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  • ‘I’m older but terribly independent’ : women’s empowerment in late-career entrepreneurship
    (2025-10-27) Haataja, Vera; Kibler, Ewald; Wainwright, Thomas
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    Our paper develops an understanding of the interplay between age and gender, focusing particularly on women’s empowerment in late-career entrepreneurship. Utilizing longitudinal qualitative data (three interview waves between 2010–2021), our study examines how women in later stages of life navigate a context that paradoxically encourages entrepreneurship amongst ageing individuals while also enacting age-related discrimination. Previous research has highlighted the challenges faced by ‘older’ individuals in entrepreneurial ventures, often exacerbated by negative societal discourses and gender stereotypes. However, our knowledge remains limited on how women surmount these age-related hurdles to leverage entrepreneurship as a means for empowerment. Our findings demonstrate how ‘older’ women navigate the narrative of successful ageing through entrepreneurship’s empowering attributes. Based on our findings, we theorize how the interplay of different empowerment dimensions (conscientisation, resources, agency, and achievements) is key to understanding how late-career women are able to bolster their confidence, self-appreciation, financial stability, and support networks through entrepreneurship. In conclusion, we underscore the importance of appreciating the unique experiences of ageing women entrepreneurs and how they create value and redefine success in their ventures within their specific socio-spatial contexts.
  • Paths to integration : earnings, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categories
    (2025-10) Pesola, Hanna; Sarvimäki, Matti; Virkola, Tuomo
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    We document substantial heterogeneity in labor market integration, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categories. Using newly available data on residence permits in Finland, we establish four facts. First, there are large initial differences in employment and earnings across labor, family, refugee, student, and European Union migrants. Second, these differences diminish substantially over time. Third, the groups make distinct investments in country-specific and general skills. Fourth, both the prevalence of and selection into outmigration vary widely across admission categories. These findings align with models where investments in skills depend on the expected length of stay in the host country.
  • The Effect of Immigration on Natives’ Earnings in Finland
    (2025-10-15) Sutton, Benjamin
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    Using a shift-share instrument, I study inflows of foreign-background immigrants to Finland and estimate how immigration affects natives’ earnings at various points of the income distribution. My point estimates for the earnings effects of immigration are negative and statistically significant for natives below the 40th earnings percentile, near zero for those between the 40th and 55th percentiles, and positive and statistically significant for those in and above the 60th percentile. Notably, the intensity of the estimated effects tends to increase further away from the median. These results indicate that immigrants are closer substitutes for low-skilled Finns and more complementary to high-skilled native workers.
  • Mobility, segregation and inequality: Who gains from urban transportation improvements?
    (2025-10) Akbar, Prottoy; Couture, Victor
    Discussion paper
    Urban transportation projects are massive public investments that can transform cities. This article reviews evidence on how these projects shape where people live, and how their benefits are shared across income groups. A simple model helps organize the findings. Three factors are especially important: who uses the new transportation mode, where it is built, and how easily people can relocate. Projects serving a narrow group in a specific area tend to increase segregation and inequality. These impacts can be severe if poorer households face barriers to relocation, as happened with the Interstate Highway System. Projects with broad spatial coverage and use by all income groups, like Bus Rapid Transit in developing countries, tend to have more modest segregation effects and broadly shared welfare gains.
  • ‘In God We Trust. All Others Must Bring Data’: Unpacking the Influence of Human Resource Analytics on the Strategic Recognition of Human Resource Management
    (2025-07) Diefenhardt, Felix; Rapp, Marco L.; Bader, Verena; Mayrhofer, Wolfgang
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    Existing literature underscores the potential of human resource analytics (HRA) to enhance the strategic recognition of human resource management (HRM) within organisations. However, there has been limited focus on how HRA practitioners attempt to realise this potential. Our study investigates how HRA practitioners use HRA in their daily work to enhance their strategic recognition. Drawing on practice theory and a range of qualitative data, including expert interviews and observations, our analysis not only shows that implementing HRA offers opportunities for improved strategic recognition but also reveals that HRM practitioners showcase the strategic relevance of their analytics capabilities through four forms of tactical manoeuvring: capturing contextual challenges, using guerilla tactics, busting myths and running stealth projects. Our findings contribute to the literature on HRA and the broader discourse on HRM's role and its strategic recognition.
  • Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity
    (2025-09) Tallberg, Linda; Huopalainen, Astrid; García-Rosell, José-Carlos
    Comment/debate
    Acknowledging organizations within a multispecies world is crucial for advancing sustainability. This commentary advocates for “multispecies inclusivity” in business and society as a new concept, transcending the traditional anthropocentrism that determines whose interests “matter.” We offer insights into this concept, discuss associated challenges, and propose pathways for implementing it into organizational practices.
  • Education and Mortality: Evidence for the Silent Generation from Linked Census and Administrative Data
    (2025-09-01) Domnisoru, Ciprian; Malinovskaya, Anna; Taylor, Evan
    Discussion paper
  • Bioethics and the Value of Human Life
    (2025-04-01) Häyry, Matti
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    Bioethics as a philosophical discipline deals with matters of life and death. How it deals with them, however, depends on the kind of life particular bioethicists focus on and the kind of value they assign to it. Natural-law ethicists and conservative Kantians emphasize biological human life regardless of its developmental stage. Integrative bioethicists also embrace nonhuman life if it can be protected without harming humans. Liberal and utilitarian moralists concentrate on life that is sentient and aware of itself, to the exclusion of biological existence devoid of these. Extinctionist and antinatalist philosophers believe that life's value is negative and that its misery should be alleviated and terminated by not bringing new individuals into existence. As the last-mentioned approach reverses the idea of life's positive value, it could be called oibethics.
  • Centering the dialogicity of care: A posthuman exploration of the politics of liveability in alternative organizing
    (2025-11) Wickström, Alice; Kangas-Muller, Laura; Lafaire, Ana Paula; Soini, Aleksi
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    This study explores the politics of liveability in alternative organizing from a feminist posthuman approach to care. Drawing on an affective ethnographic engagement with a communal sauna in Finland, we illustrate how ‘responses’ to ‘calls’ between bodies, affects, artifacts, texts, norms, and living matter influence organizing by both nurturing and troubling interdependencies between humans and non-humans. We emphasize how these patterns of ‘call-and-response’ reflect the inherent dialogicity of care, which performatively shapes how needs and interests are recognized, and how resources and responsibilities are distributed. We highlight how this perspective enables us to foreground the potential messiness of organizational trajectories, showing how multiple, and at times conflicting, caring orientations emerge and co-exist. We conclude by reflecting on the politics of liveability in more-than-human worlds, with particular attention to the distribution of power and the enactment of voice in alternative organizing.
  • Unbundling Ethical Consumer Choice : A Configurational Analysis With a Framing Experiment
    (2025-11) Lankoski, Leena; Ollila, Sari
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    To understand ethical consumer choice, it should be studied from a holistic, configurational perspective. We use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) (N = 715) with a randomized experiment in the context of animal welfare to examine (a) the interdependencies of factors aiding or impeding ethical choice, and (b) whether ethical choices occur differently in a loss frame than in a gain frame. We identify several alternative pathways to ethical choice and non-choice, and within these pathways, we reveal substitution effects, complementarities, and contingencies, reflecting the complexities of consumer choice. Furthermore, we demonstrate how ethical choice results more easily in a loss frame, and non-choice more easily in a gain frame, but how framing can also be irrelevant in certain situations. We contribute theoretically to ethical consumer choice in general and to food choice in particular by showing how it is the interplay of several factors in complex configurations that determines whether the situation favors ethical choice or non-choice. We outline important management and policy implications of our findings.
