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What Matters in a Job? A Multi-Level Study of Job Preference Orientations and the Intrinsic Quality of Work in 25 Societies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper examines cross-national differences in job preference orientations from the perspective of job quality. In particular, it investigates the extent to which preferences of workers in 25 developed societies are ... -
What online data say about eating habits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Understanding how individuals shift to diets with much smaller ecological footprints may help us in persuading more people to change their habits and transition to more sustainable food systems. Online interactions provide ... -
What sticks? Ephemerality, permanence and local transition pathways
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Climate change is increasingly governed through local configurations that are characterised by voluntary action, weak institutions and uncoordinated efforts. The impermanent and iterative nature of such initiatives makes ... -
What we don´t measure about human resources: towards a conceptual framework for analysing the role of soft variables in human resources management modelling
(Master thesis, 2007)Low retention of valuable employees and difficulties in finding qualified candidates for recruitmentare two issues managers face in Romania, but are a growing concern around the world (Deloitte,2004; Holton & Naquin, 2004). ... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About "Media Independence"
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Media independence is a contested concept that carries different meanings in different contexts. As a normative ideal, independence can be discussed on many levels, and media organisations, journalists, researchers and ... -
What will they say?—Public Announcement Games
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-11-03)Dynamic epistemic logic describes the possible information-changingactions available to individual agents, and their knowledge pre- and post conditions.For example, public announcement logic describes actions in the form ... -
When Aging Becomes Optional: An Ethnographic Study of Anti-Aging Practices in London
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This thesis is inspired by how technological innovation has spurred a “war on death”. By this, I refer to how aging has become an ‘optional’ process, rather than an unavoidable part of life. This thesis is a result of a ... -
When does remote electronic access (not) boost productivity? Longitudinal evidence from Portugal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Whether or not the option to work remotely increases firm labour productivity is theoretically ambiguous. We use a rich and representative sample of Portuguese firms, and within-firm variation in the policy of remote ... -
When Is It Enough? Uncomfortable Game Content and the Transgression of Player Taste
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WHEN STUDENTS MAKE GENDER-UNTYPICAL EDUCATIONAL CHOICES: Women in Engineering and Men in Nursing.
(Master thesis, 2022-05-16)Both males and females face forms of gender stereotypes in their everyday lives, right from the workplace to homes. Gender stereotypes have also found their way into educational institutions of which universities are no ... -
When Women Run Again. Re-Candidacy Rates in the Norwegian Parliament 1921 - 2021
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Research on gendered patterns of political representation has grown drastically over the last couple of decades. At the same time, the existing research and literature on this field has primarily focused on the numbers of ... -
"When you cannot do anything, that's the greatest problem in life" - Place and identity, power and agency among Karen refugees on the Thai-Burmese border
(Master thesis, 2010-06-17)In this thesis, identity formation processes among refugees from the ethnic group of Karen from Burma, in camps along the Thai-Burmese border are explored. Questions related to subjectivity formation are discussed, such ... -
Where are urban energy transitions governed? Conceptualizing the complex governance arrangements for low-carbon mobility in Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05)This article addresses the question of where urban low-carbon energy transitions are governed. A challenge is that urban governance is not simply urban, but a complex assemblage of institutions, networks and socio-technical ... -
Where blessing and curse merge with life and death: Local beliefs in contemporary Lower Kuttanad
(Master thesis, 2012-06-22)The principal rationale behind the present research was to explore the relationship between the people and key resources, the land and the water, in the agrarian region known as Lower Kuttanad in the state of Kerala. In ... -
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research by examining the educational (mis)match of elected officials and the citizens they ... -
Which community for cooperatives? Peasant mobilizations, the Mafia, and the problem of community participation in Sicilian co-ops
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)The literature on cooperatives often conceptualizes cooperativism as an organized effort to embrace community participation. Through the analysis of agrarian cooperatives in Sicily that were formally established to counter ... -
Whistleblowing in local government: an empirical study of contact patterns and whistleblowing in 20 Norwegian municipalities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)Whistleblowing by administrative employees in local governments can bring critical knowledge about misconduct and failed policy outcomes and priorities to the attention of politicians. This article examines whether (1) ... -
Who benefits from sustainable mobility transitions? Social inclusion, populist resistance and elite capture in Bergen, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Transitioning to sustainable mobility systems is generally thought to require three approaches: avoid, shift and improve. We examine a combination of these in a city at the forefront of implementing transition policies, ... -
Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Experts and academics think, write, and talk extensively about energy transition, but can the same be said about the public? A comprehensive move from fossil to renewable energy implies significant structural changes and ... -
Who is “The Child”? Best Interests and Individuality of Children in Discretionary Decision-Making
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While the substantiation of “best interests” has received much attention, the question of how “the child” is conceptualised to ensure any action taken or decision made is in the particular child’s best interests has been ...