Tomi J. Kallio

• Ph.D. (Business Economics), Ph.D. (Administrative Science)
• Professor at University of Vaasa

In this study, based on a broad empirical 10-year follow-up dataset, the satisfaction of respondents from three Finnish universities, representing four different disciplines, is examined in relation to the performance evaluations implemented by university administrations. Based on empirical analysis, the study presents two key observations, which t...

This timely book provides an in-depth exploration of future public governance in a post-pandemic world. It highlights the relationship between administrative reforms, collaborative mechanisms, and emphasises the necessity of a solid knowledge base and evidence based policy-making when responding to unforeseen societal changes and crises.

Purpose- This paper aims to investigate the process by which performative technologies (PTs), in this case accreditation work in a business school, take form and how humans engage in making up such practices. It studies how academics come to accept and even identify with the quantitative representations of themselves in a translation process. Desi...

This paper presents the findings of the push and pull factors that cause professionals to leave academia. Previous research has mostly focused on academic professionals’ intent to leave their current organisations and largely neglected occupational turnover, that is, the cases where faculty abandon an academic career. The study included 40 semi-str...

Selective incivility experienced by males in female-dominated fields Workplace incivility has attracted an increasing attention among scholars. Nevertheless, extant research on selective incivility has mostly focused on the female gender and male-dominated fields. To fill the obvious research gap, in this study men working in female-dominated occup...

Fixed-term employments among academic personnel at Finnish universitiesThis study focuses on fixed-term employments in Finnish universities. The relative amount of fixed-term employments in different career phases, universities and fields are described. The analyses reveal that the fixed-term employments are considerably more common in universities...

Many organizations are investing considerable resources in building and designing what are termed ‘creative offices’. In this paper, we bring together two lines of academic enquiry that have attracted the interest of scholars from different disciplines: organizational creativity and the physical space of organizations. These lines of study use diff...

Service integration has become essential way of the production of customer friendly and cost-effective municipal services. Recently, there has been also endeavors to extend service integration from social and health sectors to the education sector. This study pursues to increase the general understanding of the expanded service integration and to d...

Purpose This article studies the tensions between universities' accountability and autonomy in response to the demands of public steering mechanisms coordinating higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach Demonstrating the tension between accountability and autonomy, the impact and relevance of public steering mechanisms coordinati...

Purpose Employing institutional logic and institutional work as its theoretical framework, this study analyzes scholars' reactions to performance measurement systems in academia. Design/methodology/approach Large datasets were collected over time, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements. The data were gathered from a two-wave survey i...

The academic career stories and trajectories of PhD holders have been widely studied in the context of economic austerity and an oversupply of doctors. However, few studies have investigated career building among ex-academics and how a doctoral degree and university work might affect their career possibilities outside academia. This paper explores...

Purpose This purpose of this study is to understand how the spread of audit culture and the related public sector reforms have affected Finnish universities’ organization principles, performance measurement (PM) criteria and ultimately their reason for being. Design/methodology/approach Applying extensive qualitative data by combining interview da...

The extant literature has identified five problems related to public sector organisations and their reputation management: politics, consistency, charisma, uniqueness and excellence. This study examines whether and how the problems of reputation management occur in public higher education by collecting qualitative data from 40 interviews. The study...

This study examines the link between employee engagement and internal branding. It seeks to understand which antecedent factors healthcare professionals consider important for employee engagement and what kinds of implications this engagement-related information may have for internal branding. The study reviews the literature on employee engagement...

The study examines municipal educational and cultural services as well as the changing work tasks of local educational and cultural leaders from the perspective of networks. The framework of the study is the so-called “future municipality,” which refers to municipalities after the implementation of the national health and social services reform. Lo...

In this study, we analysed stakeholders’ organizational role expectations for nurses. We defined organizational role expectations as a set of informal expectations in behavioural patterns and formal expectations in work tasks related to a certain position in the organization. A qualitative study was conducted, and content analysis was applied to 15...

Performance measurement (PM) is now common in Western universities. This is also the case in Finland, where a new funding scheme was implemented to ensure that quality was included in universities’ PM. However, this paper shows that the quality indicators in use are, in practice, quantitative. The paper is based on a large survey and has implicatio...

This paper reviews academic journal articles and scholarly books focusing on organizational creativity and constructs a schematic representation of the antecedents of organizational creativity, i.e. of the associated drivers and barriers. The literature on organizational creativity is reviewed using a traditional review technique. The focus is espe...

Higher education has been subject to substantial reforms as new forms of performance management are implemented in universities across the world. Extant research suggests that in many cases performance management systems have disrupted academic life. We complement this literature with an extensive mixed methods study of how the performance manageme...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the way in which the factors influencing a transformation towards or away from modularity, according to general modular systems theory, appear in the context of health services, and the extent to which the special characteristics of health services might support or prevent its application. Design/m...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the potential positive effects of the design of a physical organisational environment on the emergence of an organisational culture conducive to organisational creativity. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on an in-depth, longitudinal case study, the aim being to enhance understandin...

