Rolv Petter Amdam
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1468142 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rolv Petter Amdam |
| PRENOMES | Rolv Petter |
| SOBRENOME | Amdam |
| ASSINATURA | AMDAM R P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | BI Norwegian Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2200-7484 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Narratives in context of cluster globalization
This article is inspired by recent concerns that history and context has not been taken into proper account in evolutionary economic geography, and by a call for narrative approaches to assess processes of path development, in our case more broadly processes of cluster evolution. We conduct a narrative study of globalization in the maritime cluster in Møre and Romsdal in Western Norway and ask how narratives and antenarratives are voiced to make …
Protestantisk etikk og kapitalistisk ånd? Næringslivshistorie frå Møre og Romsdal MadsLangnes(Red.)Museumsforlaget2024ISBN
In the shadow of Americanisation
This article examines the development of educational programs for developing managers in Argentina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Research on management education during this period has tended to be US-European focused and has looked at the impact of American models. In Argentina, new institutions began to emerge in the 1940s. This process gained momentum in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s. Several US actors supported the institutionalisation…
The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina
This article explores how the International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced management development programs in Argentina as a pilot project in developing countries in the late 1950s. By studying how the ILO worked together with actors at the national level, the article reveals how the ILO’s original idea to focus on top management development was reshaped through a dialogue with local actors within the context of tripartite cooperation betwe…
Resilience and related variety
Recent research in economic geography has introduced two notions that historical studies should explore: regional resilience and related variety. Regional resilience refers to a region’s ability to recover from external shocks. Related variety refers to the existence of related industrial sectors in a region, and the relatedness promotes economic development due to spill-overs between sectors. From an evolutionary perspective, external shocks res…
The untold story
Making Managers in Latin America
Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America in less than two decades. This article explores the phenomenon in three different Latin American contexts: Central America, Peru, and Colombia. In all these cases, initiatives led to successful executive programs, which con…
Creating the new executive
This paper explores the development of executive education in the US from 1945 to around 1970, and its function in developing potential top executives’ cultural, symbolic, and social capital. The paper shows that postwar executive education was an expression of how the academic community acted according to its societal obligations by offering the new leaders norms and values that could replace what was lost during the transformation to managerial…
Making managers
The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several countries during the mid- to late 19th century (Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010, 2016). However, at that time, ‘business’ – or, more commonly, ‘commerce’ – was little respected within academia, with…
Breaking Even
Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the eighteenth-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic Christiania Glasmagasin. The investors in the company, many of them among Norway's “founding fathers,” were individually responsible for its losses and it operated, remarkably, at an a…
Den småländska glasregionens uppgång och fall
"Den småländska glasregionens uppgång och fall: En ekonomisk historia [The rise and fall of the glass industry in Småland, Sweden: an economic history]." Scandinavian Economic History Review, 65(1), pp. 106–107
Executive Education and the Managerial Revolution
The managerial revolution drove the rise of business schools in the United States and business schools contributed by graduating professional managers. Before World War II, however, the effect of an MBA degree was modest, causing great concern to leading business schools. Harvard Business School—in order to increase this impact—began in the mid-1920s to develop nondegree programs for potential top executives. In 1945, by drawing on the experience…
Globalization and the Development of Industrial Clusters
This article explores how clusters have reacted to the recent process of globalization by comparing the development of two clusters that are located in the same region, the county of Møre og Romsdal in Norway. These are the furniture cluster and the maritime cluster on the west coast of Norway. When international competition increased, the first one declined while the other prospered and became more global. Structural differences explain only par…
Stability and change in managerial elites
Market transformations and organizational changes lead to new needs for managerial competence, and such changes are proposed to influence the institution of management education over time. However, in an examination of the educational backgrounds of Norwegian CEOs from 1936 to 2009, this paper finds that changes in the institution of management education cannot be interpreted as direct responses to the organizational and external changes that com…
The internationalisation process theory and the internationalisation of Norwegian firms, 1945 to 1980
According to the internationalisation process theory firms tend to invest and expand in countries with a short psychic distance to the home country. This paper discusses the usefulness of bringing this theory into business history by analysing the internationalisation of Norwegian firms before the 1980s. The empirical contribution of this paper is that it adds new knowledge to our understanding of the early internationalisation of Norwegians firm…
