Motivation to become an entrepreneur in Finland : the case of Bangladeshi immigrants by Ahmed, Hasan

“…This thesis aims to capture the distinctive essence and identify the factors that motivate immigrant people to start their own business in a foreign country. There are several factors that motivate Bangladeshi immigrant entrepreneurs to the start their entrepreneurial activity: job dissatisfaction, lack of employment opportunity, independence and autonomy desire, supporting family, monetary gain, better living standard, social status, being own boss, flexibility. …”
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The effects of lean transformation on performance measurement and capacity management : case Valmet by Heino, Henri

“…Yet this study provides the basis for further research on implementing value stream costing in the case organization as the lean transformation moves forward. …”
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Employees' understanding of corporate responsibility and Kesko's CSR principles by Salomaa, Jenni

“…Using typing to analyse primary data collected from eight employee interviews through discretionary sampling, this qualitative empirical case study inductively formed five employee types according to employees’ understanding of CSR, namely advocates of environment, socially concerned, economically effective, ethically aware and uncertain. …”
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The two stories of economic sanctions : how Russia sanctions are legitimized in business news media by Saarinen, Sini

“…The Russian discourse emphasizes the fact how economic sanctions will not affect the foreign policy of Russia, actually many quotes show that some authorities explain Russia to become stronger due to imposed sanctions which will make Russia to activate in domestic food producing industries. …”
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Luottamuksen rakentuminen taloushallinnon ulkoistamissuhteissa by Nupponen, Juha

“…Teoreettisen viitekehyksen muodostamisen jälkeen haastattelukysymykset rakennettiin viitekehyksen Ford et al. (2003) asiakassuhteen rakentumisteorian aikahorisontaalin ja Mayer et al. (1995) luottamuspiirreteorian mukaisesti. …”
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IFRS 8 -standardin vaikutukset segmenttiraportointiin suomalaisissa pörssiyrityksissä by Reinikka, Kati

“…Herrmann ja Thomas (2000a) tutkivat standardimuutosten vaikutuksia sadalla suurimmalla Fortune 500 yrityksellä, muuttiko uusi standardi segmenttien määrittelyä, kasvattiko se raportoitujen segmenttien lukumäärää, kasvattiko se segmenteistä esitettyjen tietojen määrää sekä raportoivatko yritykset maantieteellistä informaatiota uuden standardin myötä. …”
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Diversity management and intercultural communication experiences in multicultural organisations in South Ostrobothnia by Kitinoja, Satu

“…The main findings of the research are that organisations have recruited foreign employees mainly because they have not been able to find skilled Finnish workforce and because foreign employees have knowledge about certain culture and language. …”
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Tough crowd : consumer acceptance of equity crowdfunding platforms by Savolainen, Mikko

“…Furthermore, as no sustainable stakeholder relations are born without trust, the research model was seasoned with an additional factor in the form of online trust. Therefore, the goals of this study are to find out what the main factors affecting consumers’ intentions of using equity crowdfunding platforms are and how social influences and online trust fare in the ranking. …”
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The use of communication accommodation strategies in a work group : a case study of four meetings by Fisk, Mika, Vaarala, Sanna

“…The aim of the study was to form a deeper understanding of how members of a culturally diverse work group employ accommodative strategies and their effects on group membership. …”
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Sommitellut muusat : rituaali ja leikki luovan kirjoittamisen prosesseissa ja kirjoittajaryhmän toimissa by Karjula, Emilia

“…Research data has been formed by ethnographic methods in a writing group as well as my own creative work. …”
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Illuminating political experience : exercises on Hannah Arendt's thought by Hyvönen, Ari-Elmeri

“…This approach, like the process frame, tends to dim aspects of political experience: practices of world-changing as a form of freedom and the related joyous affective experiences. …”
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Le subjonctif en moyen français à la lumière d'un corpus de textes des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles by Blankenstein, Heli

“…It is not even pertinent to search for a common denominator for the subjunctive, because there are cases in which its normative use seems to have no special semantic value, such as in Je suis heureux qu'il ait fait cela. The subjunctive verb form does not reflect doubt here. The corpus contains 16,165 occurrences of subjunctive, indicative and conditional forms. …”
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Näyttöön perustuva sosiaalityön käytäntö : järjestelmällinen katsaus vuosina 2010-2012 julkaistuista tutkimuksista by Paasio, Petteri

“…First one is a kind of a background question: What is Evidence-Based Practice? The two foreground questions are 1. What kind of research has been made about Evidence-Based Social Work Practice? …”
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The extended therapy room coming from an authentic place... : a phenomenological-hermeneutic study of my experiences as a psychotherapist in the Extended Therapy Room by Håkansson, Carina

“…These questions and years of practice and studies have together led to the formulation of the research question: What is the most important in my experience as a psychotherapist in the Extended Therapy Room? …”
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A frame of you : construction of characters in graphic novels by Varis, Essi

“…Koska sarjakuvahahmoista ei ole luotu aiempaa teoriaa, tutkimuksessa luetaan ristiin yhtäältä kirjallisuuden henkilöhahmoteorioita ja toisaalta yleistä sarjakuvateoriaa. Aluksi E.M. Forsterin, W.J. Harveyn, Baruch Hochmanin ja Aleid Fokkeman näkemysten pohjalta kootaan yhtenäinen, lukijan kognitioihin ja merkkidataan perustuva henkilöhahmokäsitys. …”
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Characterization of structure and diffusion in geological materials by Voutilainen, Mikko

“…Secondly, the structure of the pore network forms an environment for migration of elements to take place. …”
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Hyvän elementit ammatillisen koulutuksen johtajuudessa ja rehtorin työssä by Hänninen, Riitta

“…The main part of this formulated theory builds on the elements of the good, and thus the substantive theory can be described as an ideal model of good leadership in the field of vocational education. …”
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The assessment of English as a lingua franca and the comprehensibility construct by Cooke, Sheryl

“…An alternative view on comprehensibility with specific reference to the ELF context is put forward, including a worked example of how pronunciation is situated in this broader perspective on the comprehensibility construct. …”
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Modernség, progresszió, Ady Endre és az Ady-Rákosi vita : egy konfliktusos eszmetörténeti pozíció természete és következményei by Pál, József, N.

“…It aims to position the famous Hungarian poet of the early 20th century, Endre Ady, on the intellectual map of his age, and to point out his place within the relationships of literary modernity and intellectual-social progressivism; it describes the fixation, form and temporal change of the poet's unique position, and shows the human and intellectual consequences of this position, as it relates to a dispute which lasted for half a year, and only seemingly was of a literary nature. …”
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Global optimization using memetic differential evolution with applications to low level machine vision by Tirronen, Ville

“…Thus, the problem has been formulated as an optimization problem utilizing a simple and efficient run-time model that is tuned to precision with rather more complex methods before applying it in the industrial field. …”
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