Faculty of Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Local Content Policy in Oil for Development Partnership Programmes: Are Universities and Technical Institutions Actively Engaged as Enablers of Sustainable Development?
(Master thesis, 2023)Local content policy designed in the Oil for Development partnership programme between Ghana and Norway was crucial to promote the use of Ghanaian local expertise, goods and services, people, businesses and financing in ... -
Tensions of Difference in Integrating Refugee Children in Norwegian ECEC Centers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article explores the tensions that arise in the integration process of refugee children in Norwegian ECEC centres. For many refugee children, ECEC centres form the first public institution where they learn about the ... -
Performances of Death: Hunger Strikes, Discipline, and Democracy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Hunger striking is a form of protest that escapes conventional forms of political participation. I argue that as a spectacular performance of death, the hunger strike not only draws attention to a particular cause or exert ... -
A sociotechnical perspective for responsible AI maturity models: Findings from a mixed-method literature review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in various industries, it becomes crucial for organizations to enhance their capabilities and maturity in adopting AI responsibly. This paper employs a mixed-method ... -
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)‘Sustainable Development’ can be understood as a widely used discourse that has become even more prominent since the publication of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development in 2015. In this paper we analyze the way ... -
Compliance negotiations in EU external relations: the case of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The article advances the research on compliance negotiations in the context of the EU’s external relations. It develops further the framework on EU compliance negotiations, introduced by Jönsson and Tallberg in 1998, and ... -
Guarding the borders of the Norwegian welfare state. How NAV employees decide on social assistance for unemployed Polish migrants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this article, I focus on social relations and institutional logics to explore how street-level bureaucrats in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) assess unemployed Polish migrants’ entitlement to social ... -
Enterprise Architecture Implementation Is a Bumpy Ride: A Case Study in the Norwegian Public Sector
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Enterprise architecture (EA) is a widespread approach for the development of new digital solutions in a planned and controlled way for large and complex organisations. EA is also viewed as a prerequisite for the digitalisation ... -
Map functions to facilitate situational awareness during emergency events
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Emergency events such as floods and wildfires are handled by various responders and at various levels: strategic, tactical, and operational. To facilitate situational awareness, emergency responders require customized ... -
Combining unsupervised, supervised and rule-based learning: the case of detecting patient allergies in electronic health records
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Data mining of electronic health records (EHRs) has a huge potential for improving clinical decision support and to help healthcare deliver precision medicine. Unfortunately, the rule-based and machine learning-based ... -
Computational Decision Support for Socio-Technical Awareness of Land-Use Planning under Complexity—A Dam Resilience Planning Case Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Land-use planning for modern societies requires technical competence as well as social competence. We therefore propose an integrative solution enabling better land-use planning and management through better-informed ... -
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A good cooperative relationship between politics and administration is essential to good governance and efficient decision making in public organisations. This study of the cooperative relationship is based on the notion ... -
Governance and digital transformation in schools with 1:1 tablet coverage
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)There is an increasing trend of 1:1 coverage of tablets in schools in Scandinavia. Several studies have reported on pedagogical possibilities and challenges, but less is reported about how this change is perceived and ... -
Governing digital health for infectious disease outbreaks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)How can governing digital health for infectious disease outbreaks be enhanced? In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously represented both the potential and marked limitations of digital health practices for ... -
Simulation, Science, and Stakeholders: Challenges and Opportunities for Modelling Solutions to Societal Problems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The article outlines an approach to computer modelling called “human simulation,” whose development has been explicitly oriented towards addressing societal problems through transdisciplinary efforts involving stakeholders, ... -
Economic composition and income volatility of Norwegian low-income families – a mixed method study of its implications
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: There is a growing amount of research literature documenting increasing social inequality and an increase in the number of children growing up in families with persistently low income in all Scandinavian ... -
Governing digital health for infectious disease outbreaks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)How can governing digital health for infectious disease outbreaks be enhanced? In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously represented both the potential and marked limitations of digital health practices for ... -
The role of digital technologies in global climate negotiations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Digital technologies are increasingly used in global climate negotiations to enhance interaction and participation. However, global climate negotiations are characterized by paradoxes and tensions that complicate the ... -
Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment: The Reasons Why some Chinese Firms Fail in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in Chinese multinationals investing in various projects around the world. While there have been numerous studies of Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI), there have been ... -
Fjernledelse og bruk av hjemmekontor : En litteraturstudie av lederperspektivet i kvalitative masteroppgaver i perioden 2020-2022
(Master thesis, 2023)I denne masteroppgaven er det utført en litteraturstudie som har undersøkt hva siste års masteroppgaver sier om fjernledelse og bruk av hjemmekontor. Disse oppgavene knytter seg til koronapandemien og det konstateres at ...