Search results for "omistajuus"
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Business owners, employees, and firm performance
2018
The novel Finnish Longitudinal OWNer-Employer-Employee (FLOWN) database was used to analyze how the characteristics of owners and employees relate to firm performance as determined by labor productivity, survival, and employment growth. Focusing on the role of the employment history, the results show that previous experience in a high-productivity firm strongly predicts high productivity and probability of survival for the entrepreneur’s new firm. This can be interpreted as evidence of knowledge spillovers through labor mobility of both the owners and the employees. The results also show that the owner’s high education in a technical field is positively related to firm performance. Differen…
Psychological ownership and entrepreneurial drive : at the Jyväskylä City Catering Unit
2007
Mikä kunnalle nimeksi? : etnologinen tutkimus kunnan nimen merkityksestä kuntalaisille Kouvolan kuntaliitoksen toteuttamisen aikana
2016
Tarkastelen pro gradu -tutkielmassani kunnan nimen merkitystä kunnan asukkaille. Tarkoituksenani on syventää ymmärrystä siitä, miksi kunnan nimi aiheuttaa paljon keskustelua kuntaliitoksen toteuttamisen aikana. Tutkielmaani varten keräsin Kouvolan seudun uuden kunnan nimeä käsitteleviä tekstiviestikommentteja Kouvolan Sanomien Napakat-mielipidepalstalta. Viestien analysoinnissa käytin lähilukua sekä tulkitsevaa diskurssianalyysia. Teoreettisena viitekehyksenä tutkielmassani toimivat kuntasamaistumisen ja psykologisen omistajuuden käsitteet. Aineistosta käy ilmi, että kunnan asukkaille merkityksellisessä kunnan nimessä yhdistyvät kuntalaisten kokemukset kunnasta sekä nimen paikannettavuus ni…
Perheyritykset kansantalouden resurssina : keskisuurten ja suurten yritysten omistajuus, toiminnan laajuus ja kannattavuus Suomessa 2000-2005
2009
The first main goal of the research is family business contribution analysis, anexamination of the economic effect of family businesses in Finland. Another topic ofinterest is the relationship between the type of ownership and financial performance ofthe firm, a comparison analysis of profitability between family and non-familybusinesses.On a world-wide basis, the contribution of family businesses to nationaleconomies is considerable. However, the exact extent of the impact of familybusinesses has remained unknown. One reason for this problem is the fact that thereare neither official statistics nor representative performance data available of familybusinesses at the national economic level…
Osuuskauppa Keskimaan asiakasomistajien käsityksiä vastuullisesta liiketoiminnasta
2012
This Master’s thesis considers corporate responsibility of co-op company Keskimaa and especially, how customer owners of Keskimaa understand two similar definitions: corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Literature part describes characteristics of corporate responsibility, ethical and moral basis and values. The value basis of co-op Keskimaa is briefly introduced and three bottom lines of corporate responsibility are discussed. The theoretical framework of the study is consisted of stakeholder theory and especial role of customer-owners is evaluated. Empirical part of the study contains 84 interviews of customer owners of Keskimaa done during the winter 2012 mainly in co-op…
Economic, social and stakeholder-related analysis in sport facility management
2019
The importance of resource management has grown in recent years. Challenged by economic and societal changes, universities must think of new ways to gain requisite resources for research and teaching. The topic of this doctoral thesis belongs mainly to the field of social sciences of sport, as it deals with the importance of resource allocation in sports management at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU) in Finland, the University of Umeå (UU) in Sweden, and the German Sport University (GSU) in Cologne. The aim of this project is to ascertain whether these universities are able and willing to market themselves via their sport facilities. In terms of how the means of managing sport facilities c…