NHH research in world-class

An article published in Administrative Science Quarterly written by NHH-professors Paul Gooderham and Odd Nordhaug was chosen as one of the 80 most important articles written on the subject of Human Resource Management on a worldwide basis.

16.01.2007 - Sigrid Folkestad

A collection of the 80 most important articles written on the subject of Human Resource Management is being printed by the renowned American publisher Sage. The collection is titled Major Works in HRM and consists of four volumes.

The article from Gooderham and Nordhaug is Institutional Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms and was published in the renowned periodical Administrative Science Quarterly in 1999.

The article was written by Gooderham and Nordhaug together with Kristen Ringdal of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Trondheim. The periodical is distributed by Cornell University NY.

The article deals with the influence of institutional and rational factors on leadership practices in a selection of European countries and cities built upon data from the Cranet cooperation, in which Nordhaug and Gooderham are the Norwegian Partners.

Last year an article by Gooderham and Nordhaug published in another American periodical was chosen by a jury of international professors as one of the 20 best scholarly articles of all time within entrepreneurship and small company research.
This article was later published in the book Keystones of Entrepreneurship Knowledge printed by Blackwell in the USA and the UK. Among the other authors selected, who were almost exclusively American, are well-known scholars such as economists William Baumol, Jean-Jacques Laffont and William Brock.