Search results for " GOVERNANCE"

Open Science in the digital era

2021

Advances in digital technologies have disrupted the established openness of the institution of open science in the digital era. They have introduced unprecedented possibilities and challenges to instantly, interactively, collaboratively, and responsibly perform science around the world. This doctoral dissertation is aimed at a philosophical, sociological, and economic conceptualization of the normative structure of open science in the digital era, as well as revealing its impact on the established governance of research and innovation at universities. I present a systematic literature review and two empirical studies on how new digital technologies and tools, together with new open physical…

Organising civil preparedness in Finland, Sweden and Norway : comparing national approaches

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 Our security environment hasbecome more complex during the past years and the variety of threats and vulnerabilities that emerge have become more unpredictable and transboundary. Civil prepared-nessis aconceptwhich is used to addresscross-sectoralsecuritymattersfocusing on sustainingthe essential societal functions, ensuringbasic supply tothe population and actingin extraordinary cir-cumstances as well as the civilian sector’s ability to support the military defence if needed.The or-ganisation of civil preparedness is a national matter and the ways governments have organised itvaries. This study see…

Omistajaohjaus, sisäinen yrittäjyys ja tuloksellisuus ammattikorkeakouluissa

2008

The first aim of the study was to produce concepts by which corporate governance, intrapreneurship and effectiveness can be studied in the context of the Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences (=henceforth the UAS or schools). The second purpose was to find out to what extent the amount of corporate governance and intrapreneurship affect the objective-orientation and effectiveness of the same schools.The concepts of owners, juridical and psychological ownership and corporate governance were analyzed according to the Agency Theory, the Human Capital Investment Theory, the Stewardship Theory and the Stakeholder Theory. The concept of intrapreneurship was analyzed as part of entrepreneurship…

The Scandinavian Third Way as a Proposal for Sustainable Smart City Development—A Case Study of Aarhus City

2022

The practical implementation of the goals of smart sustainable cities has different forms. This paper explores an example of the Danish smart city Aarhus, through which the so-called ‘Scandinavian third way’ of smart city development is being proposed. The foundations of the ‘third way’ are directly derived from the Scandinavian tradition of cooperation; it is supposed to be an alternative to the more commercial American model and the more centrally-controlled Asian tradition. The paper aims to identify how the Scandinavian collaborative model has influenced the process of developing the smart city Aarhus, to analyse the proposed ‘Scandinavian third way’ …

Social Determinants of Success: Social Media, Corporate Governance and Revenue

2019

This study examined how social media (Twitter and LinkedIn) relates to the operating revenue by investigating the effect of the use of social media by the board of directors. To tackle this question, we analyzed the mediating and moderating relationship of social media on the effect of board size in operating revenue (turnover). We studied the implications of the use of social media by the board members by using structural equation modeling (SEM). The data consisted of a random sample of 100 companies listed on the NASDAQ. The study makes two main contributions. First, it shows interesting differences in the use of social media for the operating revenue. Our results suggest that while Twitt…

‘The will to not be empowered (according to your rules)’: Resistance in Finnish participatory social policy

2018

Participation has increasingly become a means and an end for successful and ‘empowering’ social policy. Building on previous governmentality critiques of participatory initiatives, this article investigates practices of resistance in the context of Finnish participatory social policy. I adopt a Foucauldian counter-conducts approach as my lens to study critical speech as a form of resistance in initiatives that invite marginalised people as ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organisations. I illustrate how practices of governing and resistance are intertwined and mutually dependent in a much subtler and more practical manner than allows the often-used analytical dichotomy between domi…

Social Network Sites and Political Governance in Russia

2017

Introduzione a "Nulla si butta, tutto si ricicla. Rifiuti: le criticità, la governance e la partecipazione"

2009

Assetto territoriale e sfide della pandemia. Considerazioni sull’esperienza spagnola e tedesca

2021

Il contagio da SARS-CoV-2 ha generato una crisi sanitaria globale senza precedenti. Ciò ha riportato al centro delle riflessioni giuridiche l’antica questione della gestione dell’emergenza nello Stato di diritto, riproponendo quesiti irrisolti e nuove sfide per la tenuta dei regimi democratici contemporanei. Sotto questo profilo, il sistema federale tedesco ma anche la dimensione autonomica spagnola offrono due interessanti casi di studio sulla gestione dell’emergenza dal punto di vista dell’assetto territoriale. The SARS-CoV-2 has generated an unprecedented global health crisis. This has brought the age-old question of emergency management in the rule of law back to the centre of legal re…

Global, National, or Market? Emerging REDD+ Governance Practices in Mozambique and Tanzania

2016

This article examines emerging governance practices in the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) initiative. We examine three different general governance practices (neoliberal, post-national, and government-led practices) that have been applied in the interaction between international organizations and two REDD target countries: Mozambique and Tanzania. In these countries, we find that emerging REDD+ governance practices are a mixture of international organizations’ procedural practices and the target country’s established governance practices, whereas neoliberal practices are weakly expressed. These findings call into question the simplified assumption of re…