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Ding, Haien & Kuvaas, Bård
(2025)
Exploring the necessary roles of basic psychological needs at work: A necessary condition analysis
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Self-determination theory (SDT) postulates that all humans have basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. SDT scholars employ a necessity logic to define and interpret the roles of psychological need satisfaction for optimal human development. However, traditional regression techniques, often applied to test hypotheses derived from SDT, are unsuitable for testing necessity statements. To achieve a theory-method alignment, we employed necessary condition analysis (NCA) to examine whether basic psychological needs at work are necessary for employees' intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, life satisfaction, and vigour at work. Study 1's cross-sectional data (N = 550; Germany) and Study 2's time-lagged data (N = 417; UK and US) generally support the necessary roles of need satisfaction. Notably, intrinsic motivation and vigour are especially constrained by basic psychological need satisfaction. This research advances SDT by providing more precise accounts of the theory from a necessity-oriented lens. We also highlight the importance of management practices that can satisfy employees' basic psychological needs at work.
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Masoumi Dinan, Mona; Lutz, Christoph & Poli, Nikola
(2025)
Residents’ perspectives on short-term rental platforms through a sustainability lens
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This study investigates the sustainability implications of Short-Term Rental (STR) platforms through a qualitative approach, analysing rich data from residents of the United States and United
Kingdom. Using thematic analysis, we identify positive and negative perceived impacts of STRs across three dimensions of sustainability and look at four key stakeholders affected by these platforms. The economic aspect of sustainability received the most attention and was perceived as the most pronounced impact on all stakeholders including guests, hosts, local businesses and neighbours. Furthermore, a comparison between the two countries indicates that a larger proportion of British residents perceive minimal to no impacts of STRs on their communities compared to their American counterparts. This research shows the complex interplay between STR platforms and sustainability, providing valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders striving to navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by the sharing economy in the tourism sector.
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Lutz, Christoph; Miguel, Cristina, Mujirishvili, Tamara, Perez-Vega, Rodrigo & Fedosov, Anton
(2025)
Social and Societal Issues in AAL
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Karlsen, Heidi & Alm, Kristian
(2025)
Chapter 9 Has law and social science trivialised the concept and practice of whistleblowing in Norway 2007–2023?
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Holm Soelseth, Camilla; Bøyum, Idunn, Colbjørnsen, Terje, Pharo, Nils & Tallerås, Kim
(2025)
Public libraries on TikTok – emerging platform vernaculars of communication and distribution
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Gran, Anne-Britt
(2025)
Performing Not-Not-Me in SoMe: A New Theatrical Typology of Self-Presentation Online
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Kunst, Jonas R. & Bierwiaczonek, Kinga
(2025)
Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures
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Masur, Philipp; Epstein, Dmitry, Quinn, Kelly, Wilhelm, Carsten, Baruh, Lemi & Lutz, Christoph
(2025)
Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda
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The ways in which privacy is understood, defined, perceived, and enacted are contingent on cultural, social, political, economic, and technological settings. Yet, privacy research is often criticized for not adequately accounting for these. A comparative perspective requires the contextualization of privacy through investigating similarities and differences across contexts. This article outlines the Comparative Privacy Research Framework, which involves (a) scrutinizing one’s position (of power) and epistemological biases, (b) assessing the comparability of the object under study, (c) identifying and justifying meaningful units of comparison, and (d) reflecting on how these units of comparison interact in shaping privacy. We conclude by proposing a comparative privacy research agenda that informs efforts in privacy regulation, education, and research.
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Sanden, Guro Refsum & Pietikäinen, Kaisa Sofia
(2025)
Global Leadership and Language
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Yu, Shubin; Roh, Soojin & Liu, Huaming
(2025)
The Devil Replies Slowly: How the Response Speed of Online Luxury Retailers Affects Brand Attitude
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Roh, Soojin & Yu, Shubin
(2025)
The Digital Language of Emotion: Cautions and Solutions for Strategic Use of Emoji in Responding Information System Incidents
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 56.
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Ozer, Simon; Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R.
(2025)
Globalization, immigrant acculturation expectations, and extremism
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Ackerman, Joshua M.; Otterbring, Tobias, Ottersen, Ida, Samore, Theodore, Fessler, Daniel M. T., Kupfer, Tom R., Choi, Soyeon, Merrell, Wilson N., Haugestad, Camila P., Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios & Kunst, Jonas R.
(2025)
I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
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Alacovska, Ana; Fieseler, Christian & Avellaneda, Victor Andrés Renza
(2025)
Speculative labour: The financialized imagination of creative work and the assetization of digital art through non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
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Respi, Chiara; Gui, Marco, Scaduto, Gaetano, Serini, Miriam, Pizzul, Dario, Gerosa, Tiziano & Lutz, Christoph
(2025)
Lower cynicism, not higher literacy, promotes protective behavior: exploring the “privacy exception” in the digital inequality framework
Social science computer review, forthcoming.
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Kunst, Jonas R.
