Strategy and Venturing
The Institute of Strategy and Venturing enjoys an international reputation for research and teaching excellence in its core areas.
Competence areas
At the department, creating and transforming technology-based business is approached from three complementary perspectives: strategy and venturing, operations, and people.
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.
Latest publications
Obsessed to succeed : The media depiction of entrepreneurial passion
Ahmed Abdelmoula, Martina Gianecchini
2026
Journal of Business Venturing Insights
On the difficulty of using algorithms to replace managers in decision making: A study of customer prioritization
Samu Ahola, Jukka Luoma
2026
Industrial Marketing Management
Overcoming the complexity of healthcare renewal
Annika Bengts
2026
May I have your attention - Designers’ issue selling processes in design integration
Tua Björklund, Floris van der Marel, Satu Rekonen, Teo Keipi
2026
Technovation
Being the Change : Prefiguration and Moral Exclusion in a Refugee Relief Organization
Myrto Chliova, Saku Mantere, Henri Schildt, Anna Salvanou
2026
Academy of Management Journal
Machine learning applications in enhancing sustainable supply chains—a foresighted empirical study
Zeinab Farshadfar
2026
Separating belief in meaning of life from the personal experience of meaning in life : Different relations with religiosity and well-being
Joffrey Fuhrer, Frank Martela, Florian Cova
2026
Personality and Individual Differences
Data in information infrastructures : foundations and structuring of socio-economic value
Robin Gustafsson, Robert van der Have, Niko Lipiäinen, Ville Valovirta
2026
Research Handbook on Digital Data
Object-Interactive Transvections : A Theory for Addressing Persistent Retail Supply Chain Problems
Emmelie Gustafsson, Patrik Jonsson, Mikael Öhman, Alireza Jaribion, Jan Holmström
2026
Journal of Business Logistics
Impact Pathways: Geo-operations for Turning Plastic Waste into Carbon Capture
Esko Hakanen, Jan Holmström, Kirsi Immonen
2026
International Journal of Operations and Production Management