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Are you searching for a partner for research or development concerning intra-organizational or inter-organizational project operations or industrial service business? Would you like to join in a company network for studying project or service business? Or do you want to offer your firm’s problem-solving task or other example as part of teaching, thesis assignment, or students’ practical assignment? Please contact the professor concerning your domain, contact information below.

Professors

Tuomas Ahola

Professor
teollisuustalous, erityisesti toiminnan uudistaminen projektiliiketoiminnassa
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
+358503016203
tuomas.ahola@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4488-9214

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About me

My work concentrates on the management of complex projects, as well as the renewal of project business -impacted by drivers including emerging digital technologies, new network-based collaboration forms, as well as sustainability concerns.

Responsibilities

Research (leading and preparing research projects)

Teaching (supervision of academic theses, TTA-71011 Projektinhallinta / Project Management, TTA-75061 Yritysverkostot projektiliiketoiminnassa)

Societal influence

Field of expertise

Laajojen projektien johtaminen, projektiyritysten johtaminen, yritysverkostot, kestävä kehitys projektiliiketoiminnassa

Research unit

Industrial Engineering and Management, Center for Research on Project and Service Business (CROPS)

Project links

Top achievements

Certificate of Excellence in Research, Faculty of Business and Built Environment, Tampere University of Technology, September 2018

Best reviewer prize: Project Organising Strategic Interest Group, European Academy of Management Conference, June 2016

Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing - International Journal of Project Management 2015

Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing - International Journal of Project Management 2013

Outstanding Paper Award Winner - Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013

Main positions of trust

Selected publications

Ahola, T., Aaltonen, K., Artto, K., & Lehtinen, J. (2020). Making room to manoeuvre: How firms increase their influence with others in business networks. Industrial Marketing Management, 91, 686-700.

Tura, N., Hanski, J., Ahola, T., Ståhle, M., Piiparinen, S., & Valkokari, P. (2019). Unlocking circular business: A framework of barriers and drivers. Journal of cleaner production, 212, 90-98.

Bragge, J., Kauppi, K., Ahola, T., Aminoff, A., Kaipia, R., & Tanskanen, K. (2019). Unveiling the intellectual structure and evolution of external resource management research: Insights from a bibliometric study. Journal of Business Research, 97, 141-159.

Ahola, T. (2018). So alike yet so different: A typology of interorganisational projects. International Journal of Project Management, 36(8), 1007-1018.

Aarseth, W., Ahola, T., Aaltonen, K., Økland, A., & Andersen, B. (2017). Project sustainability strategies: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Project Management, 35(6), 1071-1083.

Ahola, T., Vuori, M., & Viitamo, E. (2017). Sharing the burden of integration: an activity-based view to integrated solutions provisioning. International Journal of Project Management, 35(6), 1006-1021.

Tanskanen, K., Ahola, T., Aminoff, A., Bragge, J., Kaipia, R., & Kauppi, K. (2017). Towards evidence-based management of external resources: Developing design propositions and future research avenues through research synthesis. Research Policy, 46(6), 1087-1105.

Compelete list of publications: see Google-scholar profiile