Roundtable on Business Education
A consideration of Rakesh Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton, 2007). Khurana's book is an examination of the development of the university-based business school in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. He asserts that while the original goal of these schools was to train a professional class of mana…
Americanization in comparative perspective
This article proposes a comparative account of the progress of the managerial revolution in France and Norway over the post-World War Two period. This account is set and framed within theoretical discussions on and around 'Americanization'. We argue that in both the French and Norwegian cases the managerial revolution has been closely tied to a process of Americanization that has had an impact on economic institutions, organizations and philosoph…
Wealth of Contrasts
Regional Business Networks and the Diffusion of American Management and Organisational Models to Norway, 1945–65
The effort to diffuse American principles of management, organisation and production after the Second World War was a strong movement involving most West European countries, including small countries dominated by small companies. This article focuses on the outcome of this process by taking a regional perspective in a recipient country. The study is based on an examination of business networks in one small Norwegian region, M⊘re and Romsdal, betw…
Professional networks and the introduction of research in the British and Norwegian pharmaceutical industry in the inter‐war years
The paper claims that networks between professions played an important role in the British and Norwegian pharmaceutical industry during the inter‐war years. The existence of such networks between members of a profession across firm boundaries, i.e. in companies, hospitals and universities, contributed heavily to the introduction of corporate research. It also contributed to develop a business culture that valued research. These phenomenons were d…
Foreign Influence on the Education of Norwegian Business Managers before World War II
This article examines the foreign influence on the education of Norwegian business managers before 1940. As in other Scandinavian countries, Norwegian educational institutions were strongly inspired by German models. However, the first Norwegian business school was not established until 1936, and this study examines how managers were educated when institutions were weakly developed. It is argued that an efficient use of foreign institutions to tr…
Select bibliography of contributions to economic and social history appearing in scandinavian books, periodicals and year-books, 1988
Making Managers in Latin America
Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America in less than two decades. This article explores the phenomenon in three different Latin American contexts: Central America, Peru, and Colombia. In all these cases, initiatives led to successful executive programs, which con…
Executive Education and the Managerial Revolution
The managerial revolution drove the rise of business schools in the United States and business schools contributed by graduating professional managers. Before World War II, however, the effect of an MBA degree was modest, causing great concern to leading business schools. Harvard Business School—in order to increase this impact—began in the mid-1920s to develop nondegree programs for potential top executives. In 1945, by drawing on the experience…
Americanization in comparative perspective
This article proposes a comparative account of the progress of the managerial revolution in France and Norway over the post-World War Two period. This account is set and framed within theoretical discussions on and around 'Americanization'. We argue that in both the French and Norwegian cases the managerial revolution has been closely tied to a process of Americanization that has had an impact on economic institutions, organizations and philosoph…
Globalization and the Development of Industrial Clusters
This article explores how clusters have reacted to the recent process of globalization by comparing the development of two clusters that are located in the same region, the county of Møre og Romsdal in Norway. These are the furniture cluster and the maritime cluster on the west coast of Norway. When international competition increased, the first one declined while the other prospered and became more global. Structural differences explain only par…
In the shadow of Americanisation
This article examines the development of educational programs for developing managers in Argentina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Research on management education during this period has tended to be US-European focused and has looked at the impact of American models. In Argentina, new institutions began to emerge in the 1940s. This process gained momentum in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s. Several US actors supported the institutionalisation…
Resilience and related variety
Recent research in economic geography has introduced two notions that historical studies should explore: regional resilience and related variety. Regional resilience refers to a region’s ability to recover from external shocks. Related variety refers to the existence of related industrial sectors in a region, and the relatedness promotes economic development due to spill-overs between sectors. From an evolutionary perspective, external shocks res…
Stability and change in managerial elites
Market transformations and organizational changes lead to new needs for managerial competence, and such changes are proposed to influence the institution of management education over time. However, in an examination of the educational backgrounds of Norwegian CEOs from 1936 to 2009, this paper finds that changes in the institution of management education cannot be interpreted as direct responses to the organizational and external changes that com…
