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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 ... -
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments ... -
Who knows the risk? A multilevel study of systematic variations in work-related safety knowledge in the European workforce
(Occupational and environmental medicine;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-11-14)Objectives Health and safety instructions are important components of occupational prevention. Albeit instruction is mandatory in most countries, research suggests that safety knowledge varies among the workforce. We ... -
Who Teams up with the European Parliament? Examining Multilevel Party Cooperation in the European Union
(Government and Opposition;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11-08)As in nearly all European Union (EU) policy areas, scholars have turned to analysing the role of national parliaments, in addition to that of the European Parliament (EP), in trade politics. Yet, there is limited understanding ... -
Whose stories are told and who is made responsible? Human-interest framing in health journalism in Norway, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.
(Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-25)Human-interest narratives are journalistic tools to captivate and engage the audience, influence public opinion and bring revenue to media organizations. This paper analyses how human-interest narratives are used in ... -
Why and how? Case-based teaching in interprofessional and interdisciplinary education
(Nordisk tidsskrift for utdanning og praksis;Vol. 15, No. 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-03)The field of interprofessional education is complex and intricate. Students from different professions, who have distinctive knowledge bases, develop a mutual understanding of how to work together in future professional ... -
Why textual search interfaces fail: a study of cognitive skills needed to construct successful queries
(Information research;Vol. 24 No. 1, March, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03)Introduction. It has been suggested that cognitive characteristics may affect search. This study investigated how decoding abilities, short-term memory capacity and rapid automatised naming skills relate to query ... -
Willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine as reported nine months after the pandemic outbreak: A cross-national study
(Social Sciences;Volume 10, Issue 11, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11-20)Although vaccination has been identified as an effective measure of reducing the spread of COVID-19, hesitancy to obtain a vaccine for COVID-19 has been shared. The aim of this cross-national study was to examine (i) the ...