Faculty of Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Delicate dining with a date and burger binging with buddies: impression management across social settings and consumers’ preferences for masculine or feminine foods
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Consumers often use their food choices as an impression management strategy to signal desirable aspects about themselves to others, especially in public places like restaurants and cafeterias, where the presence of others ... -
Parallax Theology: Reframing Compensation Theodicy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The reality of suffering and the existence of natural and moral evils appear to present significant obstacles to the doctrine of God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence. Theodicy is an attempt to resolve the ... -
Exploring the ontological status of data : A process-oriented approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Information systems scholars have been inferring data as ontologically unstable and epistemilogically uncertain and mobile. Data have been conceptualized as distinctive from digital technologies and possessing properties ... -
De facto differentiation in the European Union. Circumventing rules, law, and rule of law
(Doctoral dissertations at the University of Agder; No. 465, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Europeisk integrasjon er ikke en ensrettet, ensartet prosess mot en stadig tettere union. På grunn av ulike politiske preferanser og administrativ kapasitet blant de 27 medlemslandene er det blitt vanlig praksis å tillate, ... -
Is Motivation always the Key? – Antecedents of Employee-Driven Digital Innovation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Understanding the factors that can explain innovation has received a lot of attention among researchers in the last decades. During the same period, different approaches to innovation have also seen the light of day, among ... -
“Hot Case-workers and Squint-eyed Whores” - Sexual Harassment of Norwegian Social- and Health Care Students in Practical Training
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Sexual harassment is a societal challenge. Youth, women, students, and health care professionals are some of the groups most at risk for experiencing sexual harassment. In this study, we examine how higher education ... -
Digital Social Enterprise for Sustainable Development: Insights from the Case Study in Nepal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)It is generally agreed that digital social enterprises (DSE) through the digitalization process can contribute to sustainable development. However, there are a few theoretical and empirical studies in this research stream. ... -
Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity and the Ethics of Participatory Ownership
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 463, Doctoral thesis, 2024)A lack of trust in governments and larger NGOs has increased the appeal of folk engagement in which “ordinary citizens” address global poverty and humanitarian crises by starting their own initiatives and volunteering ... -
Sharing, Cooperation or Collective Action? A Research Agenda for Online Interaction in Digital Global Governance
(International Conference on Electronic Participation;, Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2023)Digital technologies are increasingly used to support governance at the global level. However, the global level has received very little attention in digital governance research. Global governance differs from national ... -
The state of information infrastructure for global climate governance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose The world is facing global challenges that require international collaboration. This study aims to describe and analyze how digital technologies are applied in global governance to respond to such critical challenges. ... -
Exploring the Impact of Digital Global Governance through Affordance Theory: the Case of Climate Reporting
(Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2021)The world is facing global challenges, which has led to international policy development such as the Paris Agreement (the United Nations climate agreement). An important element of the Paris Agreement is reporting. As ... -
Knowledge Transfer
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)In modern “knowledge societies” (Stehr 1994), knowledge is increasingly depicted as essential for economic growth and social and political inclusion. Consequentially, training and research facilities such as schools and ... -
Scaling up evidence-based digital early life nutrition interventions in a county setting: an implementation trial – protocol for Phase 2 of the Nutrition Now project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: Few effective health interventions transition from smaller efficacy or effectiveness studies to real-world implementation at scale, representing a gap between evidence and practice. Recognising this, we have ... -
Conflict Resolution in an ISO/IEC 27001 Standard Implementation: A Contradiction Management Perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The ISO/IEC 27001 standard provides organizations with guidelines to help them evaluate, document, and improve their information security processes. In practice, however, the generality of the standard can create a conflict ... -
Urban Flooding in Informal Settlements: A case study of women in Bwaise III, Kampala and their experiences with urban flooding
(Master thesis, 2024)Rapid urbanisation and population growth are currently shaping the cities in Eastern Africa, bringing up various challenges to the infrastructure and the urban population. These cities are not equipped to handle the growing ... -
The environment and climate change as a primary stakeholder for accommodation suppliers: Stakeholder engagement for Koh Tao and Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study investigates the potential recognition and engagement of the natural envi-ronment as an important factor in strategic investment decisions by accommodationsuppliers in a small island context. The investigation, ... -
Climate Change, Community Action, and Health in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Scoping Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Objective: This scoping review investigates the status of research focusing on the nexus of community action, climate change, and health and wellbeing in anglophone Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Methods: ... -
The Self-serving Citizen as a Co-producer in the Digital Public Service Delivery
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science; no. 14130., Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)The promotion of digital self-services has generated a shift within digital government, which has implications for citizens that depend on welfare services. From the policy perspective, users can benefit from better service ... -
«Hvordan opplever et utvalg pedagoger i kommunene Bjerkreim, Gjesdal og Eigersund kvalitetsutviklingen i barnehagene etter skjerpet pedagognorm?» «Hva hemmer eller fremmer videre kvalitetsutvikling i barnehagene?»
(Master thesis, 2023)Barnehagefeltet har de siste årene vært gjennom flere normendringer med tanke på kvalitet. I denne oppgaven er utgangspunktet hvorvidt regjeringens skjerpet pedagognorm, som trådte i kraft august 2018, har gitt et tilbud ... -
Fleet management enterprise systems and traffic control synergies: a literature review and research agenda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Synergies between fleet management enterprise systems and traffic control systems for information sharing and collaborative planning can contribute to significant improvements to operational efficiency, safety and environmental ...