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What makes employees stay? Mastery climate, psychological need satisfaction and on-the-job embeddedness
(Nordic Psychology;Volume 73, 2021 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-16)Job embeddedness was developed as a new perspective to explain employee retention, and recent research has demonstrated its predictive power of voluntary turnover. However, little is known about factors that might influence ... -
What makes leaders humble? A quantitative analysis of their personality traits and implicit motives
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis explores what makes a leader humble. Building on theory on personality traits, implicit motives and moral leadership we conducted a quantitative, cross-sectional study to examine various factors that contribute ... -
What professionals say and do: the tension between egalitarianism and hierarchy in interprofessional teamwork
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study aimed to explore the power dynamics in interprofessional teamwork by conducting an ethnographic study of three interprofessional teams working in mental health and substance use services in Norway. Data were ... -
“What researchers now can tell us” : Representing scientific uncertainty in journalism
(OBS - Observatorio;3, (4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)Little research has been done on how journalism deals with and constructs scientific uncertainty. This paper applies Critical Discourse Analysis to explore how scientific uncertainty (and certainty) is constructed in news ... -
What were considered to be good books in the time of popular enlightenment? The view of philanthropists compared to the view of a farmer
(Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2013)The enlightenment movement in Denmark - Norway had a practical/rational orientation, but was also religiously motivated. Towards the end of the 18th Century a new genre of book was established: enlightenment books, ... -
What's stopping them? : towards a grounded theory of online journalism
(Journalism Studies;10 (6), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-12)Findings in recent research suggest that online journalism is much less innovative than many researchers and scholars predicted a decade ago. Research into online journalism has, however, been biased towards a focus on ... -
When Aping a Politician as an Ape: Making Sense of Political Caricatures on the Boundaries of Journalism
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)Political caricature is a subset of satire that visually exposes and ridicules the foolish behavior of persons engaged in power struggles in society. Political caricatures have a strong capacity to provoke and offend. ... -
When Divergence Appears Coherent: An Investigation of How Ambiguous Policy Rationales Shape the Activation Trajectories of Hard-toemploy Clients
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When do Investment Banks use IPO Price Support?
(European Financial Management;Volume 25, Issue 3, June 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-27)Practitioners, regulators, and the financial media argue that underwriters tie initial public offering (IPO) allocations to investor post-listing buying of the issuer shares in a process labelled price support. Arguably, ... -
When female circumcision comes to the West: Attitudes toward the practice among Somali Immigrants in Oslo
(BMC Public Health;12(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background Female circumcision (FC) has lifelong adverse social and health consequences for women, and its abolition will not only enhance the health of children and women, but also promote gender equality. Like many ... -
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post‑industrial Europe
(Social Theory & Health;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-10-07)This paper explores the general relationship between peoples’ health-related practices and their affiliation with different fields in the occupational structure. It argues that ‘healthy behaviour’ may be particularly induced ... -
When is a Poet an Instapoet? : The effect of platformization on the practice of being a poet, and instapoets as examples of poetry content creators in the Social Media Entertainment ecosystem
(Baltic Screen Media Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Through professional social media accounts, poets can become actors in the ecosystem of Social Media Entertainment (SME). In this article, using an ecological perspective, the accounts of five poets are treated as exhibits ... -
When Trustworthy Information Becomes Inaccessible: The Search Behaviour of Users with Dyslexia in an Online Encyclopedia
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)The ability to search for trustworthy information has become increasingly important. Access to information is key for a democratic, inclusive society. However, poorly designed search user interfaces exclude certain user ... -
Where are we now? – (Almost) a decade with the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
(Conflict and Communication Online;Vol. 18, No. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article takes UNESCO’s Academic Research Agenda on Safety of Journalists as its point of departure. We presentan overview of contributions to a selection of research conferences and academic publications focusing on ... -
Where You Lead, I Will Follow: Leader–Member Exchange,Motivation to Lead and Employee Counterproductive Work Behavior
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The leader–follower relationship plays an important role in preventing employees from engaging in counterproductive work behavior (CWB). We investigate the interplay among perceived leader–member exchange (LMX), leaders’ ... -
Which factors are reliably important for predicting leverage?
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis examines various determinants that affect capital structure in the Norwegian market from 1994-2019. Our study presents some important theoretical framework and previous empirical evidence in order to highlight ... -
Which Formal and Informal Structures Constrain and Enable Collaboration Between School Libraries and Teachers?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Collaboration between teachers and librarians is necessary to fulfil the intention of the regulations of the Norwegian Education Act. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 school librarians in upper secondary school ... -
Whiffs of home. Ethnographic comparison in a collaborative research study across European cities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article discusses how a process of ethnographic comparison has taken place in a project dealing with home and migration, with a particular focus on the social qualities of smell. This project highlights comparative ... -
Who am I as an entrepreneur? Exploring Formation of Entrepreneurial Identity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper explores how participation in accelerator programs, which are aimed at scaling ventures, influences the self-perceptions of the participants. An entrepreneur’s identity is considered important in both theory and ... -
Who Cares for Caregivers? Exploring social health among family caregivers of people living with dementia
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis explores social health among caregivers of people living with dementia. Secondary analysis of qualitative interview data draws new information and perspectives from existing data. This analysis is a secondary ...