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Emerging and Traditional Donors in the ‘Post-Busan’ Context: Assessing Brazil’s and Finland’s Cooperation Practices in Mozambique

2015

At the same time as the ‘emerging donors’ have gained relevance in the development cooperation system, they have also challenged established principles of aid. This article compares Brazil's and Finland's development cooperation practices in the light of recent global tendencies in the aid architecture. Based on empirical research carried out in Mozambique, Brazil, and Finland, the article gives a detailed review of the institutional and historical settings of each bilateral cooperation. The authors then analyse how two central concepts reinforced during the Busan High Level Forum have been put into practice by a ‘new emerging’ and a ‘traditional Nordic’ donor. For ‘development effectivenes…

Reciprocal commitment in academic careers? : Finnish implications and international trends

2016

This study explores the nature of reciprocal commitment in academic careers. The article is based on a survey conducted in autumn 2013 among fixed-term employees at eight major universities in Finland (N = 810). The analysis is focusing on researchers who have a doctoral degree and who are working on a fixed-term contract at their university (n = 308). According to our study, researchers experience their working conditions are insecure and many of them have considered leaving their universities. Despite the fact that they find their work meaningful their uncertain and poor working conditions are related to their thoughts of leaving the university. In addition in many of the cases leaving th…

Democracy, poverty and civil society in Mozambique

2015

National elections were held in Mozambique for the fifth time in October 2014. As a state, Mozambique – like many ‘fourth-wave’ transition countries – fulfils the formal criteria of democracy. But to what extent are the mechanisms of accountability implemented? In Africa, two issues have been identified as key impediments for successful democratic transition: failure to improve the welfare of the poor and the ‘pre-modern’ character of civil society. In Mozambique, robust economic growth has been accompanied by growing inequality, while traditional civil society organisations (CSOs) have become increasingly visible on local level since the political transition in 1994. Based on the analysis …

Industrial Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism and European Integration

2014

Abstract. There has been an explosion of interest in the idea of European Union citizenship in recent years, as a defining example of postnational cosmopolitan citizenship potentially replacing, or at least layered on top of national citizenships. We argue this form of EU citizenship undermines industrial citizenship, which is a crucial support for the egalitarianism and social solidarity on which other types of citizenship are based. Because industrial citizenship arises from collectivities based in class identities and national institutions, it depends on the nation state erritorial order and the social closure inherent in this. EU citizenship in its current ‘postnational’ form is realize…

Strengthening Institutional Isomorphism in Development NGOs? Program Mechanisms in an Organizational Intervention

2017

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international development struggle between being actors in the mainstream or representatives of alternatives to it. However, many NGOs all over the world align with the mainstream and are increasingly similar to each other. This homogenization results from institutional isomorphism, which is affected by their aspirations to be legitimate vis-á-vis the international field. Consultancies are among the main practices to promote normative isomorphism, but little is known about their micro-level dynamics. Drawing on the notion of program mechanisms in realistic evaluation, we scrutinize how external facilitators in organizational development processes enab…

Corporate business model transformation and inter-organizational cognition: the case of Nokia

2013

This article distinguishes between a firm’s corporate business model and business models of its various business units. Our aim is to provide new insights into how executives’ cognitive processes can influence corporate business model transformation decisions. We focus especially on top managers’ recognition of inter-organizational cognitions, that is, such cognitions about the firm and its businesses that are shared by the top managers and stakeholders of the firm in the industries and communities where it operates. We support our theoretical work with an historical case study of Nokia’s corporate business model transformation between 1990 and 1996, which proved highly successful. We find …

Taikuus, noituus ja kansanusko Ylä-Satakunnassa 1623-1750

2015

Tutkielma käsittelee taikuuden- ja noituudenharjoittamista Ylä-Satakunnassa 1600-luvulla sekä 1700-luvun ensimmäisellä puoliskolla. Ylä-Satakunnan osalta näin kattavaa tutkimusta ei taikuudesta ja noituudesta ole aiemmin tehty. Vaikka alkuperäisaineisto muodostuu oikeuden pöytäkirjoista, tutkielmassa tarkastellaan taikuutta ja noituutta osana ihmisten arkea, eikä niinkään oikeudellisesta näkökulmasta. Säilyneen aineiston perusteella Ylä-Satakunnassa käytiin vuosina 1623–1750 69 taikuus- ja noituusoikeudenkäyntiä, joissa syytettyjä oli noin sata. Yli puolet syytetyistä oli miehiä. Taikuudesta sekä noituudesta käräjöitiin läpi tarkastelujakson, mutta kiivaimpia aikoja olivat 1670-luvun loppu …

"Tuomitaan taikuuden harjoittamisesta" : taikuusoikeudenkäynnit 1700-luvun lopun Pohjois-Pohjanmaalla ja Kainuussa

2007

Pepe-sammakko Kiasmassa : leikki, trollaaminen ja #ALONETOGETHER-taideteoksen affektiivisuus

2018

#ALONETOGETHER oli yleisön osallistumiseen perustuva taideteos Kiasmassa keväällä 2017. Siihen kohdistui toistuvaa trollausta, joka kumpusi taiteilijoiden aiemmasta poliittisesta toiminnasta ja siitä virinneistä keskusteluista internetin kuvalaudoilla. Analysoimme teoksen ympärillä tapahtunutta trollausta ja osoitamme, miten se on yhdistelmä affekteja, leikkiä ja poliittista toimintaa. peerReviewed

MOCSE Centered on Students: Validation of Learning Demands and Teacher Support Scales

2020

Based on The Educational Situation Quality Model (MOCSE, acronym in Spanish) framework, the primary objective of this study is to test the factorial validity and reliability of two MOCSE measure instruments referred to the preactional-decisional phase, specifically to learning demands and teacher supports perceived by students to overcome such demands in the classroom context. The participants were 357 Spanish undergraduate students. The data obtained by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the “Learning Demands Scale” (MOCSE-LDS) has a two-factor structure: perceived desirability and feasibility of demands. The data also revealed that the “Teacher Support Questionnair…