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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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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 [Accepted]
International Journal of Electronic Business.
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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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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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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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Xia, Wei; Yu, Shubin & Li, Changxu
(2024)
Influence of Physical Attractiveness and Gender on Patient Preferences in Digital Doctor Consultations: Experimental Study
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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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Myrvang, Christine
(2024)
Frihetens øyeblikk? Handlinger, stemmer og taushet i det offentlige ytringsrommet på Kongsberg 1886-1890.
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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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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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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 Robert, Gleibs, Ilka H., Bibic, Kira, Godlewska-Werner, Dorota, Kark, Ronit, Gonzalez, Ana Laguia, Lam, Hodar, Lupina-Wegener, Anna, Markovits, Yannis, Maskor, Mazlan, Alonso, Fernando Jorge Molero, Leon, Juan Antonio Moriano, Neves, Pedro, Haslam, S. 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, 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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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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Colbjørnsen, Terje; Larsen, Håkon, Tallerås, Kim & Liguzinski, Maciej
(2024)
Extending the media welfare state: The role of libraries in the Nordic countries
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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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Colbjørnsen, Terje
(2024)
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding
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Bao, Wuxia; Hudders, Liselot, Beuckels, Emma & Yu, Shubin
(2024)
Livestreaming commerce for luxury brands: how to enhance luxury perceptions through strategizing streamers?
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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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Rønning, Rut Jorunn & Røyseng, Sigrid
(2024)
Legitimeringer av kulturskolen i den offentlige politikken.
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Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine & Solvoll, Mona Kristin
(2024)
Theoretical perspectives on crisis, resilience, and innovation
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Solvoll, Mona Kristin & Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine
(2024)
The innovation response to the Covid-19 crisis
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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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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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Miguel, Cristina; Lutz, Christoph, Majetić, Filip, Perez Vega, Rodrigo & Sanchez-Razo, Miguel
(2023)
It's not All Shiny and Glamorous: Loneliness and Fear of Missing Out among Digital Nomads
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 56, p. 4628-4637.
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The term 'digital nomad' has gained popularity to describe professionals who work remotely from different locations facilitated by using information and communication technology. This study explores the interaction between digital nomadism and loneliness, digital nomads' coping mechanisms to fight loneliness (with a special focus on social media use), as well as the phenomenon of fear of missing out (FoMO). Digital nomads who often experience isolation may turn to the use of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram to keep in contact with family and friends and other social media like Facebook groups, Slack, and MeetUp to meet new people. However, intensive use of social media can generate FoMO. By using 15 in-depth interviews, this paper aims to explore loneliness and FoMO as issues that might negatively intersect with digital nomads' wellbeing, thus spotlighting some of the hidden dark sides of digital nomadism that go too often unnoticed.
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Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine & Furseth, Peder Inge
(2023)
Service Innovation and Value Creation in Local Journalism During Times of Crisis
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Journalism innovation, according to service innovation theory, is about providing new journalistic services that create value for audiences, society, and the news organisation itself. This study explores how local news media responded to the Coronavirus crisis in terms of service innovation. Based on interviews with editors and top management representatives at two local newspaper groups in Norway (N = 20), we show how local newspapers developed new digital services in response to audiences’ need for guidance, overview, and a sense of togetherness, and how the media operations generated revenues in the process. Theoretically, the study identifies two key innovation dynamics in local journalism during a crisis: A social-economic value creation dynamic which captures how local newspapers appropriate their business model to accommodate new service offerings and balance social and economic value creation considerations; and a service system-audience experience dynamic which captures how innovation in journalistic offerings are linked to concurrent innovations in journalistic production processes. This research enhances the understanding of journalism innovation as a value-creating phenomenon and the factors that stimulate such value creation during crises.
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Volk, Sophia Charlotte & Buhmann, Alexander
(2023)
Digital corporate communication and measurement and evaluation
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Digital technologies offer significant advances for the measurement and evaluation (M&E) of corporate communication, as they allow for real time and automated data collection and anal-ysis and bring new predictive capabilities. This, in turn, also brings new challenges and con-cerns, e.g., with data-based profiling and microtargeting. This chapter examines how digitali-sation changes M&E and what remains the same, differentiating between two levels: (1) M&E at the activities level (of communication products, campaigns or programs), and (2) M&E at the administrative level (of managing the communication function, departments, and professionals). We critically reflect on societal, ethical, legal, organisational, and individual challenges related to the use of digital approaches to the M&E. The implementation of digital technologies for M&E in practice is illustrated by a case study of the UNICEF measurement framework. We conclude with directions for research and implications for the future of M&E practice.
