Hallinnon Tutkimus on neljästi vuodessa ilmestyvä tieteellinen aikakauslehti.
Lektio: Strateginen hallinta yhteiskunnallisen muutoksen välineenä
Strateginen ennakointi dynaamisena kyvykkyytenä: Välineellinen tapaustutkimus sisäministeriön hallinnonalasta
Turbulentti turvallisuustoimintaympäristö edellyttää julkiselta sektorilta kykyä ennakoida muutoksia aiempaa systemaattisemmin. Strateginen ennakointi on nähty yhtenä keinona tukea julkishallinnon kykyä toimia muuttuvissa olosuhteissa. Tämä artikkeli tarkastelee strategisen ennakoinnin kehittymistä dynaamiseksi kyvykkyydeksi sisäisen turvallisuuden kontekstissa. Empiirinen aineisto koostuu sisäministeriön hal­linnonalalla toteutetuista haastatteluista ja kyselyistä. Temaattinen analyysi tuotti kolme ajallisesti etenevää kokonaisuutta – strategisen ennakoinnin rakentuminen, vakiintuminen ja sopeu­tuminen – jotka heijastavat läpileikkaavasti dynaamisten kyvykkyyksien pääkomponentteja, havaitsemista, mahdollisuuksiin tarttumista ja muuntautumista. Tulokset osoittavat, että strategista ennakointia edistävät rakentumisvaiheessa erityisesti osallisuus, osaaminen ja ennakointimyönteinen asenne, kun taas vakiintumis- ja so­peutumisvaiheissa korostuvat haasteet, jotka liit­tyvät ennakoinnin monitulkintaisuuteen, toimintaympäristön nopeaan muutokseen, niukkoihin resursseihin ja poliittisen ohjauksen vaih­teluihin. Tämä tutkimus lisää ymmärrystä siitä, miten strateginen ennakointi voi kehittyä dynaa­miseksi kyvykkyydeksi turvallisuusviranomaisten toiminnassa sekä nostaa esiin havainnon siitä, miten operatiivisten ja dynaamisten kyvykkyyksien välinen raja vaikuttaa hämärtyvän nopeasti muuttuvassa toimintaympäristössä.
Puheenvuoro: Sotatalous polysentrisenä ilmiönä
Vaalikeväästä hallitusohjelmaan ja kesään
Maakunnat itsehallinnon outolintuina – paikallinen itsehallinto maakuntauudistuksen (2015–2019) valossa
Hybridihallinta terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin palvelujen järjestämisessä
Systemaattinen väittely strategisessa päätöksenteossa
Evolutionäärinen tulkinta sektoritutkimuksen rakenteellisesta kehittämisestä ympäristö- ja luonnonvara- alalla
The evolutionary approach to the long-term change in Finnish public research system The article examines long-term structural change in Finland’s public research institutes system within the framework of evolutionary organization theory, focusing on evolutionary features, selection environment and key mechanisms. Empirical data is gathered by thematic interviews. Observation is that the mission to support evolutionary over revolutionary change has been gradually accomplished but opposing forces in selection environment have complicated the process. The aim to promote horizontal cooperation between sectorial institutes has formed new collaborative variants to system, but these have not been able to compete with institute fusion strategy.
Yrityksiin kohdistuvien julkisten sääntelyvaikutusten arviointi: Neo-institutionaalinen tutkimus kontekstista, kansainvälisistä vaikutteista ja kotimaisista kokemuksista
Smart specialisation is a bottom-up framework for regional development. Smart specialisation emphasizes the role of universities, but the official strategies tend not to differentiate between the needs of regions, regional clusters and universities. Such simplification often causes disparities between the actual and the planned human resources of an area, potentially leading to a waste of ‘smartness’. This article introduces the Arctic Smartness program of Lapland and the Älyke project of the University of Lapland where teachers and students experimentally participate in smart specialization. The article explores the opportunities to develop the agency of university students and teachers.
Julkisten ICT-hankintojen käyttäjäkeskeisyyden edellytysten kriittinen tarkastelu
The article, titled A Critical look at the prerequisites of user-centred ICT procurements in the public sector, examines the challenges of digitalisation. It focuses on the requirements of user-centredness in the acquisition of information and communication technology (ICT) in the public sector. Previous research has examined the development of information systems and digital services through theoretical models of acceptance and success. These models are conceptually linked with the models of user-centred design (UCD). However, user-centric viewpoints do not always thrive in organisations. In this article, we present qualitative research that explores the social practices of public sector ICT procurement. We analyse the discourse in a set of public tendering notices critically and observe shortcomings in tools, competencies and attitudes that guide the procurement process. We conclude the article with suggestions towards a more user-centric approach.
Pääkirjoitus: Unohdettu organisaatiosuunnittelu?
