Minna Martikainen

🚀 Following our time at Reykjavik University, I'm thrilled to share our latest publication in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (JCR Q1), co-authored with my colleagues Guillermina Tormo Carbó (CEGEA-UPV), Þröstur Olaf Sigurjónsson (University of Iceland), and Auður Arna Arnardóttir (University of Iceland)! 🚀 Title: "Is all that glitters gold? Exploring sustainability and business ethics education in ethics-friendly environments." Access: https://lnkd.in/d8HJ8afF Our new study dives deep into students’ perceptions of sustainability and business ethics education, especially within the context of an ethics-friendly environment like Iceland. To ensure a more robust understanding of student attitudes, we uniquely address how these perceptions might be shaped or distorted by contextual factors, including social desirability bias. 🔍 Key Insights: Despite varied individual and organizational backgrounds, we found no significant differences in attitudes toward sustainability and business ethics education—a finding that underscores the strong influence of Iceland's ethics-friendly environment. The study highlights the lack of significant impact from factors like gender, age, or prior course exposure on the presence of social desirability bias in student responses. These results suggest that contextual factors may outweigh individual differences in environments where ethics is deeply ingrained. ✨ What’s New? This research breaks new ground by examining how ethical environments, like Iceland, influence business ethics education—a relatively unexplored but critical area for understanding the future of ethical business practices in higher education. We believe these findings open up exciting new avenues for research into integrating sustainability and business ethics into university curricula. 💡 Join the Conversation: How can we leverage ethics-friendly contexts to further enhance sustainability and ethics education in higher education? We’d love to hear your thoughts and engage in a meaningful discussion. #Sustainability #BusinessEthics #HigherEducation #EthicsFriendly #ResearchImpact #StudentPerceptions #UniversityCurricula #EducationResearch #Iceland #EthicalBusiness

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Under the leadership of my PhD student Julia Günther, we have published an article on developing key competencies for sustainability in education for sustainable development in schools from a multi-stakeholder perspective https://lnkd.in/eYK_9Vf4

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Interested in entrepreneurship and academic capitalism? In our recently published article, we analyzed guidelines for Finnish higher education institutions produced by the Federation of Finnish Enterprises and university stakeholders. We show how the entrepreneurship policy discourse in HE intertwines with academic capitalism in multiple ways. As business actors participate in generating the policy discourse, they also powerfully contribute to redefining the purpose of HE according to business logics and values. The open access article is available here: https://lnkd.in/dW4B75aD

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#Nordic Annual Review Week at UNESCO, starting with #education and presentions from Stefania Giannini and the Nordic sides 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇩🇰🇺🇳🕊️ #sdg4 Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation Kunnskapsdepartementet International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Borhene Chakroun GEM Report UNESCO Education 2030 UN UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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Just published in The British Accounting Review (ABDC: A*, Scopus: Q1; ABS: 3). One of the top ranked (2%) journals in Accounting and Finance Area with CiteScore 8.6 and Impact Factor 5.5. You may find the paper interesting. 50 days free access is provided by Elsevier. Please click the following link: https://lnkd.in/gapWQWGP Topic: Do client protection principles matter for the economic and social performance of microfinance institutions? The demand for ethical and fair treatment of microfinance borrowers has increased in recent years after several incidences of exploiting clients in different parts of the world. In response to this call, many MFIs adopted client protection principles (CPPs) in lending operations to borrowers. We empirically test this using a unique panel dataset of 1015 MFIs. We find a positive impact of client protection on social performance in the short- and long-run. The impact of client protection on financial performance is negative in the short run, but the effect diminishes in the long run. Congratulations and thank you the co-authors Dr Mosharraf Hossain and Professor Vincent Chong of The University of Western Australia for your valuable contributions in the paper. Also, thank you my host university, The University of Chittagong, for funding the project. #clientprotection #microfinanceperformance

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For all the teachers who are interested in improving their competences regarding sustainability✨ 