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Sanden, Guro Refsum
(2023)
Language in multilingual organizations: power, policies and politics
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Lutz, Christoph
(2023)
Privacy and Human-Machine Communication
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Cameron, Lindsey; Lamers, Laura, Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich, Lutz, Christoph, Meijerink, Jeroen & Möhlmann, Mareike
(2023)
Algorithmic Management: Its Implications for Information Systems Research
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 52, p. 556-574.
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In recent years, the topic of algorithmic management has received increasing attention in information systems (IS) research and beyond. As both emerging platform businesses and established companies rely on artificial intelligence and sophisticated software to automate tasks previously done by managers, important organizational, social, and ethical questions emerge. However, a cross-disciplinary approach to algorithmic management that brings together IS perspectives with other (sub-)disciplines such as macro- and micro-organizational behavior, business ethics, and digital sociology is missing, despite its usefulness for IS research. This article engages in cross-disciplinary agenda setting through an in-depth report of a professional development workshop (PDW) entitled “Algorithmic Management: Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Research Agenda” delivered at the 2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Three leading experts (Mareike Möhlmann, Lindsey Cameron, and Laura Lamers) on the topic provide their insights on the current status of algorithmic management research, how their work contributes to this area, where the field is heading in the future, and what important questions should be answered going forward. These accounts are followed up by insights from the breakout group discussions at the PDW that provided further input. Overall, the experts and workshop participants highlighted that future research should examine both the desirable and undesirable outcomes of algorithmic management and should not shy away from posing ethical and normative questions.
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Frandsen, Finn & Johansen, Winni
(2023)
Corporate crisis management: Managing Covid-19 in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway
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This chapter presents main challenges to the field of corporate crisis management and crisis communication, as well as to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite variations in state strategies for dealing with Covid-19, conditions and ways of handling the crisis of the SMEs appear to be quite similar in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, lending confirmation to the idea of a specific Nordic model. As SMEs were not prepared for this type of crisis, many of them turned to their trade associations for help in dealing with the problems created by the pandemic (lockdown, no income, lay-offs, etc.). Hence, based on a small explorative study, we also discuss in this chapter the role and communication of the trade associations in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, acting as intermediaries between companies, government, media, and the public in the rhetorical arena of the Covid-19 pandemic. The trade associations succeeded in increasing the media coverage of SMEs, which had an important impact on solutions such as state support packages and the communication with members (extra-communication) and staff despite lockdown and remote work.
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Buhmann, Alexander & Gregory, Anne
(2023)
Digital corporate communication and artificial Intelligence and future roles
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This chapter discusses the use in practice and implications of AI for professional roles and responsibilities in corporate communication. It defines AI and other relevant terms, gives a brief overview of how it is currently being used and outlines some of the newer applications such as Intelligent User Interfaces. It goes on to explore what current and future developments mean for the structure of the profession, including how the role will be re-shaped as many of the operational tasks in corporate communication are automated and ‘infused’ with AI. It considers how the role can become more strategic as it moves away from the operational, focussing on ethical concerns as a route to an enhanced governance role. The chapter envisages an active ethical guardian role for corporate communicators at an organisational level as well as in the function, serving as the conscience of the wider organisation. It concludes by providing a brief case study on Vodafone, showcasing a progressive positioning AI policies.
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Bucher, Eliane; Schou, Peter Kalum & Waldkirch, Matthias
(2023)
Just Another Voice in the Crowd? Investigating Digital Voice Formation in the Gig Economy
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Voice is crucial for workers as it enables them to better their organizations and exert some degree of control over managerial decision-making. Yet, as workers increasingly find jobs on digital platforms in the gig economy, traditional channels of voice are being replaced by digital voice channels, such as online communities. To add knowledge on how voice takes form on such channels, we collected conversation data from two online communities, which function as official (Upwork community) and unofficial (Reddit community) digital voice channels for gig workers active on Upwork. Based on a qualitative analysis of both communities, we discovered that when gig workers voice in digital channels, they tend to frame their voice¸ including signals of status and group membership. This voice framing creates different factions, which then engage in voice modulation, amplifying in-group members and muting outgroup members. Thereby, our study teases out how voice takes form in digital channels and how it differs from voice in traditional organizations. Our study contributes to the growing research at the intersection of voice and digital platforms.
