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Sustainability-Oriented Innovation for System-Level Impact

Jennifer Goodman, Minna Halme, Jouni K. Juntunen 2026 Academy of Management Discoveries

Carbon Performance in Airlines: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Firm-Level Drivers

Jouni K. Juntunen, Sarianna Lundan, Tiina Ritvala 2026 Sustainable Development

Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research : A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics

Ewald Kibler, Virva Salmivaara, Eleanor Lutman-White, Steffen Farny, Jo Angouri 2026 Organization Studies

Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion

Anastasia Koptsyukh, Ewald Kibler, Dean A. Shepherd 2026 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Future-fit : expanding the boundaries of international business

Rebecca Piekkari, Sarianna Lundan, Tiina Ritvala, Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen, Rob Van Tulder 2026

Another set of eyes: The role of intermediaries in doing qualitative research in low-income settings in emerging markets

Ira Chatterjee, Minna Halme, Rebecca Piekkari, Marleen Wierenga 2025 Handbook for Qualitative Research in Emerging Markets

Kauppatieteitä lukiolaiselle

Max Finne, Johanna Frösén, Katri Kauppi, Petri Kuoppamäki, Markku Kuula, Sarianna Lundan, Teemu Malmi, Peter Nyberg, Rebecca Piekkari, Jukka Rintamäki, Tiina Ritvala, Moritz Scherleitner 2025

Foodscapes : Making Sense of Urban Food Provisioning Practices

Kata Fodor, Mikko Jalas 2025 Food, Culture, and Society

Pivoting the self : Gendered identity construction of impoverished women transitioning from paid work to entrepreneurship in rural Indonesia

Bernadetta Aloina Ginting-Szczesny, Ewald Kibler, Ulla Hytti 2025 International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship

Taking context seriously through a phenomenology of place: an illustration of home-based work

Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny, Carmelita Ginting-Carlström, Ewald Kibler, Myrto Chliova 2025 Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies : Why, How, and What
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Apajalahti, E-L., Lovio, R. & Heiskanen, E. 2015. From Demand Side Management (DSM) to Energy Efficiency Services: A Finnish Case Study. Energy Policy, vol. 81. P. 76–85.

Forssell, S., & Lankoski, L. 2018. Shaping norms. A convention theoretical examination of alternative food retailers as food sustainability transition actors. Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 63. P. 46-56. DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.04.015

Goodman, J., Korsunova, A. & Halme, M. 2017. Our Collaborative Future: Activities and Roles of Stakeholders in Sustainability-Oriented Innovation. Business, Strategy & the Environment, vol.26:6. P. 731-753. DOI: 10.1002/bse.1941

Halme, M. & Korpela, M. 2014. Responsible innovation toward sustainable development in small and medium sized enterprises: A resource perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 23:8. P. 547-566. DOI: 10.1002/bse.1801

Halme, M., Lindeman, S. & Linna, P. 2012. Innovation for Inclusive Business: Intrapreneurial Bricolage in Multinational Corporations. Journal of Management Studies, vol. 49:4. P. 743-784.

Halme, M., Rintamäki, J., Knudsen, J. S., Lankoski, L. & Kuisma, M. 2018. When Is There a Sustainability Case for CSR? Pathways to Environmental and Social Performance Improvements. Business & Society. P. 1-47.

Hart, S., Sharma, S. & Halme, M. 2016. Poverty, Business Strategy, and Sustainable Development. Organization and Environment, vol. 29:4. P. 401-415.

Heinonen, J., Jalas, M., Juntunen, J. K., Ala-Mantila, S., & Junnila, S. 2013. Situated Lifestyles: II. The Impacts of Urban Density, Housing Type and Motorization on the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Middle-Income Consumers in Finland. Environmental Research Letters, 8(3): 035050.

Heinonen, J., Jalas, M., Juntunen, J. K., Ala-Mantila, S., & Junnila, S. 2013. Situated Lifestyles: I. How Lifestyles Change Along with the Level of Urbanization and What the Greenhouse Gas Implications Are—A Study of Finland. Environmental Research Letters, 8(2).

Heiskanen, E., Nissilä, H. & Lovio, R. 2015. Building Demonstration Projects as Sustainable Niches for New Technology: Solar Building Integration in Finland. Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 109. P. 347-356.

Hyysalo, S., Juntunen, J. K., & Martiskainen, M. 2018. Energy Internet forums as acceleration phase transition intermediaries. Research Policy, 47(5): 872–885.

Jalas, M. & Juntunen, J. K. 2015. Energy Intensive Lifestyles: Time Use, the Activity Patterns of Consumers, and Related Energy Demands in Finland. Ecological Economics, vol. 113. P. 51–59.

Joutsenvirta, M. 2016. A practice approach to the institutionalization of economic degrowth. Ecological Economics, vol. 128. P. 23-32.

Joutsenvirta, M. & Vaara, E. 2015. Legitimacy Struggles and Political Corporate Social Responsibility in International Settings: A Comparative Discursive Analysis of a Contested Investment in Latin America. Organization Studies, vol. 36:6. P. 741-777.

Juntunen, J. K., Halme, M., Korsunova, A., & Rajala, R. 2018. Strategies for Integrating Stakeholders into Sustainability Innovation: A Configurational Perspective. Journal of Product Innovation Management, Forthcoming.

Kokoulina, L., Ermolaeva, L., Patala, S. & Ritala, P. 2018. Championing processes and the emergence of industrial symbiosis. Regional Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1473568

Lankoski, L. & Smith, N. C. 2018. Alternative Objective Functions for Firms. Organization & Environment, vol. 31:3. P. 242-262.

Lankoski, L. 2016. Alternative Conceptions of Sustainability in a Business Context. Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 139. P. 847-857.

Lankoski, L., Smith, N. C. & Van Wassenhove, L. 2016. Stakeholder Judgments of Value. Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 26:2. P. 227-256.

Levänen, J., Lyytinen, T. & Gatica, S. 2018. Modelling the Interplay Between Institutions and Circular Economy Business Models: A Case Study of Battery Recycling in Finland and Chile. Ecological Economics, vol. 154. P. 373-382.

Lindeman, S. 2014. “Until We Live Like They Live in Europe”: A Multilevel Framework for Community Empowerment in Subsistence Markets. Journal of Macromarketing, vol.34:2. P. 171-185.

Mattinen, M., Nissinen, A., Hyysalo, S., & Juntunen, J. K. 2014. Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Air-Source Heat Pump and Innovative Ground-Source Air Heat Pump in Cold Climate. Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 18:1. P. 61-70.

Nissilä, H., Lempiälä, T. & Lovio, R. 2014. Constructing Expectations for Solar Technology over Multiple Field-Configuring Events: a Narrative Perspective. Science and Technology Studies, vol. 27:1. P. 54-75.

Nissilä, H. 2015. Conferences as Sequential Arenas for Creating New Sustainable Fields. Industry and Innovation, vol. 22:3. P. 209-228.

Patala, S., Korpivaara, I., Jalkala, A., Kuitunen, A. & Soppe, B. 2017. Legitimacy Under Institutional Change: How incumbents appropriate clean rhetoric for dirty technologies. Organization Studies. DOI: 10.1177/0170840617736938.

Temmes, A., Räsänen, R-S., Rinkinen, J. & Lovio, R. 2013. The Emergence of Niche Protection through Policies: The Case of Electric Vehicles Field in Finland. Science & Technology Studies, vol. 26:3. P. 37-62.

Tura, N., Keränen, J. & Patala, S. 2018. The darker side of sustainability: Tensions from sustainable business practices in business networks. Industrial Marketing Management, in press.

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