• Legitimacy for Sustainability: A Case of A Strategy Change for An Oil and Gas Company 

      Jaber, Tahrir; Oftedal, Elin Merethe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-10)
      This study introduces and validates a measure of a company’s institutional profile for sustainability. It uses institutional theory as a lens to understand the factors that legitimize the adoption of renewable energy activities in an oil and gas company. The three institutional dimensions used in this study are regulative, normative and cognitive, which aimed to measure legitimacy in an oil and gas ...
    • The Role of Internal Legitimacy in Shifting a Large Established Company Towards Sustainability. A Case Study of a Sustainable Transition Shift in the Oil and Gas Industry 

      Jaber, Tahrir (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-02-16)
      <p>This thesis is motivated by the need to involve sustainability in the oil and gas industry. This thesis focuses on the sustainable transition in Equinor, the Norwegian oil and gas company. It looks, particularly, at a large established oil and gas company undergoing a sustainable change and how it performs its transition into sustainability. However, this transition poses challenges to a large ...
    • A Surge toward a Sustainable Future: Organizational Change and Transformational Vision by an Oil and Gas Company 

      Jaber, Tahrir (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-13)
      <p>Context: reflecting the call being made by the United Nations to solve our current climate challenges and reduce companies’ CO2 emissions, there is a strong need for large corporations to not only employ the terminology of sustainable transitions, but to implement strategies and select new alternative sustainable solutions. <p>Objective: this study fills a gap in the literature by developing and ...