• Personality Traits and Socio-Demographic Variables as Predictors of Political Interest and Voting Behavior in a British Cohort 

      Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This study examines the associations between socio-demographic variables, the Big Five personality traits, and the extent of political interest as well as voting behavior, in a large, nationally representative sample in ...
    • Personality traits neuroticism and openness as well as early abnormal eye conditions as predictors of the occurrence of eye problems in adulthood 

      Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article, 2017)
      This study set out to examine the associations between psychological, biomedical and socio-demographic factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the occurrence of self-reported eye conditions in adulthood. In ...
    • Personality, ideology, and money attitudes as correlates of financial literacy and competence 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This study looked at whether demographics, religious beliefs, political orientation, personality traits, and money attitudes are correlates of financial capability, knowledge and distress. Over 3,500 British participants ...
    • A Perspective on the Potential of Chinese Business Schools: A Call for Greater Attention to Context, Differentiation, and Developing an Indigenous Model 

      Fey, Carl F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Chinese business schools have made impressive progress in improving their quality, but there is still room for improvement. However, they have improved largely by copying the traditional American model of business education ...
    • Petro populism 

      Matsen, Egil; Natvik, Gisle J.; Torvik, Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We aim to explain petro populism|the excessive use of oil revenues to buy political support. To reap the full gains of natural resource income, politicians need to remain in o ce over time. Hence, even a rent-seeking ...
    • A Pharmacological Perspective on Technology-Induced Organised Immaturity: The Care-giving Role of the Arts 

      Alacovska, Ana; Booth, Peter; Fieseler, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Digital technologies induce organised immaturity by generating toxic sociotechnical conditions that lead us to delegate autonomous, individual, and responsible thoughts and actions to external technological systems. Aiming ...
    • Platform selection in the lab 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Emerging literature explores experimental platform selection games. These games con- verge rapidly on the superior platform under a wide range of conditions. We replicate the remarkable results of Hossain and Morgan ...
    • PLS-SEM’s most wanted guidance 

      Becker, Jan-Michael; Cheah, Jun-Hwa; Gholamzade, Rasoul; Ringle, Christian M.; Sarstedt, Marko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Purpose – Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) has attracted much attention from both methodological and applied researchers in various disciplines – also in hospitality management research. As ...
    • Police criminality and neutralization: an empirical study of court cases 

      Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The prevalence of police deviance is a much-debated statistic and one that is often rife with problems. Based on 61 convicted police officers in Norway, court cases are analyzed in this paper to identify relationships ...
    • Police leadership as a professional practice 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Karp, Tom (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In this paper, we ascertain whether a practice-based approach can increase our knowledge of police leadership. This approach represents an alternative to normative management models which have dominated the management ...
    • Police misconduct and crime: bad apples or systems failure? 

      Gottschalk, Petter; Dean, Geoff; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      There is a debate in the research literature whether to view police misconduct and crime as acts of individuals perceived as 'rotten apples' or as an indication of systems failure in the police force. Based on an archival ...
    • Policing Financial Crime: Challenges in White-Collar Defense Lawyer Strategies 

      Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      White-collar crime lawyer defense strategies represent challenges in policing financial crime. The white-collar crime attorney is a lawyer who is competent in general legal principles and in the substantive and procedural ...
    • Policing White-Collar Crime 

      Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
    • Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats’ pay. We study such private gains to bureaucrats ...
    • Political competition, party polarization, and government performance 

      Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Lack of party competition may impair government efficiency. If the voters are ideologically predisposed to cast their vote in favor of one political party, they may reelect an underperforming incumbent. Party polarization ...
    • Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts 

      Titl, Vitezslav; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We study whether and when firms’ donations to political parties induce favouritism in public procurement allocations. Our analysis builds on a unique, comprehensive dataset covering all public procurement contracts and all ...
    • Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a regression discontinuity design to estimate the ...
    • Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Remaining Puzzles 

      Geys, Benny; Smith, Daniel Markham (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Kinship often continues to play an important role in determining the ruling class even under modern democratic elections in a wide range of countries. In recent years, academic interest in the causes and consequences of ...
    • Political Dynasties, Electoral Institutions and Politicians’ Human Capital 

      Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This article focuses on political dynasties’ potential consequences, and particularly investigates whether and when they lead to the selection of dynastic politicians with relatively lower education levels. I exploit the ...
    • Political Rents and Voter Information in Search Equilibrium 

      Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Political parties commited to grab rents may run for election, and even win, if citizens are uninformed. But, how is the political equilibrium affected if citizens can mitigate this information problem through costly ...