Browsing PhD theses (SV-NHS) by Title
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Parent-child feeding interactions: The Influence of Child Cognitions and Parental Feeding Behaviors on Child Healthy Eating
(PhD thesis UiS;158, Doctoral thesis, 2012-04-26)With the increasing prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity in mind, the main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of preadolescent children’s eating behavior in the context ... -
Possible Effects of Performance Appraisal in Municipal Health Service
(PhD thesis UiS;179, Doctoral thesis, 2012-11-29)Performance appraisals have generally been conducted to increase the professional learning and development of employees, but are also a tool for management and dissemination of goals, wage agreements and influencing employee ... -
Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Organization: Frontline Employees’ Perception of Workplace Incivility
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-08)Given the different norms across cultures, industries, and organizations, every workplace accepts a number of shared moral understandings as to its own respect norms among the members. However, in today’s global workplace, ... -
The Process of Leadership : From Leadership Styles to Subordinates’ Attitudes and Behaviors in the Hospitality Industry
(;219, Doctoral thesis, 2014-02-21)Background: This thesis is based on the context of China’s hotel industry. Since the enactment of China’s opening up policy in 1978, its hotel market has attracted many international hotel operators, and it was opened to ... -
Three Studies of B2B Salespeople as Collectors of Competitive Intelligence
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023-03)B2B salespeople’s ability to collect competitive intelligence from the marketplace affects organizational and individual competitive advantage and, in turn, firm and salesperson performance. The collection, sharing and use ... -
Tourists and Communities in Rural Festival Encounters: A mutually beneficial relationship?
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2019-02)In this thesis, I have aimed to make visible how small-scale festivals in rural areas, despite minimal direct economic impact, are important for the development of tourism as well as the benefit of local communities. ... -
“You just get sucked into it”: The Immersion Process in Managed Visitor Attractions
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-02)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nature of the immersion process, the process through which consumers become immersed, in the context of managed visitor attractions. This is a nascent research topic that has ...