Merja Lähdesmäki
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1668153 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Merja Lähdesmäki |
| PRENOMES | Merja |
| SOBRENOME | Lähdesmäki |
| ASSINATURA | LÄHDESMÄKI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0787-8871 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Towards inclusive small rural businesses – understanding diversity management for an immigrant workforce
Rural businesses in many European countries are facing growing workforce challenges due to demographic shifts, including aging populations and outmigration. Policymakers increasingly promote immigrant recruitment as a solution to labour shortages yet rural small businesses - often deeply embedded in homogenous local cultures - face unique challenges in integrating a diverse workforce. While diversity management is widely studied in large organiza…
Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community-based social enterprises
Community-led innovative solutions, including community-based social enterprises, have been brought to the fore as significant actors with the potential to contribute to neo-endogenous rural development. Through 34 interviews with stakeholders of four community-based social enterprises operating in rural Ireland and Finland, we analyse the role of these organisations in the institutionalisation of plural (socio-)economic relations within differen…
Resenting hunters but appreciating the prey? - Identifying moose meat consumer segments
As traditional meat production has become stigmatized for several reasons, consumer interest in game as an ethical and ecological meat alternative has increased. However, game meat is typically harvested through hunting, toward which consumers may have very divided attitudes. Concurrently, game meat is still valued as food. This interesting mismatch raises questions as to what types of game meat consumer segments exist and whether the value of ec…
Passive or not? – Examining the diversity within passive forest owners
The structural changes that affect forest owners at the European level have entailed the threat of their becoming more passive in their forest management. These “so-called” passive forest owners represent a challenge for policy-makers, as they typically do not pursue explicit forest management goals and put less weight on externalities demanded of the forest resources by society. At the national level, an increasing number of indifferent or passi…
Doing well and doing good? Small rural businesses’ performance and responsibility towards local communities
Small businesses play a significant role in the vitality of rural communities. Due to the locally embedded nature of many small rural businesses, owner-managers consider taking care of the well-being and success of the local community as an important business responsibility. We examine whether responsibility towards the local community is also reflected in the positive business performance of small rural businesses. Our study is based on a survey…
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers' talk
Conversion from conventional to organic farming is considered to indicate changes in farmers' professional identities-more specifically, in their perceptions of the idea of a 'good farmer'. In this study, we focus on this theme by analysing how 'good farmer' ideals appear when farmers who have converted to organic agriculture make sense of the differences between conventional and organic farming. Through the discursive analysis of interviews with…
Who does the moose belong to? – Legitimation of collective psychological ownership
Authorities as Enablers in Rural Business Support Policy Regime - Case-Study Finland
This article focuses on rural business support as a policy regime of the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We examine the relationships present in the regime to find out how authorities become enablers in the entrepreneurship promotion process. A rural business support regime is considered as a government policy network, consisting of dynamic collaboration and interaction between the European Commission, policymakers, policy …
Belonging and its frames
Rural employers can be significant actors in defining who is welcomed to the local community and under which conditions. Despite their importance, however, the role of rural employers in the belonging process of immigrant employees is not widely known. In this study, we focused on the discursive boundaries that rural employers (re)produce when speaking about immigrant employees. The empirical data of our study consists of 35 interviews in small a…
Good workers, good firms? Rural SMEs legitimising immigrant workforce
Entrepreneurial identity and farmers' protein crop cultivation choices
Get some respect – buy organic foods! When everyday consumer choices serve as prosocial status signaling
Perceptions of ownership among new forest owners – A qualitative study in European context
Empowered by stigma? Pioneer organic farmers’ stigma management strategies
Placing resilience in context
Management by boundaries – Insights into the role of boundary objects in a community-based tourism development project
Sweet taste of prosocial status signaling
Nature-based tourism in private forests
Perceptions of ownership among new forest owners – A qualitative study in European context
Nature-based tourism in private forests
Placing resilience in context
Empowered by stigma? Pioneer organic farmers’ stigma management strategies
Good workers, good firms? Rural SMEs legitimising immigrant workforce
Entrepreneurial identity and farmers' protein crop cultivation choices
Sweet taste of prosocial status signaling
Management by boundaries – Insights into the role of boundary objects in a community-based tourism development project
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers' talk
Conversion from conventional to organic farming is considered to indicate changes in farmers' professional identities-more specifically, in their perceptions of the idea of a 'good farmer'. In this study, we focus on this theme by analysing how 'good farmer' ideals appear when farmers who have converted to organic agriculture make sense of the differences between conventional and organic farming. Through the discursive analysis of interviews with…
