Faculty of Social Sciences
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Department of Health Studies [380]
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Gender Research Network (SV-NFK) [6]
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Norwegian School of Hotel Management (SV-NHS) [392]
Norsk hotellhøgskole
Recent Submissions
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Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)Recent efforts to involve digital technologies and renewables in the electricity grid have placed users at center stage in the legitimation of energy transitions. This move has been paralleled by an emphasis on users and ... -
“It Gets a Bit Messy”: Norwegian Social Workers’ Perspectives on Collaboration with Police and Security Service on Cases of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)Social workers are a part of the prevention efforts against radicalisation and violent extremism in the Nordic countries. While multi-agency cooperation is not new in Norway, municipal cooperation with the police security ... -
Relasjonsarbeid i arbeidsinkluderingsprosesser
(Master thesis, 2021)Sammendrag Bakgrunn: Utvidet oppfølging er et arbeidsrettet tiltak i Arbeids- og velferdsforvaltningen. Tiltaket innebærer tett individuell oppfølging fra jobbspesialist til personer som har omfattende og sammensatte ... -
Influence of Tourism Seasonality and Financial Ratios on Hotels’ Exit Risk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Tourism seasonality negatively affects hotels’ operational and financial performance and then survival probabilities. Several studies have evaluated the impact of tourism seasonality on hotels’ exit risk. However, the ... -
Nothing is in the air
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03)It has often been argued that “there is something in the air” which makes firms in high-density environments—such as cities or clusters—more innovative. The co-location of firms facilitates the emergence of serendipity and ... -
Towards Responsible Media Recommendation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)Reading or viewing recommendations are a common feature on modern media sites. What is shown to consumers as recommendations is nowadays often automatically determined by AI algorithms, typically with the goal of helping ... -
Standardised practice in Norwegian child welfare services : How standardisation influences professional practice in child welfare services
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-11)This thesis explores how standardisation in Norwegian child welfare services (CWS) influences CWS professionals and practices. CWS is a complex field, which has been criticised for poor decision-making and for not putting ... -
Exploring interactive elements of presentation and experience during Corona Virus pandemic in Stavanger museums
(Master thesis, 2021)Same as other sections in the tourism industry, museums and heritages sites have been experiencing troublesome times caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The current thesis calls into exploring the interactive elements of ... -
Skottland – fra unionisme til uavhengighetsavstemning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Ved parlamentsvalget i 1955 vant Scottish Unionist Party rent flertall i Skottland med 50,1 prosent av stemmene, og Skottlands forhold til unionen var knapt på dagsorden. Et halvt århundre senere har Skottland betydelig ... -
Organizing Product Innovation: Hierarchy, Market or Triple-Helix Networks?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This paper assesses the extent to which the organization of the innovation effort in firms – as well as the geographical scale at which this effort is pursued – affects the capacity to benefit from product innovations. ... -
Networking, context and firm-level innovation: Cooperation through the regional filter in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07)The paper assesses the role for innovation of one aspect which has been generally overlooked by evolutionary economic geography: context. It analyses how context shapes the impact of collaboration on firm-level innovation ... -
Not too close, not too far: testing the Goldilocks principle of ‘optimal’ distance in innovation networks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This paper analyses how the formation of collaboration networks affects firm-level innovation by applying the ‘Goldilocks principle’. The ‘Goldilocks principle’ of optimal distance in innovation networks postulates that ... -
Global Pipelines for Innovation: Insights from the case of Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)Using data on 418 Norwegian firms, the results confirm the hypotheses that innovative/radically innovative firms tend to be more involved in international personal and formal networks than non-innovative/incrementally ... -
Hooked up to the international artistic community: external linkages, absorptive capacity and exporting by small creative firms
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The contemporary economy is marked both by the growth in international trade and the increasing importance of the creative industries. However, these activities are dominated by big firms and big cities, spurring a large ... -
Regional skill relatedness: towards a new measure of regional related diversification
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This paper proposes a novel index of regional skill-relatedness and calculates this measure for all Norwegian labour-market regions. Studies of regional related diversification rely on measures of related variety, which ... -
Social media users’ online subjective well-being and fatigue: A network heterogeneity perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)Scholars have drawn increasing attention to the implications of the dark side of social media for users’ online subjective well-being (OSWB). We develop a research framework based on the limited-capacity model to examine ... -
Armed and Explosive? An Explorative Statistical Analysis of Extremist Radicalization Cases with Military Background
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)Extremist infiltration of armed forces, and the spread of violent radicalization among service members and former soldiers, are a growing international concern. With an increased number of active duty and former soldiers ... -
Emotional creaming: Street-level bureaucrats’ prioritisation of migrant clients ‘likely to succeed’ in labour market integration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)Achieving equity in welfare provision depends on accurate understandings of the work of street-level bureaucrats. We explore the role of emotions when caseworkers prioritise cases. While creaming of clients whom street-level ... -
A matter of time: Explicating temporality in science and technology studies and Bergen's car-free zone development
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)In their article on ‘sociotechnical matters’, Hess and Sovacool (2020) draw on extant STS scholarship to unpack ‘the black box’ of sociotechnical contributions to social science studies of energy. Notably absent in their ... -
Revir og altruisme; en kvalitativ casestudie av tverrfaglig samarbeid i offentlig sektor.
(Master thesis, 2021)Denne studien handler om hvordan tverrfaglig samarbeid fungerer ved implementering av velferdsteknologi i én spesifikk kommune. Velferdsteknologi er et viktig verktøy for å imøtekomme en aldrende befolkning, avlaste ...
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