The internationalisation process theory and the internationalisation of Norwegian firms, 1945 to 1980
According to the internationalisation process theory firms tend to invest and expand in countries with a short psychic distance to the home country. This paper discusses the usefulness of bringing this theory into business history by analysing the internationalisation of Norwegian firms before the 1980s. The empirical contribution of this paper is that it adds new knowledge to our understanding of the early internationalisation of Norwegians firm…
The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina
This article explores how the International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced management development programs in Argentina as a pilot project in developing countries in the late 1950s. By studying how the ILO worked together with actors at the national level, the article reveals how the ILO’s original idea to focus on top management development was reshaped through a dialogue with local actors within the context of tripartite cooperation betwe…
Creating the new executive
This paper explores the development of executive education in the US from 1945 to around 1970, and its function in developing potential top executives’ cultural, symbolic, and social capital. The paper shows that postwar executive education was an expression of how the academic community acted according to its societal obligations by offering the new leaders norms and values that could replace what was lost during the transformation to managerial…
Making managers
The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several countries during the mid- to late 19th century (Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010, 2016). However, at that time, ‘business’ – or, more commonly, ‘commerce’ – was little respected within academia, with…
Breaking Even
Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the eighteenth-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic Christiania Glasmagasin. The investors in the company, many of them among Norway's “founding fathers,” were individually responsible for its losses and it operated, remarkably, at an a…
Roundtable on Business Education
A consideration of Rakesh Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton, 2007). Khurana's book is an examination of the development of the university-based business school in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. He asserts that while the original goal of these schools was to train a professional class of mana…
Regional Business Networks and the Diffusion of American Management and Organisational Models to Norway, 1945–65
The effort to diffuse American principles of management, organisation and production after the Second World War was a strong movement involving most West European countries, including small countries dominated by small companies. This article focuses on the outcome of this process by taking a regional perspective in a recipient country. The study is based on an examination of business networks in one small Norwegian region, M⊘re and Romsdal, betw…
Foreign Influence on the Education of Norwegian Business Managers before World War II
This article examines the foreign influence on the education of Norwegian business managers before 1940. As in other Scandinavian countries, Norwegian educational institutions were strongly inspired by German models. However, the first Norwegian business school was not established until 1936, and this study examines how managers were educated when institutions were weakly developed. It is argued that an efficient use of foreign institutions to tr…
Select bibliography of contributions to economic and social history appearing in scandinavian books, periodicals and year-books, 1988
Foreign Influence on the Education of Norwegian Business Managers before World War II
This article examines the foreign influence on the education of Norwegian business managers before 1940. As in other Scandinavian countries, Norwegian educational institutions were strongly inspired by German models. However, the first Norwegian business school was not established until 1936, and this study examines how managers were educated when institutions were weakly developed. It is argued that an efficient use of foreign institutions to tr…
Professional networks and the introduction of research in the British and Norwegian pharmaceutical industry in the inter‐war years
The paper claims that networks between professions played an important role in the British and Norwegian pharmaceutical industry during the inter‐war years. The existence of such networks between members of a profession across firm boundaries, i.e. in companies, hospitals and universities, contributed heavily to the introduction of corporate research. It also contributed to develop a business culture that valued research. These phenomenons were d…
Regional Business Networks and the Diffusion of American Management and Organisational Models to Norway, 1945–65
The effort to diffuse American principles of management, organisation and production after the Second World War was a strong movement involving most West European countries, including small countries dominated by small companies. This article focuses on the outcome of this process by taking a regional perspective in a recipient country. The study is based on an examination of business networks in one small Norwegian region, M⊘re and Romsdal, betw…
Wealth of Contrasts
Americanization in comparative perspective
This article proposes a comparative account of the progress of the managerial revolution in France and Norway over the post-World War Two period. This account is set and framed within theoretical discussions on and around 'Americanization'. We argue that in both the French and Norwegian cases the managerial revolution has been closely tied to a process of Americanization that has had an impact on economic institutions, organizations and philosoph…
Roundtable on Business Education
