Search results for "vertaileva tutkimus"

IFRS-tilinpäätösraportoinnin erot Suomen ja Venäjän välillä

2017

Tutkimuksessa selvitetään, eroavatko suomalaisten ja venäläisten pörssilistattujen yhtiöiden IFRS-tilinpäätökset toisistaan. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tunnistaa eroja ja yhtäläisyyksiä suomalaisessa ja venäläisessä IFRS-tilinpäätösraportoinnissa näkyvien valintojen (eng. overt options) suhteen. Tutkimuksen aineisto muodostuu kahdenkymmenen Helsingin ja Moskovan pörssiin listattujen blue chip -yhtiöiden IFRS-standardien mukaan laadituista tilikauden 2016 tilinpäätöksistä. Tutkimus on luonteeltaan kvantitatiivinen vertaileva tutkimus ja aineistoa analysoidaan ristiintaulukossa khiin neliö -riippumattomuustestillä. Tutkimustuloksista ilmenee, etteivät suomalaiset ja venäläiset IFRS-tilinpää…

Työelämän laatu ja laadun arviointi : tutkimushankkeen loppuraportti 10.11.2010

2010

Always on the move? Measured physical activity of 3-year-old preschool children

2015

The executive, parliament and the problematic Anglo-American Atomic Collaboration in the changes of British atomic foreign policy 1945-6

2015

How bright are the Nordic Lights? : job quality trends in Nordic countries in a comparative perspective

2017

Nordic countries stand out from the rest of the Europe in terms of job quality. Comparative research literature sought to explain the distinctiveness of Nordic countries with diverse sets of institutional frameworks. However, global competition, technological revolution and deregulation are common developments throughout the industrial world – processes which are seen to erode the meaning of institutions and nation states as protective mechanisms. This dissertation discusses the question on the existence and persistence of the Nordic working life model through the concept of job quality, which are investigated using surveys on working conditions. The study draws from both universal and inst…

Positive parenting and parenting stress among working mothers in Finland, the UK and the Netherlands : Do working time patterns matter?

2017

This study explored the effects of working time patterns on positive parenting and parenting stress, and the moderating effects of working hours, the unpredictability of work schedules, and autonomy over working time in a European context. This cross-national survey study compared Finnish (n = 337), Dutch (n = 283) and British (n = 317) mothers with children under the age of 13, using structural equation modeling with a multigroup procedure. We found a connection between working time patterns and positive parenting but the nature of the connection differed between countries. In all three countries, no relationship was found between working time pattern and parenting stress, while unpredict…

Childcare and parental work schedules: a comparison of childcare arrangements among Finnish, British and Dutch dual-earner families

2015

This study examined the association between parental work schedules and non-parental childcare arrangements among dual-earner families in Finland, the Netherlands and the UK. Data from the ‘Families 24/7’ web-survey were used, including 937 parents with children aged 0-12 years. Results showed a negative association between non-standard work and formal childcare across all countries. A similar association was found for using a combination of formal and informal childcare, whereas solely using informal childcare was not associated with work characteristics. Country differences showed that, compared with Finland, the probability of using formal childcare was lower in the Netherlands, whereas …

Management Practices and Allocation of Employment: Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing

2020

We analyse variation in the management practices across countries and across regions within a country. For cross-country comparisons we use the Finnish Management and Organizational Practices Survey (FMOP) to calculate a management score for Finnish manufacturing that is compared to corresponding measures obtained from similar data in the US and Germany. Scores measured by unweighted averages of the establishments in these countries show that Finland is only slightly behind the US and on par with those of Germany. With the FMOP data, we then perform an Olley-Pakes decomposition of the management score using a moment-based estimation procedure. Our decomposition shows no statistically signif…

Cross-Cultural Validation of Assessment Instruments Used in Career Counselling and Guidance in the Nordic countries

2020

The cross-cultural application and research on assessment instruments used in career counselling and guidance in the Nordic countries is discussed. Three examples where etic and emic approaches to establish the cross-cultural validity of American instruments in Finland and Iceland are described. These are the Career Thoughts Inventory, vocational interest inventories and a measure of career adaptability. These efforts show that contextual factors influence the responses to imported measures. Emic approaches are needed to fully test the applicability of assessment instruments as well as theoretical constructs developed in other cultures, but used in career counselling in the Nordic countries…

Parliamentary sources in the comparative study of conceptual history: methodological aspects and illustrations of a research proposal

2009

Summary: This article proposes that historians and political theorists should exploit parliamentary sources to move from the writing of national histories to the comparative study of the conceptual history of European political cultures. Complementing the German lexicographical approach to conceptual history, the authors argue that parliamentary debates in several European countries provide more reliable sources for the past use of the language of politics. They emphasize the possibilities for the study of political history and the rhetoric of parliamentary institutions offered by the use of parliamentary debates side by side with the study of archival sources and published literature. Rhet…