Stein Kristiansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 706218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stein Kristiansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stein |
| FAMILY NAME | Kristiansen |
| SIGNATURE | KRISTIANSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2717-0910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
To reform or not reform? Competing energy transition perspectives on Indonesia's monopoly electricity supplier Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN)
This paper maps the opposing rationales for reforming or not reforming the giant monopoly electricity provider in the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia's state-owned power company, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), distributes electricity to 98 % of the country's households. Only 13 % of the company's power generation is from renewable sources, while 60 % is from coal-fired power plants. PLN is sometimes cast as the main obstacle to …
Ecosystem Guardians or Threats? Livelihood Security and Nature Conservation in Maluku, Indonesia
This article addresses the challenge of combining ecosystem protection with economic development. The setting is societies living near a national park in a poor and peripheral part of Indonesia. Data from our household survey are used to answer the following questions: Do local communities find secure and sustainable livelihoods in areas surrounding the park? To what extent do communities close to the park contribute to ecosystem protection? We u…
Economic reasoning and creative industries progress
This article offers a theoretical discussion on how major neoclassical economic theory assumptions blur the understanding of creative industries. By distinguishing between creative-rational and creative-intuitive industries, with different compositions of commercial and cultural attributes, we particularly show how the latter sector has characteristics and dynamics that are incompatible with a theory based on preference rationality, profit maximi…
Towards sustainable coexistence
Institutions and Rural Stagnation in Eastern Indonesia
This article addresses why agricultural productivity is still very low in peripheral parts of eastern Indonesia. The paper identifies rules and norms underpinning traditionalism. It further addresses how increased land-use efficiency can be supported while maintaining communal land ownership. Information collected from in-depth interviews was analysed based on new institutional economics (NIE) theory. I argue that the government, adat leaders, th…
Traditions, Land Rights, and Local Welfare Creation
This research focuses on the impacts of traditional systems of land distribution among households, clans, and the government in two of Indonesia’s poorest provinces: East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku. Our main goal is to discuss and propose alternative ways of dividing and governing productive land to meet new needs in the management of agriculture and forestry. We apply a mixed research methodology that includes in-depth discussions with more than 5…
Public Sector Reforms and Financial Transparency
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 31, Number 1, April 2009
Transaction Costs and Linkage Creation
Decentralising education in Indonesia
Buying an Income
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 28, Number 2, August 2006
Authority and Law Enforcement
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 27, Number 2, August 2005
Liberalisation, Information and Innovation
Social Networks and Business Success
The main objective of this paper is to illuminate social and cultural preconditions for networking and success in business in an African context. By in-depth studies of small-scale entrepreneurs in the wood business in Tanzania, we find that people belonging to an Asian subculture probably have a better standing for entering and thriving in business, due to group cohesion, mobility, and level of education. Through high-quality social networks, ch…
Survival of cottage industries in Africa
(2003). Survival of cottage industries in Africa: the case of clustering and social networks in Tanzanian garment industries. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 365-382
Violent Youth Groups in Indonesia
Problems of violent youth groups have escalated in Indonesia, following economic recession, unemployment, and weakened state institutions. Young people have been hit by the lack of income and broken expectations. In consequence, youth groups emerge and arrange for members' economic revenue as well as identity creation and confidence. Religion in some cases is used to legitimize violence and to strengthen the boldness of group members. The paper o…
Competition and Knowledge in Javanese Rural Business
The paper focuses on information flows and the need for change in cottage industries in rural Indonesia. The context for small‐scale business entrepreneurs has changed dramatically during the last decade of economic liberalisation and crisis. Emerging market opportunities, as well as national and international competition, now challenge indigenous businesses in their different geographical settings, and new information is indispensable for surviv…
Enacting their Business Environments
The main objective of this paper is to contribute to explaining the outstanding business success among the Asian diaspora in East Africa as compared to the native African population. Taking an actor's point of view, the business context is analysed against a theoretical background of alien entrepreneurship and a presentation of the history of Asians in the region. A main argument is that the alien entrepreneurs are in a better position to enact t…
Enacting their Business Environments
Decentralising education in Indonesia
Violent Youth Groups in Indonesia
Problems of violent youth groups have escalated in Indonesia, following economic recession, unemployment, and weakened state institutions. Young people have been hit by the lack of income and broken expectations. In consequence, youth groups emerge and arrange for members' economic revenue as well as identity creation and confidence. Religion in some cases is used to legitimize violence and to strengthen the boldness of group members. The paper o…
Buying an Income
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 28, Number 2, August 2006
Social Networks and Business Success
The main objective of this paper is to illuminate social and cultural preconditions for networking and success in business in an African context. By in-depth studies of small-scale entrepreneurs in the wood business in Tanzania, we find that people belonging to an Asian subculture probably have a better standing for entering and thriving in business, due to group cohesion, mobility, and level of education. Through high-quality social networks, ch…
