The free trade agreement signed between China and Switzerland in 2013 was a watershed event in the economic policies of both states,a successful identity-building exercise for both actors in addition to an economic endeavour. In the case of Beijing, the Switzerland free trade agreement (FTA) was a crucial step not only in promoting its trade interests in Europe, including the European Union, but ...

Challenging the influential view that the chapter on biology in the first volume of <i>The Second Sex</i> is exposing scientific myths in severe prose, in the view of this paper, the chapter is as much about scientific facts as it is an intriguingly open-ended dialogue between phenomenology and science. Beauvoir’s consuming epistemological and scientific preoccupation with the category of biology ...

The article considers one dominant tendency of independent filmmaking, and its impact on the treatment of the refugee (broadly conceived): the application of contemporary documentary methods to both fiction and nonfiction works. The goal is a preliminary exploration of the complex, context-sensitive political effects of the approach, sometimes dubbed the “documentary style”, as resistance of ...

In the field of Arctic shipping, Canada and the Russian Federation have enacted extensive unilateral national regulations cognizant of Article 234, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. On the global level, both states have been important actors in negotiating the International Maritime Organization’s mandatory Polar Code, a legal instrument with implications for regulations at the national level. ...

In an era of culturally driven growth, urban identities are of central importance for the branding of cities. However, urban identities are under constant re-negotiation as cities’ populations become more diverse. In northern Scandinavia, some cities have developed on what were traditionally Indigenous lands but have failed to acknowledge the role these roots and histories have played in shaping the ...

This paper seeks to convey a broader understanding of policy transfers between different sectors, focusing on transfers from the for-profit sector to local government. Specifically, we study the reasoning in a transfer process of branding and reputation management policy. Our case is a rural Norwegian municipality struggling to combat depopulation. This study is longitudinal. We discover that some ...

Increased geographical mobility, improved medical treatment, and prolonged life expectancy have changed the way of life for older persons and their next of kin. This chapter discusses intergenerational care, mainly from the next of kin’s point of view, when an older family member and the next of kin live far from each other. The study is based on my—the author’s—autoethnographic account of the ...

Igjennom denne oppgaven har jeg sett om ideen om organisering av ungdomsteam, og oppfølging av ungdom har blitt kontekstualisert i NAV. Jeg har valgt å bruke Røviks (2016) teori om kontekstualisering for å følge oversettingsprosessen gjennom flere organisatoriske nivå: Fra de sentrale politiske føringene videre til de skriftlige kildene internt, til de lokale NAV-kontorene. Jeg har målt kontekstualiseringen ...

Tema for denne masteroppgaven er ledelse i lys av digital transformasjon. Vi har studert hva sentrale aktører i norsk næringsliv mener er viktig for å lykkes med ledelse av digital transformasjon ved å kartlegge deres forestillinger og perspektiver på ledelse. Videre har vi sett på hvorvidt disse perspektivene samsvarer med teoretiske bidrag om ledelse, digitalisering og digital transformasjon. I ...

Temaet for denne masteroppgaven er organisasjonsideen Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) eller bedrifters samfunnsansvar. Samfunnsansvar blir karakterisert som en av mange ideer eller oppskrifter for hvordan bedrifter bør se ut og opptre for å oppnå legitimitet og et godt omdømme. Organisasjonsoppskrifter er immaterielle ideer og de må derfor først fortolkes og forstås før de kan adopteres. Jeg ...