Name: Markku Sippola curriculum vitae Address for correspondence: P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland Telephone: +358-50-3620844 (office), +358-50-5432539 (home) E-mail: markku.sippola@uef.fi Qualifications 2009 Dr. Soc. Sc., University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 17 December, 2009. Major: Social and Public Policy. Title: A low road to investment and labour management? The labour process at Nordic subsidiaries in the Baltic States. 2006 Lic. Soc. Sc., University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 6 July, 2006. Major: Social and Public Policy. 2003 MA Sc. Sc., University of Jyväksylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 13 November, 2003. Major: Social and Public Policy. 1996 MA Ed. Sc. University of Oulu, Kajaani Teachers College, 11 June, 1996. Major: Educational Science. Language skills Finnish: mother tongue English: fluency in speaking, reading and writing Estonian: fluency in speaking, reading and writing Russian: good speaking, reading and writing skills Swedish: satisfactory speaking, reading and writing skills Research experience and professional activity 1/2011- Postdoctoral Researcher, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. 10/2010-1/2011 Visiting Research Fellow, Pufendorf Institute, Lund University, Sweden. 6/2010-9/2010 Project Manager, Developing economic co-operation between Kainuu region and Arkhangelsk region in co-operation with the Kostamuksha administration (KARKO), Joint authority of Kainuu Region. 8/2009-5/2010 Researcher for the Quality of Work Life and Quality Assessment project, supervised by Timo Anttila, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. 3/2007-12/2008 Researcher for the Transnational Unionism and Democracy in Global Governance project, supervised by Nathan Lillie, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (part-time from 8/2007). 7/2006-12/2006 Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. 8/2004-5/2005 Expert for a EU-funded project Promoting Information, Consultation and Participation in the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Industry and Construction Sectors.
Teaching experience Lecturer, Hyvinvointia edistävät rakenteet (Structures promoting well-being) (5 ECTS), Department of Social Sciences, Kuopio campus, UEF, Sping 2013. Lecturer, Investment and Administration of Business in Russia (3 ECTS) Department of Business, University of Eastern Finland, Autumn 2011. Lecturer, The Baltic Labour Market Regime and Work-Related Values in the Post-Socialist Context (2 ECTS) Finnish Master s Programme in Russian and East European Studies, Univ. of Helsinki, Spring 2011. Instructor, General History, Societal and Cultural Studies, School of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, School Semester 2007-08. Teacher, Elementary school, Padasjoki municipality, Finland, school semesters 2001-02 and 2003-04. Teacher, Finnish School of St. Petersburg, Russia, Autumn 1999-Spring 2001. Instructor, Finnish for foreigners, We and the others, Global Citizenship Maturity Test, Jämsä Christian Folk High School, Finland, Autumn 1996-Spring 1999. Scientific honours and awards 2011-2013 Academy of Finland, 288,500, for the postdoctoral research project The labour process at Nordic factories in Russia 2008-2009 Finnish Work Environment Fund (Työsuojelurahasto), 9000, for the writing of dissertation manuscript. 2006-2007 Finnish Work Environment Fund (Työsuojelurahasto), 14,400, for the research Social Dialogue in Nordic manufacturing companies in the Baltic States. 2005-2006 Finnish People s Education Foundation (Kansan Sivistysrahasto), 4000, for the same purpose. 2004-2005 Four Nordic industry workers federations, Nordic Metal, NIF (chemicals, paper and textile),nfbww (building and wood) and NU (food), 16,000, for starting the research project Social Dialogue in Nordic manufacturing companies in the Baltic States. Periods spent abroad 10/2010-1/2011 Pufendorf Institute, Lund University, Sweden. Conducting research on labour market regimes. 1/2007-2/2007 Bradford University School of Management, United Kingdom. Fieldwork for the Transnational Unionism and Democracy in Global Governance project. 10/2006-1/2007 University of Essex, United Kingdom. Exchange studies in Sociology and English language as doctoral exchange student (University of Jyväskylä). 8/1999-7/2001 Finnish School of St. Petersburg, Russia. Teacher s position. 9/1995-6/1996 and 9/2002-6/2003 Tartu University, Estonia. Exchange studies in Russian Language, Estonian Language, Baltic History, Estonian History, Labour Markets, Media Studies, Estonian Society and Politics.
Articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals List of Publications Markku Sippola 1. Sippola, Markku. 2012. The awkward choices facing the Baltic worker: Exit or Loyalty, under review in Journal of Baltic Studies (status: reviewed; being revised and resubmitted by 8 June 2012). 2. Lillie, Nathan and Sippola, Markku. 2012. EU:n työmarkkinoiden säätely ja lähetetyt työntekijät Suomessa, (The regulation of labour markets in the EU and posted workers in Finland) Sosiologia special issue on the glocalisation of labour markets (status: being resubmitted by 15 August 2012). 3. Sippola, Markku 2012. The restructuring of the Nordic labour process and the variegated status of workers in the labour market, Competition & Change 16(3): 243-60. 4. Sippola, Markku. 2012. Local Bargaining and Codetermination: Finnish Experience in Comparative Perspective, European Journal of Industrial Relations 18(1): 53-69. 5. Sippola, Markku. 2011. Nordic subsidiaries in the Baltic States: Is model transfer possible? Employee Relations 33(4): 356-374. 6. Lillie, Nathan and Sippola, Markku 2011. National Unions and Transnational Workers: The Case of Olkiluoto 3, Finland, Work, Employment and Society 25(2): 292-308. 7. Sippola, Markku 2011. Työelämän laadun käsitteen muutos - sisällönanalyysi kansainvälisistä liiketaloustieteen artikkeleista vuosina 1984-2009, (Content analysis of articles concerned with quality of work life in international business administration journals) Hallinnon tutkimus 1/2011: 20-36. 8. Sippola, Markku. 2010. Cut from a different cloth: Employee relations, job design and control of the labour process in Nordic-owned garment factories in the Baltic States, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 4(1): 71-83. 9. Lillie, Nathan and Sippola, Markku. 2010. Edunvalvonnan ongelmat Olkiluoto 3 - rakennustyömaalla, (The problems of interest defense at the Olkiluoto 3 construction site) Sosiologia 2/2010, 97-111. 10. Sippola, Markku. 2009. The two faces of Nordic management? Nordic firms and their employee relations in the Baltic States, International Journal of Human Resource Management 20(9): 1929-1944. Articles in scientific peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings 11. Sippola, Markku. 2011. Varieties of capitalism and the restructuring of the Nordic labour process, in the Abstract Book from the ESA 10 th Conference Social Relations in Turbulent Times, 7-10 September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland, p. 140. 12. Sippola, Markku. 2011. Internal devaluation and the Baltic labour market, in proceedings from the 3 rd International Conference: Economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence, Opportunities and Challenges 12-14 June 2011, Tallinn, Estonia. 13. Sippola, Markku. 2007. Management Styles and Patterns of Unionization in Nordic-Owned Industrial Enterprises in the Baltic States, in P. G. Benson, A. Majahan, R. Alas & R. L. Oliver
(Eds.) Changes in Society, Changes in Organizations, and the Changing Role of HRM: Managing International Human Resources in a Complex World. Conference Proceedings from the 9 th International Human Resource Management Conference 12-15 June 2007, Tallinn, Estonia. Published monographs 14. Sippola, Markku. 2009. A low road to investment and labour management? The labour process at Nordic subsidiaries in the Baltic States. Jyväskylä studies in education, psychology and social research 377. University of Jyväskylä Publication Unit. 15. Sippola, Markku. 2006. Social Dialogue in Nordic Manufacturing Companies in the Baltic States: A Work Organisation Approach. Licentiate thesis in Social and Public Policy. University of Jyväskylä. Spring 2006. 16. Sippola, Markku. 2005. Viron kansalaisyhteiskunnan muotoutuminen kulttuurijulkaisujen ilmentämänä 1987-1989 (The shaping of the Estonian civil society as manifested by cultural journals, 1987-1989). Master s thesis in general history. University of Jyväskylä. Autumn 2005. 17. Laine, Heikki & Sippola, Markku. 2003. Työehtosopimustoiminnan käynnistäminen Viron suomalaisissa metalliyrityksissä (The initiating of collective bargaining at Finnish engineering shops in Estonia). Master s thesis in Social and Public Policy. University of Jyväskylä. Summer 2003. 18. Karsikas, Arto & Sippola, Markku. 1996. Hypermedia Haapavedestä (Hypermedia on Haapavesi county). Master s thesis in Pedagogy. Kajaani Teachers College. University of Oulu. Summer 1996. Other scientific publications 19. Lillie, Nathan, Sippola, Markku and Berntsen. Lisa. 2011. A Tale of Two Power Plants: Labour Mobility and the Deregulation of Industrial Relations at the Olkiluoto 3, Finland, and Eemshaven, Netherlands, Construction Sites, CLR News 4/2011, 23-31. 20. Sippola, Markku. 