Enacting their Business Environments
Public Sector Reforms and Financial Transparency
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 31, Number 1, April 2009
Towards sustainable coexistence
Institutions and Rural Stagnation in Eastern Indonesia
This article addresses why agricultural productivity is still very low in peripheral parts of eastern Indonesia. The paper identifies rules and norms underpinning traditionalism. It further addresses how increased land-use efficiency can be supported while maintaining communal land ownership. Information collected from in-depth interviews was analysed based on new institutional economics (NIE) theory. I argue that the government, adat leaders, th…
Traditions, Land Rights, and Local Welfare Creation
This research focuses on the impacts of traditional systems of land distribution among households, clans, and the government in two of Indonesia’s poorest provinces: East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku. Our main goal is to discuss and propose alternative ways of dividing and governing productive land to meet new needs in the management of agriculture and forestry. We apply a mixed research methodology that includes in-depth discussions with more than 5…
Authority and Law Enforcement
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 27, Number 2, August 2005
Competition and Knowledge in Javanese Rural Business
The paper focuses on information flows and the need for change in cottage industries in rural Indonesia. The context for small‐scale business entrepreneurs has changed dramatically during the last decade of economic liberalisation and crisis. Emerging market opportunities, as well as national and international competition, now challenge indigenous businesses in their different geographical settings, and new information is indispensable for surviv…
Enacting their Business Environments
The main objective of this paper is to contribute to explaining the outstanding business success among the Asian diaspora in East Africa as compared to the native African population. Taking an actor's point of view, the business context is analysed against a theoretical background of alien entrepreneurship and a presentation of the history of Asians in the region. A main argument is that the alien entrepreneurs are in a better position to enact t…
Enacting their Business Environments
Survival of cottage industries in Africa
(2003). Survival of cottage industries in Africa: the case of clustering and social networks in Tanzanian garment industries. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 365-382
Violent Youth Groups in Indonesia
Problems of violent youth groups have escalated in Indonesia, following economic recession, unemployment, and weakened state institutions. Young people have been hit by the lack of income and broken expectations. In consequence, youth groups emerge and arrange for members' economic revenue as well as identity creation and confidence. Religion in some cases is used to legitimize violence and to strengthen the boldness of group members. The paper o…
Liberalisation, Information and Innovation
Social Networks and Business Success
The main objective of this paper is to illuminate social and cultural preconditions for networking and success in business in an African context. By in-depth studies of small-scale entrepreneurs in the wood business in Tanzania, we find that people belonging to an Asian subculture probably have a better standing for entering and thriving in business, due to group cohesion, mobility, and level of education. Through high-quality social networks, ch…
Authority and Law Enforcement
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 27, Number 2, August 2005
Transaction Costs and Linkage Creation
Decentralising education in Indonesia
Buying an Income
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 28, Number 2, August 2006
Public Sector Reforms and Financial Transparency
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 31, Number 1, April 2009
Traditions, Land Rights, and Local Welfare Creation
This research focuses on the impacts of traditional systems of land distribution among households, clans, and the government in two of Indonesia’s poorest provinces: East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku. Our main goal is to discuss and propose alternative ways of dividing and governing productive land to meet new needs in the management of agriculture and forestry. We apply a mixed research methodology that includes in-depth discussions with more than 5…
Economic reasoning and creative industries progress
This article offers a theoretical discussion on how major neoclassical economic theory assumptions blur the understanding of creative industries. By distinguishing between creative-rational and creative-intuitive industries, with different compositions of commercial and cultural attributes, we particularly show how the latter sector has characteristics and dynamics that are incompatible with a theory based on preference rationality, profit maximi…
Towards sustainable coexistence
Institutions and Rural Stagnation in Eastern Indonesia
This article addresses why agricultural productivity is still very low in peripheral parts of eastern Indonesia. The paper identifies rules and norms underpinning traditionalism. It further addresses how increased land-use efficiency can be supported while maintaining communal land ownership. Information collected from in-depth interviews was analysed based on new institutional economics (NIE) theory. I argue that the government, adat leaders, th…
Ecosystem Guardians or Threats? Livelihood Security and Nature Conservation in Maluku, Indonesia
This article addresses the challenge of combining ecosystem protection with economic development. The setting is societies living near a national park in a poor and peripheral part of Indonesia. Data from our household survey are used to answer the following questions: Do local communities find secure and sustainable livelihoods in areas surrounding the park? To what extent do communities close to the park contribute to ecosystem protection? We u…
To reform or not reform? Competing energy transition perspectives on Indonesia's monopoly electricity supplier Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN)
This paper maps the opposing rationales for reforming or not reforming the giant monopoly electricity provider in the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia's state-owned power company, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), distributes electricity to 98 % of the country's households. Only 13 % of the company's power generation is from renewable sources, while 60 % is from coal-fired power plants. PLN is sometimes cast as the main obstacle to …
Economics (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Marketing (4 works)