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Feb 01 2009

Social change and the match day

Published in values, social change, psychology, hooliganism, culture, collective action by Tuomas Kuronen | Comment (2)

Speaking of social change is a complicated matter. I approach this thorny issue with an example: a football match.

Lex Nokia: preventing leaks in corporate IPR vs. employee "privacy"

Published in Technology, privacy issues, political strategy, IT, internet, intellectual property rights, Finland, communication, Blog by Jaakko Aspara | Comment (5)

The protection of corporate intellectual properties is an important issue for any firm, and particularly so for globally operating high-tech companies. Unfortunately, part of the firm's challenge is to prevent its own employees from leaking corporate information and secrets to competitors. Even if it was only a fraction of a firm's employees -- perhaps 1-5% -- who might have the unfortunate predisposition to make leaks under certain conditions, the challenge is real.

If the government gets to decide what the country's major industries should do next...

Published in the USA, political, paper pulp, nationalization, national interests, Internationalisation, government, governance, GDP, financial services industry, finance, employment, corporate control, Blog, auto industry by Jaakko Aspara | Comment (0)

Facing the "need" to bailout the country's Finance Industry as well as Auto Industry, politicians and industrymen in the US are puzzled over an important question: To which direction one should next take the industry corporations, as the bailout monies effectively give the government control over them ? This debate is -- for sure -- interesting also to other national governments which are struggling with their own finance and other industries (such as that of Finland with its pulp & paper industry).

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