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Policy Alienation in Frontline Social Work – A Study of Social Workers’ Responses to a Major Anticipated Social and Health Care Reform in Finland
2021
Change in the policy and ideology governing social and health care has been much debated in the Western welfare states, including in Finland, where the public sector has witnessed a shift towards a market and managerial ideology in a climate of austerity. These changes affect organisations as well as individual workers. Social workers implement social policies in their daily work, and are thus positioned in between policies and clients. This may expose them to feelings of unease in the implementation of certain policies. In this study, we apply the policy alienation framework of Tummers and colleagues (2009. “Policy Alienation of Public Professionals: Application in a new Public Management …
Business in society or business and society: the construction of business–society relations in responsibility reports from a critical discursive pers…
2013
In this article, we analyse the discursive construction of business–society relations in Finnish businesses’ social and environmental responsibility reports. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, we examine how these discursive constructions maintain and reproduce various interests and societal conditions as a precondition of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our study contributes to the recent discussion on discursive struggles in business–society relations and the role various interests play in this struggle. We find that not only are power asymmetries between actors veiled through the universalization of interests, but reporting can also be seen as a communicative action that prov…
One Rule to Rule Them All? Organisational Sensemaking of Corporate Responsibility
2015
Corporate responsibility (CR) has often been criticised as a decoupled organisational phenomenon: a publicly espoused rule that is not followed in daily organisational practices. We argue that a crucial reason for this criticism arises from the dominant in-house assumption of CR literature, which mitigates tensions and contradictions in organisational life by claiming that integrated rules result in coupled practices. We aim to provide new insights by problematising this in-house assumption and by examining how members of two organisations discursively make sense of CR, as a daily rule-bound practice, via three strategies: integration, differentiation and fragmentation. We elaborate the con…
"Meidän vanhojen vanhuus on tämän ajan rikkautta" : vastarintaiset vanhuuskuvat ja myöhäinen tyyli Eeva Kilven teoksen Kuolinsiivous sisäisessä ja ul…
2015
Tutkielman tavoitteena on tutkia, kuinka Eeva Kilven teos Kuolinsiivous osallistuu julkiseen keskusteluun vanhuudesta ja millaista vanhuuskuvaa se rakentaa, sekä Eeva Kilven myöhäistä tyyliä eli hänen ikänsä ja lähestyvän kuolemansa vaikutusta teokseen. Kysymykseen Kuolinsiivouksen vanhuuskuvasta liittyy oletus teoksen asettumisesta vastarintaan medialle tyypillisiä vanhuuden kurjuutta ja koomisuutta korostavia puhe- ja kuvaamistapoja vastaan. Sekä vastarintaisuuden oletus, että kuoleman voimakas läsnäolo teoksessa ja teoksen sirpaleinen rakenne synnyttävät oletuksen myös teoksesta myöhäisen tyylin (late style) edustajana. Keskeisiksi teorioiksi valikoituvat kulttuuriteoria (Fornäs 1998) ja…
Eichmann-kiistan vanhat ja uudet suunnat
2022
Filosofi Hannah Arendt tutki natsien hallintovirkamiehiä ja huomasi, että hirmuvalta perustui siihen, että aivan tavalliset ihmiset antoivat asioiden tapahtua. Arendtin ajatus poliittisen vastuun ylisukupolvisuudesta pätee myös nykyisiin ympäristöongelmiin. nonPeerReviewed
Anti-inflammatory properties of simvastatin on leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions following hemorrhagic shock
2002
Background Hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) have been shown to lower serum cholesterol levels. Recent studies reported that statins have vasculoprotective effects independent of their cholesterol-lowering properties. We studied simvastatin for its ability to modulate leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions under acute inflammation following hemorrhage and reperfusion. Methods The effects of simvastatin on leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions were observed by intravital microscopy in the rat mesenteric microcirculation and by immunohistochemical analyzes. Simvastatin (50 μg/kg or 100 μg/kg) was administrated intraperitoneally 18 h before study. Inf…
Does Culture Matter? : Measuring Cross-Country Perceptions of CSR Communication Campaigns about COVID-19
2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought several challenges to businesses and societies. In response, many corporations have supported local communities and authorities in the management of the pandemic. Although these initiatives, which can be considered forms of corporate social responsibility (CSR), were highly coupled with explicit CSR communication campaigns, little is known about whether these campaigns were effective. Previous research indicates that culture can shape people’s perceptions of CSR initiatives and communications, suggesting that businesses pay attention to careful consideration of cultural norms for effective CSR communication. However, the COVID-19 pandemic as a new CSR setti…
Varieties of agencies during working life changes
2020
The aim of this study is to shed light on the varieties of workers´ agencies in working life change situations, which is an under-researched topic in the literature of workplace learning and in working life studies. The research questions are what kinds of agencies there are to be found when workers encounter changes and how the different kinds of agencies are connected together. The understanding of agency is grounded on the subject-centered socio-cultural approach, whereas the methodological approach is based on applying life-course perspective on research material consisting of 48 working life narratives written by Finnish adults. The narratives are analyzed by abductive content analysis…
Ethical Demands and Responsibilities in Online Publishing: The Finnish Experience
2014
Rapid advancement of online communication and publishing poses new challenges to media policy-makers and regulators for both statutory regulation and self-regulation. For journalists, ‘the Internet shapes and redefines a number of moral and ethical issues … when operating online or making use of online resources’ (Deuze and Yeshua, 2001: 276).