Search results for "Enterprise"

Striving for Inclusion through Participatory Practices in Social Enterprises

2019

The aim of this research case is to shed some empirical light on the effects of participatory practices from the perspective of Sen’s capability approach in a Finnish social enterprise. Using a mixed method approach we explore how participatory practices build social inclusion by enabling both company’s employees and customers to engage in social agency. The case study findings articulate the importance of participatory practices to employees’ perceptions of meaningfulness of life and being able to meet customers (who are mentally disabled) needs on the one hand and customers’ experience of information sharing and feedback giving to the employees and helping other customers. peerReviewed

Sosiaalisen intranetin käyttö organisaation vuorovaikutusympäristönä : asiantuntijatyötä tekevien käsityksiä ja kokemuksia

2014

Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli ymmärtää sosiaalisen intranetin käyttöä organisaation vuorovaikutusympäristönä asiantuntijatyötä tekevien näkökulmasta. Tavoitetta lähestyttiin tutkimalla asiantuntijatyötä tekevien käsityksiä ja kokemuksia sosiaalisen intranetin käytöstä ja sosiaalisen intranetin käyttöönotosta heidän organisaatiossaan. Lisäksi pohdittiin sosiaalisen intranetin viestintä- ja vuorovaikutustehtävää organisaatiossa sekä asiantuntijatyötä tekevien näkemyksiä ja odotuksia sosiaalisen intranetin tulevaisuudesta. Tutkimus toteutettiin laadullisia menetelmiä käyttäen. Aineisto kerättiin haastattelemalla kahdeksaa kohdeorganisaation asiantuntijatyötä tekevää teemahaastattelurunkoa …

Method and Practical Guidelines for Overcoming Enterprise Architecture Adoption Challenges

2017

During the last few years, interest towards Enterprise Architecture (EA) has increased, not least due to anticipated benefits resulting from adopting it. For instance, EA has been argued to provide cost reduction, technology standardisation, process improvement, and strategic differentiation. Despite these benefits, the EA adoption rate and maturity are still low. Consequently, EA benefits are not realised. A major reason hindering the adoption is that EA is not understood correctly. This paper aims for minimising the effect of the lack of understanding EA to adopting EA. Based on the research conducted in Finnish public sector, we propose an improved Enterprise Architecture Adoption Method…

Destinazione turistica e networks interni ed esterni: il turismo relazionale

2022

The limitation in the relations between people caused by the pandemic today pushes more and more travellers in search of experiences and interactions with the territories, especially those excluded from the current production processes and the dominant market logic. In this context, the tourism of the roots or return tourism is motivated by a need to rediscover their origins, discover them, or trace them in places related to the history of travellers or their families. We, therefore, describe the main dimensions of the relationship tourism model so that it can be applied to root tourism.

Sport as an industry in Finland : exploring the economic significance, contributions, and development of the sport sector as an industry

2016

Entrepreneurial networking of small businesses in Latin-America : the case of Villa el Salvador in Peru

2014

Understanding and measuring social entrepreneurship

2017

This thesis aims to understand the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship and measure its component dimensions. In particular, the thesis addresses two research gaps in the social entrepreneurship research. The first gap addressed is the resource mobilization during marketing strategy development of a social enterprise in its start-up stage. Social entrepreneurship is a diverse concept constituting various organizational form and activities. Hence, the second research gap that this research study addresses is the issue of measurement of social entrepreneurship construct. The thesis consists of an introductory essay and five research articles. The first two articles in this compilation addres…

A valued partner or a mere support function : the role of marketing in Software-as-a-Service SMEs

2017

Ohjelmistoala on läpikäynyt valtavia muutoksia 2000-luvulla uusien teknologisten innovaatioiden syntyessä ja levitessä kiihtyvällä tahdilla. Pilvipalvelu on yksi tunnetuimmista innovaatioista ja kuvaa internetissä tapahtuvaa tietotekniikan käyttöä. Samaa nimitystä käytetään kaikista pilvessä tarjottavista palveluista, joista Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on saanut laajimman suosion. Enemmistö uusista pilvipalveluorganisaatioista on pieniä tai keskisuuria yrityksiä, joilla on tutkimusten mukaan hyvin omalaatuinen tapa suunnitella ja toteuttaa markkinoinnin toimenpiteitä. Perinteiset suurille organisaatioille sopivat markkinoinnin teoriat ja mallit eivät istu nuorten ja ketterien ohjelmistoyri…

Enterprise Architecture : A Perspective on How Far We Have Come, and Directions for the Future

2019

Enterprise Architecture (EA) appears to retain the attention of both practitioners and researchers, as the technological complexity of organizations grows. Several researchers have noted that research on EA has been diversifying over time, leading to inconsistent use of terminologies. Further, the benefit claims and other results, rather frequently, are not based on empirical evidence. These shortfalls in research on EA impede EA from maturing as a discipline and from demonstrating its benefit claims. Although there are reasons to believe that the research on EA has progressed, the extent of the progress and the directions for future research are not evident. This study draws on a meta-revi…

Towards a Contingency Framework for Engineering an Enterprise Architecture Planning Method

2007

Enterprise architecture (EA) has a key role in managing and relating business strategies and processes, information systems, and IC technologies. EA planning devises an EA plan with development steps to make necessary enhancements to the current state of the affairs in EA. Accomplishing EA planning in a systematic and efficient manner requires the availability of frameworks and methods suitable to the situation at hand. The selection and adaptation of these methodical artifacts for the use of EA planning is often quite challenging in practice. We argue that the contingency approach can help in these activities of method engineering (ME), and present a contingency framework (named here EACon…