Teemu Mäenpää's thesis in information technology "Utilization of adjacency model in graph analysis" examines ways to process complex data structures to make them operable for relational databases.
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Anne Kujala’s dissertation focuses on a very important and current issue – health and social management.
In general media discussion it has been said many times that hospitals have poor management and especially the doctors are bad managers.
In general media discussion it has been said many times that hospitals have poor management and especially the doctors are bad managers.
Nnamdi Oguji's thesis in marketing “Foreign acquisition entry strategies and performance of Finnish multinationals: The role of entry motives, institutions and host country capabilities” analyzes how and why firms opt for partial, staged and full acquisition strategies when entering into foreign markets. His research also reveals which are the negative impacts of not opting for the optimal acquisition strategy.
According to Niina Kinnunen’s thesis “Tietoturvaohjeistusten noudattamisen motivaatio ja sen muuttuminen” (Motivation for following information security instructions and chage therein) the authorities and the organizations should try to reduce the information security instructions and the number of parties providing the instructions and guidelines.
Mervi Toivanen's thesis in Economics “Essays on Credit Contagion and Shocks in Banking” examines the impact of shocks on banks in the context of financial crises.
Tuija Pitkäkoski's thesis in marketing “Building a Production Concept for experiential Food Service Event – Theming, processing and holistic impression as challenge in marketing management” reveals that most relevant in producing and managing experiential food service event is the management over the whole service system.
Adil Yazigi's dissertation is about Gaussian processes, their representations and regularity.
The problems encountered with battery charging by wind turbines are that the charging is poor in both low and high wind speeds. The main objective of Bertil Brännbacka’s dissertation is to find methods of improving the charging of batteries at low and high wind speeds by developing auxiliary devices using original components.
Anu Norrgrann’s dissertation aims at providing an understanding of how products function as symbolic resources in business networks. It builds on the resource interaction discussion within the network research tradition (IMP) and addresses the symbolic dimension of embeddedness and its importance for the ability of products to function as value-providing resources for intermediate and final customers.
The Institute for Multilingualism, a joint venture between the University of Vaasa and Åbo Akademi University, hosted an expert seminar at the University of Vaasa on 4th–5th of June 2015. The seminar was the first meeting for an international research network on multilingualism called Workshop on Multilingualism. The purpose of the seminar was to plan future cooperation and establish connections between different countries and fields of science. The theme of the first seminar was language needs.