(2025)
Redefining the Mainstream: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Evolving Dynamics of Majority-Group Acculturation
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Liu, Huaming; Sang, Hui, Wang, Xuejie & Yu, Shubin
(2025)
Effects of ability self-discrepancy on consumer behavior: the moderating role of self-efficacy
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Lauring, Jakob; Jonasson, Charlotte & Sanden, Guro Refsum
(2025)
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation
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The implementation of corporate language policies is widely regarded as a strategy for improving communication and coordination across globally dispersed organizations. However, employees who experience a mismatch between the corporate language and their competencies or job requirements may resist the policy or attempt to change it, as documented in existing language-sensitive international business research. Nevertheless, the long-term effects of resistance against a language policy initiative have yet to be explored. We applied a two-year qualitative study following the top management’s decision to use English as a corporate language in a Danish organization. Results showed that discrepancies between external job requirements and policy directions were used by employees as a source of power to legitimize reinterpretations of the policy leading to a language destandardization process with important consequences for the organization. These findings contribute to literature on language policy implementations by describing how negotiated reactions change the practice of a policy.
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Lekhal, Ratib; Karlsen, Lisa-Marie, Wilhelmsen, Tiril, Vandell, Deborah Lowe, Lydersen, Stian & Rydland, Veslemøy
(2025)
Promoting classroom quality through professional development: Results from the Oslo early education study, a randomized controlled trial
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Miguel, Cristina; Lutz, Christoph, Xiao, Yunhao, Majetić, Filip & Perez-Vega, Rodrigo
(2025)
Relational Work in Motion: Navigating Romantic Relationships as Digital Nomads
Information, Communication & Society, online first.
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Digital nomads (DNs) employ digital tools to work remotely while traveling, allowing them to explore various locations without having the constraints of a single workplace. This research focusses on the perceived challenges of DNs in forming and maintaining romantic relationships. Through participant observation, 20 in-depth interviews with DNs, and an analysis of the r/digitalnomad sub-reddit, this study explores: 1) how DNs explain their experience with romantic relationships in relation to their lifestyle; 2) how they deal with the difficulties of forming and maintaining romantic relationships. Guided by relational work and inter-role conflict theories, we identify four conflict types of within DNs' romantic relationships: attitude-based, location-based, time-based, and money-based. To address these conflicts, our interviewees used resource conservation, segmentation, and compensation mechanisms. The paper also discusses DNs' strategies for finding new romantic partners, such as attending DN events organised via social media groups to connect with fellow DNs, as many believed that finding a partner who was also a DN would be ideal to keep their lifestyle and not to have to reduce their mobility patterns. Moreover, DNs engaged with locals through meetups and dating apps. In existing romantic relationships, technology played an important role by enabling connectedness between partners that might be in different locations. Higher levels of communication were also key to maintaining romantic relationships and negotiating boundaries. Our findings highlight the prioritisation of the lifestyle over romantic com
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Köse, Dicle Berfin; Oksa, Reetta, Savela, Nina, Latikka, Rita & Oksanen, Atte
(2025)
The Effect of Professional Social Media Usage on Procrastination and Work Engagement in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Nikolova, Irina; Wong, Sut I, Wu, Jing & Caniëls, Marjolein C. J.
(2025)
Leaders' cognitive framework and employees' autonomy during digital organizational change
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Orel, Marko; Černe, Matej & Wong, Sut I
(2025)
The Idea of Humanizing Digital Workplace—but Questioning the Humane Side of it. An Introduction
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Adamska, Katarzyna; Solberg, Elizabeth Anne & Wong, Sut I
(2025)
On digital mindset: How our beliefs can shape perceptions of and responses to digital change
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Alacovska, Ana; Bucher, Eliane & Fieseler, Christian
(2025)
Multimodal identity work: The power of visual images for identity construction in the gig economy
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We adopt a visual methods approach, in conjunction with an interview-based study, to investigate the identity work of creative workers who sell their services remotely as online freelancers via gig economy platforms. Based on visual self-portrayals elicited from 53 remote gig workers, including illustrators, animators and graphic designers, and their subsequent verbal reflections on these images, our study elucidates the generative power of visual images for gaining insights into identity work, especially in non-traditional work contexts facilitated by digital technologies. We distinguish key identity work strategies that remote gig workers use to construct their identities in relation to idealized, publicly available and free-floating imaginaries of platform labour. These strategies ranged from fully embracing such imaginaries to their vehement rejection, as well as strategies aimed at maintaining a balance between these extremes. Besides the embodied, sensorial intensities and imaginative projections underpinning such identity construction in the gig economy, our analysis foregrounds also the spatial aspects of identity work. Theoretically, we propose a redefinition of identity work as a multimodal accomplishment rather than exclusively a narrative one to better explain the elusive and contradictory aspects of identity work, including its affective and spatial character.
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Fedosov, Anton; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia, Lutz, Christoph, Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard & Čartolovni, Anto
(2025)
Privacy-Friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society
Digital Society: Ethics, Socio-Legal and Governance of Digital Technology, 4.
