Management Control in Emerging Network Organizations: Case of the Petroleum Supply Industry in the Barents Region, 2015

The overall purpose of this research was to study how management control practices develop in the context of emerging industrial networks. Throughout the project I have implemented four major studies: A theoretical study of relational control problems, namely interlink of trust and control in business relationships and networks; A longitudinal study of the role of calculative devices and problems of control in the network building process in Northern-Norway; A study of networking practices of the Norwegian oil majors Hydro and Statoil (and later Statoil Hydro) in cooperation with the local companies in North-West Russia; A study of network building practices in the Russian industry which first received assistance from Norway but then started to mobilize own experience in a way different form the Norwegian practice. This research was a postdoctoral project - a continuation of the work made during my PhD. In relation to the aforementioned studies, during the postdoc project I collected and analyzed both primary and secondary empirical data. The data was put in eight datasets: Network ties survey 2013-14, Interviews Spring 2013, Interviews 2012, Interviews Fall 2013, Interviews June 2014, Interviews Winter 2014, Secondary Data on Murmansk Region, and Secondary data Norwegian oil companies in Russia