Seppo Poutanen

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at University of Turku

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.

The situation caused by coronavirus disease 2019 closures in the spring of 2020 resulted in various restrictions for universities and led to a reorganisation of their operations. This created unprecedented challenges for all academic work. This study aimed to analyse the pandemic-related work experiences of doctoral researchers from several Europea...

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...

Nordic working life studies have mostly focused on the precarious aspects of work mediated via online labor platforms. We follow a different approach and examine the potential of such work to benefit professionals by enhancing their job quality and learning. This qualitative, practice-based study applies the concept 'co-creation' to examine how a s...

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...

The article examines on-demand work mediated by a digital platform. It analyses the resources food couriers use when they face a sudden algorithmic management change that augments their mutual competition. Community building is particularly powerful resource. The paper discusses the case in the light of sustainable development of platform work.

The global importance of crowd or on-demand work via digital platforms is increasing. Platform enterprises create and manage two- or many-sided markets by enabling suppliers and buyers of services meet in a flexible and scalable way, creating new economic efficiencies. However, platform work may also increase invisibility, uncertainty, risks, and c...

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...

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...

Certain basics of Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy are introduced as an alternative theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the fundamental nature of research interviews. Definitions of key concepts are followed by a tentative demonstration of how the suggested ontologized construction of research interviews might procee...

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...

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...

This paper first describes how genetic screening was launched in Finland. The recommendations of researchers for improving the execution of future screenings are then used to lead into a demonstration of a certain decision-making method as a possible tool for carrying out these improvements. In the latter part, the Finnish pilot screening is seen a...

This paper will first examine the different versions of social or socialized epistemology, a field that has gathered much support among epistemologists in recent years. After the necessary classification, the paper goes on to suggest that socialized epistemology could benefit from contemporary social theory, and Derek Layder's views are presented a...