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Stensen, Kenneth; Lydersen, Stian, Ranøyen, Ingunn, Klöckner, Christian Andreas Nikolaus, Buøen, Elisabet Solheim, Lekhal, Ratib & Drugli, May Britt
(2023)
Psychometric Properties of the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale-Short Form in a Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Context
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The Student-Teacher Relationship Scale-Short Form (STRS-SF) is one of the most frequently used
instruments globally to measure professional caregivers’ perceptions of the relationship quality
with a specific child. However, its psychometric properties for children younger than 3 years of
age enrolled in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers are largely unknown. Thus, this
study aimed to investigate and evaluate the factorial validity of the STRS-SF and measurement
invariance across children’s gender and age by combining two large Norwegian community
samples (N = 2900), covering the full age range of children enrolled in ECEC (1–6 years olds). Our
findings indicate promising psychometric properties for the STRS-SF; thus, its applicability is
supported for both younger and older children indiscriminate of their gender. However, some
caution is advised when comparing latent means between older and younger ECEC children
because professional caregivers interpret the STRS-SF differently based on children’s age.
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Alacovska, Ana; Booth, Peter & Fieseler, Christian
(2023)
A Pharmacological Perspective on Technology-Induced Organised Immaturity: The Care-giving Role of the Arts
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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 to move beyond a diagnostic critical reading of the toxicity of digitalisation, we bring Bernard Stiegler’s pharmacological analysis of technology into dialogue with the ethics of care to speculatively explore how the socially engaged arts—a type of artistic practice emphasising audience co-production and processual collective responses to social challenges—play a care-giving role that helps counter technology-induced organised immaturity. We outline and illustrate two modes by which the socially engaged arts play this role: 1) disorganising immaturity through artivism, most notably anti-surveillance art, that imparts savoir vivre, that is, shared knowledge and meaning to counter the toxic side of technologies while enabling the imagination of alternative worlds in which humans coexist harmoniously with digital technologies, and 2) organising maturity through arts-based hacking that imparts savoir faire, that is, hands-on knowledge for experimental creation and practical enactment of better technological worlds.
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Ranzini, Giulia; Lutz, Christoph & Hoffmann, Christian Pieter
(2023)
Privacy Cynicism: Resignation in the Face of Agency Constraints
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Solvoll, Mona K & Høiby, Marte
(2023)
Framing the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of the role of Norwegian public service broadcasting in times of crisis
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both a widespread public health crisis and a global economic crisis, disrupting every aspect of our lives, health, education, jobs, and social life. To provide the public with trustworthy and continuously updated information and stories during uncertain times, newsrooms have made pandemic coverage a priority. Conducting a content analysis of Norwegian news and debate programs on radio and television throughout 2020, we found that the frames most dominant in news broadcasts were the least used frames in debate programs, and vice versa. Overall, the five most common frames were societal consequences, economic consequences, medical risk, government measures, social behaviour, and risk. This suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was contextualized as an economic and social crisis as well as a health crisis. However, the lack of politicization, conflict and responsibility frames, suggests media coverage missed a critical perspective.
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Wilhelmsen, Tiril; Røysamb, Espen, Lekhal, Ratib, Brandlistuen, Ragnhild Eek, Alexandersen, Nina & Wang, Mari Vaage
(2023)
Children's mental health: The role of multiple risks and child care quality
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The benefit of universal access to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) for children's development can depend on the ECEC quality and children's early childhood risks. This study utilised data from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa; N = 7355, 50.2% boys) to investigate the relative contribution of children's early childhood risk accumulated up to three years of age and five separate dimensions of ECEC quality on children's mental health (externalising and internalising problems) at five years of age rated by mothers and teachers. Results from the hierarchical regression models indicated that lower ECEC quality added to, and higher ECEC quality counteracted, the risk of mental health problems. Relationship quality was the strongest contributor. Total ECEC quality and relationship quality interacted significantly with early childhood risk, indicating that higher ECEC quality protected against, while lower ECEC quality exacerbated, the detrimental effects of early childhood risk on mental health problems.
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Wallius, Eetu & Köse, Dicle Berfin
(2023)
Gamified eco-driving: A systematic literature review
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3405, p. 184-191.
