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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of gender on the usage of different funding sources in a sample of Finnish small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). The aim is also to embed the results into the country‐context, which is characterized by the long history of women's economic activity and bank‐based capital markets.Design/methodology/approachThe database includes variables on terms of credit for the firms' most recent loans and detailed information on the firms' banking relationships. The total number of firm‐year observations in the database is 3,519. The analysis is based on multivariate tests.FindingsThe funding patterns of women‐owned SMEs (WOS) and men‐owned SMEs (MOS) in the data are different: WOS are more likely to use additional equity investments by current owners as a funding source. They do so at least partly because of their positive attitudes towards this funding source. The results also contradict prior studies, which indicate that MOS have easier access to bank lending. The results suggest that there are no gender‐related differences in the use of bank debt. Also in contrast to prior studies, the paper finds no differences in firm size or profitability between WOS and MOS.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of study both confirm and contradict the results of prior research and the paper suggests that this is due to the context‐specific features of the Finnish labour market and the gender system as well as the bank‐centered financial markets.Practical implicationsConcerning the issues of gender and finance, policy makers and financial experts in any country should not uncritically rely on the research results arrived at in other countries.Originality/valueOnly a handful of studies have investigated issues of gender and finance in SMEs embedding the results into the country‐context.

Purpose–Adopting the critical sensemaking (CSM) lens to the micro-level interaction between leader andemployees, the article offers a theoretically informed example of leading with soft power and positive emotionsthat blurs boundaries in democratic organisations. Design/methodology/approach–The research methodology involves videography and interpretiveanalysis of video-recorded interactions that combines focused ethnography with video analysis. The analysisfocuses on face-to-face meeting interactions between a leader and employees in a small service firm. Findings–The findings illustrate how restoring the sense of the democratic organisation is an accumulatingand complex phenomenon where explicit and implicit organisational rules and changing identity positions areenacted by constructing affective loyalties, moral and reflex emotions that serve as soft power capacitieshelping the leader and employees to enact meanings attached to a democratic rather than hierarchicalorganisation. Practical implications–The article provides new insight for human resources practitioners and leaderswho want to build resilient organisations and pay attention to shared, distributed and relational leadershippractices, co-creative work and collective decision-making processes. Originality/value–The power explored in previous sensemaking studies has been power over, which is mostoften associated with the negative aspects of power, such as domination and suppression, in the pursuit ofspecific performance. The applications of videography method linking ethnography and interpretive analysisof video-recorded interactions are still rare in organisation studies. ; final draft ; peerReviewed

Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction: From diversity of interpretations to sustainability of institutions / Päivi Eriksson, Ulla Hytti, Katri Komulainen, Tero Montonen and Päivi Siivonen -- Higher education policy and administration on the move -- 2. The role of European Union in creating europe of knowledge / Luk Van Langenhove and Päivi Eriksson -- 3. Higher education marketization in England: Employable or entrepreneurial graduates (or both)? / Michael Tomlinson, Päivi Siivonen and Hanna Laalo -- 4. Experimenting in the organisational periphery: Introducing extra-curricular entrepreneurship education in traditional research universities / Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi and Sari Laari-Salmela -- Entrepreneurial universities claiming their future -- 5. The third mission of universities: A boundary object with interpretative flexibility / Tero Montonen, Päivi Eriksson and Kirsi Peura -- 6. Beyond the ecosystem metanarrative: Narrative multiplicity and entrepreneurial experiences at the university of waterloo / Ryan T. MacNeil, Santana Ochoa Briggs, Alisha E. Christie and Connor Sheehan -- 7. Identity work of a researcher in entrepreneurial university backyard research / Kirsi Peura, Anna Elkina, Kaisu Paasio and Ulla Hytti -- Discomforting and delighting: the student experience of academic entrepreneurship -- 8. The formation of and resistance to enterprising labouring subject in academia: A case study of a translation graduate entering the labour market / Katri Komulainen and Maija Korhonen -- 9. Doing gender in the student entrepreneurship society programme / Anna Elkina -- 10. Ability self makes a difference - university students' perceptions of employability and entrepreneurship / Kati Kasanen and Hannu Räty -- Academics becoming entrepreneurs -- 11. You never travel alone - challenging the masculine ethos of individualism in academic entrepreneurship / Tiina Suopajärvi, Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Oili-Helena Ylijoki -- 12. Social academic entrepreneurship: Contextual understanding / Subhanjan Sengupta -- 13. Becoming credible? An alternative narrative of start-ups in an accelerator program / Jukka Moilanen, Outi-Maaria Palo-oja, Eeva Aromaa and Tero Montonen -- Future movements -- 14. Understanding academic entrepreneurship as fields of moral orders: Theoretical and methodological perspectives of positioning theory / Pasi Hirvonen and Luk Van Langenhove -- Epilogue -- 15. Stirring and disturb - urging the movement of academic entrepreneurship onwards / Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert -- Index.

Participatory approaches and co-research are increasingly employed in the current moment for exploring barriers to equality. Co-research treats research participants as experts in their own lives and as equal research partners. Research conducted with this orientation is based on research problems drafted by the research participants themselves from their aspirations regarding the research process and an active partnership that considers the interests of all parties involved. Participatory methods are used in co-research, particularly for the purpose of deepening the contextualisation of research knowledge about structurally vulnerable or subordinated groups and to challenge the power positions associated with traditional research designs. In co-research, the role of the people involved in the research is more central than in more traditional research. One of the key principles of co-research is that co-investigators (a) can participate in various roles, (b) have the opportunity to participate in different phases of the research according to their own interests and resources, and (c) co-investigators' participation can take many forms, including differences in intensity. The idea is to provide more people with opportunities to contribute to the knowledge production about themselves and their communities from their respective perspectives and interests. Co-research is also seen as an opportunity to improve the relevance and usefulness of scientific knowledge. It aims to genuinely increase interaction and openness and extend science's societal responsibility. In this book, we approach co-research as a means to promote social justice, as an action with a societal impact contributor to social impact and as a means to promote the societal responsibility of science. We discuss and evaluate the ideals of the co-research process concerning the everyday challenges and practices in research. Above all, we offer the knowledge and experience generated by our own projects to support those planning or already implementing co-research projects.