  • Building a global business school in the local language? : A knotted and nested paradox system in shaping international student inclusion
    (2025-09-22) Back, Hilla; Piekkari, Rebecca; Schrage, Stephanie; Tienari, Janne
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    In this paper, we offer a study of a global business school in a university located in a non-English-speaking country. We focus on paradoxical tensions related to the use of English as the global language of higher education, and the use of the local language as a mirror of national interests. Our study shows how underlying global–local tensions manifest as a nested linguistic paradox of universalism–particularism across international and national, organizational, and group levels. This paradox is knotted to other tensions on each level, which are made salient by either–or responses to the linguistic paradox. We contribute to paradox theory by theorizing a nested and knotted paradox system, by explaining how either–or responses cause pole suppression and disempowerment that cascade across levels, and by elaborating on how paradox and power operate in language use. We also advance research on inclusion in business schools by theorizing international students’ experiences of inclusion from a paradox and language perspective. Our study indicates that in the era of rising nationalism around the world, the resurgence of local languages in business schools and universities and its consequences for student inclusion is a timely subject of inquiry.
  • Weighty matters : Ozempic, autonomy and the ethics of health reform
    (2025-09-08) Räsänen, Joona; Ahola-Launonen, Johanna
    Comment/debate
    Ryan and Savulescu recently offered an ethical analysis of the use of semaglutide-based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. In this response, we continue the discussion and argue that their framework insufficiently addresses structural inequalities and the broader political context of obesity treatment. Positioning pharmaceutical drugs as a solution to socially produced health problems narrows moral decision-making, causing structural approaches to appear less urgent and less important. We criticise the individualistic conception of autonomy commonly invoked to justify pharmaceutical choice, arguing that a proper definition of autonomy requires attention to social contexts—stigma, discrimination and economic inequality—that shape treatment decisions.
  • Public Transit Access and Income Segregation
    (2025-10) Akbar, Prottoy A.
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    What are the implications of mass transit improvements for residential income segregation within cities? I observe large income differences in households' usage of and residential proximity to “fast” versus “slow” transit (e.g., subways vs. buses on shared lanes). Consistent with these observations, I propose a theoretical framework to characterize the relationship between income segregation and the spatial distribution of transit speeds and travel mode choices within cities. I find that transit improvements that would maximize transit ridership tend to reduce income segregation when improving “slow” transit but increase income segregation when improving “fast” transit.
  • Taloustieteilijät EDUCA-lippulaivassa
    (2025-06-27) Sarvimäki, Matti
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    Suomen Akatemian lippulaivat ovat monitieteisiä osaamiskeskittymiä, joilla pyritään edistämään taloudellista kasvua sekä luomaan tulevaisuuden osaamista ja kestäviä ratkaisuja yhteiskunnan haasteisiin. Tähän mennessä kahdeksan vuoden rahoitukset ovat menneet pääasiassa luonnontieteellisille ja teknisille aloille. Vuonna 2024 käynnistynyt EDUCA – Koulutuksen tulevaisuus on järjestyksessään toinen yhteiskuntatieteellinen lippulaiva. Se jatkaa ja syventää taloustieteilijöiden, kasvatustietelijöiden, psykologien ja oppimisanalyytikoiden yhteistyötä etenkin suurten satunnaistettujen kenttäkokeiluiden ja merkittävien uusien aineistojen keräämisen osalta. Tuloksena syntyy akateemisesti korkeatasoista ja päätöksentekoa suoraan tukevaa tutkimusta.
  • Kirja-arvostelu: Limittäisten sukupolvien mallin elinkaarta kartoittamassa
    (2025-03-24) Välimäki, Juuso
    Book/Film/Article review
    Reviewed book: Stephen E. Spear ja Warren Young: Overlapping Generations: Methods, Models and Morphology. Emerald Publishing Limited 2023
  • Kommentti Talouspolitiikan arviointineuvoston raporttiin vuodelle 2024
    (2025-03-24) Hetemäki, Martti
    Comment/debate
    Talouspolitiikan arviointineuvoston raportin vuodelle 2024 pääteemat ovat hyvinvointialueiden talous ja finanssipolitiikka. Se ehdottaa hyvinvointialueille lisäaikaa vuosien 2023–2024 alijäämien kattamiseen. Kun isojen alijäämien takana ovat olleet ilmeisen paljon alueista riippumattomat tekijät ja kun lisäaika ei vähennä säästötarvetta, on ehdotus ymmärrettävä. Jos alueilta vaaditaan epärealistisia tai lyhytnäköisiä säästöjä, heikentää se rahoitusjärjestelmän uskottavuutta. Raportti perustelee hyvin finanssipolitiikan viritystä ja julkista taloutta pitkällä ajalla vahvistavien toimien jatkamista. Itsenäisen arviointineuvoston laadukas raportti on julkishyödyke, jonka arvoa lisää Antti Suvannon toteama Suomen talouspoliittisen keskustelun markkinoiden ohuus.