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Due to the ongoing social turmoil and the climate crisis, passenger road vehicles face increasing pressure to improve energy-efficiency. A central aspect of this endeavor is to motivate drivers to adopt a more energy-efficient driving style. In that respect, the use of information systems (IS) can be a game changer. Among motivational IS, especially gamification is a promising approach to encourage eco-driving as it has the potential to direct user behavior by providing positive experiences like those experienced when playing games. However, despite the emerging interest on gamified eco-driving, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding on how gamification has been applied in the eco-driving domain, hindering the understanding of how it should be designed in this context and what areas need further research inquiries. Therefore, this study synthesizes existing research on gamified eco-driving (17 studies) through a systematic literature review. Based on the results, performance-based and social gamification are most applied, while they aim at encouraging a relatively comprehensive set of different ecodriving behaviors by addressing the motivational hurdles related to eco-driving. We encourage future research endeavors to consider a wider variety of gamification types and be more transparent about the goals of implementing gamification and evaluate the psychological effects accordingly.
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Karlsen, Lisa-Marie; Rydland, Veslemøy, Buøen, Elisabet Solheim, Vandell, Deborah Lowe & Lekhal, Ratib
(2023)
The factor structures of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System Pre-K and mature play observation tool in multi-ethnic Norwegian early childhood centers
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The use of standardized assessment tools for the evaluation of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is on the rise, yet a greater understanding of the applicability of these tools across contexts is still needed. This study investigates the factor structure of two assessment tools, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System Pre-K (CLASS) and Mature Play Observation Tool (MPOT) in a free-play focused context serving high numbers of children with diverse language backgrounds in Norway. The study also evaluates the extent to which these tools complement each other to create a more comprehensive understanding of children’s experiences in ECEC in this context. Using confirmatory factor analyses, our results from a sample of 125 multi-ethnic ECEC groups in Norway show a good fit for the two-factor (i.e., adult- and child-focused) model proposed by the authors of MPOT. In line with previous research, the three-factor (i.e., emotional support, classroom organization, and support for learning) model of CLASS required post hoc modifications, resulting in a marginally acceptable model fit. Overall, our findings provide evidence that the original factor structures of these tools can be modeled in urban ECEC centers in Norway, and using these tools provides different insights into children’s ECEC experiences.
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Miguel, Cristina; Lutz, Christoph, Majetić, Filip & Perez Vega, Rodrigo
(2023)
Working from paradise? An analysis of the representation of digital nomads’ values and lifestyle on Instagram
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Digital nomads (DNs) are highly mobile professionals who work while travelling and travel while working. Their lifestyle has gained increasing academic attention, also from a communication perspective. Despite initial work on the topic, little is known about the self-presentation practices of DNs on social media. To address this lack of evidence and focusing on Instagram as a key platform for this group, we adopt a Goffmanian perspective. By using semi-structured interviews, we provide an in-depth analysis of their self-presentational practices, specifically their content strategies, imagined audience and use of platform affordances. The interviews included photo elicitation as a central element. The findings show how DNs highlight independence and freedom, de-emphasize work in favour of leisure and travel, develop audience management strategies that are mindful of the imagined audiences’ situation, while trying to foster reliability and authenticity and greatly value the flexibility and ephemerality of the Stories feature.
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van Trijp, Catharina Petronella Johanna; Lekhal, Ratib, Drugli, May Britt, Rydland, Veslemøy & Buøen, Elisabet Solheim
(2023)
Examining the longitudinal association between toddlers’ early shyness and their well-being during their first year in Norwegian early childhood education and care
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Toddlers’ social – emotional well-Being in ECEC
Shyness
Being shy in ECEC
Longitudinal association between early shyness and well-being in ECEC
The present study
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Using a multilevel random-coefficient approach, we examined the longitudinal association between toddlers’ early shyness and their well-being during their first year in Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres. We used data from two measurement points (preintervention and postintervention) from a larger cluster randomized controlled trial study, Thrive by 3. We followed 567 children (answered by 415 mothers and 152 fathers) who were younger than 19 months and had just started in ECEC at preintervention. Our findings indicate that toddlers’ early shyness during their starting period in ECEC is associated with their well-being by the end of their first year in ECEC. Our findings highlight the importance of paying extra attention to shy toddlers, as they seem to show less well-being during their early period in ECEC.
