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The human gaze at animals and the missing animal gaze in tourism studies
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-26)This research letter critically reflects on the missing animal gaze in tourism studies and elaborates on the urgency of including it in the discussion about the relationship between human and non-human animals. Drawing on the Foucauldian gaze and on the John Urry’s tourist gaze, we reflect on the unproblematised power imbalance between human and animal gazes that is inherent in tourist ... -
Ethnic discrimination in Scandinavia: evidence from a field experiment in women’s amateur soccer
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-11)In this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination using sport as a laboratory. Applying a field experiment in the three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—we test whether foreign female minority groups experience greater rejection rates when seeking inclusion in amateur soccer clubs. Soccer coaches were contacted by e-mail using native and foreign-sounding names from selected groups, ... -
Mutual coupling between stock market and cryptocurrencies
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-10)We examine the relationship between the top five cryptos and the U.S. S&P500 index from January 2018 to December 2021. We use the novel General-to-specific Vector Autoregression (GETS VAR) and traditional Vector Autoregression (VAR) model to analyze the short- and longrun, cumulative impulse-response, and Granger causality test between S&P500 returns and the returns of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, ... -
RescUSim and IPython : an environment for offshore emergency preparedness planning
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-22)Emergency preparedness is crucial for oil and gas operators. While accidents in this industry are commonly connected to oil spill disasters, helicopter accidents are, in terms of incidence rates, a more grave concern in Norway. A recent helicopter accident near Bergen has brought this subject back into focus. We introduce RescUSim, a simulator for rescue missions after offshore helicopter accidents, ... -
Viral Viruses and Modified Mobility: Cyberspace Disease Salience Predicts Human Movement Patterns
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-24)Humans have a motivational system that influences cognition and behavior to minimize the risk of contact with pathogens. This research examines the relationship between cyberspace disease salience and mobility behavior at the macro and micro levels. Across two studies, we predict and find that people adjust their mobility behavior to minimize the risk of close physical contact with strangers ... -
Consumers’ values, attitudes and behaviours towards consuming seaweed food products: The effects of perceived naturalness, uniqueness, and behavioural control
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-27)Seaweed has great potential as a natural, healthy, and sustainable food. Seaweed as food is novel in Western countries; thus, few studies have focused on the factors influencing consumers’ behavioural tendencies towards seaweed food products. This study aimed to fill the gap by investigating the antecedents for consumers’ attitudes towards as well as their consumption of seaweed food products in a ... -
The importance of relative customer-based label equity when signaling sustainability and health with certifications and tags
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-29)As a result of the increased crowding of the retail landscape with health and sustainability signals and hundreds of different certifications and claims, there is a growing need to determine the critical success factors and guidelines for professional practice. The current paper investigates how different combinations of signals impact consumers’ choice and willingness to pay (WTP). We identify and ... -
Appropriation of economic values in a rights-based fishery
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-21)This study integrates resource-based and stakeholder theories to explore how values are generated and appropriated in a rights-based fishery. We argue that in the fish harvesting industry, a firm’s ability to create values is critically dependent on stakeholders outside the firm’s boundaries, such as society in general (the principal owner of the natural resource) and the fisheries management of ... -
What factors contributes to success in an event project? A case study of the learning experiences of students in a Project Management course.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-22)As part of the 2022 Norwegian Skiing Championship, the students at Harstad Business School, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, conducted a successful project event called ‘Sidetrack’ to provide fun and enjoyment for the public and the participants. Our study is based on qualitative interviews with eight students to reveal their learning experiences in relation to factors that contributes to the ... -
Face consciousness, personal norms, and environmentally responsible behavior of Chinese tourists: Evidence from a lake tourism site
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-03)This study explores the role of face consciousness in tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior (ERB). It expands the norm activation theory, integrates the concept of face consciousness and examines how personal norms (PN) on environmentally responsible behavior is moderated by face consciousness. Data was collected from 415 mainland Chinese tourists in West Lake, China. Structural equation ... -
Yoga travellers’ experiences in guided tours: a multiple case study approach
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-02)This study investigates yoga travellers’ experiences in guided tours organized by the renowned online travel platform, Tripaneer. Travellers’ online narratives (N = 880) regarding three main yoga destinations were collected and examined through content analysis. Six main components were revealed: yoga facilities and services, a sense of awe, the overall benefits of yoga, a memorable experience, ... -
Exploring the Potential of Social Farmers’ Networking as a Leverage for Inclusive Tourism
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-28)Social entrepreneurship plays a key role in making tourism an inclusive activity. Literature on the topic is increasing but needs to pay more attention to collaboration, which is crucial for social enterprises. To overcome this gap, the present study focuses on the impact that social entrepreneurs’ drivers and barriers towards collaboration might have on providing decent work in rural tourism. The ... -
Stage-Dependent Predation on Prey Species Who Possess Different Life Histories
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-24)Two stage-structuredone-population (prey) models together with four prey-predator models are analyzed. Regarding the prey models, where one of them has fecundity elements which depend on the total population while the fecundities of the other depend on the mature part of the population only, we prove that both of them are permanent and moreover that their fixed points undergo supercritical bifurcations, ... -
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 ...
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