Arne Nygaard (born 17 May 1957) is a Norwegian organizational theorist best known for his work with

Robert Dahlstrom Robert F. Dahlstrom (born c. 1958) is an American organizational theorist who is the Seibert Professor in the Miami University Department of Marketing. known for his work on international marketing. Education Dahlstrom obtained a Bachelor of B ...

transaction costs In economics and related disciplines, a transaction cost is a cost in making any economic trade when participating in a market. Oliver E. Williamson defines transaction costs as the costs of running an economic system of companies, and unlike pro ...

in franchising.

Biography

Nygaard obtained his Master of Business and Economics (MBE) at the

BI Norwegian Business School BI Norwegian Business School () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe. BI has in total four campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The university has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff o ...

in 1982, his Master of Science at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, where he also obtained his PhD in 1992.Curriculum Vitae : Arne Nygaard
at ''mh.academia.edu.'' Accessed 09-03-2015. Nygaard started his career as Executive Officer Petroleum office in the Norwegian State Audit Commission in 1983. in 1985 he moved to the Institute of Energy- and Industrial Policy at the BI Norwegian Business School, where he was started as research assistant, and became research scholar in 1987. In 1990 he became Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Research in Marketing, in 1994 Associate Professor, since 2000 Full Professor.

Selected publications

* Midttun, A., Nordeng, Ø. and Nygaard, A., ''Utenlandske investeringer i norsk industri – bør de hemmes eller fremmes?,'' Oslo: Tano, 1987. * Arne Nygaard. ''Measuring Transaction Costs in Plural Formed Marketing Channels.'' VDM Publishing, 2009. Articles, a selection:Arne Nygaard
Google Scholar profile * Dahlstrom, Robert, and Arne Nygaard. "An exploratory investigation of interpersonal trust in new and mature market economies." ''Journal of Retailing'' 71.4 (1996): 339-361. * Dahlstrom, Robert, and Arne Nygaard.
An empirical investigation of ex post transaction costs in franchised distribution channel
s." ''Journal of marketing Research'' (1999): 160-170. * Nygaard, Arne, and

.
Role stress and effectiveness in horizontal alliances
" Journal of Marketing 66.2 (2002): 61-82. * Haugland, Sven A., Ingunn Myrtveit, and Arne Nygaard. "Market orientation and performance in the service industry: A data envelopment analysis." ''Journal of Business Research'' 60.11 (2007): 1191-1197.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nygaard, Arne 1957 births Living people Norwegian business theorists BI Norwegian Business School alumni Norwegian School of Economics alumni BI Norwegian Business School faculty