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Current Issues in Method and Practice Cross-community enactive research: a relational practice-based approach to academic engagement
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-03-13)To respond to the call for broader ways to understand academic engagement in sustainable tourism, I conceptualized a relational practice-based approach, termed cross-community enactive research. Relying on central ideas from the enactive research approach by entrepreneurship scholar Bengt Johannisson, which draws on autoethnography and action research, and the communities of practice theory by ... -
The conflicting effects of self-construal on impulsive buying tendency toward unhealthy food: the moderating role of future time perspective
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-03)This study extends the understanding of if and how consumer impulse buying tendency toward unhealthy food can be explained by the conflicting and interactive mechanisms of individual differences in self-construal and future time perspectives. Based on a survey sample of 439 Vietnamese consumers, this study adopts a structural equation modelling approach for second-order constructs and moderating ... -
Analyzing motivating functions of consumer behavior: Evidence from attention and neural responses to choices and consumption
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-09)Academia and business have shown an increased interest in using neurophysiological methods, such as eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG), to assess consumer motivation. The current research contributes to this literature by verifying whether these methods can predict the effects of antecedent events as motivating functions of attention, neural responses, choice, and consumption. Antecedent ... -
Small tourism providers' stories about sustainability
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-22)This study asks how small tourism providers use stories to make sense of their world in terms of sustainability. It elaborates on sense-making and story concepts and their relevance to sustainability; adopts an enactive research approach and multiple methods (participation, journaling, interviews, document analysis, content analysis); and explores five providers’ stories about themselves, the ... -
Hard talk, costly walk: The evolution of a soft budget constraint syndrome in a football club at the periphery of Europe
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-07)A football club is exposed to a soft budget constraint (SBC) syndrome if it still survives after finding it impossible to break even financially in the long run. This in-depth case study presents a historical analysis of the evolution of an SBC syndrome in a top-tier Arctic football club over 30 years using public archive data. In oral speeches, strategy documents, and other official situations, ... -
A systematic and critical review of leadership styles in contemporary hospitality: a roadmap and a call for future research
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-02)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of leadership styles in the hospitality industry. It also demonstrates theories used in hospitality leadership styles research, identifies the main outcomes and highlights gaps for future research.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a comprehensive review of the 79 articles on leadership styles in the hospitality ... -
Sustainable practices in hospitality pre and amid COVID-19 pandemic: Looking back for moving forward post-COVID-19
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-15)Sustainability issues are becoming increasingly important in the hospitality sector during crisis times such as COVID-19 and post-pandemic. In order to synthesize the literature on sustainable practices in hospitality, we developed a systematic literature to illustrate the dominant sustainable practices in hospitality. We present a comprehensive review of the 48 articles on sustainable practices in ... -
Statistical learning to estimate energy savings from retrofitting in the Norwegian food retail market
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-16)Buildings worldwide consume about 40% of all produced energy and are major contributors to GHG emissions. Hence, to reach the 2030 European energy efficiency target it is vital to reduce the energy consumption in buildings. An important barrier that hinders renovation projects is uncertainty regarding the expected savings. The main objective of this paper is to present two different statistical ... -
A culture of cheating: The role of worldviews in preferences for honesty
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-11)We explore the role of cultural worldviews in preferences for honesty using a coin-flipping task in an online experiment. Two treatments are conducted, one in which cheating has only private benefits and one in which cheating benefits the public. While we find no differences in behavior by worldviews across treatments, we find that observed differences in dishonesty between genders is significantly ... -
When to stop searching in a highly uncertain world? A theoretical and experimental investigation of “two-way” sequential search tasks
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-13)When to stop exploring is crucial in contexts where learning to manage time and uncertainty is critical for carrying out successful initiatives (e.g., innovation, personnel recruitment, vaccine discovery). We investigate analytically and experimentally the exploration-exploitation trade-offs in such contexts. A “two-way” sequential search task is proposed, where the classical exploration-exploitation ... -
