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Professors
Miia Martinsuo
- Professor
- Industrial Management, especially project-based organizing and industrial service business
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358408490895
- miia.martinsuo@tuni.fi
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Prof. Miia Martinsuo, D. Sc. (Tech.), is Professor of Industrial Management at Tampere University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. Prof. Martinsuo has over 15 years of academic experience in project and service business, and 9 years of development and management experience in international firms and the public sector on strategy, organization and business process development, particularly in the metal and engineering industry. Martinsuo has published over 200 articles, book chapters or books in the domains of project business, product development management, process innovations and organization changes and she is an active speaker and coach in continuing education programs.
Responsibilities
Prof. Martinsuo teaches, leads research and collaborates with industry in the society. She leads the research group Center for Research on Project and Service Business (CROPS) and the doctoral program in Business and Technology Management. Her field of research and teaching is project and service business. Her current research interests include: value creation and organizing in project business; managing project portfolios and change programs; decision making, control and performance in projects; front end of radical innovations; process innovations in manufacturing; and transformation of industrial firms toward service business. Her teaching deals with managing and developing industrial service business, managing project business, organization theories, and doctoral education.
Field of expertise
Project management; project business; industrial services; industrial service business; innovations, innovation management; organizations, organizing, management in organizations; organization development and change
Research unit
Industrial Engineering and Management, Center for Research on Project and Service Business CROPS. https://research.tuni.fi/crops-en/
Research fields
Industrial engineering and management
Main positions of trust
European Academy of Management executive committee: vice president, memberships
European Academy of Management executive board: national representative of Finland
Scandinavian Academy of Industrial Engineering and Management: board member
Selected publications
Publications in TUTCris
Tuomas Ahola
- Professor
- teollisuustalous, erityisesti toiminnan uudistaminen projektiliiketoiminnassa
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358503016203
- tuomas.ahola@tuni.fi
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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)
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
Member of editorial board, International Journal of Project Management
Member of editorial board, Project Leadership and Society
Member of editorial review board, Project Management Journal
Member of board, European Academy of Management (EURAM), Project Organising Special Interest Group
Chairman of Scientific Board, Project Management Association Finland (PMAF)
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
Researchers
Jere Lehtinen
- Senior Research Fellow
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358503230344
- jere.lehtinen@tuni.fi
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As per agreement.
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7474-3937
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D.Sc. (Tech.) Jere Lehtinen is a Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Industrial Engineering and Management, Center for Research on Project and Service Business (CROPS). Lehtinen has around 10 years of experience in various research and teaching activities in Finnish and foreign universities. Lehtinen has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters related to project management and project business. Lehtinen has received both national and international accolades for his research.
Responsibilities
Dr. Lehtinen is both a researcher and teacher. His research relates to management of complex projects (e.g., infrastructure and industrial projects) that involve a challenging multi-actor environment where organizations must collaborate across sector and organizational boundaries. His current research topics include: Stakeholder engagement and collaboration, Governance, contracting and contracts, Collaborative projects, Virtual project management and virtual project work, Sustainability and value creation, and Simulations and games. Lehtinen is the responsible teacher of the course TUTA.250 Quality Management. Additionally, Lehtinen teaches on the course DPBTM.500 Tuotantotalouden ja tietojohtamisen jatko-opintoseminaari. Lehtinen also instructs and supervises dissertations and theses related to project management and project business.
Field of expertise
Project management; Project Business; Complex projects; Large projects; Megaprojects; Construction and infrastructure projects; Industrial projects; Stakeholder management and engagement; Stakeholder theory; Collaborative projects; Virtual project work; Governance; Contracting and contracts; Sustainability; Value creation; Quality and process management
Research unit
Industrial Engineering and Management, Center for Research on Project and Service Business
Research career
2022- Senior Research Fellow, Tampere University, Industrial Engineering and Management, Finland
2021-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oulu, Industrial Engineering and Management, Finland
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University, Industrial Engineering and Management, Finland
2018-2019 Visiting Postgraduate Researcher, University of Leeds, School of Civil Engineering, the United Kingdom
2015-2020 Doctoral researcher, Aalto University, Industrial Engineering and Management, Finland
Top achievements
Best reviewer award of Project Organising Strategic Interest Group at EURAM 2022 Conference. Granted by Association for Project Management in Winterthur, Switzerland, June 2022.
Best Reviewer Nominee at EURAM 2022 Conference. Shortlisted by European Academy of Management in Winterthur, Switzerland, June 2022.
Academic PM Award 2021 for my doctoral thesis, ‘External stakeholder engagement in complex projects’. Granted by Project Professionals (Project Management Association Finland, official partner of IPMA called Projektiammattilaiset Ry), October 2021.
