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Towards Measuring the Agility of Software Business

2018

Agile development methods have been employed across the software industry. However, it is not always clear if the used methods actually help the software firms in being more agile and if agility has a positive influence in the software firm performance. Studying these questions may turn out impossible since good measurements for assessing the overall agility of software firms do not yet exist. A need is therefore detected to measure the differences in agility between firms and finding the means to evaluate the differences in agility in reliable manner. This article examines how to measure the agility of a software firm and reports initial steps in the process of developing measurement instr…

Rethinking virtuality in a digital media age

2017

Scholars have studied virtuality in teams and organizations for over two decades. The term “virtual” is of- ten used loosely and imprecisely, and theoretical debates have flourished over what differentiates virtual from non-virtual teams. In these debates, scholarship has not explicitly considered the significant ways in which the technological landscape has changed over this time. While the virtual is often treated as a separate space from “real”, physical or face-to-face interaction, the increasing technological saturation of our lives has resulted in a blurring of online and offline worlds such that these distinctions may no longer hold up. I will explore whether the term “virtuality” st…

Practices and Infrastructures for Machine Learning Systems : An Interview Study in Finnish Organizations

2022

Using interviews, we investigated the practices and toolchains for machine learning (ML)-enabled systems from 16 organizations across various domains in Finland. We observed some well-established artificial intelligence engineering approaches, but practices and tools are still needed for the testing and monitoring of ML-enabled systems. Peer reviewed

Aspects Regarding Human Resources Management Streamlining within National and International Organizations

2014

Abstract The entire world is changing in order to achieve performance as an essential element designed to meet the needs and interests of individuals, organizations and society, as a whole. For that, it is necessary to efficiently know and use all the resources and possibilities possessed by the organization, among which human resources Management streamlining acquires new dimensions and special significances. Therefore, approaching certain theoretical aspects regarding the necessity and content of human resources Management streamlining within national and international organizations, as well as psychosocial valences in this field represent important social and objective matters, which are…

Examining Open Innovation in Science (OIS): what Open Innovation can and cannot offer the science of science

2021

Scholars across disciplines increasingly hear calls for more open andcollaborative approaches to scientific research. The concept of OpenInnovation in Science (OIS) provides a framework that integratesdispersed research efforts aiming to understand the antecedents,contingencies, and consequences of applying open and collaborativeresearch practices. While the OIS framework has already been taken upby science of science scholars, its conceptual underpinnings requirefurther specification. In this essay, we critically examine the OIS conceptand bring to light two key aspects: 1) how OIS builds upon OpenInnovation (OI) research by adopting its attention to boundary-crossingknowledge flows and by…

Facilitating Conversations That Matter Using Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory

2015

Väärin autettu?

2018

Sekä kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöt että niiden kriitikot käyttävät valtaansa saadakseen maailman toimimaan paremmin. Kummatkin kokevat olevansa moraalisesti oikeassa, Jyväskylän yliopiston etnologian dosentti Jukka Jouhki kirjoittaa. nonPeerReviewed

Iekšējā komunikācija kā organizācijas kultūru veidojošs elements uzņēmumā AS SEB Banka

2020

Bakalaura darba tēma „Iekšējā komunikācija kā organizācijas kultūru veidojošs elements uzņēmumā AS SEB Banka”. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir iepazīties ar iekšējās komunikācijas procesu AS „SEB Banka”, uzzināt darbinieku viedokli par iekšējo komunikāciju, analizēt, kā tā ir saistīta un ietekmē organizācijas kultūru, un izprast iekšējās komunikācijas nepilnības un izteikt priekšlikumus tās uzlabošanai. Bakalaura darbam izvirzīti sekojoši uzdevumi: izpētīt organizācijas komunikācijas teorētiskos aspektus; analizēt iekšējo komunikāciju kā organizācijas kultūru veidojošo elementu; raksturot un analizēt AS „SEB Banka” iekšējas komunikācijas ietekmi uz organizācijas kultūru un, balstoties uz teoriju …

Public-private sector pay gaps in Finland: A quantile regression analysis

2011

This paper examines public-private sector wage differentials in Finland using a quantile regression method. We control for the endogeneity of the working sector and allow the returns of individual skills to vary between industries. The results suggest that men earn a premium of 3 percent in the public sector at the lower-end jobs. At the median and the upper end of the distribution, men’s pay gap is negative, varying between 5 and 10 percent. Women, in turn, always earn more in the public sector (4–10 percent), and the premium is highest at the upper end of the earnings distribution. (JEL: J31, J45) peerReviewed

Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare? : Evidence from Ghana

2021

Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques – IV LASSO – that allows for the treatment of unconfoundedness in the selection of observables and unobservables to examine the structural effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The structural parameters of the IV LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household and women's welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decrea…