Harri Jalonen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 323523 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harri Jalonen |
| NOMBRES | Harri |
| APELLIDO | Jalonen |
| FIRMA | JALONEN H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vaasa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6941-7969 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Coping with Tensions That Arise from Professional Collaboration Among Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Context of Public Sector Reform
This study examines the tensions arising from collaboration among street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in Finland’s nationwide reform of social and health services, with a particular focus on student welfare. While the reform aims to integrate services, it risks creating gaps between education and health professionals across different jurisdictions. We employed mixed methods, including document analysis, surveys, and a Delphi panel, to explore how col…
Harnessing legal system complexity for radical shifts to sustainability
Co-creation in commissioning complex public services
This article explores co-creation to address complex societal problems in the interconnected domains of health, welfare, and security. An instrumental case study examines the innovative outcome-based commissioning of public services for people engaging in problematic drug use in a Finnish city. We apply abductive content analysis to interviews with public and private stakeholders, documents, and statistics gathered from 2015 to 2021. The findings…
Institutional complexity of public sector reform
Addressing public service reform through an integrated theoretical framework of institutional complexity, this article derives from the PAM literature related to conflicts in multi-level governance. Institutional complexity is employed to explore the dynamics of cooperation and the unintended and adverse consequences these dynamics have on the Finnish welfare service reform. A diverse set of data on local–regional cooperation between Finnish muni…
Sustainability transformation calls for complexity-informed systemic policy design
This paper develops a conceptual framework for integrating complexity theory into systemic policy design for sustainability transformations (ST). We conceptualize ST as a dynamic design challenge requiring enabling conditions—relational, cognitive, and institutional—rather than predetermined solutions. The framework operates across three levels: at the macro-level, sustainability trajectories are framed as attractor landscapes; at the meso-level,…
Making integrated care happen
Different forms of health and social care integration are promoted in many countries to address the complex needs of the population. This qualitative study explores integrative leadership from the perspective of middle managers. The study examines how national and regional integration aspirations are converted into micro-level multidisciplinary collaborations through leadership actions in primary health and social services. The study was conducte…
Roles of professionals in value co-creation
Value co-creation is a process that aims to improve services by enlisting the cooperation of service users. We reviewed 65 scientific articles using the PRISMA protocol to reveal the distinct roles of public service professionals in value co-creation. We discover the differing values and tensions created by those roles as professionals balance individual and public interests. Our findings indicate that understanding the multiple roles of professi…
A systems thinking approach for examining the turning points in the Finnish public sport policy
Background and study aim This study proposes a longitudinal analysis of the Finnish public sports policy and explores the dynamics between turning points from a systems thinking perspective. We argue that a better understanding of the dynamics and relationships between turning points, interruptions, and new paths in the policy process can guide future options for public sports policies. Material and methods Documentary and interview-based materia…
Epistemic Governance in the Context of Crisis
This article examines the concept of epistemic governance during crises, a situation that presents simultaneous challenges of information scarcity and overload. Epistemic governance refers to the processes shaping collective perceptions and influencing the understanding of a situation. The research employs a complexity thinking approach, focusing on the interdependency of phenomena, actors, and events, which resists reductionism and linear thinki…
Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability
This conceptual study explores the complexity of public sector accountability, traditionally framed by principal‐agent theory (PAT), which simplifies relationships through rigid contracts. The findings reveal how PAT's assumptions often misalign with the intricate realities of public sector accountability, which are better explained by complexity theories (CT). Contradictions between PAT and CT assumptions are highlighted, underlining the need fo…
Public value creation mechanisms in the context of public service logic
This conceptual paper maintains that mainstream public management theories have failed to incorporate public services as a fundamental part of the public administration system. That failure does a disservice to the potential of public services to address societal betterment through the creation of public value, which can strengthen democracy. This paper presents an integrated conceptual framework to help make sense of the public value creation fl…
