Strategy and Venturing
The Institute of Strategy and Venturing enjoys an international reputation for research and teaching excellence in its core areas.
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Our research focuses on creating new scientific knowledge for establishing new businesses and technology-driven transformation of large and small firms, and of entire industries. Tying together theory-driven and problem-oriented research is our basis for educating future managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and scientists able to meet global challenges in technology-based business.
Focus areas
At the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, creating and transforming technology-based business is approached from three complementary perspectives: strategy and venturing, operations, and people.
Operations and Service Management
Our mission is to provide valuable new knowledge on design, management, and development of products, services, processes and supply chains.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
We focus on entrepreneurial leadership in technology-based business.
Research Groups
Strategy and Venturing
The Institute of Strategy and Venturing enjoys an international reputation for research and teaching excellence in its core areas.
Logistics Research
We have conducted research since 1990s on, among other things, e-commerce, e-grocery logistics, supply chain management, technologies on product-centric material flow management, manufacturing operations control, and sourcing.
Service Engineering and Management
The Service Engineering and Management (SEM) group investigates services and service operations in inter-organizational service systems. Services have become a salient focus of economic and industrial activity and the body of scientific knowledge on services is growing rapidly. The SEM research group combines multidisciplinary knowledge to conducting multi-method research on services.
Project Business
The PB research group examines projects in their wider business contexts, beyond traditional single project management. Research topics include, among others, the management of global projects, strategic and result-oriented project management, portfolio and stakeholder management and performance measurement in project business, and project sales and marketing.
Virtual and Mobile Work
The VmWork group examines dispersed and mobile work in its contexts by analyzing and modeling it.
Organization Design and Leadership
The Organization Design and Leadership group conducts research and contributes to teaching area of knowledge and competence management, with a special interest in knowledge-intensive businesses.
Policy Briefs
Policy briefs from our researchers to support better decision-making.
Latest publications
Elevating Business Models to the Ecosystem Level: Evidence from Web3 and Beyond
Annika Bengts, Ville Eloranta, Esko Hakanen, Taija Turunen, Valeska Tullney
2024
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Fading corporate survival prospects : Impact of co-selection bias in resource allocation on strategic intent
Robert A. Burgelman, Pertti Aaltonen
2024
Strategic Management Journal
Teknologianeutraliteetti ja yhteiskunnan strategiset tavoitteet tutkimus- ja innovaatiopolitiikassa
Vera Djakonoff, Atte Ojanen, Katri Sarkia, Heidi Uitto, Vesa Salminen, Juho Carpen, Esko Hakanen
2024
Adventures in Startupland: Tales of enterprise from Pyongyang to Black Rock City
Simon Down, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä
2024
Explorative Study on the Utilization of Patient Pathways in Finnish Public Healthcare
Amanda Eklund, Märt Vesinurm, Paulus Torkki
2024
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2024
Teaching for paradigm shifts: Supporting the drivers of radical creativity in management education
Ville Eloranta, Esko Hakanen, Claire Shaw
2024
Educational Research Review
py_ciu_image : A Python Library for Explaining Image Classification with Contextual Importance and Utility
Kary Främling, Ioan Vlad Apopei, Gustav Grund Pihlgren, Avleen Malhi
2024
Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems - 6th International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2024, Revised Selected Papers
The virtuous cycle of prosocial behaviour and perceived prosocial impact in organizations : a longitudinal three-wave study
Marcos Gómez, Álvaro Espejo, Frank Martela, Catalina Bastías, Diego Bravo, Wencesalo Unanue
2024
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Dual-Perspective Modeling of Patient Pathways: A Case Study on Kidney Cancer
Anna Grøndahl Larsen, Ragnhild Halvorsrud, Rolf Eigil Berg, Märt Vesinurm
2024
Digital Health and Wireless Solutions
Interpersonal mattering and the experience of meaning in life
Devin Guthrie, Joe Maffly-Kipp, Chase Gause, Jinhyung Kim, Frank Martela, Joshua A. Hicks
2024
JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
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