Handelshøgskolen ved UiT: Recent submissions
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What Drives the Design of Startup Competitions? A Conceptual Framework and Future Directions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-11-11)Startup competitions serve as essential platforms where innovative solutions to grand challenges can emerge and evolve. Owing to their substantial implications, startup competitions are gaining attention in both academia and practice, but knowledge about them remains limited. This study aims to synthesize previous unconnected streams of literature on startup competitions, by exploring the key ... -
A modus operandi for sustainable-tourism transformations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-11)In this article, we identify and discuss unifying principles to co-design transformational sustainable-tourism interventions through participatory methodologies. We conduct a meta-ethnographic synthesis of the emerging relevant tourism literature (14 articles), and we propose five methodological requirements that underpin effective interventions for sustainable tourism transformations. The requirements ... -
Veien mot en digital fremtid: bruk e-bøker i høyere utdanning
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-16)E-bøker har blitt et stadig viktigere element i høyere utdanning, og forståelsen av hvordan studenter oppfatter og bruker disse ressursene er avgjørende for å videreutvikle pedagogiske strategier. Til tross for bred tilgjengelighet via databaser og konsortier som BIBSYS er faktisk bruk av e-bøker ofte lav. Dette gapet mellom tilgjengelighet og bruk kan håndteres gjennom målrettede tiltak. Artikkelen ... -
Public sector entrepreneurship: an integrative review
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-23)Public sector entrepreneurship (PSE) has emerged as a vital field, exploring how public servants leverage opportunities to create public value amidst unprecedented and unpredictable challenges in governance. This article navigates the expansive landscape of PSE literature, consolidating diverse theoretical perspectives and fragmented knowledge into a cohesive framework. Through an integrative and ... -
Tourism mobilities and climate crisis dilemmas: Tourists traveling towards a climate apocalypse?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-18)Framed by a multidimensional approach to dilemmas, this qualitative study focuses on Norwegians' views on tourism mobilities and climate change dilemmas, contextual aspects, coping strategies, and consequences. Despite being situated in ideological and moral landscapes where the climate crisis is largely ignored, all participants acknowledge the dilemmas. However, the unconcerned deny personal ... -
Humour and comics for academic change and well-being
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-28)Considering recent calls for change towards a more liveable tourism academia, we combined critical participatory action research with duoethnography to develop The Academic Line—a humorous comic project about academic life. We used traditional theories of humour to leverage the effectiveness of comics as communicative devices and explored how and to what extent our project promoted solidarity, ... -
Rental expenses in private kindergartens: Impact of organizational structure on rental expenses in private kindergartens
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-06-03)Between 2019 and 2021, several major corporate groups within the kindergarten sector sold kindergarten properties to foreign private equity firms. As a result, affected kindergartens transitioned from property ownership to tenancy roles. This thesis aims to investigate the impact of organizational structure and ownership type on rental expenses within the private kindergarten sector in Norway. The ... -
Hvordan kan Hertz tilpasse seg og opprettholde konkurransekraft i møtet med den fremvoksende konkurransen fra bildeling?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-06-03)I denne studien har jeg undersøkt hvordan Hertz kan tilpasse seg og opprettholde konkurransekraft i møtet med en fremvoksende konkurranse fra bildelingstjenester. Problemformuleringen undersøkes på bakgrunn av den interessante påvirkningen disruptive konsepter kan ha på den tradisjonelle bilutleiebransjen, hvor nyere bildelingsaktører som Getaround og Hyre introduserer innovative forretningsmodeller ... -
Har maskinlæringsteknikker bra prediksjonsevne på nordiske indekser?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-06-01)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvorvidt maskinlæring kan utkonkurrere kjøp-og-hold-strategier i de nordiske aksjemarkedene. Arbeidet omfatter en komparativ studie av forskjellige maskinlæringsteknikker brukt til å forutsi aksjemarkedsbevegelser. Problemstillingen er: "Har maskinlæringsteknikker en god prediksjonsevne på nordiske aksjeindekser med lengre intervaller?" Random forest, kunstige nevrale ... -
Potensielle fusjoner av nettselskaper i Nord-Norge
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-06-03)Denne studien analyserer potensielle fusjoner mellom nettselskaper i Nord-Norge, for å undersøke hvordan fusjonene påvirker konkurransedyktigheten til de gitte selskapene i NVEs reguleringsmodell. For å danne fusjonspartnere blir forholdstall mellom input- og outputvariablene brukt, med mål om å finne partnere som i stor grad er ulike. Datagrunnlaget for analysen er hentet fra beregningen av ... -
