Search results for "ORGANISATION"

Deadlock in corporate governance: Finding a common strategy for private telephone companies, 1978–1998

2017

This paper looks at how a group of small, incumbent private telephone companies complied with the international convergence of market structures. The existing research has mainly focused on large national incumbents, assuming a transition to multinational enterprise. This development process is often associated with privatisation policies and various institutional factors. The article tests these assumptions using a case study of the network of Finnish local telephone companies. It looks at the development of an interfirm network, its perspectives on the different phases of the deregulation process, and how the network tried to regenerate itself but failed to form a unified corporate struct…

Self-Directed Learning as a Practice of Workplace Learning: Interpretative Repertoires of Self-Directed Learning in ICT Work

2019

Changing technologies and competition in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) are challenging the learning of individual workers and teams alongside and through work. Organisations call for employees’ autonomy and self-directedness executed by agile operations and low hierarchies, where learning is also increasingly the responsibility of the individuals and teams themselves and occurs in practice without strong control of the organisation. Therefore, the multidimensional concept of self-directed learning becomes essential in the context of learning at work. In this study, we examine how employees in the ICT sector describe self-directed learning practices in the conte…

Organisational learning in a fusion school

2016

Laiho-Murdoch, Heli. 2016. Organisational learning in a Fusion School University of Jyväskylä. Department of Education. This empirical research examines organisational learning in a fusion-school development during the period of 2010 and 2012 by a case study approach of the phenomenon. This educational fusion is between two diverse countries; Finland and the United Arab Emirates. The background is Abu Dhabi’s education reform since 2003 and the Finnish outstanding educational experience and excellent PISA results. The originality value of this research is unique. This partnership is first of its kind in Finland, and has therefore notable interest value. Organisational learning manifesting i…

Intranet organisaation sisäisessä viestinnässä : tapaus Kunn[at]ri

1999

Virtues for innovativeness : a mixed methods study of ethical organisational culture and organisational innovativeness

2016

Artikkeliväitöskirja. Sisältää yhteenveto-osan ja neljä artikkelia. Article dissertation. Contains an introduction part and five articles. This study examined ethical organisational culture, consisting of ethical organisational virtues, and organisational innovativeness. More specifically, the study explored the relationship between the phenomena. Ethical organisational culture was studied using Corporate Ethical Virtues (CEV) model, which is based on the virtue theory of business ethics. This research makes a contribution to prior research on ethical organisational culture by linking the concept of organisational innovativeness (OIN) to it. The overall goal of this study was to increase th…

Virtues that work : ethical organisational culture as a context for occupational well-being and personal work goals

2013

Svenska i några finska företag : språkval, användning av svenska och inställningar till svenska och svenskar

2005

Teknisen viestinnän asettamat vaatimukset dokumentin rakennemäärittelylle

1999

Public relations in a transition society 1989-2002 : using a stakeholder approach in organisational communications and relations analyses

2003

Nouvelles formes de commercialisation au détail des fruits et légumes : du format du point de vente aux enjeux logistiques

2008

Cette recherche explore la contribution du choix d’organisation de l’amont du canal au renforcement de la position concurrentielle de l’enseigne de detail a partir d’une application au marche des fruits et legumes en France. Trois dimensions sont abordees. Dans un premier temps est propose un cadre theorique de l’interaction entre dynamique des formes de vente au detail et dynamique du canal, aboutissant a une typologie en trois classes des formats de vente specialises dans les fruits et legumes. Dans un second temps, les pratiques marketing de ces formats donnent lieu a une approche comparative. Dans un troisieme temps, enfin, la relation entre strategie de vente au detail et organisation …