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Deploying systems-theoretical conceptuality, this paper improves understanding of the organisational consequences of the intensified societal engagement of a research university. Aligning its work with Luhmannian organisational analysis, it addresses the dynamic interplay between two modes of administrative decision-making communication, namely, the traditional professional administration and the New-Public-Management-oriented (NPM) managerial techniques. Our research observes how the politico-economic conditions of the society translate into the university's decisions concerning an initiative to engage in start-up entrepreneurship. The article contributes to higher education literature by showing that the university's professional administration is a discrete organisational function internally differentiated into specialised administrative branches, each of which operates according to a sense-making regime associated with its primary societal system reference, such as education, science and the economy. The article also demonstrates the structurally conditioned differences in branch-specific temporalisations of the entrepreneurial initiative during decision-making. Inspired by the Luhmannian view on temporality, we demonstrate how administrative decisions synchronise the varied structural time horizons within the university's professional administration. Focus on temporality in decision-making thus allows us to see how the NPM-inspired managerial techniques are operationalised in administrative communication at universities. Consequently, the paper argues that university administration is a complex dynamic entity, which varyingly aligns itself to national policy scripts, and only selectively enacts features of a global trend known as NPM.

Referring to failures in policy-driven public governance research this paper looks at strategising in higher education. It expands horizons for understanding university strategies in a more nuanced way than hitherto has been done. Deploying systems theory, it shows how different temporalities co-exist in strategies and how their change reflects the university's capacity to meet future contingencies. Extending the current research on strategising, the paper uses the present's past, the present's future, the future's present and the future's future as temporal categories to understand strategies. It shows how strategies evolve from traditional linear planning orientation to a novel potentiality-seeking mode with unique meanings attached to unknown futures. It claims that universities develop such responsive contingency awareness to construct a leeway for their self-governance in the face of unexpected future conditions. This change is characterised by the emergence of a potentialising organisation seeking to turn indeterminant futures into its developmental resources.

Abstract Background This study examined how ethnic differences in sleep and depression were related to environmental illumination and circadian rhythms. Methods In an ancillary study to the Women's Health Initiative, 459 postmenopausal women were recorded for one week in their homes, using wrist monitors. Sleep and illumination experience were estimated. Depression was self-rated with a brief adjective check list. Affective diagnoses were made using the SCID interview. Sleep disordered breathing was monitored with home pulse oximetry. Results Hispanic and African-American women slept less than European-American women, according to both objective recordings and their own sleep logs. Non-European-American women had more blood oxygen desaturations during sleep, which accounted for 26% of sleep duration variance associated with ethnicity. Hispanic women were much more depressed. Hispanic, African-American and Native-American women experienced less daily illumination. Less daily illumination experience was associated with poorer global functioning, longer but more disturbed sleep, and more depression. Conclusions Curtailed sleep and poor mood were related to ethnicity. Sleep disordered breathing was a factor in the curtailed sleep of minority women. Less illumination was experienced by non-European-American women, but illumination accounted for little of the contrasts between ethnic groups in sleep and mood. Social factors may be involved.

Contemporary knowledge workers collaborating in hybrid work environments need to frequently deal with ICT interruptions. This can potentially lead to disruptions in the collaboration process, particularly in synchronous collaboration contexts. How do knowledge workers deal with such interruptions to ensure the smooth continuation of their collaboration? Previous studies, for the most part, suggest that interruptions are likely to negatively affect the process of collaboration, yet we see that in many instances, knowledge workers continue to collaborate smoothly despite receiving ICT interruptions and even attending to them. In other words, ICT interruptions do not always discernibly affect the collaborative process. In this paper, sensitized by concepts from Goffman's work, we offer a novel understanding of how group members can seamlessly handle ICT interruptions, avoiding and, in certain cases, recovering from serious disruptions in collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nuoret metsänomistajat ovat pieni, mutta sukupolvensa edustajina kokoaan tärkeämpi metsän­omistajien osajoukko. Tässä tutkimuksessa perusjoukkona oli Pohjois-Karjalassa ja Pohjois-Savossa asuvat 16–30-vuotiaat, vuosina 1987–2002 syntyneet, metsänomistajat. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli täydentää tutkimustietoa ja tunnistaa nuorten metsänomistajien omia näkemyksiä ja näkökulmia ilman ennalta rajattuja kansallisia tai muita tavoitteita. Pyrimme ymmärtämään, miten nuoret metsänomistajat näkevät omat arvonsa ja vastuunsa metsätilan omistajina. Teemahaastattelut toteuttivat yhteistyössä kaksi varttunutta tutkijaa sekä nuori yliopisto-opiskelija, joka on itsekin metsänomistaja. Menettelyllä tavoiteltiin tutkimusmenetelmällisesti pätevää tiedon yhteisluontia ja nuorten metsänomistajien luottamuksellista kohtaamista haastattelutilanteissa. Sisällöllisesti haastatteluaineistoa leimaa kerronnallisuus, mistä syystä analyysimenetelmäksi valittiin temaattinen narratiivinen analyysi. Nuoret metsänomistajat kokivat, että metsäomai­suuden periminen oli osa sukupolvien ketjua ja siten edellytti heitä pitämään metsätila edelleenkin suvun omistuksessa. Omat vanhemmat, kokeneet sukulaiset ja metsäalan ammattilaiset koettiin asiantunteviksi auktoriteeteiksi, joiden tietoa ja osaamista harvemmin kyseenalaistettiin. Nuorten metsänomistajien todellinen osallistuminen metsien käyttöä koskevaan päätöksentekoon jäi usein ohueksi. Omaisuutta ja velvoitteita oli siirretty nuorille metsänomistajille ilman riittäviä resursseja ja toimintamahdollisuuksia, mistä syystä yhteiskuntakriittisestä näkökulmasta katsoen kyseessä ei ole nuoren vastuullistaminen vaan vastuuttaminen. Metsäpalvelujen kehittämisessä (sukupolvenvaihdokset, uusien metsänomistajien informointipalvelut, metsäsuunnittelupalvelut) on tärkeää kiinnittää huomiota nuorten metsänomistajien osallistumis- ja päätöksentekokyvyn tukemiseen. Toimijuutta ja vastuunkannon valmiuksia voitaisiin vahvistaa tuottamalla ja jakamalla tietoa ja toimintasuosituksia metsänomistajaperheiden ylisukupolvisesta dialogista. Tarvitaan yhtäältä nuorille räätälöityjä metsänomistamisen viestintäkanavia mutta toisaalta myös käytänteitä, joissa nuoret metsänomistajat voivat osallistua omine näkökulmineen tasavertaisesti muiden kanssa. Jatkotutkimuksia tulisi kohdentaa myös muualle Suomeen, esimerkiksi pääkaupunkiseudulla asuviin nuoriin metsänomistajiin.