Anne Kovalainen

University of Turku | UTU · Turku School of Economics

Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experi...

The book, published by Palgrave MacMillan, analyses the gendered nature of innovations.

Tarkastelemme artikkelissamme työntekijöiden laajamittaista ja nopeaa siirtymistä etätyöhön kevään ja syksyn 2020 pandemia-aikana sekä työntekijöiden itsensä raportoimaa etätyöhön kohdistunutta valvontaa. Tutkimme, mikä yleisellä tasolla voi selittää Suomessa työntekijöiden helposti tapahtunutta siirtymistä etätyöhön ja etätyöhön kohdistuneen valvo...

Introduction The question of care, and how to organise it, is globally pertinent and touches not only gendered care and dependencies, but also ethics of care, reflected in the ways in which care is governed and what becomes emphasised in the analyses. Societal discourses on the governance of care revolve around the issues of quality (ethics), costs...

This chapter identifies three disconnected scientific fields and discourses about care ethics, economy (marketisation/outsourcing), and technologies in care. The offered remedies for the crisis of care are mainly technological and techno-material in nature, and based on digitalisation, technological efficiency, surveillance, and AI-based algorithmi...

This book deals with innovation and gender. It explores women’s inventions and innovations and recognition of that work, including the creative work leading to innovations and the varied forms of innovation, ranging from social to technological innovations. The contexts of innovations are crucial because innovations seldom occur in isolation or as...

Academic scientists' engagement with industry is a central mechanism in university-industry knowledge transfer and the development of collaborative research. However, most empirical studies are limited to researchers in technical disciplines. We extend the analysis beyond engineers to include broader disciplinary fields, including humanists, econom...

Upwork is the world's largest online labor market platform connecting clients with freelance professionals from various disciplines ranging from administrative support to web development. This study documents the main findings of the Upworkers in Finland survey conducted in December 2017. The survey targeted all freelancers listed on the platform w...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the ways the textual materials of job advertisements do the gendering for prospective expert positions and create a space for ambiquity/non-ambiquity in the gender labelling of this expertise. Expert positions are almost always openly announced and are important to organizations because they often lead to higher...

This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered nature of innovations in the new economy. It tracks the contemporary shift from heavy industry to game industry and how this has altered relationships between gender, identity, corporate culture, creative work, and the future of business. Through empirical research and theoretical...

Technology and its different adaptations are the key fields for the contemporary innovations. Within technology, the forward-thinking and new openings are highly promoted in contemporary societies. Innovations such as games and the whole gaming industries are at the core business sectors in the new digitalized platform economy. Yet, much of the dev...

The chapter first highlights the long history of how gender has become involved in the invention of the household appliances, for example washing machine. The complex relationships between household economy and market economy are here detailed, showing the presence of economy even in mundane household activities. Next, the pervasive gender inequali...

The modern way of life is impossible without inventions and innovations. Innovations are woven into the fabric of societies in countless ecosystemic configurations. This means, for example, that a heroic and lone ingenious inventor is typically a figure of the past. In today’s networked world different organizations and institutions, starting from...

What is considered to be creative work? Is creative work always recognizable as in artistic work, or is it something where inventions come into being, or simply any task at hand? How does creativity construct individual identity, especially work identity? And how does gender become defined in creative work leading to innovations? Creativity is in s...

The new economy has developed rapidly in recent years with the groundbreaking technological innovations. In that development, the effects of the platform economy, sharing economy and gig economy on the gendered dimensions of work are growing. The chapter discusses the multilayered relationships between the old and the new economies, considers globa...

Throughout the book, we have examined the multiple and multi-level connections and ties between gender and innovations, and different manifestations of these relations and connections in the new economy. The example cases taken range from the very early innovations that had direct effects on gendered everyday lives and on the recent developments in...

The book can be accessed from: http://www.elgaronline.com/abstract/9781783478118.xml or from http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-gender-and-innovation ABSTRACT Innovation is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth. It is generally assumed to be gender neutral when, in fact, the gendered construction of innovation has been t...

This article analyses the portrayal of the female corporate manager in the economic media. More specifically the article examines the ways in which femininity and gendered power become enacted in feature articles about high level corporate lead­ers and managers in the global economic newspaper, The Economist, and through that enacted as part of the...

