Risto Rajala

Professor

T307 Dept. Industrial Engineering and Management

Professor

I am interested in management challenges related to technology firms’ service operations. My colleagues and I study the system-level changes linked with the transformation of technology industries toward service-based value creation.

Our current research focuses on services supporting the sustainability of industrial operations, management of complex service systems, digital transformation of technology industries, and business models of the circular economy.

Our past projects have investigated the management of product-service hybridity in the construction business, payor-provider integration of healthcare services, and the effects of modularity on industrial solution providers’ ambidextrous performance.

I hold a Ph.D. in Information Systems Science and I currently serve as a professor of Service Engineering and Management.

Specialties:

Service Engineering and Management
Information Systems
Innovation Management
Organizational and Strategic Change
Technology Entrepreneurship

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

Phone number

+358403538140

Areas of expertise

Management of Service Systems, Development of Digital Services, Service Innovation and Business Models, Kiertotalous, 113 Computer and information sciences, 512 Business and management, 222 Other engineering and technologies, 119 Other natural sciences, Industrial management

Honors and awards

IJOPM 2020 Best Paper Award

International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Best Article of the Year 2020

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Jul 2021

Award for a High-grade PhD Thesis

Given by the Strategic Management Society of Finland

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Jan 2011

Dissertation of the Year Award

HSE Foundation

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Jan 2010

The Best Research Team of Helsinki School of Economics

Researcher and team coordinator

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Jan 2008

Yrjö and Senja Koivunen Award for a supervised Thesis

M.Sc. Thesis

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Jan 2016

Best Academic Paper Award

Award winning paper: Powering sustainable innovations: Strategies for collaborating with deviant partners by Jouni Juntunen, Minna Halme, Angelina Korsunova and Risto Rajala

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Jul 2016

Yrjö and Senja Koivunen Award for a supervised Thesis

B.Sc. Thesis

Award or honor granted for a specific work School Common, BIZ Jan 2015