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Book museum or museum of the book?

Knygotyra, 2003
In Finland, the debate about the need for a book museum was kindled in the mid-1990s. Vammala won the competition by abandoning the traditional museum idea and deciding to establish a more extensive institute and foundation to manage it, the Foundation ...
Marja-Liisa Ronkko
doaj   +1 more source

Building a culture of assessment in the speech of Finnish as a second language teachers

Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies
This study examines the construction of an assessment culture in the discourse of teachers of Finnish as a second language and literature at the broad level of the work community. The research material consists of thematic interviews conducted in 2021 (N=9). The interviews have been analyzed by means of interpretative discourse analysis.
openaire   +1 more source

Finnish pupils’ success in mathematics: factors that contribute to Finnish pupils’ success in mathematics [PDF]

, 2010
This report focuses on the factors that contribute positively to Finnish pupils’ success in mathematics and considers the implications for policy and practice in England.

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Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez, José Manuel Santos‐Jaén, María Estefanía Sánchez Pacheco, Fernando José Zambrano Farías   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ylioppilaslehti and the University’s Language Struggle in the 1920’s and the 1930’s

Kasvatus & Aika, 2009
A new Universities Act was a current topic in 1922, just as it is today. The most essential part in the reform concerned the language of education, Swedish and/or Finnish.
Jukka Kortti
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Sustainability Orientation and Entrepreneurial Performance in Resource‐Constrained Contexts

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability orientation shapes entrepreneurial performance in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets by theorizing responsible entrepreneurship as a central mechanism and BoP orientation as a contextual contingency. Using survey data from 283 small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana, we integrate perspectives
George Obeng Dankwah, Hayford Amegbe, Dafleen Addrah, Oghogho Destina Ovuakporie, Lydia Nyankom Takyi, Samuel Adomako   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family Involvement and Financial Performance: How Do They Affect the Sustainability Commitment of Family Businesses?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The socio‐emotional wealth (SEW) perspective suggests that the specific priorities of a family business may make it more or less inclined to engage in sustainable practices. This paper examines how family business heterogeneity regarding family ownership, financial performance, and family board members affects the sustainability commitment of ...
Sonia Sánchez‐Andújar, Purificación Parrado‐Martínez, María Comino‐Jurado   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stock Exchange ESG Disclosure Guidance and Corporate Carbon Mitigation: International Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the tangible impact of the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure guidance by stock exchanges on corporate carbon mitigation, focusing on six major frameworks: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate Related ...
Jiamian Yan, Le Luo, Nuraddeen Nuhu
wiley   +1 more source

Mitä pitkittäistutkimus paljastaa edistyneiden suomenoppijoiden kielitaidosta?

Lähivõrdlusi, 2011
In this article we will make a suggestion on how to longitudinally study the language proficiency of advanced Finnish learners’ writing. In such a study individuals’ actual development can be examined.
Kirsti Siitonen, Jenny Niemelä
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Response: An Invitation to a Too-Long Postponed Conversation: Race and Composition by Octavio Pimentel [PDF]

, 2013
Octavio Pimentel’s “Racism and Composition: Redesigning the Composition Classroom to be more Culturally Inclusive” critically provokes pedagogical and programmatic questions by focusing on pressing issues of race and language within a historical context ...
Medina, Cruz
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