15th European Congress of Psychology will be organised in Amsterdam on 11-14 July 2017. One of the keynote speakers will be Research Professor, SWiPE Researcher Jari Hakanen from Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. His presentation is titled “Bored, burned out or engaged? The job demands-resources model and employee well-being”. Congress website: https://psychologycongress.eu/2017/
(Mediated) Social Interaction in Groups, Networks and Organizations, 23-25 October 2017 Bi-annual meeting of Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction (ICSI) Division of ECREA ICSI Regional Conference is the 5th bi-annual meeting of the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction Division of ECREA, European Communication Research and Education Association. The preliminary conference program is published (http://www.jyu.fi/icsi2017/program), and … Continued
Telework 2017 – Building Sustainable Work Ecosystems 5–6 October 2017 Turku, Finland Call for Papers Submission deadline: 1 August 2017 Welcome to the Telework 2017 – 22nd International Telework Academy (ITA) workshop. Telework 2017 is organized by University of Turku in cooperation with International Telework Academy and Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association. Succested topics: Telework trends … Continued
Workshop Time: 23 August 2017 at 9:00-16:00 Place: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 B, Helsinki Registration: https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/19331/lomake.html. Participation is free of charge with limited seats available. Deadline for abstracts: We kindly invite you to submit an extended abstract (about 2000 words) by email inka.koskela@ttl.fi. The submission should contain authors’ names, institutional affiliations and … Continued
We live at a time in which the global forces of change challenge our societies, businesses and us as individuals to adapt. The main driving forces of change are globalization and digitalisation accelerated by automation, robotization and revolutions in technology. As a result, two pervasive shifts can be identified: the first, a transformation in work … Continued
On last year’s entrepreneurship -award-winning Startup! course I have been observing how students brainstorm, test and bring to market new business ideas. At the same time, I have learned more from them in terms of human behaviour – the human factor – than about entrepreneurship. Interaction between students and understanding others often anticipates team success … Continued
Dr. Maija Vähämäki works as a university teacher at the department of management and entrepreneurship, in the unit of management and organisation at the University of Turku, Turku School of Economics. Her expertise is in diverse topics of organizational learning, leadership communication and work place relationships, dialogue in organisational development and qualitative research methods. To … Continued
Mareike Seifried is a research and teaching assistant at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Since March 2018, she has worked as a visiting researcher at Etla and as a part of SWiPE research project, where she has participated in research on Upwork employees. Read more about Mareike Seifried’s skills and research.
Tobias Kretschmer works as a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Currently, he is a visiting researcher in Etla and in the SWiPE research project. Read more about Tobias Kretschmer’s skills and work as a researcher.
Small Business Economics – An Entrepreneurship Journal Call for Papers Special issue: The age of digital entrepreneurship: digital tools and online collaboration to support knowledge sharing and opportunity recognition Submission Deadline: July 30, 2017 Suggested Topics Ideas generation, problem solving, and innovation diffusion in online entrepreneurial communities Digital tools to support fast prototyping and Lean … Continued