Stress tests for public service resilience
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and reverting to normal life and services requires resilience. This qualitative case study aims to help public sector managers understand service resilience and its accompanying breaking points by proposing a scenario planning model that tests resilience by applying possible-worlds thinking to public services. The proposed scenario planning model is based on empirical evidence showing how service design incorporated…
One's Social Skills Go to the Dogs
Youths who are socially isolated are largely inaccessible to social work professionals; nevertheless, most are active on social media. Feeling they have been let down by society, many such youths seek comfort in imageboards, where the idea of being anti-social is cherished and where even extremism and hate speech is tolerated. This study relies on a thematic analysis of 323 imageboard messages to identify the challenges socially withdrawn youths …
Public Innovation and Digital Transformation
Embracing dynamic tensions
The article examines how military leaders serving as peacekeepers navigate complexity and adapt to it. The theoretical underpinnings of the study are linked to adaptive peacebuilding and Complexity Leadership Theory, and specifically to how enabling leadership through adaptive space helps to work with the local conflict dynamics and change to sustain peace. The findings are based on 29 interviews with military leaders with command experience in p…
Koronapandemian puhujapositiot sosiaalisen median lapsi- ja perheaiheisissa keskusteluissa
Artikkelissa rakennetaan systemaattinen lähestymistapa sosiaalisen median keskustelujen tutkimukseen. Tarkastelemme artikkelissa puhujaposition käsitteen avulla lapsi- ja perhenäkökulman ilmenemistä korona-aiheisissa sosiaalisen median keskusteluissa maalis–huhtikuussa 2020. Tarkoitamme puhujapositiolla niitä tapoja, joilla keskustelijat rakentavat argumentointiaan, käyttävät retorisia keinoja ja muodostavat puheenvuoroja. Puhujapositiot ovat ihm…
Social Media – An Arena for Venting Negative Emotions
Social media is seen as transforming into a global multiplier through which emotional experiences are shared and strengthened. The essential factor in the ongoing transformation is that, although emotions are felt on an individual level, in social media, they can simultaneously be shared with and by others. Many studies have shown that social media is an arena for sharing information that reflects negative emotions. The theme of the paper is impo…
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Social Media – An Arena for Venting Negative Emotions
Social media is seen as transforming into a global multiplier through which emotional experiences are shared and strengthened. The essential factor in the ongoing transformation is that, although emotions are felt on an individual level, in social media, they can simultaneously be shared with and by others. Many studies have shown that social media is an arena for sharing information that reflects negative emotions. The theme of the paper is impo…
Koronapandemian puhujapositiot sosiaalisen median lapsi- ja perheaiheisissa keskusteluissa
Artikkelissa rakennetaan systemaattinen lähestymistapa sosiaalisen median keskustelujen tutkimukseen. Tarkastelemme artikkelissa puhujaposition käsitteen avulla lapsi- ja perhenäkökulman ilmenemistä korona-aiheisissa sosiaalisen median keskusteluissa maalis–huhtikuussa 2020. Tarkoitamme puhujapositiolla niitä tapoja, joilla keskustelijat rakentavat argumentointiaan, käyttävät retorisia keinoja ja muodostavat puheenvuoroja. Puhujapositiot ovat ihm…
Public Innovation and Digital Transformation
Embracing dynamic tensions
The article examines how military leaders serving as peacekeepers navigate complexity and adapt to it. The theoretical underpinnings of the study are linked to adaptive peacebuilding and Complexity Leadership Theory, and specifically to how enabling leadership through adaptive space helps to work with the local conflict dynamics and change to sustain peace. The findings are based on 29 interviews with military leaders with command experience in p…
Stress tests for public service resilience
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and reverting to normal life and services requires resilience. This qualitative case study aims to help public sector managers understand service resilience and its accompanying breaking points by proposing a scenario planning model that tests resilience by applying possible-worlds thinking to public services. The proposed scenario planning model is based on empirical evidence showing how service design incorporated…
One's Social Skills Go to the Dogs
Youths who are socially isolated are largely inaccessible to social work professionals; nevertheless, most are active on social media. Feeling they have been let down by society, many such youths seek comfort in imageboards, where the idea of being anti-social is cherished and where even extremism and hate speech is tolerated. This study relies on a thematic analysis of 323 imageboard messages to identify the challenges socially withdrawn youths …
Public value creation mechanisms in the context of public service logic
