173 research outputs found
Regional growth and convergence via integration – the case of the large EU
No full textThe coming Eastern enlargement of the EU will be a fundamentally different step in the history of the European integration. It will create a new situation in which growth conditions and regional adjustment requirements of Europe are going to change, too. The theory of economic growth and regional structures has developed recently in an interesting way. Especially the endogenous growth theory and models of the new economic geography offer relevant approach for interpretations. There is a strong tendency towards factor price equalisation and towards income convergence. But regional differences in other respects may become even larger via this process. The enlargement of the EU is an interesting case from this point of view. There are very large income differences, which are assumed to diminish, but it seems impossible to happen without a fundamental regional restructuring. The target of the paper is to make a survey on the growth theory and regional restructuring literature from the point of view of European integration. The idea is to make an evaluation and prediction on the real convergence prospects of the large EU. Eastern enlargement is an opportunity to faster growth in Europe, but the regional specialization and restructuring is a crucial condition for materializing of this result.
Revealing the history of sheep domestication using retrovirus integrations
No full textThe domestication of livestock represented a crucial step in human history. By using endogenous retroviruses as genetic markers, we found that sheep differentiated on the basis of their "retrotype" and morphological traits dispersed across Eurasia and Africa via separate migratory episodes. Relicts of the first migrations include the Mouflon, as well as breeds previously recognized as "primitive" on the basis of their morphology, such as the Orkney, Soay, and the Nordic short-tailed sheep now confined to the periphery of northwest Europe. A later migratory episode, involving sheep with improved production traits, shaped the great majority of present-day breeds. The ability to differentiate genetically primitive sheep from more modern breeds provides valuable insights into the history of sheep domestication
Information management strategy -- an evolutionary process
No full textThe problems to be examined in this study concern the process of integrating information systems with business strategy. The main hypothesis is that integration can take place only in the minds of managers. Creating an information management strategy is thus a learning process, in which managers combine their understanding of information technology with their business plans. This implies an organizational approach to strategy creation. This paper presents a longitudinal study of an interactive, participative strategy process, in which the present author, as a researcher, was a member of the team creating and implementing the strategy in question. The object of study was the strategy generation process itself and the ways in which interaction may be promoted in such processes. Conclusions are drawn regarding key factors in strategy generation and implementation. A broad understanding of the field and a multiple method approach to strategy generation are proposed.Information systems planning strategic information systems information management
Contributions to management science, mathematics and modelling : essays in honour of professor Ilkka Virtanen
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Van de Weyer Geert, Hassi Seppo, Laaksonen Matti, Luhta Irma, Luoma-Martti, Nikkinen Jussi,
Sahlström Petri, Malaska Pentti, Kasanen Eero,
Moisio Marko J., Okko Paavo, Perttunen Jukka, Pihlanto Pekka, Pynnönen Seppo, Hogan Warren,
Batten Jonathan, Reponen Tapio, Salmi Timo,
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Is leadership possible at loosely coupled organizations such as universities?
No full textUniversities have been criticised for not operating efficiently and productively enough. One suggestion has been to transfer business leadership and management models to the University administration. Today, universities need more leadership to create shared values and joint goals for the whole organization. Otherwise the increased demands cannot be met. Leadership needs, however, to be adapted to the knowledge intensive nature of these organizations, direct copying of business models does not work. In the future the solutions created in academic organizations may even show the way to the business world
The profitability comparisons of alternative electric power expansion programs in Finland
No full textOUTSOURCING OR INSOURCING?
No full textOutsourcing is not a new phenomenon. This paper presents evidence for this contention and identifies a growing trend toward a mixed mode of operation, combining both outsourcing and insourcing, where IT services are being integrated into the parent company. This study concentrates on situations where a new enterprise has been formed from an existing data processing department, and where IS services have been moved to this new company, but some of them taken back into the parent company a few years later. First, reasons for the original outsourcing decisions are identified by semi-stnuctured interviews in six organizations. A model of the determinants of outsourcing has been developed on the basis of these interviews. A follow-up study was conducted six years later in two of the case organizations showing insourcing decisions, whose contingent factors are presented. The main conclusion is that external and internal solutions are both equally relevant alternatives for organizing IT/IS services. There is no general solution to the outsourcing decision itself, but the determinants of the decision process are now well known
Experimental evolution of high aerobic metabolism results in improved male reproductive success in field conditions.
No full textThis file includes the data reported in the paper:"Experimental evolution of high aerobic metabolism results in improved male reproductive success in field conditions." Anni M. Hämäläinen 1,2,*,†, Tanja Hirvonen 2,†, Phillip C. Watts 2 , Tapio Mappes 2, Pawel Koteja 1, Esa Koskela 2Affiliations:1. Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland2. Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland* Corresponding author: ORCID: 0000-0001-9260-8299, [email protected]† Shared first author</div
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