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Hanken School of Economics

Team

Eero Vaara, Professor
Mikko Vesa, PhD Student
Kari Jalonen, Doctoral Student
Virpi Sorsa, Researcher
Alexei Koveshnikov, Doctoral Student
Henri Schildt, Assistant Professor
Eric Breit, PhD student
Pikka-Maaria Laine, Researcher
Pekka Pälli, Senior Lecturer
Tina Karme, Assistant, Project Coordinator
Saku Mantere, Professor
Henrika Franck, Lecturer, Doctoral Student

Professional Roles

Pekka Pälli Senior Lecturer, Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Discourse Studeis
Eero Vaara Professor of Management and Organization, Vice Rector of Hanken School of Economics, Team Leader (Strategy as Discourse)

Projects

  • Strategy as dialogue

  • In this project, we focus on communication in strategy work. In particular, we aim at developing new communication practices that can enhance participation in strategy processes. The development work will be conducted in case organizations and method workshops. The results of the project will be disseminated and com-municated widely in the Finnish work organizations by writing articles in popular magazines, publishing a practitioner-oriented workbook on participatory communi-cation practices in organizational strategy, and sharing knowledge of strategic practices through focus seminars, project’s website and mailing list. The project takes part in the academic discussion by publishing five academic dissertations, 10 articles in academic journals and a number of international conference papers.

  • Social and discursive practices of strategizing in City organization

  • This is a case study, which is based on an ethnographic investigation of strategizing in Lahti City organization in Finland. The project began with an interest to understand better what are those social and discursive practices through which strategy is introduced and rooted to a public organization. Since then, the project have grown and provides now a rich data set to study strategizing with various different angles.

Publications

2011
Riad, S, & Vaara, E (2011). Varieties of metonymy in media accounts of mergers and acquisitions. Journal of Management Studies, 48(4), 737-771.
2011
Henri Schildt, Saku Mantere, & Eero Vaara (2011). Reasonability and the linguistic division of labor in institutional work . Journal of Management Inquiry, 20(1), 82-86.
2011
Saku Mantere, Henri Schildt, & John A.A. Sillince (2011). Reversal of Strategic Change. Academy of Management Journal, 54forthcoming.
2011
Vaara, E. , & Tienari, J. (2011). On the narrative construction of multinational corporations: An antenarrative analysis of legitimation and resistance in a cross-border merger. Organization Science, 22(2), 370-390.
2010
Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl, & Eero Vaara (2010). Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2010
Vaara, E. (2010). Taking the linguistic turn seriously: Strategy as multifaceted and interdiscursive phenomenon. Advances in Strategic Management, 2729-50.
2010
Virpi Sorsa, Pekka Pälli, Eero Vaara, & Katja Peltola (2010). Strategia mahdollisuutena ja rajoitteena kuntaorganisaatiossa: Kielestä, kommunikaatiosta ja vallasta. Helsinki: Hanken School of Economics.
2010
Eero Vaara, Virpi Sorsa, & Pekka Pälli (2010). On the force potential of strategy texts: A critical discourse analysis of a strategic plan and its power effects in a city organization. Organization, 17(6), 685-702.
2010
Pikka-Maaria Laine, & Eero Vaara (2010). Struggling over subjectivity: a critical discourse analysis of strategic development. In Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl, & Eero Vaara (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (pp. 310-325). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2010
Saku Mantere (2010). A Wittgensteinian perspective on strategizing. In Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl, & Eero Vaara (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (pp. 155-167). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2010
Vaara, E., & Monin, P. (2010). A recursive perspective on discursive legitimation and organizational action in mergers and acquisitions. Organization Science, 21(1), 3-22.
2010
Mikko Ketokivi, & Saku Mantere (2010). Two Strategies for Indictive Reasoning in Organizational Research. Academy of Management Review, 35(2), 315–333.
2010
Erkama, N., & Vaara, E. (2010). Struggles over legitimacy in global organizational restructuring: A rhetorical perspective on legitimation strategies and dynamics in a shutdown case. Organization Studies, 31(7), 813-839.
2009
Durand, R., & Vaara, E. (2009). Causation, counterfactuals and competitive advantage. Strategic Management Journal, 30(12), 1245-1264.
2008
Saku Mantere, & Eero Vaara (2008). On the problem of participation in strategy: A critical discursive perspective. ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 19(2), 341-358.
2008
Eero Vaara, & Janne Tienari (2008). A discursive perspective on legitimation strategies in MNCs. Academy of Management Review, 33(4), 985-993.
2008
Saku Mantere (2008). Role expectations and middle managers strategic agency. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 45(2), 294–316.
2007
Saku Mantere, & John A.A. Sillince (2007). Strategic Intent as a Rhetorical Device. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 23(4), 406-423.
2006
Vaara, E., Tienari, J., & Laurila, J. (2006). Pulp and paper fiction: On the discursive legitimation of global industrial restructuring. Organization Studies, 27(6), 789-810.
2005
Saku Mantere (2005). Strategic practices as enablers and disablers of championing activity. STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION, 3(2), 157-184.
2005
Vaara, E., Tienari, J., Piekkari, R., & Säntti, R. (2005). Language and the circuits of power in a merging multinational corporation. Journal of Management Studies, 42(3), 595-623.
2005
Kuronen, M.-L., Tienari, J., & Vaara, E. (2005). The merger storm recognises no borders – An analysis of media rhetoric on a business manouver. Organization, 12(2), 247-273.
2004
Eero Vaara, Birgit Kleymann, & Hannu Seristö (2004). Strategies as discursive constructions: The case of airline alliances. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 41(1), 1-35.
2003
Eero Vaara (2003). Post-acquisition integration as sensemaking: Glimpses of ambiguity, confusion, hypocrisy, and politicization. Journal of Management Studies, 40(4), 859-894.
2003
Tienari, J., Vaara, E., & Björkman, I. (2003). Global capitalism meets national spirit: Discourses in media texts on a cross-border acquisition. Journal of Management Inquiry, 12(4), 377-393.
2002
Eero Vaara (2002). On the discursive construction of success/failure in narratives of post-merger integration. Organization Studies, 23(2), 213-250.

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