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Rolv Petter Amdam
Born7 February 1953
Ørskog, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Known forInternational Business
Scientific career
FieldsBusiness History, Business Education
InstitutionsBI Norwegian Business School

Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam (born 7 February 1953) is a Norwegian economic historian.[1][2]

He was born in Ørskog.[3] During his young days he was a member of the Workers' Communist Party.[4] He graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.mag. degree in 1981, took the cand.philol. degree in 1985 and took the dr.philos. degree in 1998. In 1997 he was appointed at the BI Norwegian Business School as professor of economic history, having been an associate professor since 1991. He has also been a guest scholar at the University of Reading, the University of Toulouse, the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales, the Nanyang Technological University and the ISM University of Management and Economics.

From 2002 to 2004 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association.[5]

Books include the histories of the companies Nycomed, NKS Fjernundervisning, Christiania Glassmagasin as well as BI Norwegian Business School.[3] He has published 29 articles in international academic journals.

References

  1. ^ Rolv Petter Amdam's page at the BI Norwegian Business School website. Accessed on 2010-01-17.
  2. ^ Oxford Handbook of Business History , ed. G. Jones & J Zertlin, 2008
  3. ^ a b "Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam 50 år 7. februar" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency.
  4. ^ Meland, Astrid (30 October 2009). "- Hvis du er i en sekt stiller du ikke spørsmål". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 March 2010.
  5. ^ "Historikk" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Historical Association. Retrieved 28 April 2011.