2006. Nordic manufacturing companies in the Baltic States are they diffusing or evading the Nordic industrial relations practices? Bimontly Journal of Baltic Sea Region, 5/2006. Invited speeches and conference presentations 2011 Sippola Markku. Черты скандинавской корпоративной культуры встречаюшися в рабочем процессе на российских заводах, (Traits of Scandinavian corporate culture in the labour process of Russian factories) Plenary Session, Международная научно-практическая конференция РОЛЬ НАУКИ В РАЗВИТИИ РЕГИОНА, Karelian Scientific Centre for the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, 10-11 November 2011. 2011 Sippola Markku. Varieties of Capitalism and the restructuring of the Nordic labour process, The 10 th Conference of the European Sociological Association, University of Geneva, 7-10 September 2011. 2011 Sippola. Markku. Internal devaluation and the Baltic labour market, Economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence, Opportunities and Challenges, Tallinn, 12-14 June 2011. 2011 Sippola, Markku & Anttila, Timo. The autonomous worker under pressure at Finnish engineering shops, 29 th International Labour Process Conference, Leeds, 5-7 April 2011. 2011 Sippola, Markku. The effects of trade, migration and production relocation on the manufacturing labour process, After the Crisis: Labour Market Regimes in Flux, Lund, 13 January 2011. 2010 Sippola, Markku. Nordic firms participatory schemes in the Baltic States: How well do they correspond to the expected leadership behaviour? ISLC Conference, Lund, 13-14 Dec 2010. 2010 Sippola, Markku. Finnish experiences in teaching, Promoting European values an extending European dimension in EuroCollege MA studies programmes, Tartu, 5-6 May 2010.
2010 Sippola, Markku. Itä-Euroopan työelämä: erityistarkastelussa Baltian maat, (East European work life: the Baltic States in particular focus) VIE-asiantuntijapäivät, Jyväskylä, 18-19 March 2010. 2009 Sippola, Markku. "The position of the Baltic subsidiary in the Nordic manufacturing value chain: An analysis of subsidiary roles, " 7 th EIASM Workshop on International Strategy and Cross Cultural Management, Helsinki School of Economics, 25-26 September 2009. 2009 Sippola, Markku. "Labour market segmentation across the Baltic Sea: Nordic textile manufacturers' investment and labour strategies in Baltic factories," 30th Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, Tampere, 3-5 September 2009. 2009 Sippola, Markku. "Alternative forms of employee representation: Substituting or complementing trade unions?" at JM-CETRO summer school on The Domestic Europeanization of the Labour Market and Employment Policies, Oldenburg, 24-30 August 2009. 2009 Sippola, Markku. Employee participation in Nordic manufacturing companies in the Baltic States, British Academy of Management Special Interest Group Workshop, Cardiff, 30-31 March 2009. 2008 Lillie Nathan & Sippola, Markku. Kansalliset järjestelmät ja ylikansallinen rakennustyö, (National systems and transnational work in construction) Työelämän tutkimuspäivät, Work Research Centre, Tampere, Finland, 13 November 2008. 2007 Lillie, Nathan & Sippola, Markku. The Breakdown of National Systems? Evidence from the UK and Finnish Construction sectors, 19 th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics CBS, International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 June 2007. 2006 Woolfson, Charles & Sippola, Markku. Labour Migration and Industrial Conflict in the Enlarged Europe: Post-communist legacies and perspectives, Plenary Session, British Universities Industrial Relations Association, 56 th Annual Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 30 June 2006. 2006 Sippola, Markku. Evaluation of Nordic companies in the Baltic States pointing at CSR and trade union rights Research-based information and concrete examples, the 1 st Sub-Regional Workshop of the Baltic CSR Project (A trade union initiative for promoting social partnership involvement in the Baltic Sea Region) in Helsinki, Finland, 15 May 2006. 2006 Sippola, Markku. Practices of social dialogue in Nordic manufacturing companies in the Baltic States, the 24 th Annual International Labour Process Conference at the jointly organised by School of Management Royal Holloway and School of Management Birkbeck College, University of London, 10-12 April 2006.
References Dr. Jouko Nätti Professor of Social Policy Department of Social Research University of Tampere FI-33014 University of Tampere +358(0)3 3551 6340 Email: jouko.natti@uta.fi Dr. Nathan Lillie Associate Professor in Industrial Relations & Labor Faculty of Economics and Business University of Groningen +31 (0) 50 363 5142 Email.: n.a.lillie@rug.nl Dr. Charles Woolfson Professor of Labour Studies REMESO Linköping University +46 (0)11 36 33 00 Email: c.woolfson@isv.liu.se