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We have witnessed an increased use of technology in every facet of our lives. These technologies come with great promises, such as enabling more independent living for older adults or people with physical disabilities, yet also fears, for instance, over privacy concerns or trust in automated systems. In this Topical Collection, we focus on Active and Assisted Living (AAL) technologies, which require trustworthiness and adherence to privacy regulations for successful adoption. The Collection contains six selected papers that address themes like privacy-by-design, trust in AI, and balancing privacy with technological innovation under regulations like GDPR and the AI Act. The presented articles emphasize the user-centered, privacy-friendly approaches to AAL designs, robust regulatory frameworks, and interdisciplinary methodologies to ensure ethical, trustworthy technologies.
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Masoumi Dinan, Mona & Lutz, Christoph
(2025)
Studying short-term rental platform perceptions and use through a digital inequality lens
Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, 4.
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Short-term rental (STR) platforms hold promise for promoting inclusive tourism, although the digital divide risks barring certain groups from reaping these benefits. Existing research has analyzed the impacts of STR platforms but there is a lack of evidence on impact perceptions, especially as they relate to socio-demographic variables. To address this shortcoming and using digital inequality theory, we report the results of a survey in the United States and the United Kingdom. We find that age is a significant factor in shaping perceptions and engagement with STR platforms. Younger individuals have a more positive outlook toward STRs and are more likely to use them. Education and income also influence STR use. American respondents generally had more positive perceptions of STR impacts yet showed less engagement with the platforms than their British counterparts. These insights can inform strategies to mitigate digital inequalities and optimize the inclusivity of STR platforms.
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Wu, Jing; Tangirala, Subrahmaniam & Zhang, Pengcheng
(2025)
When Voice Takes Destructive Rather Than Constructive Forms in Manager–Employee Dyads: A Power-Dependence Perspective
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We offer a relational perspective on how power shapes voice in the employee–manager dyad. We argue that to properly understand the impact of employees’ power on voice, it must be analyzed alongside the power held by their managers. We propose that although voice increases when employees hold high power, its form—whether constructive or destructive—depends on their managers’ power. We posit that employees’ dependence on managers for rewards and sponsorship reflects the power that managers hold over employees, while managers’ reliance on employees for expertise and knowledge signifies the power that employees hold over managers. We argue that when employees’ power increases in the context of high managerial power, they are more likely to develop interdependent and contextualized self-evaluations, such as organization-based self-esteem. These self-evaluations promote a constructive voice that involves challenging the status quo in a functional and actionable manner. Conversely, when employees’ power increases in the context of low managerial power, they may develop independent and inflated self-evaluations, such as ego inflation. This can lead to destructive voice that involves merely expressing negativity as a way of questioning the status quo. We find support for our theory through a complementary set of studies, including a preregistered experimental study and a two-wave multisource field study. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and practice.
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Myrvang, Christine
(2024)
A Moment of Freedom? Actions, Voices, and Silence in the Public Space for Free Expression in Kongsberg, 1886–1890
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The article discusses movements in the space for free expression in Kongsberg during the years 1886–1890. Based on the founding of a new, left-liberal local newspaper, the investigation questions whether the event can be seen as a “moment of freedom” in the public sphere, as the newspaper proclaimed. The article particularly highlights what often ends up as a blind spot; the deviant, the neglected, the silent, and it shows how it was some female Salvation Army officers who really pushed the boundaries of freedom of expression during those years.
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Newlands, Gemma Elisabeth Marjorie & Lutz, Christoph
(2024)
Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy
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Sociological research has long been interested in occupational evaluation. However, occupational research remains hampered by conceptual ambiguity and methodological problems. To address these issues, we present new indices of occupational prestige and occupational social value for 576 occupation titles aligned with the ILO International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08). A shorter core list with 130 occupation titles – one per ISCO-08 minor group – is also provided. Based on comprehensive and recent evidence from 2429 respondents, we carve out the evaluative landscape of occupations in the United Kingdom. We show how occupational prestige and occupational social value are correlated but distinct. A clear hierarchy appears, with highly educated occupations at the top and stigmatised or illicit occupations at the bottom. The study thus contributes to social stratification research and encourages reuse of the scores in future occupational research.
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Xia, Wei; Yu, Shubin & Li, Changxu
(2024)
Influence of Physical Attractiveness and Gender on Patient Preferences in Digital Doctor Consultations: Experimental Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 26.
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10.2196/46551
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Hoffmann, Christian Pieter; Lutz, Christoph & Ranzini, Giulia
(2024)
Inequalities in Privacy Cynicism: An Intersectional Analysis of Agency Constraints
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A growing body of research highlights a trend toward widespread attitudes of privacy cynicism, apathy, and resignation among Internet users. In this work, we extend these discussions by concentrating on the concept of user agency. Specifically, we examine how five types of structural constraints — interpersonal, cultural, technological, economic, and political — restrict user agency and contribute to the prevalence of privacy cynicism as a common response. Drawing on critical data studies and adopting an intersectional lens, we demonstrate how these constraints disproportionately impact various social groups unequally, leading to a disparate distribution of agency and privacy cynicism. Furthermore, we contend that the sense of powerlessness engendered by excessive constraints on user agency can, in turn, exacerbate user vulnerability to such constraints, potentially initiating a vicious cycle of disempowerment. The article enriches the field of privacy research by linking the traditionally individual-focused and psychological dimensions of privacy with critical surveillance studies and by proposing potential interventions to mitigate privacy cynicism.
