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Competitive effects of Airbnb on the Norwegian hotel market
(Master thesis, 2016-12-01)The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the growing literature on the competitive effects of P2P sharing platforms on existing markets, in particular their effect on incumbent firms. I study the case of Airbnb and its ... -
Competitive effects of cross-ownership in the Norwegian publishing industry
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)The aim of this paper is to contribute to the growing literature on competitive effects of overlapping ownership. Overlapping ownership means that competing firms have ownership in each other, this is known as cross-ownership, ... -
The Complex Relationship Between Civil Society and Trust
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)This article is about the importance of an institutional perspective of trust. The core argument is that the type, scope and organization of civil society play a crucial role for the high level of trust and social capital ... -
Complex Relationships: Income Inequality, Trust and Corruption
(Master thesis, 2019-06-28)The goal of this thesis is to investigate the link between income inequality and corruption and poses the following research question: Is there a positive relationship from income inequality to corruption and is this effect ... -
Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-07)This article provides a greater understanding of hybrid public administration. Different generations of public sector reforms have accentuated hybrid and complex features of public organizations, resulting in multiple-layer ... -
The Complexity Landscape of Outcome Determination in Judgment Aggregation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We provide a comprehensive analysis of the computational complexity of the outcome determination problem for the most important aggregation rules proposed in the literature on logic-based judgment aggregation. Judgment ... -
Computational comprehension of spatial directions expressed in natural language
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Computational ethics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Technological advances are enabling roles for machines that present novel ethical challenges. The study of 'AI ethics' has emerged to confront these challenges, and connects perspectives from philosophy, computer science, ... -
Computational Journalism. When journalism meets programming
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-05-08)Digital data sources and platforms allow journalists to produce news in new and different ways. The shift from an analog to digital workflow introduces computation as a central component of news production. This enables ... -
Computational Support for Concept Blending applied to Musical Instruments
(Master thesis, 2017-12-23)This thesis presents a concept blending implementation that suggests which properties of a known concept are most compatible to blend with another concept. The implementation uses Wikipedia descriptions of concepts as data ... -
Computing Consensus: A Logic for Reasoning About Deliberative Processes Based on Argumentation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Argumentation theory can encode an agent’s assessment of the state of an exchange of points of view. We present a conservative model of multiple agents potentially disagreeing on the views presented during a process of ... -
Conceptual Framework for Modeling Dynamic Complexities in Produced Water Management
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This research addresses a gap in the produced water management (PWM) literature by providing a conceptual framework to describe the connections of PWM to regional water budgets. We use southeastern New Mexico as a case ... -
Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security
(Journal article, 2020)Many conceptual frameworks have been developed to facilitate understanding and analysis of the linkages between agriculture and food security. Despite having usefully guided analysis and investment, these frameworks exhibit ... -
Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Women's sexual and reproductive rights are politicized worldwide, with the most contentious right being the right to safe, legal abortion. In Latin America, where one stands on the issue of abortion has become a central ... -
Conditional Legitimacy: How Turnout, Majority Size and Outcome Affect Perceptions of Legitimacy in EU Membership Referendums
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This conjoint study investigates the type of mandate a referendum confers in the political decision-making process. While a majority of citizens in general believe that the government should follow the results of a referendum ... -
Conditional satisfaction: political support, congruence, and cabinet composition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper examines the relationship between citizen satisfaction with the functioning of democracy and ideological congruence. We focus on how this relationship may vary by government type, paying attention to the ... -
Conditions and Identities of Young Migrant Workers in the City: An Ethnographic study of ‘Street Children’ in Kumasi, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2016-06-17)Abstract Earlier studies on streetism' or street children' have often focused exclusively on the economic causes and impacts. Economic considerations have often assumed a more prominent position in explaining why children ... -
Confidence in oneself, confidence in others: Design implications for the design of gameful CSCW systems
(Master thesis, 2014-04-05)Disentangling the intricacies of digitally supporting collaboration remains a challenge. It's a challenge which the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Work have been tackling for decades and where they've argued ... -
Conflicting Interests in Clean Energy Transitions: A panel analysis of offshore wind deployment in Europe, 2001-2020
(Master thesis, 2022-12-06)Offshore wind has become an increasingly attractive energy source in the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Until recently, this clean energy technology has primarily been deployed in a handful ... -
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether ...