy and Management (SOL) seeks to encourage the production of master's theses of the highest quality and promote the achievements that has been accomplished within the SOL's disciplines.

This award is presented semi-annually and is open to everyone who writes their thesis within the Department discipline while supervised by one of the SOL's employees. The author (or at least one of the authors if more than one author) must have mbm or str as her/his major. The next prize will be handed out summer 2024. The thesis must have been submitted for grading within the last 24 months (fall 2022, spring 2023, fall 2023, and spring 2024).

The winner(s) will receive a diploma; have the opportunity to present their work at a faculty seminar and a cash prize of 15 000 NOK.

The purpose of the award is to encourage students to write good, solid master theses and to increase awareness of the high quality work that is accomplished in the Department disciplines.

Submission deadline to participate: 1. September 2024

 

Previous winners:
23/24

Dorotea Rossi Kriscak

"What We Know and Don’t Know About Sustainability in Business Education" Supervisor: Tina Saebi

21/22

Alan Mathew
Kunnumpuram

"Determinants of consumer evaluation of sustainability claims" 
Supervisor: Magne Supphellen & Nhat Quang Le

20/21

Adrian Lines and
Christoffer Erlid

"Organisasjonsendringer under koronapandemien: Implikasjoner for helsearbeideres jobbinvolvering og organisasjonsforpliktelse" 
Veileder: Torstein Nesheim

2019

IFFAT TARANNUM AND TIMOFEI KOVALEV

"Antecedents for green purchase intention : moderating effect of masculinity-femininity on the relationship between antecedents and green purchase intention"
Supervisor: Herbjørn Nysveen

 

2017

Lara Mellinger

"Consumer Ethnocentrism. A research synthesis and meta-analysis of its social-psychological antecedents and outcomes"
Supervisor: Einar Breivik

2016

Johannes Solbraa Bay

"Innovation Adoption in Robotics: Consumer Intentions to Use Autonomous Vehicles"
Supervisor: Professor Herbjørn Nysveen

2015

CHRISTINA MOE GJERDE AND MARTE LENES LINDGREN

 "Human capital Investment in Economic Downturns: The Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry and the 2014/2015 oil price shock"
Supervisor: Professor Lasse B. Lien and Associate Professor Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen
2014

Linn-Therese Holsen

"How Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Economic Performance Interact to Influence Corporate Attractiveness - and Experiment"
Supervisor: Professor Magne Supphellen

2013

Even Meek Olsen and Astrid Sky

"How can service organizations improve the customer orientation of frontline employees?"
Supervisor: Professor Magne Supphellen