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  • Geopolitical volatility and subsidiary investments 

    Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi; Dorobantu, Sinziana; Christopher, Sabel; Zilja, Flladina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Research Summary We examine how geopolitical volatility—the instability of bilateral political affinity between countries—affects foreign subsidiary investments. Building on prior work that shows that the level of political ...
  • Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises 

    Karam, Charlotte; DeJordy, Rich; Creed, Douglas; Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Scott, Shawn; Geha, Carmen; Daou, Alain (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    In the wake of the Beirut blast, we use Lebanon as an empirical context to examine how a group of scholar-activists organized to support ongoing collective action in the context of creeping crisis. Using the lens of ...
  • Traditional and environmentally friendly attributes in products of highly design-oriented firms: an exploratory study in the perception of Italian entrepreneurs 

    Conti, Emanuela; Jevnaker, Birgit Helene; Camillo, Furio; Musso, Fabio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Purpose: The aim of this study was to empirically examine how much traditional attributes and green attributes characterize products within design-oriented firms. Further, we explored how these attributes relate to the ...
  • Are politicians more generous? Evidence from charitable giving 

    Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    This paper analyzes the relationship between charitable giving and political candidacy. It uses individual-level Norwegian register data, which is combined with data on the universe of candidates running for local elections ...
  • Exploring Eco-Design Strategies in Italian Design-Driven Firms 

    Jevnaker, Birgit Helene; Conti, Emanuela; Sorini, Laerte (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Given the growing emergence of environmental challenges, firms must reduce environmental impacts and achieve business performance. Hence, we investigate how environmental sustainability approaches relate to design-driven ...
  • Toddlers’ Cortisol Levels in Childcare and at Home 

    Nystad, Kathrin; Drugli, May Britt; Lydersen, Stian; Tveit, Håvard Horndalen; Lekhal, Ratib; Buøen, Elisabet Solheim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Research Findings: Measuring toddlers’ cortisol levels both in childcare and athome and their relation to child- and childcare-related factors may help toidentify stress-inducing childcare practices and children who are ...
  • Self-Distancing Regulates the Effect of Incidental Anger (vs. Fear) on Affective Decision-Making Under Uncertainty 

    Mayiwar, Lewend; Hærem, Thorvald; Løhre, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Emotions integral to a task are often adaptive, particularly in situations where outcomes and probabilities are not known. However, decisions are also influenced by emotions that arise from situations unrelated to the task. ...
  • Neural perspectives on morality due to beguiling mechanisms 

    Koppang, Haavard; Wenstøp, Søren Henrik; Pineda, Jaime A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    We consider deception an example of behavior that challenges traditional explanations of moral behavior. Beguiling mechanisms, by which we mean deceptiveness with charming seduction for diversion, subtly influence moral ...
  • Enhancing the impact of literature reviews: guidelines for making meaningful contributions 

    van Riel, Allard; Snyder, Hannah (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Most papers and books on conducting literature reviews primarily emphasize achieving technical quality, ensuring reproducibility and validating results. Notwithstanding the need for technical excellence, there is also a ...
  • Economic crime in the courtroom - A case of defense lawyers' arguments against prosecution evidence 

    Gottschalk, Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    A defendant in criminal court should only be convicted if guilt is proven by the prosecution beyond any reasonable doubt. That is the burden of proof. Any doubt emerging should benefit the defendant. In this perspective, ...
  • Determinants of digital well-being 

    Mayiwar, Lewend; Erkin, Asutay; Gustav, Tinghög; Daniel, Västfjäll; Kinga, Barrafrem (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    How can people lead fulfilling lives both thanks to and despite the constant use of digital media and artificial intelligence? While the prevailing narrative often portrays these technologies as generally harmful to ...
  • The Norwegian Parliamentary Debates Dataset 

    Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda; Øien, Henning (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)
    Recent advancements in computing power and machine learning techniques have facilitated the digitization of new corpora, as well as new methods for studying high-dimensional data. This has enabled empirical investigations ...
  • Nowcasting Norwegian household consumption with debit card transaction data 

    Aastveit, Knut Are; Fastbø, Tuva Marie; Granziera, Eleonora; Paulsen, Kenneth Sæterhagen; Torstensen, Kjersti Næss (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    We use a novel data set covering all domestic debit card transactions in physical terminals by Norwegian households, to nowcast quarterly Norwegian household consumption. These card payments data are not subject to revisions ...
  • Resilience and Adaptability in Paracetamol Supply Chains: A Systems Perspective on COVID-19 Challenges and Responses in Ethiopia 

    Melaku, Tsegaye; Mekonnen, Zeleke; Tucho, Gudina Terefe; Viana, Joe; Årdal, Christine Oline; Jahre, Marianne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)
    Background: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains, including those for essential medicines like paracetamol. This study aimed to assess the resilience and adaptability of Ethiopia’s paracetamol ...
  • Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox 

    Heiret, Yngve Solli; Innset, Ola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    This article advances a new theoretical understanding of the global political economy of austerity through an examination of austerity policies in Norway, a country with soaring fiscal surpluses. Critical scholarship has ...
  • Bayesian network structure learning using scatter search 

    Yang, Wei-Ting; Tamssaouet, Karim; Dauzère-Pérès, Stéphane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Learning the structure of Bayesian networks (BNs) from data is an NP-hard problem as the solution space grows super-exponentially with the number of nodes. Many algorithms have been developed to efficiently find the best ...
  • The role of persuasion by significant others and engagement in bank-switching intention 

    Bortne, Øystein; Bjørnestad, Jone Ravndal; Arnestad, Mads Nordmo; Tjora, Tore; Brønnick, Kolbjørn Kallesten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    A person’s beliefs in individual abilities, such as self-efficacy or perceived behavioral control, profoundly affect emotion, cognition, and behavior. However, the influence of such beliefs is not apparent in current ...
  • Advice taking when the stakes are high: Evidence from a game show 

    Løhre, Erik; Halkjelsvik, Torleif Bjordal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Research on advice taking has demonstrated a phenomenon of egocentric discounting: people weight their own estimates more than advice from others. However, this research is mostly conducted in highly controlled lab settings ...
  • National Interests as Positive Externalities: Headquarters Retainment as Justification for Hybrid State-owned Enterprises in Norway (2000–2021) 

    Innset, Ola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    As a result of the partial privatization and public listing of two large state-owned enterprises in 2001, the Norwegian state became the largest owner at the Oslo stock exchange. A new mode of corporate governance was ...
  • Strategies to Exclude: Temporariness and Return/Readmission Policies of the EU 

    Samuk, Sahizer; Ince-Beqo, Gül; Hennebry, Jenna L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
    Migration governance, migration management and migration crises have been key themes among migration scholars and governments over the last decade. Historically, systemic political economic crises are accompanied by the ...

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