Suvi Heikkinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6521911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suvi Heikkinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suvi |
| FAMILY NAME | Heikkinen |
| SIGNATURE | HEIKKINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6775-8535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems
Expatriates may have to confront ethical problems during their international assignments that are difficult to resolve. By conducting a narrative enquiry concerning expatriates’ lived experiences, this study reveals the actions they understand as morally right in situations that raise ethical problems during their international assignments and how they justify those actions. We drew research data from 20 interviews with Finnish expatriates who wo…
Sustainability Work With Tensions in Textile Companies
Sustainability work requires continuous reflection in a complex system of interconnected and competing demands. To shed light on the complexity and tensions of sustainability work in a controversial field, such as the textile industry, a narrative approach to sustainability work is utilised. The research data consist of individual interviews (21 participants) and four focus-group interviews (16 participants). The use of a narrative analysis revea…
Is there room for women? Male managers' experiences of gendered collaborative leadership in organizational life
Purpose This study critiques the existing leadership literature for oversimplifying organizational leadership by predominantly focusing on Western contexts. To address this limitation, we explore collaborative leadership within Pakistani organizational life – particularly in the higher education sector – through the under-researched perspective of male managers who have the authority to determine whether women, a historically marginalized group i…
Management of Sport Organizations at the Crossroad of Responsibility and Sustainability
Are family-friendly organisations friendly for children? Navigating work, families with children, and discursive power use within organisations
Organisations benefit from promoting a family-friendly approach and offering a variety of work-family practices, yet this understanding is not monolithic. A critical discourse analysis is applied herein to interpret the manners of talk and meaningmaking around work and families with children and the constructions of (un)family-friendliness in organisations. Particularly, we focus on how the family-friendliness is connected with power configuratio…
Work–Family Practices and Complexity of Their Usage
The question of work–family practices commonly arises in both theory and daily practice as a matter of responsibility in today’s organisations. More information is needed about them for socially responsible human resource management (SR-HRM). In this article our interest is in how work–family practices, serve as an important element of SR-HRM, constructed as (un)helpful for employees’ work–family integration, are realised in organisational life. …
Gendered Work–life Ideologies Among IT Professionals
The study investigates the discourses IT professionals use to produce work–life relations. We focus on work–life ideologies and explore the agencies produced, as well as whether and how they are gendered. Our data were collected in interviews with 24 women and men working in the IT industry in Finland. Our results show, first, that work–life relations were constructed discursively through two different work–life ideologies, and second, that these…
Narratives of Spousal Support for the Careers of Men in Managerial Posts
This article analyses the narratives of men managers to see how they perceive their wives' support in relation to their careers. Our aim is to focus on different forms of spousal support and explore how the support can evolve in the course of the men's careers. We are also interested in what kind of gender relations men produce when narrating their experiences of spousal support for their career. The research material comprises interviews with 29…
How do male managers narrate their female spouse ' s role in their career
Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate how male managers make meaning the role of their female spouses along with their careers. Design/methodology/approach – The topic was investigated within a Finnish context by analyzing the narratives of 29 male managers. Common to the men were their managerial position and extensive work experience. All the men had or had had one or more spouses during their careers, and all of them were fathers. …
Narratives of Spousal Support for the Careers of Men in Managerial Posts
This article analyses the narratives of men managers to see how they perceive their wives' support in relation to their careers. Our aim is to focus on different forms of spousal support and explore how the support can evolve in the course of the men's careers. We are also interested in what kind of gender relations men produce when narrating their experiences of spousal support for their career. The research material comprises interviews with 29…
How do male managers narrate their female spouse ' s role in their career
Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate how male managers make meaning the role of their female spouses along with their careers. Design/methodology/approach – The topic was investigated within a Finnish context by analyzing the narratives of 29 male managers. Common to the men were their managerial position and extensive work experience. All the men had or had had one or more spouses during their careers, and all of them were fathers. …
Narratives of Spousal Support for the Careers of Men in Managerial Posts
This article analyses the narratives of men managers to see how they perceive their wives' support in relation to their careers. Our aim is to focus on different forms of spousal support and explore how the support can evolve in the course of the men's careers. We are also interested in what kind of gender relations men produce when narrating their experiences of spousal support for their career. The research material comprises interviews with 29…
Work–Family Practices and Complexity of Their Usage
The question of work–family practices commonly arises in both theory and daily practice as a matter of responsibility in today’s organisations. More information is needed about them for socially responsible human resource management (SR-HRM). In this article our interest is in how work–family practices, serve as an important element of SR-HRM, constructed as (un)helpful for employees’ work–family integration, are realised in organisational life. …
Gendered Work–life Ideologies Among IT Professionals
The study investigates the discourses IT professionals use to produce work–life relations. We focus on work–life ideologies and explore the agencies produced, as well as whether and how they are gendered. Our data were collected in interviews with 24 women and men working in the IT industry in Finland. Our results show, first, that work–life relations were constructed discursively through two different work–life ideologies, and second, that these…
Management of Sport Organizations at the Crossroad of Responsibility and Sustainability
Are family-friendly organisations friendly for children? Navigating work, families with children, and discursive power use within organisations
Organisations benefit from promoting a family-friendly approach and offering a variety of work-family practices, yet this understanding is not monolithic. A critical discourse analysis is applied herein to interpret the manners of talk and meaningmaking around work and families with children and the constructions of (un)family-friendliness in organisations. Particularly, we focus on how the family-friendliness is connected with power configuratio…
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems
Expatriates may have to confront ethical problems during their international assignments that are difficult to resolve. By conducting a narrative enquiry concerning expatriates’ lived experiences, this study reveals the actions they understand as morally right in situations that raise ethical problems during their international assignments and how they justify those actions. We drew research data from 20 interviews with Finnish expatriates who wo…
Sustainability Work With Tensions in Textile Companies
Sustainability work requires continuous reflection in a complex system of interconnected and competing demands. To shed light on the complexity and tensions of sustainability work in a controversial field, such as the textile industry, a narrative approach to sustainability work is utilised. The research data consist of individual interviews (21 participants) and four focus-group interviews (16 participants). The use of a narrative analysis revea…
Is there room for women? Male managers' experiences of gendered collaborative leadership in organizational life
Purpose This study critiques the existing leadership literature for oversimplifying organizational leadership by predominantly focusing on Western contexts. To address this limitation, we explore collaborative leadership within Pakistani organizational life – particularly in the higher education sector – through the under-researched perspective of male managers who have the authority to determine whether women, a historically marginalized group i…
Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works)