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Ziegele, Daniel & Zerfass, Ansgar
(2024)
The Evolution of Communication Consulting: A Long-Term Comparison of Service Quality in Strategic Communication
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Draper, Nora; Hoffmann, Christian Pieter, Lutz, Christoph, Ranzini, Giulia & Joseph, Turow
(2024)
Privacy resignation, apathy, and cynicism: Introduction to a special theme
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The growing trend of collecting data about individuals to track past actions and infer future attitudes and behaviors has fueled popular and scholarly interest in the erosion of privacy. Recent shifts in technologies around machine learning and artificial intelligence have intensified these concerns. This editorial introduces the articles in the special theme on digital resignation and privacy cynicism: concepts developed in the past decade to explain the growing powerlessness individuals feel in relation to their digital privacy even as they continue to experience consternation over the collection and use of their personal information. The papers in this special theme engage and extend existing research on these topics. The original articles and commentaries pose theoretical and practical questions related to the ways people confront the powerful institutional forces that increasingly shape many aspects of the information environment. They employ several methodologies and theoretical perspectives and extend the range of geographic, political, cultural, and institutional contexts in which privacy cynicism and digital resignation can be identified and examined. In addition to contextualizing these contributions, this editorial maps a range of related concepts including digital resignation, privacy cynicism, privacy apathy, surveillance realism, privacy fatigue, and privacy helplessness. It concludes by identifying key themes across the papers in this collection and provides directions for future research.
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Gmyrek, Pawel; Lutz, Christoph & Newlands, Gemma Elisabeth Marjorie
(2024)
A technological construction of society: Comparing GPT-4 and human respondents for occupational evaluation in the UK
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Lutz, Christoph; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia & Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard
(2024)
How Social Robots Affect Privacy: Navigating the Landscape
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Social robots are increasingly used in different domains, such as healthcare, education, and retail. Researchers across disciplines have shown how social robots differ from other technologies, for example in terms of ethical, legal, and social (ELS) aspects. Privacy is a particularly important and relevant ELS aspect of social robots, given their heightened autonomy, data-processing capabilities, and physical mobility. This chapter provides an overview of key privacy implications in relation to social robots. It reviews useful privacy theories and discusses recent studies on privacy and social robots, showing how such research has become more empirical over time but still prioritizes data protection and data-related aspects of privacy over other dimensions, such as physical, psychological, and social ones. The chapter also combines a social science and legal lens, showing how the law addresses relevant social and ethical implications, particularly in Europe. It concludes with a future research agenda on how to investigate the topic.
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Brøgger, Benedicte & Larsen, Lotta Björklund
(2024)
Chapter 12. Too close for comfort: a case study of boundary work implementing cooperative compliance policies in Norway and Sweden
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Xiao, Yi & Yu, Shubin
(2024)
Can ChatGPT replace humans in crisis communication? The effects of AI-mediated crisis communication on stakeholder satisfaction and responsibility attribution
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Monzani, Lucas; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R., Avanzi, Lorenzo, Bunjak, Aldijana, Černe, Matej, Edelmann, Charlotte M., Epitropaki, Olga, Fransen, Katrien, García-Ael, Cristina, Giessner, Steffen, Gleibs, Ilka H., Bibic, Kira, Godlewska-Werner, Dorota, Kark, Ronit, Gonzales, Ana Laguia, Lam, Hodar, Lupina-Wegener, Anna, Markovits, Yannis, Maskor, Mazlan, Alonso, Fernando Jorge Molero, Leon, Juan Antonio Moriano, Neves, Pedro, Haslam, Alexander, Pauknerová, Daniela, Retowski, Sylwiusz, Roland-Lévy, Christine, Samekin, Adil, Sekiguchi, Tomoki, Story, Joana, Stouten, Jeroen, Sultanova, Lilia, Tatachari, Srinivasan, van Bunderen, Lisanne, Kerschreiter, Rudolf, Van Dijk, Dina, Wong, Sut I, Van Dick, Rolf, Wilson-Lemoine, Jérémy E., Steffens, Niklas K., Akfirat, Serap Arslan, Ballada, Christine Joy A. & Bazarov, Tahir
(2024)
Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality
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Identity leadership involves leaders creating and promoting a sense of shared group membership (a sense of 'we' and 'us') among followers. The present research report tests this claim by drawing on data from 26 countries that are part of the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project to examine the relationship between political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior (N = 6,787). It also examines the contribution of trust and economic inequality to this relationship. Political leaders' identity leadership (PLIL) was positively associated with respondents' people-oriented civic citizenship behaviors (CCB-P) in 20 of 26 countries and civic citizenship behaviors aimed at one's country (CCB-C) in 23 of 26 countries. Mediational analyses also confirmed the indirect effects of PLIL via trust in fellow citizens on both CCB-P (in 25 out of the 26 countries) and CCB-C (in all 26 countries). Economic inequality moderated these effects such that the main and indirect effects of trust in one's fellow citizens on CCB-C were stronger in countries with higher economic inequality. This interaction effect was not observed for CCB-P. The study highlights the importance of identity leadership and trust in fellow citizens in promoting civic citizenship behavior, especially in the context of economic inequality.
