Search results for "kauppa"

Shaking the Status Quo: Business Accreditation and Positional Competition

2018

Modern business schools exist in a complex world of rankings, ratings, and credentials. Some argue that in increasingly competitive global higher education markets, signaling status and quality has actually become more important than having them (Gioia & Corley, 2002; Trank & Rynes, 2003). For many contemporary business schools, international accreditations have become key means and first steps in pursuing legitimacy and global status. In this essay, we elaborate in detail on a business school’s international accreditation process, including its motivations and outcomes. We conclude that while accreditation processes are, at best, fruitful quality improvement exercises, the inherent motivat…

Avaimet sähköiseen kaupankäyntiin : toimikortit osana julkisen avaimen infrastruktuuria

2002

Predicting consumer purchase intention toward hybrid vehicles : testing the moderating role of price sensitivity

2020

PurposeToday, global warming is one of the most acute challenges in the world, prominently caused by greenhouse gases. The introduction of hybrid-vehicles (HVs) is thus, one of the industrial initiatives to tackle this challenge by allowing at least some proportionate reduction in global-gas-emissions. Such initiatives like HVs have also affected the consumers’ green-purchase-intention (GPI). Hence, underpinned into the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), this study aims to analyze consumers’ response in terms of GPI for HVs, in addition to exploring the moderating-effect of price-sensitivity between independent-variables (attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control) and con…

Suomen Norjan-kauppa 1957-2002

2014

Tämä pro gradu -tutkielma tarkastelee Suomen ja Norjan välisen kaupan pääpiirteitä vuosina 1957–2002. Tutkielmassa selvitetään, kuinka paljon maiden välistä tavarakauppaa oli ja mitkä olivat pääasialliset tuonti- ja vientiartikkelit. Kiinnostus kohdistuu myös siihen, miten maiden välisen viennin ja tuonnin määrä sekä laatu muuttuivat tutkimusperiodin aikana. Tutkimus kaupan määrästä ja laadusta kietoutuu yhteen yleiseurooppalaisen integraatio- ja talouskehityksen kanssa, jota vasten myös Suomen ja Norjan välistä kauppasuhdetta peilataan. Tutkimuksen pääasiallisena alkuperäislähteenä ovat Suomen Tullihallituksen ulkomaankauppatilastot. Tutkimusperiodia käsitellään kahdessa jaksossa, 1957–197…

Translingual Practices in Global Business : A Longitudinal Study of a Professional Communicative Repertoire

2018

This chapter draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of a Finnish engineer’s communicative repertoire that develops in the process of professional migration. The participant first works as a factory intern in Germany, then as a project engineer and project manager in Finland, and latterly as an operations manager in China. Here, repertoire is viewed through dynamic and flexible translingual practices, in which people follow, appropriate and invent norms, combine and shuttle between languages, ways of speaking, semiotic resources and modalities in the transnational work space in order to meet, interact, make meaning and build relationships and, ultimately, do their jobs. The data selected…

Climate Change, Uncertainty and Ethical Superstorms

2021

I argue that one of the most urgent tasks of geoethics is how to deal with climate change in a just and equitable way. At worst, our current path could lead to multi-metre sea-level rise, increases in storms and climate extremes, causing devastating social disruption and economic consequences. I present some alternatives on how to handle this alarming prospect, arguing that we cannot condense our decision-making on climate change into numerical calculations, but should instead make ethical judgements. The commonly used expected utility maximation can be considered a gamble on future generations’ expense for the benefit of the current ones. Thus, from a Rawlsian perspective, we will instead …

Perceptions of convenience, risk and enjoyment in online shopping

2015

As online shopping is getting more common all the time and competition over customers increases, companies should draw attention to the customer perception of online shopping. Therefore, the present study aims to describe and understand the customer online shopping perception in every stage of the online shopping process. Online shopping has been studied earlier from the viewpoints of the ease of use and the usefulness but as the quickness and easiness of shopping have been found to be factors that motivate customers to use online stores, the customer perception of the convenience of online shop use will be investigated in the present study. In addition to the convenience, the risk and the …

Yritysten väliselle sovelluskaupalle sopiva liiketoimintamalli

2016

Pilvipalveluiden ja SaaS-sovellusten levinneisyyden kasvu on luonut tarpeen sovelluskaupoille. Sovelluskaupat tarjoavat keskitetyn myyntikanavan ja useita toimijoita yhdistävän alustan erilaisille sovelluksille. Sovelluskaupat on hyväksytty kuluttajien keskuudessa jo vuosia sitten ja sovelluksia onkin tarjolla miljoonia. Yritysten välisessä liiketoiminnassa sovelluskauppojen mahdollisuudet on kuitenkin tunnistettu hitaammin ja aikaisempi tutkimuskirjallisuus yritysten välisistä sovelluskaupoista on vielä vähäistä. Teleoperaattorit ovat tarttuneet tähän uuteen liiketoimintamahdollisuuteen, jonka avulla ne voivat tarjota lisäarvoa yritysasiakkailleen. Sovelluskaupat eivät itsessään takaa kuit…

Contrasting Internationalization Paths of Product- and Service-oriented Software Firms

2019

The internationalization of software firms has been widely researched topic over the last two decades. However, the most of the studies have treated software firms as a homogeneous group, ignoring the fact that software firms actually differ greatly in terms of having either a product or a service orientation. Based on earlier literature, we hypothesized that software product firms would show a tendency to internationalize earlier and at a smaller size than software service firms, and that product firms would show a greater tendency to target countries that are both geographically and culturally distant. In fact, we found no support for most of our hypotheses, with relatively strong and sta…

Foreign (In)Direct Investment in Chinese Contemporary Art Game: The Case Studies of Uli Sigg, Guy Ullens and beyond, 1989-2013

2021

The boom in Chinese contemporary art is the result of China’s opening to foreign investment and private entrepreneurship in 1978, and the significant contribution by the transnational art enterprises of long-term patron-investor-collectors, such as Uli Sigg and Guy Ullens, between approximately 1989 and 2013. Through the opportunity offered by the gap between the private market mechanism and national heritage process for the “art game”, these investors used a variation of the controversial “Saatchi model” to generate high ROI. A further effect has been to bring CCA onto the global stage and complete the ecosystem of the art industry, building a foundation for the art economy of post-Mao Chi…