• Digital knowledge sharing and creative performance: Work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Tønnessen, Øystein; Dhir, Amandeep; Flåten, Bjørn-Tore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)

  The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting social distancing requirements have led to major disruptions in the world of work. The outcomes of the enforced and large-scale work from home (WFH) practices are ...

• A behavioural reasoning perspective on the consumption of local food. A study on REKO, a social media-based local food distribution system 

  Kumar, Sushant; Talwar, Shalini; Murphy, Mikko; Kaur, Puneet; Dhir, Amandeep (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)

  Consumption of local food is increasing due to its convenience and multiple perceived benefits. However, the factors shaping consumer attitude towards local food and brand love for local food have received limited academic ...

• The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement 

  Jenzen, Olu; Erhart, Itir; Eslen Ziya, Hande; Korkut, Umut; McGarry, Aidan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07)

  This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer ...

• Post-incident Reviews after Restraints, – Potential and Pitfalls. Patients' experiences and considerations 

  Hammervold, Unn Elisabeth; Norvoll, Reidun; Sagvaag, Hildegunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)

  4.1 Introduction Post-incident reviews (PIRs), including patients, nurses and other care providers, following incidents of restraints are recommended in mental health services. Few studies have examined patients’ experiences ...

• Habitus, campus experience, and graduate employment: personal advancement of middle-class students in China 

  Liu, Dian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  In the harsh Chinese graduate labor market, urban, middle-class students continue to outpace those from rural, underprivileged backgrounds in job access and occupational attainment. Literature attributes this graduate ...

• Digital transformasjon eller digital translasjon? - En casestudie av implementering av digitale verktøy i Mellomstor kommune 

  Eriksen, Tuva (Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-12)

  “Digital darwinisme” har blitt et begrep som beskriver nødvendigheten av å digitalisere i alle dagens organisasjoner. Digitalisering skal gi gevinster som effektivisering og kostnadsredusering og har derfor også fått økt ...

• Can we expect corporations to care about climate change? 

  Viste, Line Njaa (Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-12)

  Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and in the recent decade, the attention of this issue has grown exponentially. The focus has to a large degree shifted from debating if human behaviour ...

• "Slik gjør vi det hos oss, og slik av vi alltid gjort det" Forsvarlighetsvikt i barnevernet 

  Haver, Ine (Master thesis, 2021)

• What drives brand love and purchase intentions toward the local food distribution system? A study of social media-based REKO (fair consumption) groups 

  Kumar, Sushant; Murphy, Mikko; Talwar, Shalini; Kaur, Puneet; Dhir, Amandeep (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)

  Local food is gaining increasing popularity among consumers due to its association with sustainable consumption. However, for a product to be commercially successful, such growing popularity should translate into high ...

• Popular Attitudes Towards the Distribution of Vaccines Against COVID-19: The Swiss Case 

  Knotz, Carlo Michael; Gandenberger, Mia K.; Fossati, Flavia; Bonoli, Giuliano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)

  With the arrival of vaccines against the novel coronavirus in late 2020, the issue of how vaccines should be distributed and which groups should be prioritized has become salient. We study popular attitudes toward the ...

• Ways of Seeing Children: Perspectives of Social Workers in Chile and Norway. 

  Jensen, Ida Bruheim (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-05)

  The overall aim of this project was to gain extended insights into social workers’ perspectives of children in child protection work in Chile and Norway. Q methodology was applied to meet this aim, as it is suitable for ...

• Early detection of ultra high risk for psychosis in a Norwegian catchment area: The two year follow-up of the Prevention of Psychosis study 

  Joa, Inge; Bjørnestad, Jone Ravndal; Johannessen, Jan Olav; Langeveld, Johannes Hendrik; Stain, Helen J.; Weibell, Melissa Anne Elin Authen; Hegelstad, Wenche (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)

  Objectives: Most individuals experience a relatively long period of sub-clinical psychotic like symptoms, known as the ultra high risk (UHR) or at risk mental states (ARMS), prior to a first episode of psychosis. Approximately ...

• Attachment as Affective Assimilation: Discourses on Love and Kinship in the Context of Transnational Adoption in Denmark 

  Myong, Lene; Bissenbakker, Mons (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)

  This article attempts to initiate a critical dialogue on the politics of love and attachment by investigating the way in which the concept of attachment governs the field of transnational adoption. We take our starting ...

• Is it love? A study of young people’s personal impressions and experiences of relationships in residential care in a Norwegian treatment collective. 

  Lone, Arvid; Paulsen, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)

  The main objective of this study was to gain insight into young people’s experiences with positive emotional relationships with staff in residential care. Because positive relationships have been shown to be of great ...

• Employable as we age? A systematic review of relationships between age conceptualizations and employability 

  De Lange, Antoinette Harmke; Van der Heijden, Beatrice I.J.M.; Van Vuuren, Tinka; Furunes, Trude; De Lange, Christiane; Dikkers, Josje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)

  This systematic review aimed to provide an overview of earlier research on the relationships between age conceptualizations (i.e., calendar age, organizational age, lifespan age, psychosocial age, and functional age) and ...

• The non-substitutability of local news? Advertising and the decline of journalism's umbrella market model 

  Sjøvaag, Helle; Owren, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)

  This article addresses the challenges facing local newspapers as the digital economy transitions to artificial intelligence (AI). We interview five CEOs of Scandinavian newspaper corporations, representing small, mid-sized, ...

• Medarbeiderdrevet Innovasjon i Eiendomsmeglerbransjen 

  Hvam, Håkon Ingulfsen; Vik, Anders (Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2021-01-15)

  Innovasjon er avgjørende for bedrifters overlevelse både økonomisk og i henhold til konkurranse. Covid-19 påvirker sektorene i arbeidslivet ulikt, og i eiendomsmeglerbransjen i Norge ser det ut til å bli solgt flere boliger ...

• Hva sier forskningslitteraturen om sammenhengen mellom organisasjonskultur og organisasjoners ytelse? -En litteraturstudie 

  Schønborg, Julie (Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2021-01)

  Denne litteraturstudien undersøker sammenhengen mellom organisasjonskultur og organisasjonsytelse. Det er i faglitteraturen gitt flere fremstillinger av denne sammenhengen, men på mange ulike måter og temaene -og sammenhengene ...

• Biodiversity and the Smart City: How can citizen science increase co-operation 

  Clarke, Hugh (Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2021-01)

  Biodiversity has suffered huge declines in recent decades. Meanwhile, smart city initiatives have become very popular in urban settings as a way of tackling society’s problems. The purpose of this study is to look at the ...

• Would you be interested in participating in a study about hospital readmissions…? Experiences with methodological strategies and techniques for recruiting GPs to participate in qualitative research 

  Glette, Malin Knutsen; Kringeland, Tone Åslaug; Røise, Olav; Wiig, Siri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)

  General Practitioners (GPs) are an asset in healthcare research, considering the amount of knowledge they hold about the primary healthcare service. However, GPs have proven difficult to recruit as participants in both ...

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