Jarkko Pyysiäinen

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• PhD (Social Psychology)
• Senior Lecturer at University of Helsinki

Governance networks, made of diversified and multidisciplinary actors, have a prominent role in the development and implementation of actions for agri-food system transformation that foster both farm-level and societal change, as in the case of agroecology transitions. This article aims at delivering a typology of governance networks, building on e...

Problems with schools' indoor-air quality are common, and they can cause health problems to adolescents. However, no previous research has examined how adolescents make sense of such contaminated socio-material environments or what kinds of agency those environments afford. Taking an ecological psychology perspective informed by frame analysis, we...

Supply chains are increasingly prone to systemic disruptions, such as climate change, economic fluctuations, political conflicts, and pandemics. This chapter argues that supply chains, as integrated systems of provision embedded in the global capitalist system, are not merely undergoing crises, but are also active in constituting them. We call for...

Maatalous on osa moninaisia paikallisia ja globaaleja arvoketjuja ja nopeasti muuttuvia toimintaympäristöjä. Maataloutta harjoittavat yritykset ja yrittäjät kohtaavat vastaavasti monenlaisia, muuttuvia odotuksia ja vaatimuksia: miten kyetä tuottamaan ruoan raaka-aineita taloudellisesti kannattavasti, huolehtia omasta ja ympäristön hyvinvoinnista se...

Non-technical summary The industrial food system is widely considered to be unsustainable due to its undesired climate and health effects. One proposed alternative to these problems is a more local system of food provisioning. This means involving individuals, households, and communities in growing and acquiring edibles, like vegetables and other f...

In this chapter, we analyse how mainstream discussants articulate their objections to multiculturalism when discussing news events featuring radical right talking points on intergroup relations. Collecting discussions on two high-profile media events on the Facebook page of Helsingin Sanomat, the largest daily newspaper in the Nordic countries, we...

Societal debates are often constructed through dichotomies influenced by various factors such as cognitive capabilities of individuals, culturally shaped valuation processes, underlying societal struggles for power and prestige, economic competition, technological changes or lock-ins and operation logic of the media and social media. Debates over e...

This article argues that when attempting to extend the concept of affordances to encompass action possibilities characteristic of our sociocultural environments, a transactionally informed relational perspective—along the lines formulated by classical pragmatist thinkers (especially Dewey and Bentley but also Peirce and Mead)—proves useful. A trans...

Farmers' and citizens' perceptions of the legitimacy of the current action-oriented and the proposed result-oriented agri-environmental schemes (AES) are poorly known. To help fill this gap, this study analysed such perceptions in the context of Finnish citizens and farmers. Hypotheses on legitimacy, ecosystem service perceptions and environmental...

This document represents the Deliverable D5.2 within Workpackage WP5 “Governance and policy assessment” of the EU Horizon 2020 project UNISECO (Understanding and improving the sustainability of agro-ecological farming systems in the EU). The overall objective of this Deliverable (D5.2) is to identify and analyse the governance structures which char...

The business opportunities in the Finnish biogas branch were studied through policy document analysis, analysis of the financial performance, and interviews of the biogas companies (in industrial and farm-scales). Although our study focuses on the case of Finland, many identified features of biogas production can be recognized at least on a Europea...

Discourses on middle class taste, lifestyle and ‘aesthetics’ have emphasized how middle class agents orient to mark their position by appropriating ‘legitimate’ cultural goods and practices and eschewing ‘illegitimate’ ones. This paper examines what could be learned, if the analytical perspective is broadened and shifted from the sociocultural dist...

Brazil is an example of a challenging governance context par excellence: continental size, multi-levelled governance structures and diverse administrative cultures meet with ambitious, large-scale policy needs and objectives. The multilevel governance approach is applied here to analyse implementation and governance coordination of the Bolsa Verde...

The ‘governmentality’ approach has been influential in analyzing how neoliberal governance transfers responsibility to individual agents through an ‘appeal of freedom’ mechanism. This productive conceptualization of power has generated a solid body of research on the workings of (neo)liberal governance and contemporary Western capitalism. However,...

Research on entrepreneurship as a policy discourse has focused mostly on relations between the discourse and targets of the policy, that is, actors intended to become entrepreneurial or entrepreneurs, while the role of policy implementers has received much less attention. The present study examines the ‘rationality’ of entrepreneurship policies by...

Acts of evaluation and their meaning-making functions have been approached from a variety of perspectives, under a range of disciplines and conceptualizations. In the field of social psychology, for example, the concept of attitude is predominantly interpreted as fairly stable, enduring inner dispositions of the individual. However, when the perspe...

Purpose – Entrepreneurship is currently at the focus of much theoretical, practical and political interest. In Europe, agriculture has faced dramatic pressures for restructuring, and facilitation of the entrepreneurial skills of farmers and stronger entrepreneurial orientation in the rural areas have been hailed as possible solutions for the emergi...

We report findings from a survey that has been conducted in Finland to study how the software product companies have matured and evolved over the years. In addition to introducing some key terms for characterizing the software product business, we provide some overall data on the sector, and discuss some specific issues related to the software R&D...

This paper examines trust and distrust in inter-organizational software development networks in the light of thematic interviews collected from seven software development networks. According to the theoretical perspective adopted, the choice between trust and distrust in uncertain conditions depends on the relational resources available to the inte...

This paper explores problems and potential practices for trust building in global inter-organizational software development networks. The concept and traditional sources of trust are briefly reviewed, and the special problems on trust building in networks are analyzed on the basis of the theoretical framework. Our empirical findings from nine globa...

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