Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (SV-IMS) by Title
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Managing institutional complexity in public sector reform: Hybridization in front-line service organizations
(Journal article, 2015)In this article, we explore how public front-line service organizations respond to contradictory demands for institutional reform and the types of hybridization this entails. Our research context is a major administrative ... -
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)To prevent radicalisation and violent extremism, many European countries have adopted a multiagency approach, consisting of both police, teachers and social workers. Such strategies have caused concern for a securitization ... -
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 ... -
Mentoring after prison : recognition as a tool for reflection
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Many organisations offer mentoring schemes to support people leaving prison and resettle back into the community. Mentorship relationships are complex but despite this, there remains limited theoretical and/or research ... -
Men’s rights activism and anti-feminist resistance in Turkey and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05)This article by addressing the growing anti-feminist activism and mobilization and its consequences for gender equality and women’s rights, sheds light on antifeminist resistance in Turkey and Norway. Using the concept of ... -
Micropolitical Practices of Multispatial Metagovernance in Rural Denmark
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01)Research on governance, network governance and metagovernance has shown how the practice of governing involves a diversity of actors in and beyond the state. Much attention has been paid to the role of powerful state and ... -
Migration and intergroup conflict
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2000-12)Two groups in conflict produce and appropriate internally generated consumable output in a two-stage game assuming equal within-group sharing and endogenous group sizes. It is shown how agents leave groups with high ... -
Mini-Grids at the Interface: The Deployment of Mini-Grids in Urbanizing Localities of the Global South
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Based on fieldwork conducted in Senegal, Tanzania, and India, this article argues for a territorialized approach to mini-grids. One of the most sought-after solutions to electrification and transition to renewable energies ... -
Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)As renewable energy sources increasingly outcompete fossil fuels on cost and efficiency, novel questions arise around how, when, and where renewables can displace fossil energy. We need to understand fossil fuel displacement ... -
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology- forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper addresses the implementation of technology-forcing policies in open-ended diffusion processes that involve companies and regulators as well as consumers and civil society actors. Mobilising insights from the ... -
Negotiating municipal merger: Understanding negotiation arenas through perspectives of social order and logics of negotiation.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02)This article contributes to organizational research by describing the format and space of negotiation arenas – temporary arenas with diverse social order characteristics. The article also contributes to our understanding ... -
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Cities play increasingly recognised roles in global climate change responses: as change laboratories, spaces of opportunity, and as administrative and economic hubs that concentrate human and financial resources and needs. ... -
The non-substitutability of local news? Advertising and the decline of journalism's umbrella market model
(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, ... -
Nordic populists as hegemony challengers
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter explores populism in Nordic countries where there is a long tradition of heterogeneous, populist parties with incompatible political ideologies transforming over decades. Populist parties have emerged as a ... -
Norwegian media substantiation of counterterrorism measures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-10)The aim of this article is to investigate how terrorism countermeasures have been justified and reasoned for in the public arena, specifically in Norwegian media discourses from 1993 to 2007. Changes in the media discourse ... -
En nytteforventningsanalyse av kriminalitet og straff
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)Kriminell atferd bør analyseres ut fra motiv om forventet fordel veid opp mot forventet kostnad i form av straff. I Norge har kriminaliteten økt med en faktor 9 fra 1956-2002 mens fengsling har økt med faktor 1,3. ... -
Occupational injury rates among Norwegian farmers: A sociotechnical perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Introduction: This study addressed relative injury risk among Norwegian farmers, who are mostly self-employed and run small farm enterprises. The aim was to explore the relative importance of individual, enterprise, and ... -
Omnipresent Publicness : Social media natives and protective strategies on non-participation in online surveillance
(Chapter, 2023)People’s perceptions of and experiences within online spaces are central to understanding implications of current online surveillance mechanisms. The aim of this study was to gain insight into how people accustomed to ... -
On the impossibility of deterrence in sequential Colonel Blotto games
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-06)A sequential Colonel Blotto and rent seeking game with fixed and variable resources is analyzed. With fixed resources, which is the assumption in Colonel Blotto games, we show for the common ratio form contest success ... -
On the way. Men's and women's managerial careers in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article analyzes how men’s and women’s careers are influenced by path dependence, different career determinants, and generation gaps. The analysis is based on panel data from AFF’s leadership surveys, and follows a ...