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Reading Books in the Digital Age subsequent to Amazon, Google and the long tail
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)Presenting a wide range of literature, this article explores the state of art in book research, paying particular attention to John B. Thompson’s interpretation of digital transformations within the book industry, as ... -
Stubbornness, power, and equlibrium selection in repeated games with multiple equilibra
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-03)Axelrod’s [(1970), Conflict of Interest, Markham Publishers, Chicago] index of conflict in 2 × 2 games with two pure strategy equilibria has the property that a reduction in the cost of holding out corresponds to an increase ... -
The impact of the future in games with multiple equilibria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-08)The article shows that in a game with multiple equilibria, where one player estimates that there is at least a minuscule probability that the other player acquiesces, then conflict is inevitable if both players value the ... -
Exchange, raiding, and the shadow of the future
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-04)A two-period exchange model is developed where production decisions in the first period determine the amount of resources available in the second period. Each agent allocates resources to defend its production and attack ... -
Whether to attack a terrorist’s resource stock today or tomorrow
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-11)A terrorist defends an asset which grows from the first to the second period and is attacked. With large asset growth, the terrorist's first period outcome is low caused by a large attack. With no expenditure constraint, ... -
Risk limits, conflict, and equilibrium selection in games with multiple equilibria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)A risk limit conflict measure is developed as the product of the two players’ maximum probabilities of being recalcitrant when pursuing a preferred equilibrium. Although the justification for it is different, the measure ... -
Striking a different balance: work-family conflict for female and male managers in a Scandinavian context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how male and female managers may regulate their workload differently in response to conflicting job‐home pressures. The main hypothesis is that female managers seek to ... -
Protection vs. separation in parallel non-homogeneous systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)The article considers strategic defense and attack of a system consisting of N functionally identical parallel elements of n types distinguished by element’s performance. The elements can be separated in order to reduce ... -
Approaching doomsday: how SARS was presented in the Norwegian media
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-08)This article reviews why SARS received so much media attention in Norway, beginning with descriptions of the dynamics and dilemmas faced in health risk communication from the point of view of medical experts and ... -
Conflicting goals and mixed roles in risk regulation: a case study of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-12)This paper discusses the challenge of a regulator being on a position of preventing organisational accidents in high-technology domains when causes are complex, often poorly understood and with an open or hidden expectation ... -
Risk, price, and reimbursement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article offers five hypotheses for the inverse relationship between risk and price in terms of first and second derivatives, establishing ranges of convexity, linearity, concavity. Negative price means reimbursement. ... -
Can large-scale cultural events lead to cultural scepticism? Tracing unintended consequences of Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Large scale cultural events often have idealistic aims of affecting participants and spectators in a positive manner, by widening public’s cultural understandings and horizons. The ‘Open Port’ motto chosen for the ... -
Digital reading spaces: How expert readers handle books, the Web and electronic paper
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)This paper focuses on changing reading characteristics and presents a study among a group of expert readers. Considering technological bases of reading and applying corporeal and material perspectives, this study examines ... -
Whether to attack growing assets and enterprises today or tomorrow
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)An asset possessed by a defender grows from the first to the second period and is attacked in both periods. With large growth, there is no attack in the first period. Conflict is eliminated. The attacker postpones the ... -
Risk, production and conflict when utilities are as if certain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article analyses a production and conflict model of risk, supplementing the common rent seeking analysis. Agents differ in attitudes toward risk, productive efficiencies, fighting efficiencies and resources for production ... -
Risk regulation in the North Sea : a common law perspective on Norwegian legislation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The paper include an assessment of the development of the Norwegian regulatory system based on legislative written text, but also compare the impact (efficiency/effectiveness) of the regulatory regime. The theoretical basis ... -
Stochastic Theories and Deterministic Differential Equations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-05)We discuss the concept of “hydrodynamic” stochastic theory, which is not based on the traditional Markovian concept. A Wigner function developed for friction is used for the study of operators in quantum physics, and for ... -
Shield versus sword resource distribution in K-round duels
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-06)The paper considers optimal resource distribution between offense and defense in a duel. In each round of the duel two actors exchange attacks distributing the offense resources equally across K rounds. The offense ... -
Production, safety, exchange, and risk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Two agents convert resources into safety investment and production while exchanging goods voluntarily. Safety investment ensures reduction of costly risk. High unit cost of safety effort reduces both productive effort ... -
Active vs. passive defense against a strategic attacker
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The article analyzes how a defender determines a balance between protecting an object (passive defense) and striking preventively against an attacker seeking to destroy the object (active defense). The attacker analogously ...