Skaper MSC mer bærekraftige fiskerier?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-09-01)I løpet av 2021 mistet Norge bærekraftsertifiseringen MSC for hyse og torsk fanget innenfor 12 nautiske mil. Temaet for oppgaven er å se på hvilke effekter dette bortfallet har hatt for alle ledd i verdikjeden fra fisker til eksportør. Det ble tatt utgangspunkt i følgende problemstilling: «Hva er konsekvensene av bortfall av MSC-sertifikat for torsk fisket innenfor 12 nautiske mil?» Ut i fra ... -
Consulting on the European Union's 2050 tourism policies: An appreciative inquiry materiality assessment
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-22)Stakeholder consultations serve as powerful legitimising devices upon the balance of participants, the quality of the process and its effective results. We propose a deliberative digital stakeholder consultation methodology based on an appreciative inquiry approach to materiality assessment. We illustrate its application in a four-month consultation for the European Commission (2020 European Tourism ... -
How environmental gain messages affect cause involvement, attitude and behavioural intentions: the moderating effects of CSR scepticism and biospheric values
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-27)Purpose - This study examines the direct effect of outcome message frames (gain vs loss) on cause involvement and the moderating roles of consumers' corporate social responsibility (CSR) scepticism and biospheric values. Furthermore, the authors analyse (1) the effects of gain-framed messages on consumer attitudes towards an environmental cause (i.e. the use of reusable coffee cups) and towards the ... -
Standing with our hometowns? The relationship between residents' perceived threat from COVID-19 and intention to support tourism recovery in their hometown
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-17)A hometown is the place to which an individual has an affective bond resulting from either being born there or living there for lived for a long time. This article investigates people's intention to support the revival of tourism in their hometowns post-COVID-19. The research hypothesises that individuals are affected by the threat to ontological security, freedom of movement, and freedom of ... -
Trustworthy or misleading communication of voluntary carbon offsets in the aviation industry
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-13)We assess the communications of 37 airlines on their own websites regarding voluntary carbon offsets (VCO) to determine the extent to which they are either trustworthy or misleading. We propose an innovative coding framework that captures the trustworthy or misleading attributes of the messages as they are applied to: i) the type of claim (product, process, fact or image), and ii) the nature of ... -
COVID-19 social distancing compliance mechanisms: UK evidence
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-23)Non-compliance with social distancing (SD) measures clearly has negative effects on both public health and post-pandemic economic recovery. However, little is as yet known about people's views on and factors influencing their behavioral intentions toward SD measures. This study draws on moral disengagement theory and the norm-activation model to investigate mechanisms that promote or hinder compliance ... -
In search of innovation capability and its sources in local government organizations: a critical interpretative synthesis of the literature
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-05)Empirical research has identified a long list of antecedents that promote innovation in local government organizations. However, less is known about how and why diverse antecedents—as well as their interplay—stimulate local government organizations to innovate and create public value. We address this gap through a systematic and critical interpretive synthesis of the empirical literature on innovation ... -
Social commerce constructs and consumers' purchase intention from minimalist brands
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-17)The social media and online communities have established new platforms for e-commerce by engaging both consumers and corporations in producing new product or services. Moreover, individuals' interaction on the cyberspace has evolved e-commerce towards social commerce. On the other hand, business incorporations have found the use of minimalism application in designing, which removes unnecessary ... -
Arbeidet mot en bærekraftig bygg- og anleggsbransje
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-12-01)Oppgaven skal synliggjøre hvordan en bransje som byggentreprenør, som i utgangspunktet er så ressurskrevende, arbeidet mot det stadig økende fokuset mot bærekraft og hvordan de tar samfunnsansvar og bærekraft inn i sin daglige drift. For å svare problemstillingen er det tatt utgangspunkt i Den Triple Bunnlinje og CSR. -
Bidrar selvkostprinsippet til en avpolitisering av vann- og avløpssektoren? En studie av norske kommuner og økonomistyringsprosesser tilknyttet vann og avløp
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-11-30)Denne studien omhandler styringsinformasjon i kommunale beslutningsprosesser. Norske kommuner står for en vesentlig del av produksjon, sysselsetting og etterspørselen i norsk økonomi. En stor del av kommunenes virksomhet foregår utenfor et effektivt fungerende marked. 18 prosent av kommunenes inntekter kommer inn gjennom gebyrer. Selvkostprinsippet som finansieringskilde betyr at en kommune beregner ...