This conceptual paper maintains that mainstream public management theories have failed to incorporate public services as a fundamental part of the public administration system. That failure does a disservice to the potential of public services to address societal betterment through the creation of public value, which can strengthen democracy. This paper presents an integrated conceptual framework to help make sense of the public value creation fl…
Sustainability transformation calls for complexity-informed systemic policy design
This paper develops a conceptual framework for integrating complexity theory into systemic policy design for sustainability transformations (ST). We conceptualize ST as a dynamic design challenge requiring enabling conditions—relational, cognitive, and institutional—rather than predetermined solutions. The framework operates across three levels: at the macro-level, sustainability trajectories are framed as attractor landscapes; at the meso-level,…
Making integrated care happen
Different forms of health and social care integration are promoted in many countries to address the complex needs of the population. This qualitative study explores integrative leadership from the perspective of middle managers. The study examines how national and regional integration aspirations are converted into micro-level multidisciplinary collaborations through leadership actions in primary health and social services. The study was conducte…
Roles of professionals in value co-creation
Value co-creation is a process that aims to improve services by enlisting the cooperation of service users. We reviewed 65 scientific articles using the PRISMA protocol to reveal the distinct roles of public service professionals in value co-creation. We discover the differing values and tensions created by those roles as professionals balance individual and public interests. Our findings indicate that understanding the multiple roles of professi…
A systems thinking approach for examining the turning points in the Finnish public sport policy
Background and study aim This study proposes a longitudinal analysis of the Finnish public sports policy and explores the dynamics between turning points from a systems thinking perspective. We argue that a better understanding of the dynamics and relationships between turning points, interruptions, and new paths in the policy process can guide future options for public sports policies. Material and methods Documentary and interview-based materia…
Epistemic Governance in the Context of Crisis
This article examines the concept of epistemic governance during crises, a situation that presents simultaneous challenges of information scarcity and overload. Epistemic governance refers to the processes shaping collective perceptions and influencing the understanding of a situation. The research employs a complexity thinking approach, focusing on the interdependency of phenomena, actors, and events, which resists reductionism and linear thinki…
Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability
This conceptual study explores the complexity of public sector accountability, traditionally framed by principal‐agent theory (PAT), which simplifies relationships through rigid contracts. The findings reveal how PAT's assumptions often misalign with the intricate realities of public sector accountability, which are better explained by complexity theories (CT). Contradictions between PAT and CT assumptions are highlighted, underlining the need fo…
Coping with Tensions That Arise from Professional Collaboration Among Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Context of Public Sector Reform
This study examines the tensions arising from collaboration among street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in Finland’s nationwide reform of social and health services, with a particular focus on student welfare. While the reform aims to integrate services, it risks creating gaps between education and health professionals across different jurisdictions. We employed mixed methods, including document analysis, surveys, and a Delphi panel, to explore how col…
Harnessing legal system complexity for radical shifts to sustainability
Co-creation in commissioning complex public services
This article explores co-creation to address complex societal problems in the interconnected domains of health, welfare, and security. An instrumental case study examines the innovative outcome-based commissioning of public services for people engaging in problematic drug use in a Finnish city. We apply abductive content analysis to interviews with public and private stakeholders, documents, and statistics gathered from 2015 to 2021. The findings…
Institutional complexity of public sector reform
Addressing public service reform through an integrated theoretical framework of institutional complexity, this article derives from the PAM literature related to conflicts in multi-level governance. Institutional complexity is employed to explore the dynamics of cooperation and the unintended and adverse consequences these dynamics have on the Finnish welfare service reform. A diverse set of data on local–regional cooperation between Finnish muni…
Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Public relations (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Public sector (5 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (4 obras) · Service and Product Innovation (4 obras) · Social science (4 obras) · Business (3 obras) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 obras)