Avdeling for økonomi, språk og samfunnsfag (gjelder til og med 2020): Recent submissions
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Chaos theory and butterfly effects in times of corruption and a bank crash in 1886: the case of Arendal (Norway) illustrated through a regional-globalized model
(Chapter, 2018-03-28)The chapter focuses at corruption practices in the bank crash in the town of Arendal in Southern Norway in 1886 using insights from chaos theory and butterfly effects as theoretical frameworks. Using secondary sources from ... -
Tidligere språkstart: et springbrett for en helhetstenking rundt språk og læring
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-25)Camilla Bjørke & Berit Grønn analyserer i deres artikel "Tidligere språkstart – et springbrett for en helhetstenking rundt språk og læring" kvalitative data fra en interviewundersøgelse, som de har foretaget i skoleåret ... -
Heteroglossic Masculinities: Multilingualism in Armée du salut and Princesa
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Exploring Communication Strategy Use and Metacognitive Awareness in the EFL Classroom
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-14)This study explores the impact of communication strategy (CS) teaching on students' qualitative and quantitative use of such strategies in the context of learning English as a foreign language in Norway. In addition, it ... -
The case of the football club Rosenborg in the Norwegian region Trøndelag: Insights from a regional – global organizational model emphasizing how improvisation can lead to outstanding results using insights from “total football” and “flow theory”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11)The Norwegian football club Rosenborg is used as the empirical setting in the article. Improvisation and good routines are the foundations for success in the soccer field is a finding in this piece of research. We link ... -
Metacognition and Reader Response: the use of reading logs in the envisionment-building classroom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)My article discusses the advantages of reading logs in teacher training programmes, and more specifically in connection with teaching literature and the Reader Response theory. This is an effective pedagogical method for ... -
Mortgage Supply, LTV and Risk Pricing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-26)This paper focuses on mortgage supply and its contribution to the loan-to-value (LTV)-ratio. The paper starts by finding the optimal LTV-ratio for a profit-maximising mortgagee that supply mortgages using housing as ... -
Steering through tough times? Insights into the strategy-formation of small firms to adapt to demographic challenges
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-19)Market transformations induced by demographic change pose a challenge to the strategy-formation of small firms, because the effects of demographic change on firms are complex and partly non-predictable, and will only be ... -
Risikojustert meravkastning i boligmarkedet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)I hele landet har boligprisene steget betydelig siden tidlig på 90-tallet. Til tross for sterk boligprisvekst, vokser prisene i ulike segmenter forskjellig. Det er også geografiske variasjoner i prisveksten. Denne artikkelen ... -
The optimal LTV-ratio, mortgage market variability and monetary policy regimes: A demand side perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, it derives the optimal LTV-ratio for a mortgagor that maximizes the return to home equity when considering the capital structure of housing investment. Second, it analyses the ... -
Repositioning Lorelei’s ‘Education’: Mind, Body, and Sex(uality) in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Understanding the Psychological Reading Process: Preparing Pre-Service ESL Teachers to Become Reading Teachers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article addresses the metacognitive skills of pre-service ESL teachers in terms of their future role as reading teachers for intermediate and advanced pupils. Reading is a basic skill in all subjects in the Norwegian ... -
Å lese film
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Mange lærere ønsker å bruke film i engelskundervisningen, men ser kanskje ikke umiddelbart hvordan dette kan forankres i læreplanmål eller hvilke arbeidsmåter man kan velge. Denne artikkelen ser på hvordan Kunnskapsløftet ... -
Commercial Real Estate at the ZLB: Investment Demand and CAPM-WACC Invariance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper analyzes the implications of a low interest rate environment (the zero lower bound – ZLB) for the demand for commercial real estate. Investment demand is conventionally assessed by return and risk adjusted return, ... -
The Ghost in the Machine: Being Human in the Age of AI and Machine Learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-19)Human beings have used technology to improve their efficiency throughout history. We continue to do so today, but we are no longer only using technology to perform physical tasks. Today, we make computers that are smart ... -
Towards a regional-global organizational model for leading research driven business schools: findings from a longitudinal study in China, Europe and the USA from 2010 until 2016
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The author introduces the regional-globalized organizational design model suited for business schools wishing to play leading roles in research in the global knowledge economy. Professors were interviewed and secondary ... -
Can small banks lead the way out of the crisis in the OECD area?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The economic shock of 2008, and the Great Recession that followed, created uncertainty of the direction of the global economy. With slow economic growth in the OECD area, political unrest and lack of a clear direction from ... -
“…but, it’s really grown on me, Storyline, as practical as it has been’: A critical inquiry of student teachers’ experiences of The Scottish Storyline Approach in teacher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Through qualitative interviews and self-administrated online surveys, this study critically examines how 104 first-year student teachers experience The Scottish Storyline Approach, a cross-curricular approach to teaching ... -
Do Mutual Funds Remain Persitent? Evidence from Pakistan
(Journal article, 2017)This study investigates the performance persistence of 78 mutual funds of Pakistan for the period 2009-2015. The sample period is divided into two sub-periods, based on movement of KSE 100 index closing value. A skilled ... -
Reel Life Methodology: Developing intercultural competence through film fragments and dialogue in South Africa.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07)South Africa is a multicultural country; however, the politics of the past have resulted in teachers from diverse cultures being ignorant of the mores of others with whom they interact. Teachers thus risk transferring ...