Martin Nøkleberg

• Øygarden, Olaug; Nøkleberg, Martin & Gressgård, Leif Jarle (2023). Reforming for trust and professionalism in municipal healthcare services: implications for human resource management. BMC Health Services Research. 23(1). doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10006-8. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background Many countries face an increasing demand for home-based healthcare services, and consequently experience a mismatch between expectations and available financial and human resources. It is therefore important to utilize human resources more efficiently, while at the same time offer jobs that attract the professionals they need. This article reports a study of the development and piloting of a new organizational model for home-based healthcare services in a Norwegian municipality, which addresses the need to provide efficient services and enhance trust and professionalism within healthcare services by improving work autonomy and involvement of employees. Methods The research project this article draws its empirical material from was commissioned by the municipality piloting the new organizational model and executed in collaboration with the municipality based on an evaluative trailing research (ETR) design. The data consists of interviews with key personnel and knowledge exchange between researchers and the involved actors in the pilot project. 20 semi-structured interviews involving a total of 34 informants were conducted. The analysis emphasises how different employee groups and management perceived and experienced various aspects of the work situation, as they were introduced to working and managing within the new organizational model. The aim is to shed light on how these employees and managers feel about it, interpret it, and respond to it. Results Overall, the results indicate that the model holds potential for realizing the benefits it aims for. However, there were also challenges that need resolving for the model to fulfil this potential. Central elements include clarification of roles and responsibilities for employees and managers, competence specification and development, and development of structures for inter-professional cross-team collaboration and information provision. Conclusions Trust reform initiatives may be a strategy for fostering high-involvement work systems. To achieve this, sufficient attention must be paid to ensuring structures for information exchange and knowledge development in the early phases of implementation, or preferably prior to implementation. The theoretical model applied in this study could potentially be a useful managerial tool in preparing for and implementing trust reforms in healthcare services.

• Nøkleberg, Martin & Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2023). Schengen as a European criminal justice instrument – the power of evaluation. In Brandariz, José A.; Klaus, Witold & Martynowicz, Agnieszka (Ed.), Forced Mobility of EU Citizens: Transnational Criminal Justice Instruments and the Management of 'Unwanted' EU Nationals. Routledge. ISSN 9781032184531. p. 187–208. doi: 10.4324/9781003254584. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Schengen agreement, signed in 1985, is considered pivotal to European integration project, as it is designed to support the free movement of persons and cross-border mobility by the removal of internal border checks. By making movement across internal borders in Europe easier, the agreement is assumed to promote the use of the four freedoms and thus provide citizens and businesses with new opportunities to pursue with positive economic externalities. This chapter aims to unpack the development of Schengen by seeing evaluation and monitoring mechanisms as a form of power. It looks at evaluation as a governance instrument shaping the construction of Schengen as a criminal justice and security area. Taking the case of Schengen evaluation of Norway as its point of departure, the chapter explores how Norwegian police officers perceive and navigate the mechanism which enables a form of community of practice, and how they view the move towards tighter control by the European Commission in the evaluation process.

• Nøkleberg, Martin (2023). Securing Norwegian Maritime Ports: Navigation in a complex regulatory regime. In Eski, Yarin & Wright, Martin (Ed.), Maritime Crime and Policing. Routledge. ISSN 9781032022116. p. 253–273. doi: 10.4324/9781003182382-17. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Maritime ports are seen as crucial structures where an immense flow of people, goods, and capital is facilitated and often considered the backbone supporting the international trade regime. As such, ports are highly important, but at the same time vulnerable, spaces in need of security, encompassing both the sites and actors themselves and the flows that converge in them. The (in)security facing contemporary ports makes them places where there is intensified policing, in which different measures have been introduced to safeguard the maritime industry. As a result, ports are entangled in a complex web of international, national, and local legislation and regulation, impacting the practices of many port actors. This chapter unpacks the everyday realities and experiences among public and private actors securing and policing Norwegian port environments. Drawing on empirical research from the Port of Stavanger and Port of Kristiansand, the chapter is concerned with how the actors navigate within the regulatory regime.

• Nøkleberg, Martin (2022). Policing Global Hubs: Balancing the Imperatives of Security and Trade. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 63(3), p. 709–726. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azac060. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Global hubs such as airports and maritime ports are geographical centers where immense flows converge, and are characterized by speed, time and efficiency in linking local markets and global economic trade networks. Being symbolic infrastructures of capitalism, global hubs may attract criminal exploitation and be exposed to security risks. Drawing on extensive interview material from those involved in Norwegian airport and port security, this article explores how policing agencies experience the balancing of the imperatives of security and trade. It reveals how policing agencies are affected by, and seek to adapt to, the demands for efficiency and speed intrinsic to the trade regime, thereby highlighting the importance of the temporal dimension to understanding the complexities of contemporary security governance.

• Nøkleberg, Martin (2022). “Nobody wants queues” – Balancing the imperatives of security and trade at global hubs. Nordic Criminology Blog. Full text in Research Archive
• Nøkleberg, Martin (2022). Plural Policing in Norway: Regulation, Collaboration, and the Public Interests. In Hirschmann, Nathalie; John, Tobias; Reichl, Frauke & Garand, Jacqueline Abigail (Ed.), Plural Policing in the Global North: Insights into Concepts, Aspects and Practices. Springer. ISSN 9783031162725. p. 137–158. Full text in Research Archive

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• Øygarden, Olaug; Gressgård, Leif Jarle & Nøkleberg, Martin (2024). Her er en ny type oppgavedeling innført i hjemmetjenesten. Full text in Research Archive
• Øygarden, Olaug; Gressgård, Leif Jarle; Nøkleberg, Martin & Fagertun, Anette (2022). INCA: Foreløpige funn og refleksjoner 1. Full text in Research Archive
• Nøkleberg, Martin (2025). Forskningsomtale: Bevæpning i politiet. Politihøgskolen. Full text in Research Archive
• Nøkleberg, Martin; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Dyb, Evelyn & Lid, Stian (2022). Evaluering av SaLTo-samarbeidet. Forutsetninger for effektivt tverretatlig og tverrfaglig samarbeid. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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