Purpose This article explores the potential positive effects of the design of a physical organisational environment on the emergence of an organisational culture conducive to organisational creativity. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on an in-depth, longitudinal case study, the aim being to enhance understanding of how a change in p...

In this doctoral thesis, knowledge-intensive organizations – especially publicly administered Finnish universities and hospitals – are scrutinized in a situation where pressures, originating mainly outside these organizations, force them to adopt an efficiency orientation. The point of departure for the study is the notion that universities and hos...

During the last decade, the number of municipal enterprises in Finland has almost tripled. This paper attempts to understand the phenomenon related to the recent mushrooming of municipal enterprises. This is done by three empirical case analyses of university hospital laboratories. In two of the three case organisations, there is very little indica...

The article focuses on the effects of management-by-results from the perspective of the work motivation of university employees. The study is based on extensive survey data among employees at Finnish universities. According to the results, performance measurement is based on quantitative rather than qualitative measures, and the current management-...

This issue of Creativity and Innovation Management contains a special section ‘New Directions in Organizational Creativity’, guest-edited by Tomi Kallio and Daved Barry. The three papers in this special section arose from a 2009 EGOS track in Barcelona, titled: ‘Organizational Creativity: The Overlooked, Understudied, and Much Missed’.In addition t...

The themes related to creativity have dominated the Finnish political debate during the past few years. While the Finnish population is aging and the blue-collar jobs are drifting to China and to other low-cost countries, the basic tenet of the politicians’ seem to be that in order to maintain the Finnish welfare society, creativity and especially...

During the last century, a whole new 'industry' legitimized its locus as more books and articles in more and more magazines and journals offered more 'new' concepts and frameworks for the efficient running of organizations. In the article it is suggested that this management theory industry serves a wider cultural call. According to the interpretat...

In this article, we explore the self‐oriented rather than socially‐oriented reasons why a doctoral dissertation in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is written. We base our article on Yuri M. Lotman’s idea on autocommunication which we use as tool in analysing a group interview conducted with six doctoral students studying in the f...

After facing severe pressures, several Finnish hospitals are currently reorganizing their structures in order to improve operational efficiency. In the paper we analyze three themes: i) the possibilities to gain operational efficiency in hospitals via process and matrix structures, ii) the differences between matrix and process structures, and iii)...

In this paper, we take a critical perspective on the phenomenon known as Sustainable Foreign Direct Investments (SFDIs). With the pulp and paper sector in Latin America as an illustrative example, we examine how the behaviour of firms is constrained by societal norms and how the greenness and sense of responsibility is constructed within SFDIs. Bec...

Corporations today have been engineered by CEOs and other business advocates to look increasingly green and responsible. However, alarming cases such as Enron, Parmalat and Worldcom bear witness that a belief in corporate goodness is still nothing other than naïve. Although many scholars seemingly recognize this, they still avoid touching on the m...

This paper analyses the themes of rationality and legitimation in the discourse of sustainable development. We start by constructing ideal types of interpretation of sustainable development (weak and strong) and rationality (value rationality and instrumental rationality) as conceptual and theoretical 'tools' for our further analysis. We then discu...

Tarkastelemme artikkelissa luovuuden käsitettä suomalaisen työelämän kontekstissa. Erityisenä fokuksenamme on työministeriön hiljattain julkaiseman ”Luova työote – tuottava työ: työelämälähtöiseen luovuuteen perustuva tuottavuusstrategia” -raportin pohjalta johdettu käsite luovan työotteen johtaminen. Pohdimme mitä luovan työotteen johtaminen tarko...

In this article, the authors analyze some of the developments and weaknesses in organizational environmental studies and make an effort to evaluate the field's current status, role, and future prospects. During recent years, the field of management and organizational studies has witnessed environmental research gaining a secure foothold, especially...

Artikkelissa lähestytään ei-empiiristä teoreettista tutkimusta metodologisesta näkökulmasta. Ei-empiirisen tutkimuksen metodologia ja metodit ovat toistaiseksi suhteellisen heikosti tunnettuja. Liiketaloustieteellisen teoreettisen tutkimuksen haastetta lisää myös se, että alalla kohtaavat talouden ja tieteellisyyden usein ristiriitaiset päämäärät....

As the number of published research grows almost exponentially, the need to synthetically bring together important research findings is today more topical than ever before. The paper analyses and discusses the method of qualitative literature review. While especially the natural and technical sciences often use quantitative meta-analysis as their a...

During the recent years the organizational field of the Finnish university sector has been under heavy pressures. In the paper we state that the pressures stem especially from two origins. On the one hand, the so-called Bologna Process and other isomorphic influences of the European Union create increasing pressures for universities to mimic each o...

The paper discusses the academic research on business ethics, while the focus is on the methodological aspects. It is suggested that especially in the past the academic research on business ethics has been somewhat naïve and relatively poor in quality. This is due to the fact that business ethics is a highly sensitive topic, and thus exceptionally...