Reviewing Kenny, Fotaki and Vandekerckhove’s article called ‘Whistleblower subjectivities: organization and passionate attachment’
Introduction As a genre, review articles ‘document the state of knowledge in a given field, primarily for the purpose of fixing existing understandings, or maintaining a record of what we know’ (Patriotta 2020, p. 1273). Corruption literature includes a wide range of disciplines, and ‘review articles play an important role in promoting collective reflections about […]
How to Govern the Process of Change in Communities with the Help of a Search-Conference
Anja Salmi When change happens at present speed in our social, political, economical and ecological environment, it creates uncertainty, stress and fear to the ones who are influenced by it. Passive withdrawal conducts stagnation at the same time as our social environment is chaotic. Often individuals feel the situation irrelevant and estranger if the adaptation […]
Developing new understandings about the National Dynamics of Finland
This article is the result of the work of six members of the Finnish Think Tank: Dynamics of Groups and Societies (RYD). It is the continuation of a workshop led by Dr Mannie Sher of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in 2019. The authors of this article are Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Sinikka Torkkola, Pertti Ahonen, […]
Elitism and self-importance are embarrassing cultural remnants and customs of past times
Finland has a small population and, in most important tasks, everybody knows each other. It is considered that the strength of Finland is equality and how we share joys and sorrows together without the cultural heritage of a class society. This is why it is weird that every important event has separate sections for VIPs […]
Primitive Wars & Corporate Battles: A New Way?
The human species has been struggling with how to live together peacefully for over a 2,000 years. On every continent and in every locality there is a story of a war, an uprising, a suppression and the countless numbers of bodies slaughtered and blood spilled in the process of winning or losing. This thirst for […]