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Yliopistouudistuksen diskursiivinen rakentuminen Jyväskylän yliopistoyhteisössä 2009-2010
2012
Pro gradu -tutkielmassani tarkastelen Suomen uudelle yliopistolaille (2009) annettuja ristiriitaisia merkityksiä Jyväskylän yliopistoyhteisössä. Yliopistouudistus toi mukanaan merkittäviä taloudellisia ja ideologisia muutoksia suomalaiseen yliopistokenttään, ja siksi muutoksista on kiistelty paljon. Keskusteluissa on kuitenkin luonnehtinut ”yliopistouudistus hyvänä vs. pahana” -asettelu, joka ei ole paras mahdollinen tapa lähestyä uudistuksen jälkiteollisia syitä ja moninaisia seurauksia. Diskurssintutkimuksen näkökulmasta yliopistouudistuskeskustelut ovat kielellisten ”totuuksien” luomista siitä, mikä on suomalaisten yliopistojen tarkoitus nyky-yhteiskunnassa. Näillä ”totuuksilla” eli ylio…
Management in the 24/7-society raises concerns of fairness and social responsibility
2018
Purpose Despite the pressure on work-family polices arising from the increase in nonstandard working times in various sectors, only a few studies have addressed management practices in 24/7 workplaces. This paper aims to investigate the challenges Finnish managers face in meeting the various tensions stemming from nonstandard working hours and services operating 24/7. Two typical 24/7 work contexts are focused: the hospitality and retail industries and flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. The emphasis is on management practices relating to the planning of work shifts and children’s care schedules. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 comprises focus group i…
Different trophic positions among social vespid species revealed by stable isotopes
2021
The social vespid wasps are common insect predators and several species behave in unison in the same biotopes. It is commonly accepted that social wasps are mainly opportunistic generalist predators without differences in prey selection and hence they compete for the same food resources. Trophic positions of six vespid wasp species and their potential prey from four sites in Finland and one in the UK were evaluated using carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N). The difference in isotope values indicated different trophic positions among species. In general, Dolichovespula spp. showed higher δ15N values than Vespula spp., which suggests that Dolichovespula forage on higher trophi…
Economic Degrowth and the Collapse of Institutional Order: Theory and Propositions
2022
Integrating insights from new institutional economics and studies on the collapse of past empires, we sketch a process model that links economic degrowth to the collapse of institutional orders. Our thought experiment starts from emphasizing the importance of institutions and enforcement mechanisms in maintaining a sufficient level of economic activity to sustain public costs. We flip this established logic and elucidate the negative role of economic degrowth in the weakening of the public sector’s ability to enforce institutional rules. Internal and external shocks further shake the stability of the institutional order and, at some point, individuals’ belief in institutional rules and nor…
Business in society or business and society: the construction of business–society relations in responsibility reports from a critical discursive pers…
2013
In this article, we analyse the discursive construction of business–society relations in Finnish businesses’ social and environmental responsibility reports. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, we examine how these discursive constructions maintain and reproduce various interests and societal conditions as a precondition of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our study contributes to the recent discussion on discursive struggles in business–society relations and the role various interests play in this struggle. We find that not only are power asymmetries between actors veiled through the universalization of interests, but reporting can also be seen as a communicative action that prov…
Within and between firm trends in job polarization : the roles of globalization and technology
2019
AbstractWe analyze occupational polarization within and across firms using a census of matched employer–employee panel data from Finland in the period of 2000–2014. As in most industrialized countries, the Finnish occupational distribution has polarized over the last decades. Using decomposition analysis, we find that jobs involving low-level service tasks increase mostly through the entry dynamics, while the high-level abstract task share increases largely within continuing firms. Worker-level occupational mobility points to some skill upgrading within continuing firms, while labor force entry and retirement contribute the polarizing trend. Instrumental variables (IVs) regressions confirm …
Kuinka mitata yliopiston vuorovaikutusta, vaikuttavuutta ja kolmatta tehtävää?
2023
Käsittelemme tässä artikkelissa yhteiskunnallista vuorovaikutusta ja sen mittaamiseen liittyviä haasteita erityisesti humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellisellä kentällä. nonPeerReviewed
Viro 100 : kaiken takana oli Nokia
2018
Sekä Suomi että Viro ovat viime vuosikymmeninä rakentaneet omaa tarinaansa tietoyhteiskuntina ja tietoteknologian edelläkävijämaina. Kilvoittelu on sparrannut kilpakumppaneita ja luonut synergiaetuja. nonPeerReviewed
Docpoint : tarinoita naapurista : Viron luova hetki
2018
Rodeo – Viron villit vuodet avaa itsenäisen Viron ensimmäisen hallituksen taivalta, johon kuului valtion ja yhteiskunnan kokonaisvaltainen uudelleenrakentaminen. nonPeerReviewed