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Smedsrud, Jørgen; Bungum, Berit & Flø, Ellen Egeland
(2024)
Gifted students’ experiences with participation in enrichment programs at talent centers in Norway
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Gifted students may be at risk of school disengagement due to lacking intellectual challenges. Four talent centers were established to offer makerspace enrichment programs, because makerspace activities promote engagement and science, mathematics, and technology learning. In the current study, we investigated gifted students’ experiences with makerspace enrichment programs in Norway in terms of social aspects, learning aspects and teacher support aspects. We conducted semistructured interviews with 15 participants (15–16 years) from four different talent centers across the country. Findings suggested that the informants had an overall positive experience of participation and that most were more engaged at talent centers than at their home schools. In addition, the makerspace approaches seemed to suit gifted learners’ need for more complex subject content and facilitate interaction with peers and teachers with similar content knowledge/interest. We concluded that makerspace activities at talent centers constitute an important supplement to ordinary school for gifted students.
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Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine & Solvoll, Mona Kristin
(2024)
Theoretical perspectives on crisis, resilience, and innovation
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Liguzinski, Maciej; Colbjørnsen, Terje & Tallerås, Kim
(2024)
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics
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Wallius, Eetu & Köse, Dicle Berfin
(2024)
Fictional or Real? a review of how gamification types effect eco-driving on the road
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Xiao, Yunhao & Lutz, Christoph
(2024)
Wayfarers in Cyberspace: A Temporal Investigation of Digital Nomads Based on Liquid Modernity Theory
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Following the recent rise of digital nomadism, this study explores changing patterns of travel and work among highly mobile individuals. We draw on liquid modernity theory to analyze data from Reddit’s r/digitalnomad subreddit over 3.5 years. Fifteen topics and seven clusters capture the rich discussions. The most discussed topic was Destination review & recommendation, followed by Emotional needs & lifestyle choice. Regulatory issues also emerged as a significant concern. The pandemic influenced sentiment fluctuations over time, but the tone of topics remained mostly neutral. Our research provides nuanced insights into digital nomads’ habits, concerns, and lifestyle choices, showing how travel-related aspects feature front and center. For the tourism industry, our findings offer actionable suggestions to cater to this dynamic and economically powerful traveler group. Finally, and as a theoretical contribution, the study enhances our understanding of the role of global disruptive events, such as pandemics, in liquid modernity.
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Bao, Wuxia; Hudders, Liselot, Yu, Shubin & Beuckels, Emma
(2024)
Virtual luxury in the metaverse: NFT-enabled value recreation in luxury brands
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Huse, Morten
(2024)
Women in Boards
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Newlands, Gemma Elisabeth Marjorie & Lutz, Christoph
(2024)
Mapping the prestige and social value of occupations in the digital economy
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With the emergence of the digital economy, the occupational landscape in many countries has undergone major transformations. While scholars have started to study the working conditions of digital economy occupations such as app-based food delivery couriers and social media influencers, assessing societal perceptions of these occupations remains uncharted territory. This article provides a substantive contribution through an in-depth analysis of occupational prestige and occupational social value perceptions across 76 UK digital economy occupations. Leveraging two expansive surveys with more than 2400 respondents, the findings show that these nascent occupations tend to have modest prestige, and that their perceived social value is lower than that of analogous non-digital occupations. Socio-economic factors and attitudes foster variability in societal perceptions. The research thus advances a nuanced understanding of the evolving digital economy, providing evidence for fellow researchers, policymakers, and the larger public, for whom the results help contextualize career choices and occupational identities.
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Lutz, Christoph; Majetić, Filip, Miguel, Cristina, Perez Vega, Rodrigo & Jones, Brian
(2024)
The perceived impacts of short-term rental platforms: Comparing the United States and United Kingdom
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Short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb have enjoyed considerable success in recent years. However, critics accuse the platforms of having negative impacts, leading to gentrification, disruption, and increased rent and house prices. While research has investigated actual impacts of short-term rental platforms, we lack systematic, generalizable, and comparative evidence on the perceived impacts of such platforms, especially from a social exchange perspective. To address this shortcoming, we conducted a representative survey in the US and UK with a holistic set of perceived impacts. Using social exchange theory (SET) and applying a range of multi-variate statistical analyses, especially exploratory factor analysis and cluster analysis, we systematically compare these two contexts to identify clusters that perceived the social exchanges derived from STRs as distinct. The findings indicate that US residents assess short-term rental platforms more positively than UK residents, especially for recreational, amenities-oriented and economic impacts. Among respondents who have used short-term rental platforms as guests, the perceptions are more alike between the two countries, suggesting a homogenization effect. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the results.