PART ONE: THE BUSINESS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Introduction Research Philosophy Research Design and Process Focus and Frame Access and Relationships Ethics in Research Qualitative Research Materials Electronic Research PART TWO: METHODS IN QUALITATIVE BUSINESS RESEARCH Case Study Research Ethnographic Research Grounded Theory Research Focus Group R...

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Purpose – This paper aims to study the kinds of methodologies used in studying “doing gender” in working life and organisations. To do so, articles that use empirical research materials from different academic peer-reviewed journals have been analysed. By methodologies, both data gathering tools and the analysing techniques using and concerting th...

What Is New in the 'New Economy'? Care as Critical Nexus Challenging Rigid Conceptualizations (Published in: Gruhlich, J. & Riegraf, B. (eds.) Transnationale Räume und Geschlecht.

Purpose ‐ This article provides an analysis of the gendering process in product innovation. Interwoven into this process is the encapsulation of a token position. The article expands and deepens the tokenism theory through a discussion of gender in the innovation process. The article draws from recent and classical theories of gender, ranging from...

for full book, see: http://brunnen.shh.fi/portals/pubmanager/pdf/57-951-555-747-x.pdf The expansion of transnational corporations is a fundamental part of contemporary globalising processes. Through their activities, transnational corporations also have impacts on national and cultural gender relations, thus highlighting that gender relations are...

Purpose This article aims to look first at how entrepreneurial identity fits into the picture we currently have of social and health care professionals who most often work in paid employment in the public sector, and second, how entrepreneurial identity is constructed. We discuss whether professional identity and entrepreneurial identity can be sep...

The chapter describes two case study strategies used in management and business research: intensive case studies and extensive case studies.

We analyse the question of what role and positions epistemic communities have in the agora, and more specifically in the new mediating organizations that are established at the interface of the state, businesses and universities. These new organizational structures embody the present politics of knowledge that reign in national science policy globa...

Reference: Eriksson, Päivi and Kovalainen Anne (2008) Qualitative Methods in Business Research, Sage. PART I THE BUSINESS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION The purpose of the book The focus of this book is qualitative business research. The book is designed to give the reader both inspiration and practical skills in studying business...

This paper seeks to stimulate debate on the agendas, methodologies and methods used in the field of small business and entrepreneurship. The paper raises questions regarding the research agendas pursued and provides some pointers for the direction of future research. Integral to this is the argument that there is a need to reflect on the condition...

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Here is the introductory chapter to the book. If you have other requests, send me an email to paivi.eriksson@uef.fi

Several empirical studies confirm the importance of high-growth firms for job creation and economic growth. In order to promote economic growth, new jobs and new growing firms who actually generate employment, are needed. At the aggregate level, growing new firms are required for aggregate job creation. At the firm level, firm- level growth is nece...

Less than a tenth of Finnish firms’ CEOs and chairmen of the board are women; less than a fourth of Finnish firms’ board members are women. An empirical regression analysis of a large firm-level data set suggests that a company led by a women CEO is on average about ten per cent more profitable than a corresponding company led by a man, even after...

The trend in women’s self-employment appeared to be upward in the 1980s and 1990s, but women are still less likely than men to start new businesses. The economic growth potential in most industrialized countries is gendered, and with lack of paid employment opportunities, more hopes are targeted towards women’s entrepreneurship. We will explore wom...

This paper addresses the implications of organisational gender divisions and gender policies for the processes and practices of organising knowledge. The first part discusses this question theoretically, before examining it through a recent survey of the 100 largest Finnish corporations. The concluding discussion addresses the relation of the theor...

Recession, crisis of the welfare state, unemployment and a desire to affirm the dignity of one's own professional skills were reasons for the creation of neo-entrepreneurship in the social and health care sector in Finland. A total of 371 private social and health care sector entrepreneurs responded to the survey conducted by the National Research...

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Women are still in a minority in managerial positions in most countries. Reasons that have been put forward for this have included the gendered structures of society, the masculine image of the manager and the different kind of socialization processes to which men and women are subject. However, most earlier studies in management and leadership con...

The roles of men and women have been lively discussed and investigated in the fields of psychology and sociology for years. This discussion has recently reached the field of management and leadership studies as well. However, in the studies of working life the work women do has for a long time remained rather invisible and gender has only been a va...

The growth in the importance of non-standard forms of employment at the labour markets has, for its part, complicated the question of work/personal life interface. The emerging situation at the labour markets concerns also those working in their own businesses and in family businesses. This group has to large extent, been largely if not fully forgo...