Towards decolonial research in the Arctic: Recommendations for ICARP IV, the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2023-03-21)A decolonial approach is needed to fulfil IASC’s (International Conference on Arctic Research Planning) commitment to recognizing that Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge and academic scientific knowledge are co-equal and complementary knowledge systems that all can and should inform its work (website ICARP IV, 2023).<p> <p>This document summarizes key recommendations for actions regarding ... -
The Arsenal of Democracy? An Examination of Political Regime Types’ Success in the Global Sporting Arms Race Following the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-08)Over the years, international elite sport has developed into an 'arms race' with the success of national elite sport systems becoming a symbol of regime superiority. During the Cold War, the Eastern and Western Blocs battled for success in various sports disciplines. The former nations were dominating in terms of medals, symbolising the force of the socialist autocratic system. However, because of ... -
Tiers of Engagement: Achieved Learning From Business Simulations Reflected in Economics Students’ Experiences
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-07)This article investigates the impact of a business simulator in an online economics course, focusing on the relationship between student engagement and reflections on learning. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, our study analyzes responses from 328 students who used the "Hubro Business Simulator" in a flexible online bachelor's program in economics and administration. Students provided reflections ... -
Putting an artificial intelligence‐generated label on it comes naturally
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-10)Climate change and the advent of artificial intelligence-generated content are reshaping wine marketing. The interplay between consumer focus on naturalness and sustainable farming practices and the proliferation of artificial intelligence-generated content represents a particularly salient area of research. However, the extent to which the presence of fictitious artificial intelligence-generated ... -
Destination design: identifying three key co-design strategies
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-27)Collaborative approaches to destination design require conscious and reflexive stakeholder involvement in activities and decision making. Design science studies such participatory processes by observing design teams in practice. From these observations, scientists have identified design strategies and processes that design teams use to support their work in identifying problems and developing ... -
Impact evaluation with process tracing: explaining causal processes in an EU-interreg sustainable tourism intervention
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-11)Drawing from the field of complex evaluations we discuss a novel application of process tracing for the evaluation of complex tourism interventions. We argue that to better evidence impact of tourism interventions and facilitate policy transfer we ought to adopt approaches to evaluation that allow us to deepen our understanding of causal mechanisms at play in an intervention. We adopt process ... -
Sport Plus the Shooting: An Examination of International Sporting Success and Event Hostship's Impact on the National Willingness to Fight
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-08)Research has long aimed to identify the effects of international sporting success or event hostship on nations. Overall findings suggest that tangible benefits are marginal at best. Still, some studies find that sport may have significant intangible effects, such as bolstering (short-term) feelings of national pride or happiness. Following this strand of research, the present paper asks whether ... -
Determinants of readiness for strategic value co-creation in hospitality and tourism organisations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-08)This paper examines how servant leadership influences an organisation’s readiness for strategic value co-creation through service climate, innovation climate, locus of control and self-efficacy. A model that draws on servant leadership and social cognitive theories is tested by surveying 222 hospitality and tourism business managers operating in France and the UK, and the data is analysed with ... -
Co-designing tourism experience systems: A living lab experiment in reflexivity
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-25)Stakeholders must purposely reflect on the suitability of process models for designing tourism experience systems. Specific characteristics of these models relate to developing tourism experience systems as integral parts of wider socio-technical systems. Choices made in crafting such models need to address three reflexivity mechanisms: problem, stakeholder and method definition. We systematically ... -
Organic salmon farming–A profitable differentiation strategy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-10)This study examines the financial performance of six Norwegian salmon farming companies to investigate the benefits of differentiation through organic salmon production. Utilizing panel data from 2009 to 2020, the study analyses return on sales, prices, and production costs. The results show that the company that has differentiated parts of its production into organic salmon consistently ...