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Wu, Jing; Tangirala, Subrahmaniam, van Knippenberg, Daan & Shu, Rui
(2024)
Only time will tell: How teams centralize their voice around competent members over time to perform better
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We posit that time significantly impacts how voice—members' expression of work-related ideas—becomes unequally distributed within teams. Building upon insights from expectation states theory (EST), we propose that over time, voice becomes more centralized in teams, especially around members who are more competent than others. Moreover, we argue that teams whose members are higher in conscientiousness or openness to experience are better able to place more competent members in central speaking roles early on as well as progressively replace less competent members with more competent ones in those roles. Finally, we predict that, in comparison to teams that have egalitarian voice distributions, those that end up with more centralized voice distributions perform better when they give their most competent members more dominant speaking roles and perform worse when they do not. We found general support for these arguments in a study using four waves of data collected over time from 175 student project teams. Thus, we highlight how voice centralization does not always have negative consequences for teams but can benefit teams in certain circumstances.
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Lutz, Christoph & Newlands, Gemma Elisabeth Marjorie
(2024)
Glitch Studies and Smart Speakers: A Spotlight on User Experiences of Unexpected Behaviors
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Smart speakers have been widely adopted but come with substantial privacy risks, touching on different privacy types such as informational, social, and physical privacy. Scholars have increasingly studied the privacy implications of smart speakers, finding that users tend to have limited privacy concerns and engage infrequently in privacy protection behavior. Extant research also stresses the contextual and situated nature of privacy around smart speakers, pointing to relevant affordances of the technology. Despite these knowledge advancements, a glitch studies perspective on smart speaker interactions and privacy is notably missing. The glitch studies approach was developed by Rosa Menkman at the intersection of art, technology, and critical social research. It directs the attention to glitches as seemingly small and mundane but powerful moments of interruption that allow for reflection and have productive character. In this contribution, we introduce a glitch studies perspective to the investigation of smart speakers and privacy, showing its fruitfulness. We first discuss the literature on smart speakers and privacy, before providing a concise overview of the glitch studies approach. We then present our data and methodological approach. Based on open text responses from an online survey in the United Kingdom, we identify four types of smart speaker glitches: randomly starting to talk or carry out unexpected activities, misinterpreting the user, technical issues related to connectivity, and violating social and contextual norms. Each glitch type is described in turn, with quotes from the survey as illustrative
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Lutz, Christoph
(2024)
Social Inequalities and Artificial Intelligence: How Digital Inequality Scholarship Enhances Our Understanding
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Farstad, Christian Winther & Arnulf, Jan Ketil
(2024)
Individual characteristics in arts management careers: investigating the highly sensitive person scale on motivation to lead
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Løkken, Ingrid Veronika Midteide; Campbell, Janine Anne, Dale, Philip S & Kucirkova, Natalia
(2024)
Exploring the sense of smell in shared digital book reading: An experiment
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Nystad, Kathrin; Drugli, May Britt, Lydersen, Stian, Tveit, Håvard Horndalen, Lekhal, Ratib & Buøen, Elisabet Solheim
(2024)
Toddlers’ Cortisol Levels in Childcare and at Home
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Johansen, Madeléne & Colbjørnsen, Terje
(2024)
Digital spilldistribusjon i folkebiblioteket. Hvordan spill som service utfordrer tilbudet til norske folkebibliotek
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Rønning, Rut Jorunn & Røyseng, Sigrid
(2024)
Legitimeringer av kulturskolen i den offentlige politikken.
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Miguel, Cristina; Lutz, Christoph, Perez Vega, Rodrigo & Majetić, Filip
(2024)
'Alone on the Road': Loneliness among Digital Nomads and the Use of Social Media to Foster Personal Relationships
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The ‘digital nomad’ (DN) neotribe includes professionals who work remotely from different locations. Despite the benefits of digital nomadism (e.g., work flexibility, high mobility, leisure-centeredness) and opportunities for meeting like-minded people, one of the consequences of the lifestyle may be loneliness. By using 30 in-depth interviews, this study explores the interaction between digital nomadism and loneliness. We conceptualize the DN lifestyle as a continuum that may, but does not have to, lead to feelings of loneliness. External factors such as lack of social support, often related to the capacity to stay in a place long enough to build a network or the social competence skills to connect with others, may contribute to greater levels of loneliness. Conversely, in line with networked individualism, it examines how DNs seek more control over constructing their own social networks in the context of a hyperindividualistic society. Instagram, Facebook groups, Slack, MeetUp, CouchSurfing, and Tinder are identified as key platforms for DNs to connect with people, especially for bridging social capital, whereas WhatsApp is used more for bonding social capital. The paper offers a timely discussion of the way that DNs use different social media platforms to overcome loneliness, forge intimate connections, and build community.