  • Robustness of the theory of planned behavior in predicting entrepreneurial intentions and actions
    (2015) Kautonen, Teemu; Gelderen, Marco van; Fink, Matthias
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
  • Therapists’ Role in Patient Adherence to Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : Qualitative Study
    (2025-09-10) Seittu, Henriikka Anne Mari; Falk, Tomas; Bhatnagar, Kushagra; Saarni, Suoma Eeva
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    Background: Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapies (iCBTs) are typically categorized into 2 types: therapist-assisted and self-guided. Both formats have accumulated substantial evidence supporting their cost-effectiveness and efficacy in treating a range of mental health conditions. However, therapist-assisted iCBTs tend to show lower dropout rates than self-guided versions. The relatively high dropout rates in self-guided programs suggest that some degree of therapist involvement may be necessary to improve engagement and treatment adherence. Yet, the specific reasons for therapist support in iCBT and its functions in improving engagement and treatment adherence remain an underexplored area of research. Objective: This study aimed to explore patients’ experiences with therapist-assisted iCBT to identify the elements they perceive as important for treatment adherence and to clarify the role of therapist support in the iCBT process. Methods: This study draws on 89 semistructured in-depth interviews with iCBT users. Patients took part in 9 different therapist-assisted iCBT programs (depression [n=32], anxiety disorder [n=17], obsessive-compulsive disorder [n=10], bipolar disorder [n=5], social phobia [n=5], bulimia [n=3], alcohol abuse [n=1], panic disorder [n=10], and insomnia [n=6]), all provided nationwide by Helsinki University Hospital in Finland. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed with the qualitative Gioia method. Results: Three key categories help explain why users consider therapist support essential for adherence in iCBTs: (1) the strengthening of individual autonomy, (2) the therapist’s commitment to strengthening the therapeutic alliance, and (3) assistance with emotion regulation. Therapist support was shown to be pivotal, often conveyed through small, text-based gestures that had a meaningful impact.  Conclusions: The role of the therapist should not be diminished in the pursuit of digitalization, as human support remains a critical element of effective iCBT.
  • Beliefs about beta : upside participation and downside protection
    (2025-09-01) Merkle, Christoph; Ungeheuer, Michael
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    In four large online experiments, we study how investors assess the relationship between stock portfolios and the market. Participants select or are randomly assigned a portfolio of stocks from a market index. They state portfolio return expectations conditional on different market outcomes, revealing implied beliefs about portfolio beta. We find general underestimation of beta which is stronger for downside beta. This asymmetry is amplified for participants who select their portfolio. They believe their portfolio goes up with the market but does not come down with it. We confirm biased beliefs about beta with financial professionals, monetary incentives, and alternative belief elicitation methods.
  • Responsible investing: Costs and benefits for university endowment funds
    (2025-10) Aragon, George O.; Jiang, Yuxiang; Joenväärä, Juha; Tiu, Cristian Ioan
    A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
    We examine the adoption rates of responsible investment (RI) policies among university endowments. Adoption rates are higher among universities that face stakeholder pressure and are donation-dependent. Policy adoption predicts greater abnormal donations totaling 12 % of endowment assets, especially from “socially conscious” donors and during periods of higher media attention to climate change. Universities also experience greater student applications following adoptions. RI endowments have greater management costs, greater return volatility, and similar overall asset growth (donations plus net-of-cost investment income) compared to non-RI endowments. We conclude that RI policies are an important part of the optimal contract between universities and their stakeholders.