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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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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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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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Zerfass, Ansgar & Link, Jeanne
(2023)
Business models for communication departments: a comprehensive approach to analyzing, explaining and innovating communication management in organizations
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Zhao, Luming; Peng, Jiaxi & Yu, Shubin
(2023)
Sustainable Luxury and Consumer Purchase Intention: A Systematic Literature Review
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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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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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Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia; Guitton, Clement, Mayer, Simon & Lutz, Christoph
(2023)
Regulating for trust: Can law establish trust in artificial intelligence?
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The current political and regulatory discourse frequently references the term “trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI)”. In Europe, the attempts to ensure trustworthy AI started already with the High-Level Expert Group Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and have now merged into the regulatory discourse on the EU AI Act. Around the globe, policymakers are actively pursuing initiatives—as the US Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI, or the Bletchley Declaration on AI showcase—based on the premise that the right regulatory strategy can shape trust in AI. To analyze the validity of this premise, we propose to consider the broader literature on trust in automation. On this basis, we constructed a framework to analyze 16 factors that impact trust in AI and automation more broadly. We analyze the interplay between these factors and disentangle them to determine the impact regulation can have on each. The article thus provides policymakers and legal scholars with a foundation to gauge different regulatory strategies, notably by differentiating between those strategies where regulation is more likely to also influence trust on AI (e.g., regulating the types of tasks that AI may fulfill) and those where its influence on trust is more limited (e.g., measures that increase awareness of complacency and automation biases). Our analysis underscores the critical role of nuanced regulation in shaping the human-automation relationship and offers a targeted approach to policymakers to debate how to streamline regulatory efforts for future AI governance.
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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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Zerfass, Ansgar & Brockhaus, Jana
(2023)
Digital corporate communication and digital transformation of communication functions and organizations
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Stensen, Kenneth; Lydersen, Stian, Ranøyen, Ingunn, Lekhal, Ratib, Drugli, May Britt & Buøen, Elisabet Solheim
(2023)
Investigating the Measurement Invariance of the Caregiver-Teacher Report Form (C-TRF) Factors in a Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Context
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Røyseng, Sigrid
(2023)
Artistic quality in the audit society – the case of Norway
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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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Köse, Dicle Berfin
(2023)
Can cat videos harm your relationships? Hedonic and utilitarian content as technological antecedents of phubbing
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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
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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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Gabrielsson, Jonas & Huse, Morten
(2023)
Sustainable ethics and team production: Implications for value-creating boards in SMEs
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Sustainability has become a key concern for SMEs whose board members recognize the need to consider not only the financial bottom line but also the environmental and social performance of the business. Sustainability is about ethics because it calls on board members to consider not only the condition of current stakeholders but also the potential condition of future people that are at the mercy of contemporary unsustainable production and consumption patterns. In the chapter, we build on recent developments of the extended team production theory to discuss the characteristics and behavior of value-creating boards in SMEs. We present an integrated value-chain framework that may be used for developing the value-creating potential of boards to achieve the long-term sustainability goals of the business.
Key Words: Boards, ethics, SMEs, sustainability, team production, value creation
Why is it more likely that boards are destroying rather than creating values? This is the first observation that motivates the chapter. The second observation is that boards are not teams – at least not in most cases. The third observation is that team efforts at the board level can contribute to sustainable value creation in financial, social, and environmental terms.
We will, in this chapter, reflect on these observations in the context of privately held small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We discuss how their boards, in practice, can be value-creators rather than only value-distributors or value-destroyers. We apply sustainability as a meta-concept that explicates the ethical aspects embedded in value creation and the moral responsibility to consider not only the financial bottom line but also environmental and social performance. In the context of SMEs, our discussion identifies how board members in practice may contribute to sustainable value creation in financial, social, environmental, and ethical terms.
The chapter is built on the recent developments of the extended team production theory (e.g., Huse & Gabrielsson, 2012; Gabrielsson, Calabro, & Huse, 2016; Gabrielsson, Åberg, & Huse, 2020). Team production theory has its roots in law and economics and has been presented as an alternative to agency theory. The extended team production theory focuses on leadership and entrepreneurial behavior and integrates core strategy perspectives from both industrial organization and resource approaches. Our theorizing offers an integrated value-chain framework that may be used for developing value-creating boards in SMEs.
Our discussion emphasizes that value-creating boards are highly potent agents of change with a collective capacity to prevent, mitigate and adapt to climate change and its adverse impacts on the planet and its people. However, we also recognize that many businesses rely on activities and practices damaging the environment while simultaneously mistreating employees and other stakeholders in their value-creation efforts. The often-unsustainable approaches to value creation that abounds in and around boardrooms warrant the need to integrate the requirements of a healthy economy and the needs of human society with environmental protection and restoration . Board members have a special responsibility in this regard because their decisions can have an immense impact on natural environments and on the local communities where their businesses operate.
