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Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-04-05)Background: Severe shortages of qualified health workers and geographical imbalances in the workforce in many low-income countries require the national health sector management to closely monitor and address issues related ... -
Why Do Middle-Class Positions Matter? The Alignment of Short-Term Rental Suppliers to the Interests of Capital
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Underlying the idea of the middle classes there is a contradictory positionality, the relations of which ultimately enhance capital accumulation. By opening Marxist critique to Weberian approaches to class, we explain how ... -
Why do Norwegian municipalities struggle to use digital platforms? An explorative study concerning the drivers and prohibitors of using digital platforms
(Master thesis, 2023-12-01)This thesis studies the use of digital platforms in Norway. This is done through a qualitative case study that explores the drivers and prohibitors that affect municipalities in their use and development of digital platforms. ... -
Why do only some firms participate in International Trade?
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Why Do People (Not) Worry About Climate Change? Insights From Answers to an Open-Ended Survey Question in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-09-29)Menneskelig aktivitet forårsaker forandringer i jordens klima og miljø som kan utgjøre en alvorlig trussel for både menneskelig og ikke-menneskelig liv. I hvilken grad vi bekymrer oss for denne trusselen påvirker hvor ... -
Why do people avoid and postpone the use of voice assistants for transactional purposes? A perspective from decision avoidance theory
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Consumers increasingly adopt artificial intelligence (AI) enabled voice assistants (VAs) for transactional and non-transactional uses due to these devices’ inherent affordances, such as their ease of use and convenience. ... -
Why do people buy organic food? The moderating role of environmental concerns and trust
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-28)Although consumer interest in organic food has risen over time, resulting in a generally positive attitude toward these organic food products, scholarly research suggests a comparatively low volume of its consumption in ... -
Why do people participate in research interviews? Participant orientations and ethical contracts in interviews with victims of interpersonal violence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Researchers are increasingly interested in why people want to participate in qualitative interview studies, particularly what they hope to gain from participating. The present paper contributes to this research agenda by ... -
Why do people purchase from food delivery apps? A consumer value perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Consumers are increasingly using food delivery apps (FDAs) to facilitate convenient and quick food delivery. Yet, the existing research offers a limited understanding of consumers’ behavioral responses to the visibility ... -
Why do retail consumers buy green apparel? A knowledge-attitude-behaviour-context perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Consumers' increased knowledge and awareness of environmental issues have not translated into a pervasive rise in purchasing green apparel, resulting in a phenomenon known as the ‘attitude-behaviour gap’. The current study ... -
Why do some countries approve a cancer drug and others don’t?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06)The term drug reimbursement describes the policy system that determines whether or not a drug is entitled to reimbursement within the healthcare system. Countries make different decisions regarding which cancer treatments ... -
Why do some food availability policies fail? A simulation approach to understanding food production systems in south-east Africa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-07-20)Food production systems in south-east Africa face a persistent puzzle: despite the implementation of numerous plausible food availability policies, the region’s history is characterised by many cases of food production ... -
Why do some liberalized autocracies democratize while others do not? Explaining competing outcomes of liberalization by event history analysis (1950-2006)
(Master thesis, 2011-08-31)This thesis sets out to explain the outcome of liberalization processes across the globe during the post war period, the research question being: When a regime liberalizes, what affects the risk of the process ending with ... -
«Why do some patients decline eating disorder treatment”?
(Master thesis, 2021-05-19)Spiseforstyrrelser er en alvorlig psykisk lidelse med betydelige negative konsekvenser. På tross av dette lar mange være å oppsøke behandling, takker nei til, eller dropper ut av behandling. Kvantitative studier har undersøkt ... -
Why do we need qualitative research on psychological treatments? The case for discovery, reflexivity, critique, receptivity, and evocation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Psychotherapy researchers are increasingly using qualitative approaches to gain knowledge about the experiential, relational, and sociocultural aspects of psychological treatments. In this article, we explore and discuss ... -
"Why Do You Write Your Name Long Like That?" Language and Literacy in a San Francisco Kindergarten
(Master thesis, 2008)In this thesis I investigate the role of language awareness in early literacy, and argue that skills acquired when becoming literate can provide resources for manipulating social as well as textual relations. Based on ... -
Why Does Depression Exist? A Review With New Predictions From Evolutionary Theories
(Master thesis, 2014-04-15)Depression is highly prevalent, but its evolutionary origin is poorly understood. Evolutionary psychology generates hypotheses on the computational and functional design architectures of the human mind. Evolutionary medicine ... -
Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized
(Journal article, 2020-06)The modern project of creating human-like artificial intelligence (AI) started after World War II, when it was discovered that electronic computers are not just number-crunching machines, but can also manipulate symbols. ... -
Why has Precipitation Increased in the Last 120 Years in Norway?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We use a data set with daily precipitation observations from 55 homogeneity-tested stations in Norway from 1900 to 2019 available from MET-Norway. These observations show that precipitation in Norway has increased by 19% ... -
Why have consumers opposed, postponed, and rejected innovations during a pandemic? A study of mobile payment innovations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The highly infectious nature of the COVID-19 virus has made the use of contactless payment methods a health exigency. Yet, consumers are resisting using mobile payments (m-payments) during the pandemic, a confounding ...