- 15.06. 23. Research gathering at Jeløys Radio.
- 30.05. 23. The research group has started a co-operation with Chirnovtsi National University and Zhitomir National University (Ukraine)
- May, 2023. Irina N. Roddvik and Jørn Halvorsen are presented on the IRSPM conference in Budapest with an abstract about "Co-production in Digital Society",
- November 2. 022 and February 2023
Members of the reserach group are participaiting in teaching for cource in International Economy and Trade via Zoom (Lviv Polytechnical University)
-27.10. 2022. The researchers from LPNU (Ukraine) will visit Hiof, Campus Halden.
24.10. 2022. The researchers from Economy University (Katowice, Polen) will come to Hiof and will present their project Beyond Barriers. The main objective of the project is to develop a model approach to support the inclusion of cyber-excluded older people
-7.06. 2022. The research group is starting the project Digi Best (Digital Busiens, Economy, Society and Trade).
-2.06. 2022. Meeting about the research strategy
-31.03.2022: A guest lecture about situation in Ukrainian academia now. Dr. Olena Trevoho ( Lviv Plytechnical U,)
Norske multinasjonale selskaper investerer aktivt i land der bedriftskulturer og tradisjoner er forskjellige fra tilsvarende i Norge. Et av de sentrale spørsmålene for multinasjonale bedrifter (MNC) er behovet for å etablere nye kontrollsystemer for å sikre innflytelse over datterselskaper i utlandet.
For tourist destinations, the peer-to-peer sharing-economy platform Airbnb is a double-edged sword. It provides income and taxes to municipalities, but the prevalence of a substantial number of Airbnb providers may lead to bottlenecks in rental housing markets. Regional planners and policy-makers in Norway and across the world have therefore begun to consider imposing restrictions to regulate this hitherto unregulated business model.
New publications in the areas of entrepreneurship, corporate governance, finance, marketing and international business from researchers in 'Business Development and Governance'
Birgit Leick, Associate Professor in Business Economics and current leader of the research group Business Development and Governance, was invited to the Austrian Academy of Sciences to present her research on institutional entrepreneurs, demographic change and regional economic development.
Cross-border shopping is a big business in the Svinesund region and contributes to its economic growth. On Monday, 13 May 2019, the research group Business Development and Governance invited to a discussion with Svinesundskommittén Strömstad (Sweden) and the Mayor of Halden. The event was part of a field excursion with urban/regional planning students from Lund University (Sweden).
Mehtap Aldogan Eklund presented a paper during a conference on Digital Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries.
Birgit Leick, Associate Professor in Business Economics, received a EURAM Research Grant for 2019-2020 and will look into the factors driving start-up businesses in the fashion industry to locate in the periphery.
Imtiaz Badshah presented a paper at the 26th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference in Prague.
Mehtap Aldogan Eklund is starting a new research project on Corporate Governance, specifically on ‘Digitization, Machine Learning and Decision Making Processes of Board of Directors’, in collaboration with the Swiss Board School and ICfCG Switzerland.
Two researchers in economics and business administration from Østfold University College took part in a funded NFR-DAAD project on borders, border practices and regional economic development including a student excursion in the Svinesund cross-border region.
