Browsing Faculty of Social Sciences by Title
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Public Administration and the Study of Political Order : Towards a Framework for Analysis
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Public administration sustainability and its organizational basis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
Public participation in solid waste management : challenges and prospects : a case of Kira Town council, Uganda
(Master thesis, 2009)Solid waste disposal and management is both an urban and rural problem. Every person is a potential generator of waste and thus a contributor to this problem. To generate waste is one thing, the type of waste generated ... -
Public perception and attitudes toward electric cars adoption in Norway and the factors that can influence people’s decision toward buying electric cars
(Master thesis, 2022)In recent years Norway has been pioneering in number of electric car users and electric car sales in the world. Electric cars adoption in Norway have been successful due to several factors. It is due to remarkable progress ... -
Public Policies Supporting the Transition from the Oil and Gas Industry to a Sustainable Blue Economy
(Master thesis, 2022)In 2019, the European Union (EU) introduced a comprehensive strategy called the ‘European Green Deal’ to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. On the path toward this goal, several policy instruments have ... -
Public Procurement of Information Systems – A Dialectical Analysis
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 114, Doctoral thesis, 2015)In this thesis I identify dialectics in public procurement of Information Systems (IS), and for some of the dialectics I identify synthesis. My study is based on a research gap, revealed through a literature review that I ... -
The public sector's roles in the sharing economy and the implications for public values
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Public Service Resilience in a Post-COVID-19 World: Digital Transformation in Nordic Higher Education
(Chapter, 2023)This chapter draws on seminal contributions from the crisis management and resilience literature to develop and test a new framework for organisational resilience in higher education in the context of digital transformation. ... -
PUBLIC TRUST IN CHARITIES : EVIDENCES FROM FINLAND AND SWEDEN
(Master thesis, 2019)Public sector across the globe is currently experiencing a decline in public trustand this issue has been widelydiscussed across the globe. While working as a fundraiser in summer 2018, the author discovered that ... -
Purchasing natural personal care products in the era of fake news? The moderation effect of brand trust
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Quantification and classification in education: What is at stake?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021) -
RAMMEVERK FOR KVALITET OG MESTRING I KRISTIANSAND KOMMUNE Styringsverktøy eller luftslott?
(Master thesis, 2021) -
Raske karrierer eller harmoniske familieliv? : En tematisk analyse av førsteamanuensers verdier i et kjønnsperspektiv
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis mainly centers around associate professors and what they express to be their core personal values with respect to work and life, in general, where these values are discussed in a gender perspective. Fewer women, ... -
Råder det en taushetskultur i barnehagesektoren? : I hvilken grad velger du å være taus i kontekster som omhandler samfunnsmandat, bemanningsnorm og metodefrihet?
(Master thesis, 2019)This research is based on the topic “Culture of silence” and has its base from the kindergarten uprising "Reckless". Through the research question "Is there a culture of silence in the kindergarten sector?" we have tried ... -
Rådgiverstillingen på ungdomstrinnet. Hvordan opplever ungdomsskolerådgivere sin arbeidshverdag?
(Master thesis, 2023)SAMMENDRAG Bakgrunn for oppgaven er tidsressursen for rådgivere i ungdomsskolene som har stått stille siden 1963. Samfunnet har forandret seg drastisk, og det har elevenes utfordringer også, men tiden man har til rådighet ... -
(Re)creating “society in silico” : surveillance capitalism, simulations and subjectivity in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article provides a different angle to understand the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data scandal. It focuses on the role of models and simulations in the big data campaigning tools CA allegedly used, and their epistemological ... -
Re-Infrastructuring for eHealth: Dealing with Turns in Infrastructure Development
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
Reaching for different ends through tenure track — institutional logics in university career systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Real time business intelligence and decision-making : how does a real time business intelligence system enable better and timelier decision-making? An exploratory case study.
(Master thesis, 2012)Today’s businesses need support when making decisions. Business intelligence (BI) helps businesses to make decisions based on good pre--‐analysis and documented data, and enables information to ...