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
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.
Esikoiskirjailijan identiteettityö: case Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinto
Rita Järventie-Thesleff
2023
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
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