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Policing language in the world of new work : the commodification of workplace communication in organizational consulting
2021
Abstract This paper examines how the shift to knowledge and innovation economy has created new sites for the commodification of language and communication in the context of organizational consulting. The data come from a consultant-led development and training program of the management teams of a Finnish educational organization. In the study, the year-long training was videotaped (45 h) and followed ethnographically. By using rhetorical discourse analysis as a method, we examine how the consultant-led training activities present the role of language and communication in changing working life. The results show how the activities factualize the transformation of work and the centrality of la…
The carbon footprint of a knowledge organization and emission scenarios for a post-COVID-19 world
2021
Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The looming climate crisis requires an immediate response, in which organizations, as major contributors, should play a central role. However, these organizations need appropriate tools to measure and mitigate their climate impacts. One commonly applied method is carbon footprint analysis. Carbon footprint analyses have been conducted for various types of organizations, but knowledge organizations, such as universities and research institutes, have received far less attention, because their carbon footprint is often less visible and can be easily underestimated. This study is based on the carbon footprint analysis of one multinational knowledge organization. This…
Teollisen internetin hyödyntäminen toiminnanohjauksessa
2016
Teollinen internet on ollut informaatioteknologiatutkimuksen yksi ajankohtaisimmista aiheista. Yritysmaailmassa asiakkaat sekä toimittajat ovat todella kiinnostuneita teollisen internetin mahdollisuuksista. Teollista internetiä onkin pidetty mahdollisena seuraavana digitaalisena vallankumouksena. Palvelujen toiminnanohjauksessa ja yleisesti toiminnanohjauksessa on tapahtunut viimeisimpinä vuosina vain vähäisiä muutoksia, mutta nyt teollisen internetin odotetaan mullistavan jopa perinteiset toiminnanohjauksenjärjestelmät ja -prosessit. Yritykset niin teollisen internetin että toiminnanohjauksen alueilla ovat todella kiinnostuneita näiden kahden palasen yhdistämisestä ja sen tuomista mahdolli…
Crisis management in social media : maintaining the organizational image
2017
The field of crisis communication has faced major changes since the expansion of internet and social media platforms. The difficulty of using social media platforms to or-ganizations’ own advantage in crisis situations has become a recent topic of discussion amongst professionals. The image of an organization provides them competitive advantage in multiple fields, so it is vital to manage these situations so the image remains positive with stakeholders. This thesis aims to provide insights for organizations on how to utilize social media in their crisis communication. 11 Finnish companies with crisis situations during the year 2016 were identified and the data was retrieved from social medi…
An Exploration of Organizational Assimilation Among State-Owned, Private-Owned, and Foreign-Invested Enterprises in China
2017
This study explores organizational assimilation in Chinese organizations. To reflect the Chinese context more accurately, the present study compared employees working in three different kinds of organizations: state-owned enterprises (SOEs), private-owned enterprises (POEs), and foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs). Data collected from 220 full-time employees were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. Regression analyses demonstrated that employees’ level of organizational assimilation was significantly influenced by organizational type: Employees in SOEs reported the highest level and employees in FIEs reported the lowest level of organizational assimilation. peerReviewed
(Un)sustainable creativity? Different manager-employee perspectives in the finnish technology sector
2020
The importance of creativity for working life and in organizations has increased in recent years. At the same time, the theme of sustainability has been intensely debated in research, society, and organizations. Together, creativity and sustainability have sometimes been described as a contradictory phenomenon: they are described in ways that place them in opposition to each other. To better understand creativity and sustainability and their differences from the perspective of people in different positions, we take advantage of a sociocultural approach in which we do not focus only on creative individuals but also on the impact of creativity on both organizational stakeholders and society a…
The dialectics of spatial performances: The interplay of tensions in activity-based organizing
2019
Navigating organizational workspace is often plagued with tensions that emerge from the interplay of intended designs with organizational activities and lived experiences. These tensions are evident in research findings, such as inconsistencies in the ways that employees react to new workplace designs. They call on scholars to rethink organizational space, not as a concrete, static, or ready-made ‘thing’, but as a set of ongoing performances that enact particular practices, clashes among opposites, and organizational tensions. Based on research in a Nordic company, this study reveals how tensions and responses to them in an activity-based office generate creative alternatives that enhance …
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…
Institutional Logics in Police Performance Indicator Development : A Comparative Case Study of Spain and Finland
2015
Police performance is not easily measurable and the organization and circumstances of police work vary among European countries. Further, police work is surrounded by multiple pressures to make it both economical and effective. Consequently, there are multiple institutional logics in decision-making which may affect the selection and the use of police key performance indicators (KPIs). The KPI selection and use processes reflect the institutional logics, though KPI use may also sometimes influence the institutional logics of police work. In this study, we analyze the KPIs and institutional logics in police work in Finland and Spain. A comparative case research approach is used in order to h…
Teknologian käyttöönotto organisaatiossa : käyttökulttuurin muutoksen esteitä ja mahdollistajia
2010
Tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää mitkä tekijät edesauttavat tai toisaalta vaikeuttavat teknologian käyttöönottoa ja sitä kautta syntyvää käyttökulttuurin muutosta organisaatiossa. Lisäksi pyrittiin selvittämään mille organisaatiotasolle toimintaa koskevat vaatimukset asetetaan. Tutkimus suoritettiin ammatillisessa aikuisoppilaitoksessa ja aihetta lähestyttiin kohdeorganisaation toimijoiden omien kokemusten ja niiden myötä syntyneiden odotusten kautta. Tutkimusmenetelmänä käytettiin laadullista eläytymismenetelmää, jossa organisaation toimijat asetettiin kuvitteelliseen tilanteeseen kuvailemaan mitä kyseisessä tilanteessa heidän mielestään todennäköisesti tapahtuu. Tutkimuksessa havait…