Fakultet for økonomi og samfunnsvitskap / Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences
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House price valuation of environmental amenities. An application of GIS-derived data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Hedonic house price models are frequently used to improve our understanding of local housing markets. In recent years, rich registers containing details about home‐qualities and neighbourhood characteristics have successfully ... -
Videolegen som institusjonell entreprenør
(Chapter, 2020)Samtidig som fastlegeordningen i Norge har fått tiltakende kapasitetsproblem, har det vokst fram private helsetjenesteaktører som tilbyr allmennlegetjenester på video. I artikkelen ser vi på det heldigitale selskapet KRY, ... -
Lokale frivillige: mer nyttige enn sentrale profesjonelle?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Samvirke er et kjernebegrep i beredskapsarbeidet og redningstjenesten i Norge. Vår hypotese er at grunnlaget for samvirke mellom offentlige og frivillige ressurser i beredskapsarbeid og krisehåndtering blir skapt lokalt, ... -
Youth Experiences of and Views on Un-locked Coercive Placement in Residential Child Care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article explores Norwegian youth experiences of and views on coercive placement in un-locked residential child care institutions. Inspired by Antonovsky’s salutogenic theory, the article discusses factors that make ... -
What Triggers Us to Be Involved in Martial Arts? Relationships between Motivations and Gender, Age and Training Experience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The study aims to recognize the motivations to engage in judo depending on gender, age and level of sports experience among nonelite judokas from the Greater Poland region because previous studies mostly concerned the ... -
Skills, Gender, and Performance Matter when Undergraduate Business Students Choose Specialisation within Business Courses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The purpose of this article is to explore the heterogeneity among undergraduate Norwegian business students. This is made visible by the students’ choice of subjects in their third year. The chosen methodology is the ... -
Promoting leadership and quality improvement through external inspections of management of sepsis in Norwegian hospitals: a focus group study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Objective Inspections and other forms of external assessment may contribute to positive changes in the health services, but the mechanisms of such change remain unclear. We did a study to explore how external inspections ... -
Labor hoarding: An old phenomena in modern times? Case study for EU countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A consequence of similar institutional conditions of domestic labor markets in Europe is the permanent occurrence of the “labor hoarding” phenomenon, which entails non-immediate adaptation of employment to production ... -
Inspecting teams' and organisations' expectations regarding external inspections in health care: a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background There is a gap in the literature regarding what takes place between the announcement of a regulatory intervention, such as an external inspection of a health care organisation, and the inspecting body’s site ... -
Studying/Exploring the issues towards automation of the LARS
(Master thesis, 2020)Autonomous vessels and its subsea operations are not merely one of many sides of technological progress, but it will be also an innovation that disrupts and induces a paradigm shift in the ship industry as a whole. Recently, ... -
Selvbetjente kasser i Sogndal, på godt eller vondt?
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Standardisering og profesjonelt skjønn i høykonfliktmekling - er det plass til begge deler?: En studie om familievernets meklingstilbud
(Master thesis, 2018)Tema for denne studien tar utgangspunkt i at Barne- ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet (Bufdir) har satt i gang et nasjonalt arbeid med å videreutvikle familievernets meklingstilbud til foreldre med fastlåst høyt konfliktnivå ... -
Factors that Explain Undergraduate Business Students’ Performance in Their Chosen Field. Does Gender Matter?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The purpose of this study is to find out how undergraduate students perform in selected courses at a business school. Management and communication oriented courses require different skills to those of core business courses. ... -
IoT for Development of Smart Dairy Farming
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Internet of things (IoT) and data-driven techniques are creating greater opportunities for smart dairy farming. The demand for milk is continuously increasing due to increasing population of the world. The consumption of ... -
Hvilken innvirkning har Black Week på handelsnæringen i Haugesund?
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Levegg eller vindmølle?
(Master thesis, 2020)Denne masteroppgaven handler om skolen som lærende organisasjon og om skoleleders ansvar og rolle i utvikling av det profesjonelle fellesskapet. Jeg har valgt å se nærmere på begrepet mentale modeller og hvordan skoleleder ... -
Lederstiler : lederes forståelse og bruk
(Master thesis, 2020)Tema: I denne oppgaven tar jeg for meg begreptet lederstiler. Jeg retter søkelyset på ledere i skolen og hvilke lederstiler de benytter seg av i ulike situasjoner, og hvordan de er bevisst sin bruk av lederstiler i ulike ... -
Ulike typer arbeid i plattformøkonomien
(Master thesis, 2020)Formålet med denne masteroppgaven er å besvare problemstillingen: «Hvilke begreper benyttes i litteraturen for å beskrive arbeid i plattformøkonomien og hva er likhetene og ulikhetene mellom dem?» Plattformøkonomien har ... -
Prediction markets and contract design
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)Traditionally, the main function of prediction markets (PMs) has been to provide information about probabilities for various events. Good information requires a well-functioning market, which in turn depends on sufficient ... -
Prediction markets as a tool for management of political risk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)Recently, several prediction markets for various events have been launched. The literature so far has focused on the predictive power of such markets. This paper considers such markets as tools for management of political ...