This paper examines how institutional positioning has emerged in the meaning-making activities between Finnish higher education institutions and the Ministry of Education and Culture. The study is based on a qualitative ...

Research on student engagement, study engagement and academic entitlement has followed separate paths. This research examined how the concepts relate to each other among traditional and non-traditional Finnish business ...

This study examines a teaching-oriented higher education community which undertook a major change effort when planning a new campus and redesigning their pedagogics. This paper suggests that instead of merely being a ...

Given the emerging interest in institutional positioning and to augment the small number of empirical studies in this field, this paper presents discussion about how Finnish universities of applied sciences implement their ...

Digitalization is rapidly reshaping our workplaces, as digital technologies often change individual’s work and collective work practices in significant but unpredictable ways. In this paper, we look at how digitalization ...

This study examines Finnish higher education students’ perceptions of whether students are customers based on qualitative interview data. The paper contributes to the discussion on students as customers by giving attention ...

Global interest in the value of student engagement in higher education has led to question whether the use of term is clear and consistent. Through an analysis of qualitative data this paper investigates the construction ...

This paper discusses the work of mid-level management at Finnish universities of applied sciences. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 line managers, this study investigates how the standardised management ideas of rational ...