Since 2014, the Russian space sector has handled institutional rearrangement and external economic pressure. On the one hand, the establishment of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos intended to renovate a critical segment and save an industry that is one of the jewels of the Soviet legacy. On the other hand, the Russian annexation of Crimea triggered waves of financial and economic sanctions that ...

Australian local government does not enjoy the status of its counterparts in comparable democracies and has long sought acknowledgment in the federal constitution. As these campaigns have consistently failed, this study considers how, and in which forms, local government obtains its own political legitimacy within a governance system centered on the citizen–state relationship, in addition to evaluating ...

<p>What are translocal families and what are their lifelines like? The theoretical section of the chapter explains translocality, translocal familyhood and lifelines, the three key concepts of the book. Based mainly on research carried out for the Inequalities of Mobility: Relatedness and Belonging of Transnational Families in the Nordic Migration Space project, the authors ponder how emotion, ...

Corporatisation in Norwegian local government, although not a new phenomenon, has grown rapidly during the last 20–25 years, especially since 2003–2004. Considering its relatively small population, Norway has a high number of municipally owned companies (MOCs), compared to its Scandinavian neighbours. Despite this, measured by the number of employees, the size of MOCs constitutes less than 10% of ...

This study explores how local politicians act when they are torn between local voters’ views and their own views or the party line. Against the background of a recent municipal amalgamation reform in Norway that reduced the number of municipalities from 428 to 356, we conducted a survey experiment where the local representatives (N = 2,013) were treated with different outcomes from a hypothetical ...

The Norwegian outfields make up convoluted more-than-human public spaces. Throughout its nation-building process, being an outdoor culture combining hikers, trekkers, and skiers has been inscribed into the national identity of Norway. Facilitated by allemannsretten (the right to roam), the recreational leisure use of the outfields has however increased and diversified steadily during recent decades. ...

The authority of the UN Security Council (UNSC), perhaps also its legitimacy, may have been brought into question by recent events. The war in Ukraine and the inferno in the Middle East challenges its role as preserver of international peace and security, and poor or highly selective responses to mass atrocities challenges its capacity to provide protection to populations when states fail. This ...

Forsvaret har gjennom mange hundre år levert offiserer og ledere til det sivile arbeidsmarkedet. Internt i Forsvaret er det en opplevelse om at organisasjonen mister kompetent personell for tidlig. Dette har ført til at Forsvaret har satt fokus på å finne ut hvilke sluttårsaker militært personell har. Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI) har i de siste årene gjennomført årlige undersøkelser om ...

Sammendrag Mellomledere har en viktig rolle som bindeledd mellom toppledere og personalet. I særlig grad gjelder dette når endringer i organisasjonen implementeres. Deres evne til å få personalet til å forstå, akseptere og praktisere disse endringene er avgjørende. Motstand mot endringer derimot vanskeligjør gjennomføring av disse prosessene. For å utforske dette fenomenet nærmere valgte jeg å ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en litteraturstudie om fjernledelse og kommunikasjon. Temaet fjernledelse er spesielt aktuelt på grunn av covid-19 pandemien og den økte bruken av digitale kommunikasjonsmidler. Jeg er derfor interessert i å undersøke problemstillingen: Hva er fjernledelse, og hvilke muligheter og begrensninger eksisterer ved fjernledelse? Problemstillingen har jeg belyst gjennom tre ...