The vocabulary in this chapter supplies a toolkit that may help board members use both hands, i.e., combining many ways of creating values. Board members are in a value chain framework supposed to put their collective efforts where they add the most value while. This is typically done by paying attention to value-creating possibilities across the whole value chain. In this respect, a value-chain analysis contributes to finding possibilities for sustainable value-creation that consider not only the financial bottom line but also environmental and social performance
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Huse, Morten
(2023)
Diversity and corporate governance: how can groundbreaking research be developed?
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Do we contribute to create a better world through our diversity and corporate governance research? I am in this contribution challenging formulaic diversity and corporate governance research. Scholars are challenged to use polymorphic approaches. We should dare to challenge mainstream assumptions and even dare to "swear in the church". There is a need to explore what diversity means taking into consideration a changing society and societal needs. We should try to have perspectives about the future and not only about the past. We should include the impacts of digitalization, migration, globalization, climate change, pandemics, economic inequality, and even wars.
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Solvoll, Mona Kristin; Larsson, Anders Olof & Krumsvik, Arne H.
(2023)
End of the “Prosumer” in News Media? User-Generated Content (UGC) Continues to Decrease as a Strategic Priority
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This chapter takes on the less researched subject of social media innovation as a leadership and strategic issue. The study adopted a longitudinal approach based on surveys among chief executives in Norway, conducted in 2015 (n = 152) and 2020 (n = 164). From a managerial perspective, we asked what role social media plays in the news media organization. And how do news media executives perceive the role of user-generated content (UGC) in terms of future strategic priorities? We map current and near-time strategies based on leaders’ impressions, changes in their social media strategies, as well as the characteristics of the news organizations.
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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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Manara, Muhammad Untung; Nübold, Annika, van Gils, Suzanne & Zijlstra, Fred R H
(2023)
Exploring the path to corruption-An informed grounded theory study on the decision-making process underlying corruption
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Yamak, Sibel & Huse, Morten
(2023)
Let’s do research!
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Nordahl, Thomas; Sunnevåg, Anne-Karin & Hansen, Ole
(2023)
Conceptualising Improvement Work Through System-Wide Coherence
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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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Huse, Morten
(2023)
Board Processes and Performance: The Impact of Directors’ Social and Human Capital
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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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Xiao, Yi & Yu, Shubin
(2022)
Using Humor to Promote Social Distancing on Tiktok During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Erlandsen, Margrethe Aaen; Harwiss, Hilde Elise Lytomt, Bjartveit, Steinar & Arnevik, Espen Kristian Ajo
(2022)
Ledelse mellom sterke ideologier og lillebrorkomplekser – en eksplorerende studie i tverrfaglig spesialisert rusbehandling
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Bakgrunn: Rusbehandling har en lang tradisjon i Norge, men ble en del av spesialisthelsetjenesten først i 2004. Endringen førte til nye krav og utfordringer med hensyn til ledelse. For å utvikle fagområdet videre er det viktig å forstå hvordan tverrfaglig spesialisert rusbehandling (TSB) oppleves i dag sett fra et lederperspektiv, og hvordan lederrollen oppleves. Dette var hensikten med studien.Materiale og metode: I perioden 2017–2020 ble 28 nettverksgrupper med totalt 104 ledere fra TSB som arbeidet med lederutvikling, undersøkt. Studien er basert på tre fokusgruppeintervjuer med mentorene for nettverksgruppene. Intervjuene ble analysert gjennom systematisk tekstkondensering.Resultater: Analysen resulterte i fire hovedkategorier – «lillebrorkomplekset», «verdier i TSB», «pragmatisk ledelse» og «det subjektive lederskap».Fortolkning: Analysene viser at uformelle makthierarkier, ideologi og forventninger om tverrfaglighet i alle beslutninger gir grobunn for en flat struktur og utydelig ledelse. Funnene viser tydelig at det er behov for tiltak som styrker anerkjennelsen av TSB som eget fagfelt og utvikler lederrollen.
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Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein; Lutz, Christoph, Boyd, Karen, Østerlund, Carsten & Willis, Matthew
(2022)
Artificial intelligence in the work context
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(3), p. 303-310.
Doi:
10.1002/asi.24730