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Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
2020
Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic prescribing system in Finland and prescription-level administrative data. We find no effect on the probability of co-prescribing harmful drug combinations in urban regions. In rural regions, this probability reduces substantially, by 35 percent. The effect is driven by prescriptions from unspecialized physicians and from multiple physicians. Improving the local information environment thus enhances coordination and narrows differences in the quality o…
Application of information and communication technology for internationalization of Nigerian small- and medium-sized enterprises
2019
Information and communication technology (ICT) has fundamentally transformed business transactions. While its uses have become ubiquitous in the advanced economies, emerging and developing economies are still struggling with the mode and manner of the deployment of ICT for business. Thus, this study seeks to investigate how small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) utilize ICT in Nigeria for business internationalization. To achieve the goal of the study, a mixed‐method was employed. A questionnaire was administered to 265 people consisting of SMEs staff, managers, and owners. Similarly, interviews were conducted with seven SME decision makers. Findings revealed that Nigerian SMEs used ICT…
A moral economy of patents: case of Finnish research universities' patent policies
2013
The primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of the concept of moral economy for higher education studies through a study of Finnish research universities' patent policies. Patent policies not only stimulate the commercialization of research, they also set norms for behavior and aim to clarify how to distribute rights and responsibilities during the commercialization of research results. My main research finding is that even though institutionalized university patenting is a very recent phenomenon in Finland, policies regulating it have significant similarities to the US case. The main conclusion of this paper is that the question of university patent policies should…
Transnational Mediated Commemoration of Migrant Deaths at the Borders of Europe
2019
Kuvataan kännyköillä! : tutkimus Suomen valokuvataiteen museon yleisötyötoiminnan digitalisoitumisesta
2017
Tässä pro gradu –tutkielmassa tarkastellaan digitalisaation vaikutuksia Suomen valokuvataiteen museon yleisötyötoimintaan. Digitalisaation vaikutusta ilmentää Valokuvataiteen museolla syksyllä 2016 aloitetut kännykkäkuvauskurssit, jotka toimivat tutkimuksen kohteena. Eksploratiivisen tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää, miten digitalisaatio on vaikuttanut museon kasvatuksellisiin tavoitteisiin. Aineistona on käytetty kännykkäkurssien kurssikuvauksia sekä dokumentoitua materiaalia, joka liittyy Suomen valokuvataiteen museon menneisiin hankkeisiin, projekteihin, työpajoihin ja muihin yleisötyön puitteissa järjestettyihin tapahtumiin. Tyypiltään laadullisen tutkimuksen analyyttisen viitekehyk…
Taide ja todellisuuden tietämisen kysymys
2016
Tieto- ja viestintäteknologia, tuottavuus ja "luova tuho"
2017
Tieto- ja viestintäteknologia tarjoaa mahdollisuuden kansantalouden tuottavuuden kasvulle. Vaikutuksen nopeus ja voimakkuus riippuvat paljon siitä, kuinka joustavasti talouden rakenteet murrokseen sopeutuvat. nonPeerReviewed