Arne Nygaard


Arne Nygaard is a Norwegian organizational theorist best known for his work with Robert Dahlstrom on transaction costs in franchising.

Biography

Nygaard obtained his Master of Business and Economics at the BI Norwegian Business School in 1982, his Master of Science at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, where he also obtained his PhD in 1992.
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

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