A consideration of Rakesh Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton, 2007). Khurana's book is an examination of the development of the university-based business school in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. He asserts that while the original goal of these schools was to train a professional class of mana…
The internationalisation process theory and the internationalisation of Norwegian firms, 1945 to 1980
According to the internationalisation process theory firms tend to invest and expand in countries with a short psychic distance to the home country. This paper discusses the usefulness of bringing this theory into business history by analysing the internationalisation of Norwegian firms before the 1980s. The empirical contribution of this paper is that it adds new knowledge to our understanding of the early internationalisation of Norwegians firm…
Stability and change in managerial elites
Market transformations and organizational changes lead to new needs for managerial competence, and such changes are proposed to influence the institution of management education over time. However, in an examination of the educational backgrounds of Norwegian CEOs from 1936 to 2009, this paper finds that changes in the institution of management education cannot be interpreted as direct responses to the organizational and external changes that com…
Globalization and the Development of Industrial Clusters
This article explores how clusters have reacted to the recent process of globalization by comparing the development of two clusters that are located in the same region, the county of Møre og Romsdal in Norway. These are the furniture cluster and the maritime cluster on the west coast of Norway. When international competition increased, the first one declined while the other prospered and became more global. Structural differences explain only par…
Executive Education and the Managerial Revolution
The managerial revolution drove the rise of business schools in the United States and business schools contributed by graduating professional managers. Before World War II, however, the effect of an MBA degree was modest, causing great concern to leading business schools. Harvard Business School—in order to increase this impact—began in the mid-1920s to develop nondegree programs for potential top executives. In 1945, by drawing on the experience…
Den småländska glasregionens uppgång och fall
"Den småländska glasregionens uppgång och fall: En ekonomisk historia [The rise and fall of the glass industry in Småland, Sweden: an economic history]." Scandinavian Economic History Review, 65(1), pp. 106–107
Breaking Even
Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the eighteenth-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic Christiania Glasmagasin. The investors in the company, many of them among Norway's “founding fathers,” were individually responsible for its losses and it operated, remarkably, at an a…
Creating the new executive
This paper explores the development of executive education in the US from 1945 to around 1970, and its function in developing potential top executives’ cultural, symbolic, and social capital. The paper shows that postwar executive education was an expression of how the academic community acted according to its societal obligations by offering the new leaders norms and values that could replace what was lost during the transformation to managerial…
Making managers
The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several countries during the mid- to late 19th century (Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010, 2016). However, at that time, ‘business’ – or, more commonly, ‘commerce’ – was little respected within academia, with…
Making Managers in Latin America
Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America in less than two decades. This article explores the phenomenon in three different Latin American contexts: Central America, Peru, and Colombia. In all these cases, initiatives led to successful executive programs, which con…
The untold story
The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina
This article explores how the International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced management development programs in Argentina as a pilot project in developing countries in the late 1950s. By studying how the ILO worked together with actors at the national level, the article reveals how the ILO’s original idea to focus on top management development was reshaped through a dialogue with local actors within the context of tripartite cooperation betwe…
Resilience and related variety
Recent research in economic geography has introduced two notions that historical studies should explore: regional resilience and related variety. Regional resilience refers to a region’s ability to recover from external shocks. Related variety refers to the existence of related industrial sectors in a region, and the relatedness promotes economic development due to spill-overs between sectors. From an evolutionary perspective, external shocks res…
Narratives in context of cluster globalization
This article is inspired by recent concerns that history and context has not been taken into proper account in evolutionary economic geography, and by a call for narrative approaches to assess processes of path development, in our case more broadly processes of cluster evolution. We conduct a narrative study of globalization in the maritime cluster in Møre and Romsdal in Western Norway and ask how narratives and antenarratives are voiced to make …
Protestantisk etikk og kapitalistisk ånd? Næringslivshistorie frå Møre og Romsdal MadsLangnes(Red.)Museumsforlaget2024ISBN
In the shadow of Americanisation
This article examines the development of educational programs for developing managers in Argentina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Research on management education during this period has tended to be US-European focused and has looked at the impact of American models. In Argentina, new institutions began to emerge in the 1940s. This process gained momentum in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s. Several US actors supported the institutionalisation…
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