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Uutisen oletuskuva
News 07.06.2018
Jarno Einolander's doctoral dissertation in industrial management examines the models and theories of organisational commitment. The research builds an ontology, or a hierarchical concept model, of holistic commitment and a method that utilises it to measure commitment and its different components in the targeted organisations. Einolander has also built an ontology to model the commitment and engagement of university students to their studies.
Uutisen oletuskuva
News 04.06.2018
Suvi Einola's doctoral dissertation focuses on the eternal Achilles’ heel of organizations: the execution of the strategy. Everyone recognizes an organization where the strategy made by the top management is dusting in the desk drawer when the other organization experiences it as verbiage or even swearword. Once in a while, the management team digs the strategy of the box drawer to find out that the targets set for it have not been met. According to the dissertation, this does not have to be the case.
Uutisen oletuskuva
News 25.05.2018
In the private healthcare industry, employees are challenged to find a shop steward from their work community. Employees do not always have enough interest in issues surrounding terms of employment or do not possess the courage. Even the employer may have a negative view on the shop steward election. One reason is that the meaning of the shop steward role in the workplace is unclear.

Päivi Kukkola researched in her doctoral dissertation in social and health management how the shop steward system works in the private healthcare industry in Finland.
Uutisen oletuskuva
News 21.05.2018
Companies from advanced economies are shifting their manufacturing operations to emerging economies to tap the low-cost advantages and increasing demand conditions. This strategy may be fruitful in increasing the short-term profits, but over a period of time several of the manufacturing operations are closed or sold.

In his doctoral dissertation, M.Sc. Pratik Arte has researched the divestment of foreign subsidiaries, which is the reverse of foreign investment.
Uutisen oletuskuva
News 10.02.2018
“Each business-organization follows a unique path of its capability development. Therefore, the vastly used cookbook recipes of capability development do not guarantee same results across all organizations”, says Aurangzeab Butt who will defend his doctoral thesis at the University of Vaasa.

Butt’s doctoral research is a longitudinal study of organizational capability development process. The dissertation analyses the heterogenous development paths of project portfolio management capability (PPMC).