Elämää ja estetiikkaa: Mitä taide on opettanut minulle johtajuudesta
Organisaation tukitoimintojen vaikutus esimiehen organisatoriseen luottamukseen irtisanomisiin johtaneissa yt-prosesseissa
Viranhaltijoiden suhtautuminen kuntalaisosallistumisen lisäämiseen kuntahallinnossa
Public administrators’ perceptions of public engagement in local government This article is an empirical study of the attitudes of public administrators toward public engagement. Currently there is a gap in the research on the attitudes of senior public servants who are important gate-keepers for the implementation of public engagement policies. This article contributes to filling this gap in the research by using interviews with senior public servants in a Finnish municipality. The study reveals that the administrators positively value citizens and their participation. However, there are differing views concerning the relationships between the new models of civic participation and the traditional models of planning and decision-making. The results indicate that there is an ongoing cultural change within the administration. The main factors that undermine the realization of public engagement policy can be divided into legislative, organizational, individual and cultural capacities.
Legitimointistrategioiden käyttö kuntien ympäristöraportoinnissa
Legitimation strategies in the environmental reports of Finnish towns This paper focuses on the legitimation strate­gies used in the environmental reports of the five biggest towns in Finland. The data consist of environmental reports published by Helsinki, Tampere, Espoo, Vantaa and Oulu. The results of the content analysis show that the towns use strategies whose purpose is to modify the public’s perception of the organization in a pos­itive direction. The purpose of this study is to increase critical knowledge of the legitimation strategies in environment reports.
This is a case study, carried out with a strategy of action research. This study concerns the organizational model of citizen participation in the city of Vantaa. The research questions are: What are the incentives for developing citizen participation in municipalities, and how is the multifarious participation carried out in municipality. The data consists of interviews of key actors (8), documents, diaries, and a workshop diary. An important incentive for development seems to be regulation concerning participation, the general and local discussion concerning democracy and the experiences from already existing variety of participation activities. When it comes to the process of development good pilots and adequate support and activity are important factors. Structural solutions are needed but at the same time there is an attempt to keep participation as resilience as possible. The results conclude, that development of participation can be observed as an institutional change.
Kuntien lakisääteiset velvoitteet ja niiden laiminlyönnit tilintarkastuskertomusten perusteella
his article studies misconducts and neglects detected by auditors in Finnish municipalities in years 2017-2019. This article uses auditor’s reports to evaluate how common these misconducts and neglects are in Finland. The study is conducted by collecting all auditor’s reports in municipalities in mainland Finland from years 2017–2019 and analysing whether the auditor’s reports are unmodified or modified and if they were modified, why they were modified. This study concludes that 20 % of Finnish municipalities neglect their public economy or administration duties every year. These neglects are most common when requirements are related to the principal-agent problem in cases where the municipality should monitor their employees or electeds. These neglects and misconducts are, however, not quite severe. Severe cases were extremely rare in the reports.
Alustat paikallisen hallinnan välineenä – käsitteellinen tarkastelu
The concept of platform, its connotations and relationship with local governance The aim of this article is to shed light on the relevance of platforms in urban governance. Discussion starts with a brief description of the evolution of platform discourse and a critical view of how platforms relate to governance paradigms. As the idea of platform is often associated with openness and participation, this particular dimension is elaborated as a potentially beneficial feature of platform governance. In order to concretize the picture of platforms in the given context, this article presents a typology of urban platforms based on the most common platform functions. Our discussion reveals that while platforms have a connection with classic modes of governance, they have irreducible features worth acknowledging in the theorization of public governance. The type of platform, the level of analysis and social structures are preconditions for understanding the platform logic in urban governance.
Maaseutuhallinnon arjen todellisuus – puhetta byrokraattisuudesta
The everyday reality of rural administration – talk about bureaucracy The article analyses bureaucratic discourse in everyday rural administration, utilising Max Weber’s bureaucratic theory and the notions of dysfunctional bureaucracy by Robert K. Merton. The word bureaucracy has a negative connotation in implementing business funding within partially EU financed rural development programmes. The research contains 38 interviews with rural administration actors and entrepreneurs. Critical discourse analysis revealed three discourses: law obedience, programme as a host and wholeness missing. The results established that the bureaucratic model of rural administration produces many undesired consequences.
Hallinnon Tutkimus -lehti tieteenalan näkyvyyden ja vaikuttavuuden edistäjänä
Syyllisyyden kirjoittuminen rikoksesta epäillyn kuulustelukertomukseen
How guilt or innocence is constructed in Finnish suspects written police records The present study focuses on written police records in Finland. The aim is to investigate how guilt or innocence is constructed in written police records. The research data contains 168 copy of suspects police records from Helsinki, Tampere and Turku police departments. Police records are being analyzed by using the discursive and linguistic approach. The results show that there are nine discursive categories in which guilt is constructed. The results also show that there are three types of metafunctions in which guilt is constructed: content, interaction and linguistic presentation. All them together construct the guilt in suspects police records
Luottamus johtamisjärjestelmän uudistamisessa – Narratiivinen tapaustutkimus ei-henkilöityvän luottamuksen kehittymisestä vähittäiskaupan ketjuorganisaatiossa
Trust within the renewal of the management system – A narrative case study on impersonal trust development in retail chain organization This article examines and illustrates understanding of the role of trust as intangible resource in organizational renewal. The qualitative case study was conducted in the retail organization undergoing a renewal process. In the prior organization research, trust is recognized supporting change implementation. The theoretical framework draws on the trust research of organizations. Trust is still scarcely studied as impersonal resource from the management system perspective. The data was gathered from managers and supervisors. The findings suggest a transparent management system as the basis of organizational trust. The study makes an interesting conclusion on the development of the nature of trust towards impersonal trust.
