Faculty of Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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“I don't know what to do—Could it be cultural?” The operationalization of cultural sensitivity among street‐level workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Faced with increased global migration and a more ethnically diverse clientele, several studies stress the need for more culturally sensitive welfare services. Others warn that the focus on culture might lead to the ... -
Feeling the Service Product Closer: Triggering Visit Intention via Virtual Reality
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study examines the essential characteristics of Virtual Reality (VR) that influence individual visit intention towards a touristic product. Despite the extensive research about VR, however, only little has examined ... -
Consumers’ resistance to digital innovations: A systematic review and framework development
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Consumer resistance is one of the major causes of failure of any innovation. Despite rising academic interest, the non-adoption of digital innovation or consumer resistance has received less scholarly attention as compared ... -
Agenda dynamics and policy priorities in military regimes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Despite the policy-relevant aspirations of military regimes, scholars have shown surprisingly little interest in exploring the agenda dynamics and policy processes in these regimes. We sought to close this gap by analysing ... -
Strategic and Organisational fit in Corporate News Markets: A Principal-agent Approach to Studying Newspaper Mergers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article analyses strategic and organisational fit in corporate newspaper mergers in the context of the digitalisation of local newspaper markets. Using the 2019 acquisition of Nordsjø Media by Amedia in Norway as case, ... -
Constructive Leadership and Employee Innovative Behaviors: A Serial Mediation Model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study aims to examine the influence of constructive leadership practices on the service innovative behaviors of hotel employees by a serial mediation system that treats employee psychological safety and employee ... -
Burnout and Time Perspective of Blue-Collar Workers at the Shipyard
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: The aim of the research was to investigate the association between time perspective in relation to burnout and successful ageing of blue-collar workers with physically highly demanding work and low autonomy. ... -
Gender self-identification
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Health equity and universal provision in Norway: a case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article reports on a qualitative study undertaken to explore the policy-practice nexus of health policy in Norway in relation to the provision and delivery of maternal health services to migrant women. The research ... -
The impact of performance-based policy in offender rehabilitation: limitations for liaison and diversion organizations and their front-line workers.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In recent years, the English government has been using competitive elements in the process of allocating public funds through policy. Front-line workers struggle with the limitations imposed by such a model. A qualitative ... -
Personal therapy and the personal therapist
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Personal therapy has been proposed as an aid in promoting the professional development of psychotherapists by increasing their self-awareness, self-reflexivity, and self-knowledge of the therapy process and of personal ... -
Negative information, cognitive load, and taste perceptions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Previous research on consumer’s evaluation of how good or bad a food product tastes have found that activating memory-based perceptions or presenting non-taste related product information influence the taste judgment. In ... -
Norway’s Environmental Aid to Myanmar: Driven by Donor Interests or Recipient Needs?
(Master thesis, 2022)Norway is among the most generous providers of official development aid (ODA), with its annual aid allocation reaching 1 percent of its gross national income (GNI) since 1974. As one of Norway's partner countries in Asia, ... -
Health care access by transgender persons in South Africa: Gender-based discrimination, human rights violations, and the role of the African human rights system
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-12)LGBTQIA people, all around the world, experience violence, discrimination, and rights violations almost daily. In the field of human rights and healthcare more specifically, trans people have unique health risks and they ... -
Latin American perspectives on Indigenous social work: in search of mind, body, and soul
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-12-09)Despite sharing different cultures, customs, and pasts, Indigenous peoples in Latin America often face similar problems such as eviction from their ancestral lands, persecution, cultural genocide, and loss of their ... -
Air‐Travelers’ Perceptions of Service Quality during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Evidence from TripAdvisor.com
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted both healthcare and the economy on a global scale. This pandemic has changed consumer habits and behaviors significantly, primarily because of confinement-related issues. While numerous ... -
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent ... -
The epistemology of debunking argumentation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)There is an ever-growing literature on what exactly the condition or criterion is that enables some (but not all) debunking arguments to undermine our beliefs. In this paper, I develop a novel schema for debunking ... -
Jobbspesialist i NAV – en krysning mellom veileder og selger. Hvordan trives med å stå «i spagat»?
(Studentoppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08)Sammendrag De siste tiårene har det vokst frem en alternativ tilnærming til arbeidsinkludering som omtales som Supported Employment (SE), der Jobbspesialister er ansatt for å arbeide målrettet med arbeidssøkere med ... -
Samhandling under krevende omstendigheter
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)I denne oppgaven har jeg studert mer inngående gransking i norsk petroleumssektor. Dette på bakgrunn av en periode med flere hendelser, og et uttrykt ønske om at trenden skal snus angående de sikkerhetsmessige utfordringene. ...