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I would like to inform you that we have published a column today (Nov. 1) that features excerpts from a recent survey conducted by us at ADBI on financial authorities regarding the increasingly important topics of transition finance and taxonomy in Asia. Please take a look! https://lnkd.in/gF5KS4Qj

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Latest paper and findings from the Sustainable Finance Institute are now available, this time as relates to the relevance of State Owned Enterprises when it comes to issues such as climate change and economic development. When considering the Future of Private Equity, a core project of ours for 2025 and beyond, it is also important to place State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) into the context of all global privately owned companies, and in fact all companies, whether publicly traded or not, to understand their true relative significance. Previous reports from the likes of The World Bank shed some first light on SOEs in this regard https://lnkd.in/dcgNDC9J as well as the OECD - OCDE https://lnkd.in/dEgdAUYB SOEs occupy a unique position in the global economic landscape, often contributing to economic stability, strategic investment and national interests in many countries. Notably, we find that non-publicly traded companies overall now represent approximately one-third of global corporate value, making privately owned companies significant players going forward towards both potential low carbon investment and for national economic development. Private equity is also increasingly influential in these areas, with further progress needed to address remaining global gaps in low carbon and impact investment. More details in the paper within the link just below:

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Check out our special issue: From promise to practice? Unpacking the impact of artificial intelligence on teacher education.

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The results of the #OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 #CreativeThinking assessment were published on 18 June 2024. The assessment measured how 15-year-olds in the participating countries were able to generate solutions for problems in everyday contexts. 🌎📚 In #Finland, young people demonstrated a high level of creative thinking, girls being among the best performers. 🇫🇮 The #Finnish national core curriculum sees #creativity through a wide lens as a premise guiding both teaching and learning. 👩‍🎓 Young people in Finland performed particularly well in the collaborative solving of social problems, which is also one of the objectives set out in the national core curriculum's principles for developing the #school culture. More than half of the #students felt that they were encouraged at school to come up with original solutions. 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/NVKP50SkBct #StudyInFinland #Education #VisitFinland

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Higher education funding enthusiasts: Please check out our newly published chapter "National Funding of Higher Education from a Non-affirmative Perspective" authored with Janne Elo and Michael Uljens. https://lnkd.in/dvj9ahbi

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Are you interested in learning more about #innovativefinance for #education? In partnership with NORRAG, we are pleased to share two blogs showcasing some of our learnings from the innovative finance in education learning group co-chaired by The Education Outcomes Fund and Education Finance Network. ➡ The measurement puzzle for outcomes-based financing programs in education https://lnkd.in/eJDQjvEg ➡ Strengthening education systems through outcomes-based finance programs. https://lnkd.in/ed4YFDRc

