What kind of challenges and opportunities globality brings to safety and security management?: Case Finnish companies that are operating in global field
Niemelä, Petrus (2022)
2022
Master's Programme in Security and Safety Management
Johtamisen ja talouden tiedekunta - Faculty of Management and Business
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2022-02-04
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202201191418
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202201191418
Tiivistelmä
World has changed rapidly in recent years; end of cold war, formation of the European Union and globalization has created new fast developing markets that generate competition around the world. In the 1990’s and 2000’s, governments started to lose public trust, and the private sector, on the other hand, started to gain trust. While globalisation has created new markets for business, new threats have also occurred. Rapid development of technology has created new benefits for companies, but on the other hand, cyber threats, enterprise espionage, and terrorism have reared their heads in the world. The development of corporate security has provided new kind of security for the assets and employees of the companies.
The aim of this research is to investigate what kind of challenges and opportunities Finnish companies are encountering when operating in the global field. This study is based on a qualitative research methodology, and the research is conducted by phenomenological research. The purpose of the phenomenological research is to describe persons’ experience to a certain phenomenon that they have experienced. The data of this research has been collected from several security professionals who work in different Finnish companies and organisations. The inquiry was a semi-structured interview that contained ten questions. The questions were proposed to gain knowledge of interviewees’ background, organisation, and knowledge towards the global security management. Questions where structured around The Confederation of Finnish Industries (Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto, Ek) corporate security model (2016).
The findings of this research emerged from the five topics that were based on the interviewees’ shared experiences. Topics were corporate security model, security management, globality, culture, and complexity. These five topics have generated the essence of the phenomenon. Conclusions of this thesis are that managing security globally is a multidimensional phenom that includes complex themes that security professionals must deal with. The risks that globality brings to companies and organisations can be complex. It is certain, that Finnish companies must deal with global issues growing at a fast pace in the future. This thesis enables the reader to see the state of her own organization’s safety and security management status in a global context.
The aim of this research is to investigate what kind of challenges and opportunities Finnish companies are encountering when operating in the global field. This study is based on a qualitative research methodology, and the research is conducted by phenomenological research. The purpose of the phenomenological research is to describe persons’ experience to a certain phenomenon that they have experienced. The data of this research has been collected from several security professionals who work in different Finnish companies and organisations. The inquiry was a semi-structured interview that contained ten questions. The questions were proposed to gain knowledge of interviewees’ background, organisation, and knowledge towards the global security management. Questions where structured around The Confederation of Finnish Industries (Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto, Ek) corporate security model (2016).
The findings of this research emerged from the five topics that were based on the interviewees’ shared experiences. Topics were corporate security model, security management, globality, culture, and complexity. These five topics have generated the essence of the phenomenon. Conclusions of this thesis are that managing security globally is a multidimensional phenom that includes complex themes that security professionals must deal with. The risks that globality brings to companies and organisations can be complex. It is certain, that Finnish companies must deal with global issues growing at a fast pace in the future. This thesis enables the reader to see the state of her own organization’s safety and security management status in a global context.