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Towards Strategic Actorhood? The Execution of Institutional Positioning Strategies at Finnish Universities of Applied Science
(John Wiley & Sons, 2016)
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 ...
Distributed leadership in the construction of a new higher education campus and community
(SAGE Publications, 2019)
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 ...
Are students customers in Finnish higher education?
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2013)
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 ...
Student engagement: buzzword or fuzzword?
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)
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 ...
Making sense of institutional positioning in Finnish higher education
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015)
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 ...
A foresight process as an institutional sensemaking tool
(Emerald, 2015)
Enacting the common script: management ideas at Finnish universities of applied sciences
(Sage Publications, 2015)
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 ...
Visibility of Work: How Digitalization Changes the Workplace
(Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, 2018)
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 ...
Understanding academic leadership using the four-frame model
(Tampere University Press, 2018)
Is your university a well-oiled machine or a factory where employees are considered resources in the production system, which can be engineered to produce the most efficient output under the plans and control of a hierarchical ...