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Staff Reallocations and Employee Attitudes towards Organizational Aims: Evidence using Longitudinal Data from the European Commission
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Organizational reforms often involve substantial staff reallocations, creating both winners and losers within the same organization. We argue that allocating less (more) staff to a department signals a decrease (increase) ... -
Stairway to Heaven - Please Hold the Handrail. A study on the organizational safety in Norske Shell.
(Master thesis, 2009-06-05)This study is based on the vast focus on safety in today's oil and gas industry. Two perspectives seem to prevail within the field of organizational safety; the Normal Accident Theory (NAT) and the High Reliability ... -
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants? Exploring Consensus on the Validity Status of Mintzberg’s Configuration Theory After a Negative Test
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-14)This article explores the degree of consensus on the validity status of Mintzberg’s configuration theory following a test in which the theory was refuted. The 218 articles that have cited the award-winning article by Doty, ... -
State death in buffer systems: Balancing and bandwagoning
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Staten i skolegården. En studie av forholdet mellom statlig styring og lærernes autonomi
(Master thesis, 2013-06-14)Denne masteroppgava har hatt som hensikt å studere forholdet mellom statlig styring og lærernes autonomi. Studien tar utgangspunkt i både kvalitative dokumentanalyse og kvalitative dybdeintervjuer for innsamling av ... -
Stortingets forsøk på regulering av dagligvarebransjen - Berget som fødte en mus
(Master thesis, 2016-12-01)En gjennomgang av Stortingets forsøk på regulering av dagligvarebransjen. Gjennomgangen starter fra 1995 da de første spørretime spørsmålene begynte å dukke opp på Stortinget, til 2016 når to offentlige utredninger om ... -
Street-level policy aims of child welfare workers in England, Norway and the United States: An exploratory study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-05)This study, which is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a total of 92 child welfare workers in California, England and Norway conducted between January 2008 and June 2010, analyzes how child welfare workers ... -
The strength and content of climate anger
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate-related anger is present in Greta Thunberg’s speeches and the acts of Extinction Rebellion, but also in the rise of movements protesting climate policies, such as the Yellow Vests. The current study (N = 2,046) ... -
Student motivation for social studies. Existential exploration or critical engagement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-29)Purpose: To understand what motivates students for social studies. Design: Social studies as a school subject is defined in terms of its contents (knowledge, skills, values), by its teaching methods and by the organisational ... -
A study of religious organizations' involvement in American politics. A case study of conservative, religious organizations' presented involvement in politics, and the motivation prompting this involvement, as presented in the Proposition 8 case in California in 2008, through the electronic media and the organizations' own statements about their involvement
(Master thesis, 2011-05-30)This master's thesis aims to study the relationship between conservative, religious organizations and their involvement in American politics in the United States of America. Specifically how these organizations presented ... -
Styring gjennom nettverk. Koordinering, ansvarliggjøring og institusjonalisering av styringsnettverk i norske byregioner
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-10-14)In recent years the city region has developed as an arena for policy development. In this arenadifferent interests and values are coordinated in order to solve complex problems. InNorwegian city regions this is especially ... -
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Why is it that some care order cases result in the child being removed from parental care, while in others she is not, despite the cases being similar? This paper investigates how decision-makers reason and justify different ... -
Task Uncertainty and Mission Command in a Naval Context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Mission command is a leadership philosophy that was designed to ensure that military organizations could operate effectively in uncertain situations. It has become the exemplar of military leadership. This study explores ... -
Terrorism and Political Trust. A study of the relationship between terrorism and political trust in Europe in the time period 2002 to 2016, and a causal exploration of the relationship between the two phenomena
(Master thesis, 2019-07-16)This thesis explores the relationship between terrorism and political trust. This is done in two ways, by two sub-studies, in order to get a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between the two phenomena. ... -
The Effects of Corruption Scandals on Public Trust: An Empirical Study of Two Municipalities in Eswatini
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The Fellowship of Acceptable State Interventions : Knowledge, Norms, and Justifications in Norwegian Child Protection Care Order Cases
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-03-31)I denne avhandlingen undersøker jeg statlige ingrep i familien, og spør hvordan statlige inngrep i familien begrunnes, hva egenskapene og kvalitetene ved disse begrunnelsene er, og hva den norske befolkningens holdninger ... -
The transformation of union power and politics: a case of COSATU and the textile industries in South Africa’s post-apartheid regime.
(Master thesis, 2018)This research explores the transformation of union power and politics using COSATU in South Africa as a case Study. The argument is that, the political, economic and global conditions under which COSATU operated in erstwhile ... -
Theory as guide to the analysis of polygyny and conflict: A response to Ash (2022)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ash (2022, "Ash" hereafter), in this journal, re-assesses our 2020 article “Polygynous Neighbors, Excess Men, and Intergroup Conflict in Africa.” The article analyzed the relationship between polygyny (one man marrying ...