Passive or not? – Examining the diversity within passive forest owners
The structural changes that affect forest owners at the European level have entailed the threat of their becoming more passive in their forest management. These “so-called” passive forest owners represent a challenge for policy-makers, as they typically do not pursue explicit forest management goals and put less weight on externalities demanded of the forest resources by society. At the national level, an increasing number of indifferent or passi…
Who does the moose belong to? – Legitimation of collective psychological ownership
Belonging and its frames
Rural employers can be significant actors in defining who is welcomed to the local community and under which conditions. Despite their importance, however, the role of rural employers in the belonging process of immigrant employees is not widely known. In this study, we focused on the discursive boundaries that rural employers (re)produce when speaking about immigrant employees. The empirical data of our study consists of 35 interviews in small a…
Get some respect – buy organic foods! When everyday consumer choices serve as prosocial status signaling
Nature-based tourism in private forests
Perceptions of ownership among new forest owners – A qualitative study in European context
Empowered by stigma? Pioneer organic farmers’ stigma management strategies
Placing resilience in context
Management by boundaries – Insights into the role of boundary objects in a community-based tourism development project
Sweet taste of prosocial status signaling
Good workers, good firms? Rural SMEs legitimising immigrant workforce
Entrepreneurial identity and farmers' protein crop cultivation choices
Get some respect – buy organic foods! When everyday consumer choices serve as prosocial status signaling
Who does the moose belong to? – Legitimation of collective psychological ownership
Authorities as Enablers in Rural Business Support Policy Regime - Case-Study Finland
This article focuses on rural business support as a policy regime of the second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We examine the relationships present in the regime to find out how authorities become enablers in the entrepreneurship promotion process. A rural business support regime is considered as a government policy network, consisting of dynamic collaboration and interaction between the European Commission, policymakers, policy …
Belonging and its frames
Rural employers can be significant actors in defining who is welcomed to the local community and under which conditions. Despite their importance, however, the role of rural employers in the belonging process of immigrant employees is not widely known. In this study, we focused on the discursive boundaries that rural employers (re)produce when speaking about immigrant employees. The empirical data of our study consists of 35 interviews in small a…
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers' talk
Conversion from conventional to organic farming is considered to indicate changes in farmers' professional identities-more specifically, in their perceptions of the idea of a 'good farmer'. In this study, we focus on this theme by analysing how 'good farmer' ideals appear when farmers who have converted to organic agriculture make sense of the differences between conventional and organic farming. Through the discursive analysis of interviews with…
Resenting hunters but appreciating the prey? - Identifying moose meat consumer segments
As traditional meat production has become stigmatized for several reasons, consumer interest in game as an ethical and ecological meat alternative has increased. However, game meat is typically harvested through hunting, toward which consumers may have very divided attitudes. Concurrently, game meat is still valued as food. This interesting mismatch raises questions as to what types of game meat consumer segments exist and whether the value of ec…
Passive or not? – Examining the diversity within passive forest owners
The structural changes that affect forest owners at the European level have entailed the threat of their becoming more passive in their forest management. These “so-called” passive forest owners represent a challenge for policy-makers, as they typically do not pursue explicit forest management goals and put less weight on externalities demanded of the forest resources by society. At the national level, an increasing number of indifferent or passi…
Doing well and doing good? Small rural businesses’ performance and responsibility towards local communities
Small businesses play a significant role in the vitality of rural communities. Due to the locally embedded nature of many small rural businesses, owner-managers consider taking care of the well-being and success of the local community as an important business responsibility. We examine whether responsibility towards the local community is also reflected in the positive business performance of small rural businesses. Our study is based on a survey…
Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community-based social enterprises
Community-led innovative solutions, including community-based social enterprises, have been brought to the fore as significant actors with the potential to contribute to neo-endogenous rural development. Through 34 interviews with stakeholders of four community-based social enterprises operating in rural Ireland and Finland, we analyse the role of these organisations in the institutionalisation of plural (socio-)economic relations within differen…
Towards inclusive small rural businesses – understanding diversity management for an immigrant workforce
Rural businesses in many European countries are facing growing workforce challenges due to demographic shifts, including aging populations and outmigration. Policymakers increasingly promote immigrant recruitment as a solution to labour shortages yet rural small businesses - often deeply embedded in homogenous local cultures - face unique challenges in integrating a diverse workforce. While diversity management is widely studied in large organiza…
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