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Suomensuvun uskonnot. IV, V. Toim. Kaarle Krohn, H. Paasonen, K. F. Karjalainen ja Uno Holmberg
No full textKirja-arvioKrohn, Kaarle & Paasonen, H. & Karjalainen, K. F. & Holmberg, Uno (toim.): Suomensuvun uskonnot. IV, V
Increasing regional competitiveness by network strategy case: The strategy process of Lahti University Network
Get PDFIn a network society different areas and cities are forced to compete with and against each other. The success of urban districts is partly dependent of the people`s level of know-how and the districts` capability to create, process and spread out knowledge. Although Lahti Region has been considered a declined industrial region, it is full of potential: There are a sufficient amount of inhabitants; its infrastructure is competitive; its logistical position in Finland is central; it is near the capital city, Helsinki; the nature is near in Lahti. The city has innovative enterprises in wood, metal and plastic industries. On the other hand, the lack of university leads to remote R&D-spending, low standard of education and to the fact that the flow of young, educated people is easily passing the urban district of Lahti. Although Lahti does not have a university of its own, it has been able to attract some Finnish universities to start up branch offices in Lahti. Nowadays, there are three units from different universities with nine professorships. The lack of the university emphasizes the need of local actors, like research and education organisations, companies, authorities and Lahti Region Centre of Expertise Programme to co-operate strategically with each other. One example of this co-operation is the Lahti University Centre (LUC). LUC is a network of independent university level organisations in the city of Lahti. According to the co-operation contract, it consists of the following actors: Helsinki University of Technology Lahti Center; Lappeenranta University of Technology; University of Helsinki, Palmenia Centre for Research and Continuing Education; Helsinki University, Department of Ecological and Enviromental Sciences. The basic task of the LUC is to raise the university level know-how capacity in Lahti region and serve its economic life in areas of research, development and education in order to increase regional competitiveness. Although Lahti University Center has been established it does not have a proper strategy or an action plan. The network of these independent university organisations needs a strategy which guidelines and supports their actions and is compatible with the regional innovation system. The study focuses on the strategy process of a network organisation. Research problems are: - how leadership will be decentralized in a network - the roles and commitment of actors - how to formulate a viable vision - what are the main areas of strategic co-operation The study is an action research, where researchers also be actors in the strategy process. The strategy process will be understood as a learning process of the network. Some traditional strategic analyses such as feasibility analysis and benchmarking as well as some creativity tools like vision workshop will be tested. Leadership will be decentralized among all the actors in order to get the full engagement of the actors. The network strategy of the Lahti University Center gives information and serves as a possible benchmarking partner for other similar network organisations in Europe. This case will be one part of the researchers` study project to develop a model for the strategic planning of the network.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Mentoring and social work : Mentoring handbook
Get PDFThe project Support to Social Work Addressing Children and Families in the Republic of Karelia (2007-2009)ei tietoa saavutettavuudesta
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The Impact of Public Policy and Membership of the EU on Regional Policy in Estonia
Get PDFThe primary aim of the paper is to provide an overview of the development and topical issues of the Estonian regional policy along with public policy. In order to implement a public policy, choices must be made based on values, which in their turn considerably influence the actual result. Public policy is usually described as a process of making choices from the determination of the situation to evaluation of the policy being implemented. This process has often an irrational character, which is caused by limited information available to decision-makers and limited time. My approach moves on from the statement of Ludek Sukora and his colleagues (Balchin et al 1999, 163) which says that in Eastern European countries, thus, hypothetically in Estonia as well, the former centralised planning economy replaced by relatively small local governments under the conditions of new legislation, where national plans do not work and consistent regional development policies do not exist, has brought about a situation of uncertainty, application of ad hoc methods instead of long-term comprehensive planning, and the use of earlier experience in administrative techniques. Following the above I present following hypotheses: H1) governmental normative documents on regional development change frequently and are often contradictory; H2) institutions responsible for the implementation of regional policy are unstable; H3) national and EU plans do not work and sectoral development plans are not compatible; H4) regional political initiatives depend on activities of different officials or ministers - human factor is critical; H5) no attempts are being made in municipalities to achieve awareness of conceptual basics of national and EU policies and their objectives, instead, different lobbying methods have been applied. In theoretical part, we look at the concept of regional policy and it’s changes in Europe. The empirical part will give a description of the Estonian regional and administrative polices in time, primarily based on observations, on the content analysis of documents and the written media, and interviews carried out in 1990-2005.
The images and realities of foreign top professionals in Finnish working and living environments
Get PDFIn the immediate future foreign labour will play an increasingly important role in the competitiveness of expertise-intensive firms and whole urban regions in Finland as has already happened in many other western countries in recent years. Due to high birth rates at the late 1940s and the early 1950s compared with almost half smaller birth rates in the early 1970s the number of retiring people will increase dramatically in relation to people entering the labour market. Labour shortage may be eased by educational reforms and by raising the age of retiring from the labour force, but one crucial part of the solution is foreign labour that should fill in the gap in the Finnish labour markets. At the moment labour shortage is visible in only some branches of the fastest growing industries and the slowing world economy fades the visibility of even these shortages. However, the fast growth of economy in previous years gave the first ideas about the attractiveness of Finland due to labour shortage mainly in the information technology related business. Professionals from around the world came to fill this rather strictly determined gap on skills. This study aims at a profound understanding of key issues in attracting and retaining foreign professionals in Finnish working and living environments. Although this study focuses on professionals in IT-industry, it shoul provide a wider picture of Finland and its industries abilities to attract labour force in immediate future. (project still running untill June 2002)
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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