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
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Contact information

Phone number
+358503482051

Areas of expertise

Roles, Identities, Change, Leadership, Emotions, Branding

Publications

Harmonious passion

Rita Järventie-Thesleff 2024 Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management edited by Eriksson, P., Montonen, T., Laine, P-M, & Hannula, A., forthcoming in 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Understanding failure of strategic episodes

Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Jari Ylitalo 2023

Boundaries, roles and identities in an online organization

Saara Bange, Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Janne Tienari 2022 Journal of Management Inquiry

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