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The Importance of Engaging Local People in Landscape Management – Experiences from an EU Project
2018
“Bull by the Horns” -project initiated landscape management and promoted biodiversity associated with diminishing High Nature Value farmland habitats in Finland. A specific focus was on grazed semi-natural grasslands and wood-pastures which are collectively referred to as traditional rural biotopes (TRBs). Collaboration among project workers, non-farming landowners, and cattle owners reintroduced grazing to abandoned pastures, and management was financed through agri-environmental payments. Using adaptive co-management principles, the project enabled collective definition of integrated site-specific management objectives. A better understanding of contemporary challenges and opportunities t…
”Ubuntu”-hengessä yhteistyötä eteläisessä Afrikassa
2015
Domestic Violence Interventions in Social and Health Care Settings: Challenges of Temporary Projects and Short-Term Solutions.
2020
Social welfare service and health care providers are in a key position to implement successful domestic violence (DV) interventions. However, it is known that DV intervention and prevention work is often lacking in coordination and continuity. In addition, the limited resources, hectic work pace, and changing practices negatively affect the development of successful ways to prevent and intervene in DV. This qualitative study involving 11 focus groups, composed of social welfare and health care professionals ( n = 51) in a midsized Finnish hospital, examined the challenges and possibilities within DV interventions and the adoption of good practices produced by a DV intervention development …
Voices heard and lessons learnt : Exploring multiple knowledges and local participation in a community-based integrated early childhood development p…
2019
Abstract Following calls for diverse and contextual perspectives of the rich lives of young children, their families and communities from/in the Global South, this paper presents critical reflections emerging from a three-year (2016-2019) communitybased Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Development (ECD) project implemented in the rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It explores the critical relationship established between a range of stakeholders involved in this project as reflected on by two community activists working together in the area of early childhood in the province for thirty years. This article highlights the importance of situating any community development initiati…
Complexity in project co-creation of knowledge for innovation
2020
The European Union (EU) promotes collaboration across functions and borders in its funded innovation projects, which are seen as complex collaboration to co-create knowledge. This requires the engagement of multiple stakeholders throughout the duration of the project. To probe complexity in EU-funded innovation projects the research question is: How does complexity affect the co-creation of knowledge in innovation projects, according to project participants? The data for this study was collected from project experts in the form of short narratives, using a questionnaire based on the elements of complexity of Mitleton-Kelly (2003). The results indicate that complexity characterises the co-cr…
Sisäinen markkinointi johtamisena : tapaustutkimus konepajateollisuuden projektiorganisaatiosta
2009
The objective of this study was to increase the understanding of the management of internal marketing. The theoretical objective was to specify the mutual relation of the concepts of internal marketing and management. On the basis of an analysis of the two concepts and of research literature, a managerial model of the management of internal marketing was built as a theoretical frame of reference.The empirical part of the study examined how the members of the personnel in the case organization built their perception of internal marketing management in their mutual interaction on the basis of their experiences and their feelings. On the basis of the frame of reference model and the empirical …
Conflicts related to Human Resource Management in Finnish Project-Based Companies
2020
In contemporary working life of Nordic countries, employee involvement and well-being are emphasized and organizational functions and demands are continuously changing. Thus, the study of human resource management (HRM) practices and their consequences for employees is relevant. This study examines conflicts related to HRM in Finnish project-based companies and provides new information on the implications of conflicts in HRM practices for theorists and practitioners. The research was conducted qualitatively using content and thematic analysis. The findings suggest that conflicts framed within HRM practices are generally the result of the practices and expectations of the organization and ma…
Uncertainty in information system development: Causes, effects, and coping mechanisms
2020
Information system development (ISD) projects are an ever-growing field of project management (PM) with their unique features, and project failures in ISD are relatively common. In the broader context of PM, uncertainty is a studied, yet mercurial phenomenon. By contrast, uncertainty in ISD projects has received relatively little attention from scholars, and PM literature has not systematically focused on uncertainty in ISD from a viewpoint other than that of project managers. In order to understand uncertainties in ISD projects, we need to first understand the causes behind them, their effects on everyday ISD work, and share coping mechanisms utilized among industry professionals. In the c…
Maaseutukehittämisen projektoituminen : ruohonjuuritason osallisuus LEADER-hankkeissa ja osallisuuden vaikutukset kansalaisjärjestöihin
2017
Pro gradu -tutkielmassani olen tutkinut osallisuutta hankkeisiin ja sen vaikutuksia osallistuneihin paikallisiin. Kansalaisyhteiskunta on viime vuosina ollut useiden muutoksien äärellä, joista yksi on projektoituminen eli toiminnan järjestäminen projektien kautta. Projektien yleistyessä olen halunnut selvittää, millaisia vaikutuksia projekteilla on järjestöihin ja yksilöihin ruohojuuritasolla. Olen lähtenyt tutkimaan vaikutuksia LEADERjärjestelmän kautta, missä suurin osa hankkeiden osallistujista on yhdistyksiä ja muita kolmannen sektorin toimijoita. LEADER-järjestelmä on vahvistanut paikkansa osana suomalaista maaseudunkehittämistä kaudella 2007−2013, jonka aikana rahoitetuista hankkeista…
Projekteilla parempaa laatua yliopistoihin?
2005
Markkinatalousvetoisen kulttuurin soveltaminen yliopistoihin ei ole ongelmatonta. Erilaiset laadun kohottamisen nimissä tehtävät kehittämishankkeet ilmentävät markkinataloustumista keskusjohtoisina ja nopeatempoisina. Onnistuessaan kehittämishanke luo perustan aidoille uudistuksille.