Merenkulun valtiontukien strateginen legitimointi
Strategic legitimation of state shipping subsidies Our purpose was to identify strategies through which different actors construct the legitimacy of state subsidies to shipping. To this end, we analysed documents and interviews using Critical Discourse Analysis. Five discourses were identified as legitimating state shipping subsidies: preventing outflagging, securing employment, maintaining logistical routes and security of supply, promoting tourism, and guaranteeing conformity among EU countries. To conclude, shipping subsidies have a legitimate position among the most important decision-making stakeholder groups in Finland, which ensures the stability and continuity of the subsidizing.
Pormestari vai virkajohtaja – miksi kunnan johtamismallin muuttamista harkitaan?
“Mayor or Manager – Why Changing the Management Model is under Discussion in Municipalities?” The aim of this study is to produce new knowledge on why municipalities consider changing their management model and what contexts and issues lead to such considerations. Based on previous research we comprise a synthesis about the factors that bring about the need for changing the management model. We use it as an analytical tool in analysing our empirical qualitative data, which consists of Finnish news articles. Our findings strengthen and complement the previous research: the changing operational environment and dissatisfaction with management and distribution of power are the key issues that bring up considerations for changing the management model. Our empirical data analysis comprehends previous research by revealing new factors, the growing demands for local politicians and practical reasons, that may lead to changes in the management model. Keywords: mayor, manager, management model, municipalities, Finland
Elävät kaupunkilaboratoriot: kulttuuritoimijat Tampereen Hiedanrannan uudistajina
This paper examines the role of cultural actors in promoting sustainability in an urban living lab (ULL). The case study utilizes thematic analysis on the interviews of cultural actors working in the multi-sectoral, circular-economy oriented Hiedanranta ULL in Tampere. The results of the study show, first, that the cultural sector is not detached from the innovative business and experimentation sector of the ULL. On the contrary, cultural actors advance creative ambience and co-develop experimentations, making them an essential part of the ULL innovation processes. Second, cultural actors promote social and cultural sustainability at the local level, which often stays hidden in the processes of upscaling innovations. Third, the sustainable and transformative potential of cultural actors, within and beyond the ULL is mostly horizontal. The results suggest that the cultural sector, comprising civil society actors, can have a multidimensional effect on ULL development.
Lähijohtajien muutosvalmius kuntasektorilla
Recent studies have highlighted the importance of managers’ role in change. Managers are a lynchpin in the success of a change as they stand closest to employees and they are both implementing change but also being affected by change. In this study, we explore managers´ readiness of change. Readiness of change refers to what employees perceive as the balance between costs and benefits of maintaining a behavior. In practice, it is about psychological willingness to cooperate in bringing the change to fruition. We interviewed 19 managers in public sector organizations. The findings indicate that strong change readiness of managers requires organizational support, time resources for people management and participative organizational culture. Study highlights the individual experience and interpretation of meaningfulness of change. This can be achieved by communicating the consequences and benefits of change clearly and by engaging managers in change already in the early phase.
Muuttuva julkinen hallinto ja työelämäkompetenssien suuntaviivat suomalaisessa korkeakoulutuksessa
Changing public administration and guidelines for working life competencies in Finnish higher education What are the requirements of working life in the public administration in the future? What working life skills should be emphasized in national education of Public Administration? The results of the article base upon four empirical research materials: (1) a study based on anticipatory material, (2) a survey, (3) a workshop, and (4) an expert panel on working life requirements in public administration. The findings are analysed and construed with reference to international and national literature. The results emphasize change, transformation ability, networking public administration, phenomenon-based orientation, collaboration and customer orientation. Keywords: public administration education, competencies, working life skills, development <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="TextRun SCXW263723478 BCX7" lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; color: #000000; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif; line-height: 19px;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto">
The effect of multilocational housing on the definition of local residence Article examines the relationship between residents and public administration from the multilocational dwelling point of view. The data consist of 25 multilocational dwellers’ interviews analyzed by content analysis. The interviewees present themselves as free-time residences, multilocational dwellers and vagabonds between municipalities. Subsequently 12 interviews of multilocational dwellers were analyzed to identify elements of multilocational citizenship. The results show that multilocational residence is produced by questioning the relevance of legal residence and participation rights. As a result, multilocational citizenship is challenging administrative monolocationality leading to a framework of multilocal citizenship.