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Outsourcing in Africa: How do the interactions between providers, multinationals, and the state lead to the evolution of the BPO industry?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We explore the evolution of Africa’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. In so doing, we seek to derive policy and managerial implications on how African suppliers can grow and become more attractive to foreign ... -
Measuring the menu, not the food: “psychometric” data may instead measure “lingometrics” (and miss its greatest potential)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This is a review of a range of empirical studies that use digital text algorithms to predict and model response patterns from humans to Likert-scale items, using texts only as inputs. The studies show that statistics used ... -
Partisanship, Blame Avoidance Behaviours and Voter Reactions to Allegations of Political Misconduct
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Politicians often engage in blame avoidance behaviours in order to evade electoral punishment following allegations of misconduct. A key question concerns the (in)effectiveness of such behaviours in mitigating voter opinions ... -
A Bayesian DSGE approach to modelling cryptocurrency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We develop and estimate a DSGE model to evaluate the economic repercussions of cryptocurrency. In our model, cryptocurrency offers an alternative currency option to government currency, with endogenous supply and demand. ... -
Impression Management Following Investigation and Prosecution Scandal in Norwegian Police: A Review of Press Releases
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents research regarding impression management following a white-collar investigation and prosecution scandal by the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime ... -
Discriminative multimodal learning via conditional priors in generative models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Deep generative models with latent variables have been used lately to learn joint representations and generative processes from multi-modal data, which depict an object from different viewpoints. These two learning mechanisms ... -
Intermediaries in Norwegian salmon exports
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Production of a number of important aquaculture species is highly export oriented, and intermediaries play an important role in the supply chains facilitating the trade. This paper examines the role of intermediaries (e.g. ... -
Solving a real-life multi-skill resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper addresses a multi-skill resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem (MSRCMPSP) with different types of resources and complex industrial constraints, which originates from SNCF heavy maintenance factories. ... -
The EarlyBIRD Catches the Bug: On Exploiting Early Layers of Encoder Models for More Efficient Code Classification
(Chapter, 2023)The use of modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques has shown to be beneficial for software engineering tasks, such as vulnerability detection and type inference. However, training deep NLP models requires ... -
Seasonal multisensory eating experiences in Norway and Colombia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Research on multisensory food perception suggests that most of our senses can influence eating experiences (Spence, 2020). The present research evaluates how different senses are engaged across country-specific eating ... -
Individual differences in fear and self-distancing predict information processing via problem construal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In two preregistered online studies (NTotal = 984; Prolific), we examined how individual differences in fear and self-distancing predict information processing in decision-making involving risk in a business scenario. ... -
Incorporating air temperature into mid-term electricity load forecasting models using time-series regressions and neural networks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)One of the most controversial issues in the mid-term load forecasting literature is the treatment of weather. Because of the difficulty in obtaining precise weather forecasts for a few weeks ahead, researchers have, so ... -
A flexible predictive density combination for large financial data sets in regular and crisis periods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)A flexible predictive density combination is introduced for large financial data sets which allows for model set incompleteness. Dimension reduction procedures that include learning allocate the large sets of predictive ... -
“Never mind the fine print”: The interaction of semantics with attitude strength beliefs on corporate cover-ups
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Others, 2024)This study examined the interaction between attitude strength and the cognitive constraints imposed by the semantic properties of measurement items. It made use of digital algorithms and built on the semantic theory of ... -
The Illusion of Meritocracy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Meritocracy claims to reward the meritorious with more resources, thereby achieving social efficiency and justice in a level playground. This article argues that the rise of meritocracy in a society is the institutional ... -
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Sanctions have criminalizing consequences. This paper addresses the issue of Russian businesses attempting to circumvent and evade sanctions by white-collar and corporate crime. The case presented in this paper concerns a ... -
Comparing shift work tolerance across occupations, work arrangements, and gender
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: There are individual differences in shift work tolerance; however, we lack knowledge about how this is experienced across different occupations, sex and shift types. Aims: The aim was to describe and investigate ... -
The effects of social vs. personal power on universal dimensions of social perception
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The present study expands previous research on the effects of power on stereotyping by investigating the impact of two types of power (social power and personal power) on two universal dimensions of social perception; ... -
Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic has afected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health throughout the pandemic has been through persuasive ... -
Transforming challenges into opportunities: Exploring the influence of authentic leadership dimensions on employee resilience within Norwegian innovative firms
(Master thesis, 2023)In today’s constantly changing and unpredictable business environment, organizations and employees are required to show resilient behaviors. While there is emerging research on leadership styles and employee resilience, ...