Search results for "yrityskulttuuri"

10 Finnish business actors' perceptions of their Chinese business partners and key personnel

2012

The market impacts caused by globalization and the internationalization of companies are requiring the ability to operate in demanding, diverse and changing business environments but also requiring the consideration of differing cultural norms. This study will explore the perceptions of a number of Finnish business actors who have worked and conducted business with Chinese business actors and personnel. The empirical part of this thesis is based on a qualitative study as a research approach. To this end, thematic, semi structured face-to-face interviews have been conducted in Helsinki and Espoo. The ten interviews’ themes concern (1) sources of misunderstanding which are identified and cons…

Organizational Ethical Virtues of Innovativeness

2017

This study participates in the discussion of the ethical culture of organizations by deepening the knowledge and understanding of the meaning of organizational ethical virtues in organizational innovativeness. The aim in this study was to explore how an organization’s ethical culture and, more specifically, organization’s ethical virtues support organizational innovativeness. The ethical culture of an organization is defined as the virtuousness of an organization. Organizational innovativeness is conceptualized as an organization’s behavioral propensity to produce innovative products and services. The empirical data consisted of a total of 39 interviews from specialist organizations. Qualit…

The concept of the good in the context of family entrepreneurship culture : entre-pology of Russian family-owned businesses

2013

Reflections on the advent of a more enterprising culture in Finland : an exploratory study

2001

Yrittämisen eetos : kulttuuriantropologinen tutkimus perheyrityksestä

2001

Ideologiset jännitteet sukupolvenvaihdoksen yhteydessä

2013

Construction of the entrepreneurial identity in the family business context : a cross-cultural study

2012

This study focuses on entrepreneurial identity constructions in the family business context through a cross-cultural lens. The study is interdisciplinary by nature drawing from and contributing to theories of identity, entrepreneurship, and family business. It aims at contributing to the added understanding of how family business entrepreneurs construe their entrepreneurial identities. The methodology of this study is based on the interpretive approach utilizing the principles of hermeneutics. The empirical materials for it were gathered through thematic research interviews from two different business cultural groups representing two different generations of family business entrepreneurs; t…

Building value-based family enterprise culture : a family perspective

2013

Intuition and entrepreneurs : a phenomenological study of managerial intuition of Finnish family entrepreneurs

2006

Business environments have changed rapidly especially during the last decades. Nowadays there are many unpredictable and uncertain factors in managing businesses. In addition, rational thinking and decision-making based on facts and figures have traditionally been emphasised in business. However, due to the changing environments one can not always know facts well enough in order to be sure about the choices. Sometimes decisions have to be made very quickly, or there is no explicit knowledge regarding a problem, or there is neither enough time nor enough information. Therefore, managers, and entrepreneurs as managers, need to rely more often on their intuition in making decisions and solving…

Predstavleniâ sotrudnikov dvuh finskih firm o roli znaniâ russkogo âzyka i kul'tury v sfere finsko-russkogo biznesa

2014

Venäjä on jo kauan ollut Suomen tärkeimpiä kauppakumppaneita, mutta huolimatta siitä, että Suomi ja Venäjä ovat naapurimaita, niiden kulttuurit ja elämäntavat eroavat paljon toisistaan. Tässä tutkimuksessa haluan selvittää, millaisena suomalaisten yritysten työntekijät näkevät venäjän kielen ja kulttuurin osaamisen merkityksen kaupankäynnissä venäläisten kanssa. Lisäksi haluan selvittää, millaisia haasteita työntekijät ovat kohdanneet venäläisten kanssa toimiessaan ja miten he ovat näistä haasteista selviytyneet. Tutkimukseni on laadullinen tutkimus, jonka tutkimusmateriaalin kokosin teemahaastattelun avulla. Informantteina toimi yhteensä 9 henkilöä kahdesta keskisuuresta Venäjälle vientiä …