Anne Kovalainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 273306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Kovalainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovalainen |
| SIGNATURE | KOVALAINEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2044-0348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The state as an agency in the assetisation of knowledge
The assetisation of education explicates a major shift in how the state understands education. Education is not only an immaterial public good available to everybody but can be treated also as a promotable group of assets. This article discusses the case of a certain period in the Finnish education export. The analysis shows how the Finnish state with its governance tools is actively shaping and transforming education into asset, and through this…
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Digitalised higher education
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
GoFailMe
Digital Work and the Platform Economy
Work and Labor in the Digital Age
This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States.One of the critical questions facing modernity concerns the reconfiguration of paid employment, which has been subject to wholesale changes that have widespread consequences for workers, their families, and the institutional structure that characterizes capitalist societies. A key driver of these changes has been th…
Gendering expert work and ideal candidacy in Finnish and Estonian job advertisements
Purpose This paper aims to analyse the ways the textual materials of job advertisements do the gendering for prospective expert positions and create a space for ambiquity/non-ambiquity in the gender labelling of this expertise. Expert positions are almost always openly announced and are important to organizations because they often lead to higher managerial positions. By gendering the prospective positions, the job advertisements bring forth repe…
Gender and Innovation in the New Economy
This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered nature of innovations in the new economy. It tracks the contemporary shift from heavy industry to game industry and how this has altered relationships between gender, identity, corporate culture, creative work, and the future of business. Through empirical research and theoretical analysis, the authors present their own carefully contextualized cases and conceptual frameworks rel…
Construction of the female global top manager in The Economist
This article analyses the portrayal of the female corporate manager in the economic media. More specifically the article examines the ways in which femininity and gendered power become enacted in feature articles about high level corporate leaders and managers in the global economic newspaper, The Economist, and through that enacted as part of the wider gender asymmetry in the economy. The media has a crucial role in constructing, changing and st…
The research methods used in “doing gender” literature
Purpose – This paper aims to study the kinds of methodologies used in studying “doing gender” in working life and organisations. To do so, articles that use empirical research materials from different academic peer-reviewed journals have been analysed. By methodologies, both data gathering tools and the analysing techniques using and concerting the data have been largely understood. In the articles analysed, interviews were the main methodologica…
Gendering innovation process in an industrial plant – revisiting tokenism, gender and innovation
Purpose This article provides an analysis of the gendering process in product innovation. Interwoven into this process is the encapsulation of a token position. The article expands and deepens the tokenism theory through a discussion of gender in the innovation process. The article draws from recent and classical theories of gender, ranging from gendering approaches to Acker's theory of gendered organisations and processes within organisations, a…
Entrepreneurship within social and health care
Purpose This article aims to look first at how entrepreneurial identity fits into the picture we currently have of social and health care professionals who most often work in paid employment in the public sector, and second, how entrepreneurial identity is constructed. We discuss whether professional identity and entrepreneurial identity can be separated, and how meaningful that question is. Is the role of entrepreneurship limited in the context …
Europeanization, Care and Gender
This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconcil
Concluding Remarks
This book has focused on varieties of care in present-day diversified Europe. If at times care has been seen as something personal, intimate, familial and private, the chapters in the book display the fact that the idea of care can no longer exclusively be understood as personal and intimate, nor within a nation-state container, but needs a transnational perspective encompassing broad and complex processes of Europeanization and globalization. Th…
Europeanization, Care and Gender
Epistemic Communities Facing a New Type of Agora? Centres of Science, Technology and Innovation as Defining the New Research Landscape in Finland
We analyse the question of what role and positions epistemic communities have in the agora, and more specifically in the new mediating organizations that are established at the interface of the state, businesses and universities. These new organizational structures embody the present politics of knowledge that reign in national science policy globally. The new organizational structures, as potentially new agoras, also epitomize several of the cha…
Qualitative Methods in Business Research
PART ONE: THE BUSINESS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Introduction Research Philosophy Research Design and Process Focus and Frame Access and Relationships Ethics in Research Qualitative Research Materials Electronic Research PART TWO: METHODS IN QUALITATIVE BUSINESS RESEARCH Case Study Research Ethnographic Research Grounded Theory Research Focus Group Research Action Research Narrative Research Discourse Analysis Feminist Research Critical Research PA…
At the Margins of the Economy
Part 1: Introduction - the starting point of research, background for the study, on the concepts of self-employment and entrepreneurship, some general features of the waged workforce and the self-employed, general notes on women's labour force participation and self-employment the research setting - the aims and objectives of the study, the nature of the study and the empirical data material used, the structure of the study. Part 2: gender - why …
Toward a new research model of gender in management and leadership studies
Entrepreneurship within social and health care
Purpose This article aims to look first at how entrepreneurial identity fits into the picture we currently have of social and health care professionals who most often work in paid employment in the public sector, and second, how entrepreneurial identity is constructed. We discuss whether professional identity and entrepreneurial identity can be separated, and how meaningful that question is. Is the role of entrepreneurship limited in the context …
Digitalised higher education
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Construction of the female global top manager in The Economist
This article analyses the portrayal of the female corporate manager in the economic media. More specifically the article examines the ways in which femininity and gendered power become enacted in feature articles about high level corporate leaders and managers in the global economic newspaper, The Economist, and through that enacted as part of the wider gender asymmetry in the economy. The media has a crucial role in constructing, changing and st…
