Browsing BI Open by Document Types "Journal article"
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A new approach to psychological measures in leadership research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Is survey data a source of new information, or could surveys just be begging their questions? The authors of this opinion piece suspect that survey data in leadership research do not reflect attitudes to workplace phenomena. ... -
A New Coefficient of Interrater Agreement: The Challenge of Highly Unequal Category Proportions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We derive a general structure that encompasses important coefficients of interrater agreement such as the S-coefficient, Cohen’s kappa, Scott’s pi, Fleiss’ kappa, Krippendorff’s alpha, and Gwet’s AC1. We show that these ... -
A new decision making model based on Rank Centrality for GDM with fuzzy preference relations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Preference aggregation in Group Decision Making (GDM) is a substantial problem that has received a lot of research attention. Decision problems involving fuzzy preference relations constitute an important class within GDM. ... -
A PROBLEM WITH DISCRETIZING VALE–MAURELLI IN SIMULATION STUDIES
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Previous influential simulation studies investigate the effect of underlying non-normality in ordinal data using the Vale–Maurelli (VM) simulation method. We show that discretized data stemming from the VM method with a ... -
A qualitative investigation of student engagement in a flipped classroom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The flipped classroom is gaining acceptance in higher education as an alternative to more traditional methods of teaching. In the current study, twelve students in a Norwegian higher education institution were in-depth ... -
A Quantum of Self: A Study of Self-Quantification and Self-Disclosure
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)An increasing number of people are tracking their fitness activities, work performance and leisure experiences using body sensors (e.g., wrist-bands or smart watches) and mobile applications. This trend, referred to as ... -
A Relational Typology of Project Management Offices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This explorative paper develops a relational typology of PMOs based on their roles with stakeholders. A multi-case study was used to identify these roles PMOs in multiple-PMO settings. A three dimensional role space allows ... -
A Review of Formal and Informal Regulations in the Nordic Influencer Industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article provides a systematic review of laws, guidelines, and best practices related to the Nordic influencer industry as of the year 2020. We highlight some nuanced differences or shortfalls across Denmark, Finland, ... -
A review of research on outward foreign direct investment from emerging countries, including China: What do we know, how do we know and where should we be heading?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Using the Antecedents, Decisions and Outcomes (ADO) format as an organizing framework, this article gives an overview of the literature on different dimensions and characteristics of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) ... -
A risk assessment approach to support the launching of new products, services or processes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This research paper aims to develop a practical method to highlight certain key risk factors involved in the product development process. A new definition of the term “launch risk” is introduced in this work. The term is ... -
A Sampling-Based Approach for Managing Lot Release in Time Constraint Tunnels in Semiconductor Manufacturing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)For the sake of product yield and quality considerations, Time Constraints (TCs) are imposed between process operations in various multi-product manufacturing systems. Often spanning a number of operations, time constraints ... -
A Scoping Review of Constructs Measured Following Intervention for School Refusal: Are We Measuring Up?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Reviews of the effectiveness of interventions for school refusal (SR) rely upon well-conducted primary studies. Currently there are no guidelines for those conducting primary studies about the measurement of outcome following ... -
A simple simulation technique for nonnormal data with prespecified skewness, kurtosis, and covariance matrix
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We present and investigate a simple way to generate non-normal data using linear combinations of independent generator (IG) variables. The simulated data have prespecified univariate skewness and kurtosis, and a given ... -
A social milieu approach to the online participation divides in Germany
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Research on digital divides has been helpful in advancing our understanding of the social structuration of Internet access, motivations to go online, digital skills, and Internet (non-)use, including participatory uses. ... -
A social net? Internet and social media use during unemployment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Many people who are unemployed tend to experience forms of psychological and social losses, including a weakened time structure, diminished social contacts, an absence of collective purpose, falling status, and inactivity. ... -
A Technological Construction of Society: Comparing GPT-4 and Human Respondents for Occupational Evaluation in the UK
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Despite initial research about the biases and perceptions of large language models (LLMs), we lack evidence on how LLMs evaluate occupations, especially in comparison to human evaluators. In this paper, we present a ... -
A theory framework for balancing vertical and horizontal leadership in projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper develops a framework for understanding the interaction between person-centered leadership by project managers (a.k.a. vertical leadership (VLS)) and team-centered leadership by individuals in the project team ... -
A user-friendly earth system model of low complexity: The ESCIMO system dynamics model of global warming towards 2100
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We have made a simple system dynamics model, ESCIMO (Earth System Climate Interpretable Model), which runs on a desktop computer in seconds and is able to reproduce the main output from more complex climate models. ESCIMO ... -
Abandon Ship? Party Brands and Politicians’ Responses to a Political Scandal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Political scandals often trigger responses from voters and the implicated politicians. In this article, we extend the analysis to politicians who are only indirectly affected by a scandal through their affiliation with the ... -
Ability, Demographic and Personality Predictors of Work Success
(Journal article, 2020)794 working people aged around 30 years completed three intelligence (Ravens Progressive matrices: GMA Numerical and GMA Verbal) and one personality test (16PF) before entering jobs in public service. They were all graduates ...