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Welcome to the seminar Equity and inclusion in academic careers at Finnish universities!   Organisers: Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Finland (CHERIF), Edistyksellinen Tiedeliitto, and Finnish Institute for Educational Reseaach When: Thursday 6.6.2024 Where: Tieteiden talo, Helsinki (Kirkkokatu 6), and in Zoom (link will be sent later to those who are registered) Time: 10-18 Website: https://lnkd.in/dZJWYbF7 Registration (free-of-charge): https://lnkd.in/dNjuj87V   Description: To create a more equitable future that fosters inclusivity and diversity in academic careers, research, and teaching, it is essential to understand how inequalities arise in academia. This seminar will approach equality/inequality in higher education from the perspective of academic careers. In order to have more diversity in academic careers, it is necessary to understand what prevents academics in the intersections of ethnic and social backgrounds, sexualities and genders, and people with disabilities from advancing in Finnish academia. Universities create structures that can be inclusive or exclusive. These structures can relate to academic career structures and the evaluation criteria used in promotion and recruitment, for example. There is a lack of understanding of how these structures work. This seminar will examine different aspects of equity and inclusion to discuss recent improvements and the key aspects that still require attention. The document will be used as a basis for a follow-up workshop in the autumn of 2024, during which recommendations for universities will be formulated. Preliminary schedule: 10.00-10.10 Opening 10.10–10.40 Senior Professor Liisa Husu, Örebro University, Hanken School of Economics – KOTAMO-project: the state of equality and diversity in Finnish academia 10.40–11.10 Postdoctoral researcher Quivine Ndomo, University of Jyväskylä – PhDs with international background in the Finnish working life 11.10–11.40 Vice-rector Martin Meyer, University of Vaasa – Internationalisation and international staff in Finnish universities Lunch (at own cost) 11.40 – 12.30. 12.30–13.00 Assistant professor Andrea Sand, Aalto-university – Women in STEM, perspectives from physics 13.00–13.30 Quality and Accountability Specialist, Tytti Matsinen, University of Jyväskylä - (dis)ability in academia 13.30–14.00 Coffee 14.00–14.30 University lecturer, Mari Käyhkö, University of Eastern Finland – yhteiskuntaluokka akatemiassa / social class in the academia 14.30–15.00 Docent Leonardo Custódio, Åbo Akademi – Benefits of International Diversity in Academia 15.00-16.00 Panel discussion (TBC) 16.00–18.00 In/equalities in the early stages of academic career: Informal conversations over coffee (organised by the Network of Finland-based early-career higher education researchers)   Please, spread the word in your networks!  

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I'm proud to tell that we have contributed to a new book Edited by Rebekka Stahnke and Andreas Gegenfurtner ⭐️ Our chapter with Ilona Södervik, Henna Vilppu and Neea Heinonen is: The interaction between professional vision and conceptual change in higher education teaching – self-reports, videos, and eye tracking as study methods. https://lnkd.in/da_neJx8

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Political Institutions and Economic Development https://lnkd.in/d6_5AAeP #cbs #egb #copenhagenbusinessschool #newpublication #bookchapter #institutions #economicdevelopment #HandbookofComparativePoliticalInstitutions

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This was a fun conversation with Anders Jonsson and UNECE Innovation and Competitiveness Policies (ICP) on structural growth, innovation, and diaspora; new economic development models in small transition economies in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus #TransitionEconomies (see comments for more) https://lnkd.in/ekWkFDcg

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Join this session with expert economists from the #IMF on the #macroeconomic impact of #climate shocks, featuring DIGNAD—a tool developed by the IMF in #MATLAB! #climaterisk #econometrics #economicpolicies #centralbanking

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Quo Vadis, America? The Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) at Uppsala University invites you to a symposium to discuss how we can better understand events in the United States, as well as where the country is going. The symposium includes prominent speakers from both sides of the Atlantic, based in universities, think tanks, and the media.   When: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 13:00-17:00 Where: Location: Brusewitz Hall, Campus Gamla Torget Event website and registration: https://lnkd.in/dDWUk_6s.   In recent years, there has been a growing discussion and concern about the direction the United States is heading. Only ten years ago, President Barack Obama expressed optimism about the American experiment. Today, turbulence and conflict seem to characterize the United States, and both democratic institutions and processes have begun to be questioned. At the same time, we know that the United States has weathered many crises in the past, and that the American tradition includes resilience and the capacity to renew itself. The United States has long been regarded as a global leader in politics, economics, and culture, and exercises great influence on the rest of the world. It is thus important to understand the current situation, but also to critically examine its roots.

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Join us at the Academy of European Law ERA 2024 "Annual Conference on Law and Sustainable Finance in the EU" for up-to-date discussions about #sustainablefinance #regulation. I am glad to present on #greenwashing and participate to a roundtable on sustainable finance regulation #supervision. Please check out also my recent EUSFiL working paper on #greenwashing, #investmentfunds and #enforcement: https://lnkd.in/dU46mc6j Università degli Studi di Genova EUSFiL #greenwashing #investments #investmentfunds #ESAs #sustainablefinance

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