Gendering innovation process in an industrial plant – revisiting tokenism, gender and innovation
Purpose This article provides an analysis of the gendering process in product innovation. Interwoven into this process is the encapsulation of a token position. The article expands and deepens the tokenism theory through a discussion of gender in the innovation process. The article draws from recent and classical theories of gender, ranging from gendering approaches to Acker's theory of gendered organisations and processes within organisations, a…
The research methods used in “doing gender” literature
Purpose – This paper aims to study the kinds of methodologies used in studying “doing gender” in working life and organisations. To do so, articles that use empirical research materials from different academic peer-reviewed journals have been analysed. By methodologies, both data gathering tools and the analysing techniques using and concerting the data have been largely understood. In the articles analysed, interviews were the main methodologica…
Toward a new research model of gender in management and leadership studies
At the Margins of the Economy
Part 1: Introduction - the starting point of research, background for the study, on the concepts of self-employment and entrepreneurship, some general features of the waged workforce and the self-employed, general notes on women's labour force participation and self-employment the research setting - the aims and objectives of the study, the nature of the study and the empirical data material used, the structure of the study. Part 2: gender - why …
Qualitative Methods in Business Research
PART ONE: THE BUSINESS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Introduction Research Philosophy Research Design and Process Focus and Frame Access and Relationships Ethics in Research Qualitative Research Materials Electronic Research PART TWO: METHODS IN QUALITATIVE BUSINESS RESEARCH Case Study Research Ethnographic Research Grounded Theory Research Focus Group Research Action Research Narrative Research Discourse Analysis Feminist Research Critical Research PA…
Epistemic Communities Facing a New Type of Agora? Centres of Science, Technology and Innovation as Defining the New Research Landscape in Finland
We analyse the question of what role and positions epistemic communities have in the agora, and more specifically in the new mediating organizations that are established at the interface of the state, businesses and universities. These new organizational structures embody the present politics of knowledge that reign in national science policy globally. The new organizational structures, as potentially new agoras, also epitomize several of the cha…
Europeanization, Care and Gender
This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconcil
Concluding Remarks
This book has focused on varieties of care in present-day diversified Europe. If at times care has been seen as something personal, intimate, familial and private, the chapters in the book display the fact that the idea of care can no longer exclusively be understood as personal and intimate, nor within a nation-state container, but needs a transnational perspective encompassing broad and complex processes of Europeanization and globalization. Th…
Europeanization, Care and Gender
Gendering innovation process in an industrial plant – revisiting tokenism, gender and innovation
Purpose This article provides an analysis of the gendering process in product innovation. Interwoven into this process is the encapsulation of a token position. The article expands and deepens the tokenism theory through a discussion of gender in the innovation process. The article draws from recent and classical theories of gender, ranging from gendering approaches to Acker's theory of gendered organisations and processes within organisations, a…
Entrepreneurship within social and health care
Purpose This article aims to look first at how entrepreneurial identity fits into the picture we currently have of social and health care professionals who most often work in paid employment in the public sector, and second, how entrepreneurial identity is constructed. We discuss whether professional identity and entrepreneurial identity can be separated, and how meaningful that question is. Is the role of entrepreneurship limited in the context …
The research methods used in “doing gender” literature
Purpose – This paper aims to study the kinds of methodologies used in studying “doing gender” in working life and organisations. To do so, articles that use empirical research materials from different academic peer-reviewed journals have been analysed. By methodologies, both data gathering tools and the analysing techniques using and concerting the data have been largely understood. In the articles analysed, interviews were the main methodologica…
Construction of the female global top manager in The Economist
This article analyses the portrayal of the female corporate manager in the economic media. More specifically the article examines the ways in which femininity and gendered power become enacted in feature articles about high level corporate leaders and managers in the global economic newspaper, The Economist, and through that enacted as part of the wider gender asymmetry in the economy. The media has a crucial role in constructing, changing and st…
Gender and Innovation in the New Economy
This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered nature of innovations in the new economy. It tracks the contemporary shift from heavy industry to game industry and how this has altered relationships between gender, identity, corporate culture, creative work, and the future of business. Through empirical research and theoretical analysis, the authors present their own carefully contextualized cases and conceptual frameworks rel…
Gendering expert work and ideal candidacy in Finnish and Estonian job advertisements
Purpose This paper aims to analyse the ways the textual materials of job advertisements do the gendering for prospective expert positions and create a space for ambiquity/non-ambiquity in the gender labelling of this expertise. Expert positions are almost always openly announced and are important to organizations because they often lead to higher managerial positions. By gendering the prospective positions, the job advertisements bring forth repe…
Digital Work and the Platform Economy
Work and Labor in the Digital Age
This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States.One of the critical questions facing modernity concerns the reconfiguration of paid employment, which has been subject to wholesale changes that have widespread consequences for workers, their families, and the institutional structure that characterizes capitalist societies. A key driver of these changes has been th…
GoFailMe
The state as an agency in the assetisation of knowledge
The assetisation of education explicates a major shift in how the state understands education. Education is not only an immaterial public good available to everybody but can be treated also as a promotable group of assets. This article discusses the case of a certain period in the Finnish education export. The analysis shows how the Finnish state with its governance tools is actively shaping and transforming education into asset, and through this…
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Digitalised higher education
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)