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How to sit on Two Sides of the Table? Swedish and Norwegian Unions’ Approaches to Representative Worker Participation during the 20th Century
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08)To this day, participation rights in Sweden have been reserved for union members both on the company level and on the board level, while all employees in companies, which are covered by respective agreements and laws, have ... -
How virtual meetings stimulate process innovations in organisations: mixed-methods evidence from emergency response providers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Although meetings are an omnipresent organisational practice for interactive idea generation, we know little about how the switch to digital forms affects innovation-oriented behaviours in meetings. This sequential ... -
How wearing a mask and practicing physical ( social ) distancing is changing the shape of Covid-19 pandemics spread curve in Serbia? System Dynamics analysis
(Master thesis, 2020-09-01)Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, emerged in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, in early December 2019. During the time of writing these lines, numbers of infected ... -
(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)How do voters evaluate women candidates in places where traditional gender norms are strong? We conduct a survey experiment in Malawi to assess both whether citizens discriminate against women candidates and how other ... -
Human computer interaction design for data mining in cancer registries
(Master thesis, 2014-06-01)Cancer registries are created, managed and data mined to gain knowledge about long-term outcomes, effects of the medication and clinical factors influencing the patient well-being. Such clinical registries have been a good ... -
A human rights-based approach to poverty eradication: strategies and experiences from the field
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The Human Version 2.0: AI, Humanoids, and Immortality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates new ethnography on AI development relating to imaginaries of technoscientific forms of immortality. As a Think Piece in Analytics, it engages in a somewhat experimental comparative endeavor as I ... -
Human-water dynamics and their role for seasonal water scarcity – a case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Ensuring sustainable management and an adequate supply of freshwater resources is a growing challenge around the world. Even in historically water abundant regions climate change together with population growth and economic ... -
Humanitarian Diplomacy at the United Nations
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-09)I en verden preget av kriser, langvarige væpnede konflikter og hyppigere naturkatastrofer på grunn av klimaendringer, forventes humanitære behov på tvers av landegrenser og kontinenter å øke. Dette tvinger humanitære aktører ... -
Humankapital og grunnskolen
(Master thesis, 2018-06-23)Denne oppgaven har som mål å se nærmere på utviklingen av humankapital fra grunnskolen i perioden 1739-1935. Dette har blitt gjort ved å estimere denne kapitalbeholdningens verdi ved å bruke den retrospektive kostnadsmetoden ... -
Humble Bumble - Using gamification as a motivator to create environmentally friendly habits
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Humble Bumble – Creating a mobile application to promote environmentally friendly acts
(Master thesis, 2019-09-28)This thesis presents research involving the design and evaluation of a high-fidelity smartphone prototype, called Humble Bumble. Humble Bumble has been designed to motivate people to do environmentally friendly acts in ... -
Humus-rich topsoils in SW Norway – Molecular and isotopic signatures of soil organic matter as indicators for anthropo-pedogenesis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)Some previous studies showed that the formation of several deep dark humus-rich topsoils in Northern Europe was strongly influenced by the application of different organic materials by anthropogenic activities in former ... -
The Hungarian Judiciary: A Guardian in Need of Rescuing? A study of judicial independence in Hungary since the transition to democracy in 1989
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)This thesis investigates the state of the Hungarian judiciary, in terms of judicial independence and authority, asking how this has developed since the transition to democracy in 1989-1990, and why. The focus is on both ... -
Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How can we better understand the architecture of government? Governmental structures are regularly altered by the dispersion of power upward and downward to supranational and subnational bodies. The preferences of citizens ... -
Hva er de konkurranseøkonomiske effektene av prisparitetsklausuler?
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15) -
Hva er det med Norge? En studie av polske arbeidsinnvandrere i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2008)Migrasjon er ikke et nytt fenomen. Menneskers fysiske forflytning over landegrenser, fra en region til en annen, og fra en landsby til en annen, er et fenomen like gammelt som mennesket selv. Ulike betingelser har imidlertid ... -
Hva er forholdet mellom MNC, kunnskapsflyt og fornyelse i en næringsklynge? En studie av MNC i NCE Subsea-klyngen.
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)Denne oppgaven ser nærmere på multinasjonale selskaper (MNC) i NCE Subsea-klyngen. NCE Subsea er en regional klynge i Hordalandsregionen. Den består hovedsakelig av bedrifter som spesialisert inn mot ettermarkedsdelen av ... -
Hva er godt sosialt arbeid?
(Journal article, 1974)