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Alacovska, Ana; Bucher, Eliane & Fieseler, Christian
(2024)
Algorithmic Paranoia: Gig Workers' Affective Experience of Abusive Algorithmic Management
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Colbjørnsen, Terje
(2024)
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding
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Wong, Sut I
(2024)
數位零工族如何在職涯路上保持熱情
Harvard Business Review.
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Wong, Sut I; Zhang, Limei, Černe, Matej & Moe, Nils Brede
(2024)
Influence of Digital Communication Configuration in Virtual Teams: A Faultline Perspective
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Philip, Jestine & Wong, Sut I
(2024)
The paradoxical leader, crafting human worker, and robot teammate: A commentary on the future of leader behaviors
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Avellaneda, Victor Andrés Renza; Andersen, Kirsti Reitan, Fieseler, Christian, McDermott, Fiona & McGannon, Róisin
(2024)
The Arts Mobilizing Communities: From Socially Engaged Arts to Social Artrepreneurship
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Gong, Wanqi; Ye, Wenqing & Yu, Shubin
(2024)
Facilitating Endorsement Efficacy: The Interplay of Parasocial Interaction, Product Placement, and Influencer Type
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 19(4), p. 3214-3228.
Doi:
10.3390/jtaer19040156
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Meurer, Madeleine; Bucher, Eliane & van Gils, Suzanne
(2024)
Defending your own or trolling the haters? A configurational approach to incivility in online communities
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This study explores the emergence of incivility in online communities, challenging the traditional perspective that attributes incivility to individual elements of sociotechnical systems. We argue that this narrow focus fails to recognize the complex interactions between these elements, leading to a rudimentary understanding of how incivility originates and evolves. To address this gap, our research employs fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), examining approximately 4.3 million posts from 100 diverse online communities on Reddit. Through this analysis, we identified five distinct paths that converged into two primary community configurations: close-knit and scattered communities. Each configuration exhibits unique affordances whose activation fosters incivility in different ways. Based on these findings, we expand the understanding of incivility to include subtle, indirect behaviors beyond overt forms such as trolling or hate speech and show how the interplay of multiple community elements produces affordances, avoiding the narrow view of individual affordances and shedding light on variations of social systems. Finally, we demonstrate that within the same digital platform, different social systems can impact user behaviors, including incivility.
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Bao, Wuxia; Beuckels, Emma, Hudders, Liselot & Yu, Shubin
(2024)
Livestreaming commerce for luxury brands: how to enhance luxury perceptions through strategizing streamers?
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Černe, Matej; Bunjak, Aldijana, Wong, Sut I, Aleksic, Darija & Bozic, Katerina
(2024)
(Techno)stress and subsequent burnout: How job autonomy enables working professionals to regulate demands with control
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Du, Shuili; van Gils, Suzanne, Babalola, Mayowa, D’Cruz, Premilla, Doci, Edina, Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia, Hassan, Louise, Islam, Gazi, Newman, Alex & Noronha, Ernesto
(2024)
The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research
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Wei, Xia; Yu, Shubin & Li, Xi
(2024)
Price it High if it is Varied: Perceived Heterogeneity and the Effectiveness of Discount Framing Strategies for Travel Packages
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Xiao, Yi; Zhou, Enhui & Yu, Shubin
(2024)
Unraveling the anchoring effect of crisis communication in cyberattack spillover crises
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Brøgger, Benedicte & Dahl-Jørgensen, Carla
(2023)
Collective entrepreneurship in the Altiplano of Peru
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In the article, we ask whether neoliberal entrepreneurship not only makes people economically poorer but also more vulnerable in areas concerning quality of life and belonging. We analyze the establishment of businesses in a Quechua-speaking group in the highlands of Peru from 1963 to the present day and our answer is yes, neoliberal entrepreneurship makes people poorer, and no, entrepreneurship does not necessarily impoverish nature and society. After a flood, several families established a collective farm on a former hacienda, Chijnaya. After a few years, they dissolved the collective, reverting to family farming. Today, the place is a Centro Poblado, a small municipality, with family farms and limited companies. In neoliberal notions of entrepreneurship, nature and society are primarily economic resources that can be priced. Anthropologists also understand nature and society as valuable, but not only as economic inputs. The companies themselves, on the other hand, are rarely isolated as separate objects of analysis in anthropology. We show that the local businesses that emerge from entrepreneurship both shape and are shaped by nature and society but cannot be reduced to them. We use Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphor ‘rhizome’ and a relatively new concept from working life research, ‘collective entrepreneurship’, as analytical frames to grasp precisely the interaction between businesses, nature and community.
