Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (SV-IMS): Recent submissions
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The leadership challenge of industrial sustainability : The case of Norway
(Chapter, 2023)Arguably, management education and leadership practice must be transformed to address sustainable values of today’s working life. Delivering a sustainable value chain requires a new brand of leadership, thinking and ... -
Looking back to look forward: Reflections from networked research on energy poverty
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Energy poverty is a far-reaching concept that intrinsically bridges numerous fields of study, ranging from engineering to anthropology and medical science to social psychology. The profound implications of energy poverty ... -
Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism
(Chapter, 2023)Norway has the world-class ambition to make transport more sustainable and climate friendly. Its electric vehicle (EV) rollout is celebrated by and aspirational for other countries, manifesting the imaginary of technological ... -
The calm before the storm? The making of a lithium frontier in transitioning Portugal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A nation undergoing accelerating energy transitions with ambitious climate targets discovers lithium. In recent years, Portugal has made headlines inter alia for running on renewable electricity for over a month, setting ... -
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)With Green Deals and a competitive techno-economic basis for low-carbon energy transitions, energy infrastructural change is intensifying. This is matched by rapid growth in scholarship on sociotechnical transitions and ... -
Social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Digitalisation provides opportunities to decarbonise energy and, simultaneously, address social exclusion and inequality—but it is unclear whether and how these opportunities are realised. Three case studies investigate ... -
Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway's Zero Growth Objective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Climate-related targets for cities abound, but it is unclear how important they are in driving actual transformations. Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious ... -
Conceptualizing academic sustainability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-11)Recently, academia has become an arena of political conflict that results in the corrosion of academic life in general. Restrictions of academic freedom and lack of research autonomy, in addition to standardized success ... -
Social media wellbeing: Perceived wellbeing amidst social media use in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02)Social media use is a topical issue and raises several concerns including online comparison and social media fatigue, which have implications on the perceived wellbeing of users. Thus, this study explores how university ... -
Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article introduces the concept of inversion as a rhetorical-political strategy used to redescribe climate concerns from being sacrificed in favour of profitability to seeing that profitability necessitates climate ... -
Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies. An exploratory analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Academic research is currently undergoing a wave of contestation, ranging from violent attacks and life-threatening situations to public undermining of their research and online threats and harassment. A variety of actors ... -
Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real-time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation ... -
Archives
(Chapter, 2023)International organizations (IOs) have left behind an abundance of documents and other archival material. Combined with state and personal collections, these offer a rich basis for IO studies. Researchers can use archives ... -
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 ... -
Accountability implications for intermediaries in upscaling: Energy community rollouts in Portugal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)With the increasing diffusion of solar energy, its conditioning by intermediaries merits attention. Depending on the accountability relations between stakeholders, intermediaries can influence the speed of diffusion. We ... -
A political game?: the dispute over the Canal Istanbul project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study aims to understand how ideologies become embedded in political projects through strategies of legitimation aimed at justifying specific ideas, beliefs, and emotions. By using the political negotiation between ... -
Rice Fields, Mountains and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture
(Chapter, 2023)A trip through the South Korean countryside means passing through landscapes dominated by rice fields and tree-covered mountains. This landscape, and the farmers working the land, represents a kind of national authenticity ... -
When Innovative Ideas Encounter Institutions: An Analytical Model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-06)This paper presents an analytical model for studying “encounters” that take place when ideas for innovation meet institutions (The IIE-model). Our model aims to expand the dichotomous barriers/driver approach in innovation ... -
Scholarly reading (and writing) and the power of impact factors: a study of distributed cognition and intellectual habits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Using observational interviews and introducing theories of embodied and distributed cognition, this study examines the scholarly reading and the intellectual habits of a group of social scientists. All participants were ... -
Disclosing gender-based violence online: strengthening feminist collective agency or creating further vulnerabilities?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)The withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention (in March 2021) and the high prevalence of gender-based violence reflect the current patriarchal political atmosphere in Turkey. Such backlash occurred despite the strong feminist ...