Rita Järventie-Thesleff
Visiting Professor
Visiting Professor
E706 Dept. Management Studies
My doctoral dissertation on building a corporate brand (2011) fueled my subsequent interest in studying more closely the challenges related to corporate identity, individual professional identity, and identification. Over the years, I have also studied change, roles as mediators of identity work, self-directed teams and organizations, strategy work, collective leadership and the importance of emotions in organizations. I consider myself to be an easily motivated critical management scholar with relatively eclectic interests.
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Areas of expertise
Roles, Identities, Change, Leadership, Emotions, Branding
Honors and awards
Candidate for the Best Paper Prize: “Sense-making as the Basis for Doing the Corporate Brand - A Practice Perspective” at Strategic Management Society, Special Conference Finland 2010
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Management Studies
Jan 2010
Candidate for the Best Paper: “Strategic wayfinding during emergent changes in media organizations – a narrative approach” at the EMMA conference 2015
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Management Studies
Jan 2015
AoM Best paper proceedings publication 2010
Best Paper Proceedings Publication at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Management Studies
Aug 2010
Publications
Boundaries, roles and identities in an online organization
Saara Bange, Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Janne Tienari
2022
Journal of Management Inquiry
Vulnerability and construction of leadership in self-managing organizational context – team level perspective
Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Jari Ylitalo
2022
Leading constituted in parallel with less-hierarchical organising
Rita Järventie-Thesleff
2021
Less-hierarchical organizing constituted within power-resistance dynamics
Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Pikka-Maaria Laine
2021
Brand co-creation in multichannel media environments
Saara Bange, Johanna Moisander, Rita Järventie-Thesleff
2020
JOURNAL OF MEDIA BUSINESS STUDIES
Entrepreneurial identity development through digital media
Sven-Ove Horst, Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Francisco Perez-Latre
2020
JOURNAL OF MEDIA BUSINESS STUDIES
Narrative construction of corporate branding: ambiguities, mixed feelings and ambivalence
Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Horst Sven-Ove
2020
Teaching strategy work to business students
Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Janne Tienari
2020
Teaching Strategic Management
‘We did it ourselves!’ - remedial resistance
Rita Järventie-Thesleff
2020
Becoming true to “yourself”?! Emotions and identity work in management training workshops
Sven-Ove Horst, Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Pekka Pälli
2019