IJOPM’s 2020 Best Paper Award for the article ‘Revisiting the unholy alliance of health-care operations: payor–provider integration of occupational health services’. Best papers are characterized by a unique contribution to the field that is innovative, timely and well-executed. Granted by International Journal of Operations & Production Management, July 2021.
IPMA Global Research Award: Graduate Research Award Winner 2021 for project ‘External stakeholder engagement in complex projects’. Granted by International Project Management Association, May 2021.
Best reviewer award of Project Organising Strategic Interest Group at EURAM 2020 Conference. Granted by Association for Project Management in Dublin, Ireland (virtual), December 2020.
Main positions of trust
Dr. Lehtinen is a founder and shareholder in an educational technology called LessonLab that develops game-based learning solutions.
Selected publications
Lehtinen, J., Aaltonen, K. & Rajala, R. (2019), Stakeholder management in complex product systems: Practices and rationales for engagement and disengagement, Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 79, pp. 58–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.08.011
Lehtinen, J. & Aaltonen, K. (2020), Organizing external stakeholder engagement in inter-organizational projects: Opening the black box, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 38 No. 2, pp. 85–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2019.12.001
Peltokorpi, A., Matinheikki, J., Lehtinen, J., & Rajala, R. (2020), Revisiting the unholy alliance of healthcare operations: Payor-provider integration of occupational health services, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol 40 No. 4, pp. 357–387. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-04-2019-0326
Lehtinen, J., Peltokorpi, A. & Artto, K. (2019), Megaprojects as organizational platforms and technology platforms for value creation, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 37 No. 1, pp. 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.10.001
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, Vol 91, pp. 686–700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2019.08.010
Lehtinen, J., Locatelli, G., Sainati, T., Artto, K. & Evans, B. (2022), The grand challenge: Effective anti-corruption measures in projects, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 347–361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.04.003
Jääskä, E., Lehtinen, J., Kujala, J., & Kauppila, O. (2022), Game-based learning and students’ motivation in project management education, Project Leadership and Society, 3, 100055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2022.100055
Lehtinen, J., Kier, C., Aaltonen, K. & Huemann, M. (2023), A complexity perspective on project stakeholder management, in: Winch, G., Brunet, M. & Cao, D. (Eds) Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing, pp. 243-253. Cheltenham: Elgar.
Lehtinen, J. & Aaltonen, K. (2022). Project organizations’ roles in using social media for external stakeholder engagement: Implications on value creation and distribution, in: Ninan, J. (Eds), Social media for Project Management, pp. 137-162. Taylor and Francis group (CRC press).
Khadijeh Momeni
- Academy Postdoctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- +358451637676
- khadijeh.momeni@tuni.fi
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I received a PhD degree in business and technology management from Tampere University. I currently work as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. My current research concentrates on managing and developing industrial service business, focusing on digital servitization and supply chains. My other research interest focuses on integrated solutions in project-based firms.
Responsibilities
Teaching: TTA-75056 Industrial Service Systems; TTA-15067 Business Management Cases
Research unit
Industrial Engineering and Management, Center for Research on Project and Service Business (CROPS)
Research fields
Industrial service business and project business
Selected publications
Momeni, K. and Martinsuo, M. (2019). Integrating services into solution offerings in the sales work of project-based firms. International Journal of Project Management, 37(8), 956-967.
Momeni, K. and Martinsuo, M. (2019). Going downstream in a project-based firm: Integration of distributors in the delivery of complex systems. International Journal of Project Management, 37(1), 27-42.
Momeni, K. and Martinsuo, M. (2018). Allocating human resources to projects and services in dynamic project environments. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 11(2), 486-50.
Momeni, K. and Martinsuo, M. (2018). Remote monitoring in industrial services: Need-to-have instead of nice-to-have. Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 33(6), 792-803.
Lauri Vuorinen
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- lauri.vuorinen@tuni.fi
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My fields of research are project management and project business. I am especially interested in value creation and stakeholder relationships in projects and project-based organizations.
I have an active role in the teaching of project management and project business at Tampere University, together with my colleagues of the CROPS research group. I am responsible for the advanced course in project business entitled "Management of Project Business".
Matias Ståhle
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- matias.stahle@tuni.fi
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I work as a project researcher in the unit of industrial engineering and management. My research topic is related to project business and more specifically to project marketing and sales in small and medium-sized firms.
Research unit
CROPS (Center for Research on Project and Service Business)
Research fields
Project management and project business
Sebastian Toukola
- Doctoral Researcher
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Tampere University
- sebastian.toukola@tuni.fi
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I work as a researcher in the unit of Industrial Engineering and Management. My fields of research are project business and urban development projects. Other interests are commercialization and digital tools.
Research unit
CROPS (Center for Research on Project and Service Business)
Research fields
Project management and project business