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

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

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