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Competing principles of agency organization – the reorganization of a reform
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-10)This paper focuses on the following research questions: a) What are the principles of structural organization evident in the welfare administrative reform adopted by Norway in 2005? b) How was this complex mix of organizational ... -
Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?
(Working paper; 1-2017, Working paper, 2017-09)Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit ... -
Complex Patterns of Interaction and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders
(Working paper, Working paper, 2002-10)In this paper we describe the influence of Norwegian executive political and administrative leaders on salient policy issues, based on a structural, a culturalinstitutional and an exposure perspective. The data used are ... -
The concept of human factors - a discussion of risk assessments
(Research report, 2003)Focus on human factors is of increasing interest in the petroleum industry today. Accident investigations show that the human and organizational aspect is present in most incidents, but that it is hard to predict the ... -
Conceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility Case: The Clothing Business
(Research report, 2009)This project report concludes the project "International developments and the dissemination and implementation of CSR in the clothing sector", commissioned by The Research Council of Norway. This has been a joint effort ... -
Consequences of critical events for the social contruction of corporate social responsibility
(Research report, 2005)Applying a social constructivist approach, this paper examines the extent to which critical events in the oil and gas industry influence knowledge and knowledge transfer of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Public ... -
Containing function
(Research report, 1998)Denne prosjektrapporten bygger på intervjuer gjort med lærere ved Møllehagen skolesenter. Målsettingen for denne kvalitative undersøkelsen er: • Bevisstgjøre lærere i forhold til egne reaksjoner og følelser. • Forsøke ... -
Contextualizing candidate popularity: An analysis of the 2007 Norwegian local elections
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-07)Previous research suggests a number of candidate-level influences on candidate popularity like position on the party lists, political experience and social background. Questions about how party- and district-level variables ... -
Contraception, abortion and state socialism: categories in birth control discourses and policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)The article is about the politics of birth control in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). I will map abortion and contraception policies and discourses during and after state socialism, with Russia, Poland and Romania as ... -
Coordinating «Wicked Issues»: The County Governor’s Role in Norwegian Internal Security
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-11)Internal security, civil protection and crisis management comprise an important, but challenging policy field. Crises can be framed as «wicked issues» or problems, inherently complex and difficult to solve. Efficient crisis ... -
Coordination and hybrid governance – theoretical and empirical challenges
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-06)Public organizations are increasingly hybrid and complex, trying to attend to numerous and partly conflicting structures and cultural elements at the same time. The different generations of public sector reforms – NPM and ... -
The COPE LBP trial: Cognitive Patient Education for Low Back Pain - a cluster randomized controlled trial in primary care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-02-16)Background: Non-specific low back pain (LBP) is usually self-limiting within 4-6 weeks. Longstanding pain and disability are not predictable from clinical signs or pathoanatomical findings. Pain cognition and physical ... -
Coping and return to work: Measurement and theoretical issues
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)Sick leave and early departure from the workforce have serious adverse effects on both individuals and society. Motivation and coping are both important when attempting to return to work. In this article, we wanted to test ... -
Corrosion during seabed storage - PPCoN
(Research report, 1998)Seabed storage of production pipelines is a controversial issue. Treatment versus no treatment during seabed storage, and exactly how long a "safe storage period is" etc., were questions difficult to answer. The scope of ... -
Crisis Management Organization: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
(Working paper 11-2014, Working paper, 2014-12)This paper addresses the question of what makes a well‐functioning governmental crisismanagement system. A core argument is that such a system needs both governance capacity and legitimacy. To achieve an institutional ... -
Crisis Management – The Case of Internal Security in Norway
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2007-12)This paper describe and explain citizens’ and civil servants’ perceptions of how able government bodies are to prevent and handle crises. The explanatory factors are trust, cultural, political, structural and demographic ... -
Cross National Comparison and National Contexts: Is What We Compare Comparable?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The theme of this paper is how to engage in conceptual traveling while simultaneously avoid conceptual stretching: At the one hand we need concepts general enough to grasp essential features of the national contexts under ... -
Current industrial uses of biological resources and products in Norway. A cross-sectoral view on the bio economy. (12/2017)
(Report, 2017)The bio economy is a wide phenomenon encompassing a broad resource base on land and in the oceans. The possibilities for future developments are huge. Traditionally each sector in the bio economy (forestry, agriculture, ... -
Custom Bike – praktiske erfaringer og rammeverk for kundespesifiserte produkter
(Research report, 2002)Custom Bike prosjektet ble etablert høsten 1999 av Øglænd DBS med støtte fra Norges Forskningsråd gjennom VARP-programmet. Målet for DBS var å utvikle kunnskaper og leveranser av kundespesifiserte sykler som kunne gi DBS ... -
Customer Relationship Management – datafangst og databruk
(Research report, 2012)Denne rapporten er et samarbeid mellom Arena USUS og Norsk Publikumsutvikling, finansiert av VRI Agder og Norsk Publikumsutvikling og utført av Agderforskning. Rapporten gir først og fremst et kort sammendrag av de funnene ...