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Norheim, Helga; Broekhuizen, Martine, Moser, Thomas & Pastori, Giulia
(2023)
ECEC Professionals’ Views on Partnerships with Parents in Multicultural Classrooms in Four European Countries
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Brøgger, Benedicte; Dahl-Jørgensen, Carla & Danielsen, Tone
(2023)
Introduction: Comparative perspectives on entrepreneurship and social change
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This is the introduction to a special issue on entrepreneurship. It describes how this term entered anthropology in the1960s, and its importance for anthropology’s core business, generating knowledge about how people create peopleand society. Then follows a critical assessment of the emergence of a global entrepreneurship discourse, from theproto-economists’ meagre attempts to model the economic processes of agriculture to a worldwide neoliberal regimeof economic growth. We then situate entrepreneurship in both Norwegian and international anthropology thorougha discussion of theory and empirical findings in three works from different eras: Fredrik Barth (1963), Eldar Bråten(2013) and Richard Pfeilstetter (2022). The final section introduces the following eight articles and concludes withtwo insights about anthropological contributions to studies of entrepreneurship
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Tømte, Cathrine Edelhard & Smedsrud, Jørgen
(2023)
Governance and digital transformation in schools with 1:1 tablet coverage
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Huse, Morten & Gabrielsson, Jonas
(2023)
Value-creating boards in SMEs: Team production efforts
Journal of International Doctoral Research, 10(1), p. 87-105.
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Nordahl, Thomas; Sunnevåg, Anne-Karin & Hansen, Ole
(2023)
Conceptualising Improvement Work Through System-Wide Coherence
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Yamak, Sibel & Huse, Morten
(2023)
Let’s do research!
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Booth, Peter; Solvoll, Mona Kristin & Krumsvik, Arne H.
(2023)
Newspaper executives’ positioning toward the evolving use of social media
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Lekhal, Ratib; Drugli, May Britt, Karlsen, Lisa-Marie, Lydersen, Stian & Buøen, Elisabet Solheim
(2023)
Does thrive by three, a quality-building intervention in childcare centres, strengthen children’s language skills?
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This study examined the effectiveness of the Thrive by Three
intervention for 1- to 3-year-old’s language development. Data
from 78 childcare centres, 187 toddler classrooms, and 1561
children (91.4% native Norwegian) were included. Results
revealed that children in the intervention group had slightly
steeper language development than those in the control group,
but the difference was not statistically significant. Since previous
studies find language stimulation in childcare to differ based on
gender, we also examined if the Thrive by Three intervention
affected boys and girls differently. We found that effects of the
intervention were only present for girls’ language development.
Girls in the intervention group had an increase of 17 more words
from baseline to post-intervention than those in the control
group. There was no statistical difference in change of boys’
language development between the intervention and control
group. Results are discussed in light of theories and literature that
may explain our findings.
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Huse, Morten & De Silva, Muthu
(2023)
Polymorphic research and boards of directors: Let us make a better world together
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POLYMORPHIC RESEARCH AND BOARDS OF DIRECTORS: LET US MAKE A BETTER WORLD TOGETHER
Abstract:
Our objective with this chapter is to show how innovative methods can help us contribute to important and path breaking research about boards and governance. We introduce polymorphic approaches, and we emphasize co-creation. The illustrations are leaning on a sharing philosophy of doing research.
Polymorphic research is about alternative ways of thinking and doing research. Through polymorphic approaches we challenge existing formulaic approaches to research about boards and governance, including messages, methods, interpretations, publication, and target audiences. We present examples using introspection, the champagne method and co-creation. Our position is that while the existing methodologies are useful, the simultaneous generation of theoretically rigorous and practically impactful research requires innovative methods.
We show how innovative methods in corporate governance research can contribute to solving the present crisis in research by moving the dominating research philosophy from “publish or perish” to a “sharing” philosophy.
Key words: champagne method, co-creation, corporate governance, gender, introspection
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Yu, Shubin & Zhao, Luming
(2023)
Emojifying chatbot interactions: An exploration of emoji utilization in human-chatbot communications
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Černe, Matej; Lamovšek, Amadeja, Nikolova, Irina & Wong, Sut I
(2023)
Leadership in Digitised Workplaces
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Leadership represents an emerging theme in the field of digitised workplaces, yet the understanding of leadership dynamics and effectiveness in this context remains limited. The aim of this chapter is to (1) provide an overview of the existing academic literature at the intersection of leadership and the future of work and (2) propose an integrative framework of established and current research and emerging trends. We apply a holistic, systematic and comprehensive review of this literature based on objective measures of impact. We consider the main theoretical foundations within the literature and provide an overview of prominent research clusters including both current and emerging themes. Practical implications are related to leadership and digitalisation, leadership in virtual work, leading virtual teams and leadership in the context of the Future of Work and the gig economy.
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Nadeem, Kashif; Wong, Sut I, Za, Stefano & Venditti, Michelina
(2023)
Digital transformation and industry 4.0 employees: Empirical evidence from top digital nations
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Nothhaft, Howard & Zerfass, Ansgar
(2023)
Public relations in a postdisciplinary world: On the impossibility of establishing a constitutive PR theory within the tribal struggles of applied communication disciplines
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Huse, Morten
(2023)
Board Processes and Performance: The Impact of Directors’ Social and Human Capital