People

• CICAT2025
• B2N

• Business to Nature (B2N) Research project
• Circular Economy Catalysts, CICAT2025 Strategic Research Council project
• Assembling Postcapitalist International Political Economy, PostCaPe Research project
• RESPMAN Research Group

Peer-reviewed journal articles and articles in edited books

Kortetmäki, T., Heikkinen, A. & Jokinen, A. 2022. Particularizing nonhuman nature in stakeholder theory: The recognition approach. Journal of Business Ethics, online first. (Open Access )

Kujala, J., Sachs, S., Leinonen, H., Heikkinen, A. & Laude, D. 2022. Stakeholder engagement: Past, present, and future. Business & Society, online first. (Open Access)

Tapaninaho, R. & Heikkinen, A. 2022. Value creation in circular economy business for sustainability: A stakeholder relationship perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, online first. (Open Access) 

Blomberg, A., Heikkinen, A. & Kujala, J. 2021. Sidosryhmävuorovaikutus kestävän liiketoiminnan mahdollistajana [Stakeholder engagement in sustainable business]. In Eräranta, K. & Penttilä, V. (Eds.) Vastuullinen viestintä. Helsinki: ProComma Academic. pp. 60–75. (Open Access)  

Gonzalez-Porras, L., Heikkinen, A., Kujala, J. & Tapaninaho, R. 2021. Stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions. In Teerikangas, S., Onkila, T., Koistinen, K. & Mäkelä, M. (Eds.) Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 214–229 (Open Access)  

Mattila, M., Mesiranta, N. & Heikkinen, A. 2020. Platform-based sustainable business models: Reducing food waste in food services. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 24(4/5), 249–265.

Jokinen, A & Heikkinen, A. 2019. Pääkirjoitus: Luontopohjaiset ratkaisut: käsitteen vakiintumisen reittejä. Alue ja Ympäristö, 48(2), 1–4. (Open Access )

Heikkinen, A., Mäkelä, H., Kujala, J., Nieminen, J., Jokinen, A. & Rekola, H. 2019. Urban ecosystem services and stakeholders: Towards a sustainable capability approach. In Bonnedahl, K. J. & Heikkurinen, P. (eds.) Strongly Sustainable Societies. Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth. New York, NY: Routledge, 116-133 (Open Access )

Heikkinen, A. 2017. Business Climate Change Engagement: Stakeholder Collaboration in Multi-Stakeholder Networks. In Freeman, R. E., Kujala, J. & Sachs, S. (eds.) Stakeholder Engagement: Clinical Research Cases. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 231–254  

Heikkinen, A., Kujala, J., Laine, M. & Mäkelä, H. 2017. Discourse analysis as a method for business ethics and corporate responsibility research. In Werhane, P. H., Freeman, R. E. & Dmytriyev, S. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 138–153. 

Kujala, J., Heikkinen, A. & Lehtimäki, H. 2012. Understanding the dynamic nature of stakeholder relationships: An empirical examination of a conflict situation. Journal of Business Ethics, 109(1), 53–65. 

Books, edited books and journal special issues

Kudłak, R., Barkemeyer, R., Preuss, L., & Heikkinen, A. (Eds.) 2022. The impact of corporate social responsibility: Corporate activities, the environment and society. Taylor & Francis

Närvänen, E., Mesiranta, N., Mattila, M. & Heikkinen, A. (Eds). 2020. Food Waste Management: Solving the Wicked Problem. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Jokinen, A. & Heikkinen, A. (Eds.). 2019. Special issue: Luontopohjaiset ratkaisut [Nature-based solutions]. Alue ja Ympäristö, 48(2). 

Kangas, A., Kujala, J., Heikkinen, A., Lönnqvist, A., Laihonen, H., & Bethwaite, J. (Eds.) 2019. Leading Change in a Complex World: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Tampere: Tampere University Press (Open Access )

Heikkinen, A. 2014. Discursive Constructions of Climate Change Engagement in Business Organisations. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1996. Tampere: Tampere University Press. 167 pp. ISBN 978-951-44-9633-2 Doctoral dissertation   

Centre for Social and Environmental Accountability Research: Executive Council Member 2007-

European Accounting Review: Incoming Co-Editior 2024-2027

European Accounting Association: Standing Scientific Committee Member 2019-2025

European Accounting Association: Conference Committee Chair 2015-2021

European Accounting Association: Management Committee Member 2020-2021

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal: Co-Editor 2016-2019

Editorial Board member for several journals, including Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and European Accounting Review

Selected publications:

Correa, C., Laine, M. & Larrinaga, C. (in press). Taking the world seriously: Autonomy, reflexivity and engagement research in social and environmental accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 102554.

Laine, M., Tregidga, H. & Unerman, J. (2022). Sustainability Accounting and Accountability. 3rd Ed. Routledge.

Järvinen, J., Laine, M., Hyvönen, T. & Kantola, H. (2022). Just Look at the Numbers: A Case Study on Quantification in Corporate Environmental Disclosures. Journal of Business Ethics, 175, 23-44.

Tregidga H. & Laine, M. (2022). On crisis and emergency. Is it time to rethink long-term environmental accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 82, 102311. 

Laine, M., Scobie, M., Sorola, M. & Tregidga, H. (2020). Special Issue Editorial: Social and Environmental Account/Ability 2020 and Beyond. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 40(1), 1-22.

André, K., Cho. C.H. & Laine, M. (2018). Reference points for measuring social performance: A case study of a social business venture. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(5), 660-678.

Vinnari, E. & Laine, M. (2017). The moral mechanism of counter accounts: The case of industrial animal production. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 57, 1-17.

Ylönen M. & Laine M. (2015). “For logistical reasons only? A case study of tax planning and corporate social responsibility reporting”. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 33, 5-23.

Cho C.H., Laine M., Roberts R.W. and Rodrigue M. (2015). “Organized Hypocrisy, Organizational Façades, and Sustainability Reporting”. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 40(1), 78-94.

Albu, N., Albu, C.N., Apostol, O. and Cho, C. (2021), The past is never dead: the role of imprints in shaping social and environmental reporting in a post-communist context. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(5), 1109-1136.

Apostol, O., Mäkelä, M., Heikkilä, K., Höyssä, K., Jokinen, L. and Saarni, J. (2021), Triggering sustainability communication in a B2B context: combining action research and sensemaking. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(4), 849-876.

Apostol, O. & Pop, A. (2019), ‘Paying taxes is losing money’: A qualitative study on institutional logics in the tax consultancy field in Romania, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 58, 1-23.

Apostol, O. (2015), A project for Romania? The role of the civil society’s counter-accounts in facilitating democratic change in society, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 28(2), 210–241.

Apostol, O. and Näsi, S. (2014), Firm - employee relationships from a social responsibility perspective: Developments from communist thinking to market ideology in Romania. A mass media story, Journal of Business Ethics, 119(3), 301–315.

• TUNICRIS

• Circular Economy Catalysts, CICAT2025

Toivonen, A., & Martí, I. (2021). Let’s Clean Up and Bring Some Order Here! Moral Regulation of Markets in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Business Ethics Quarterly, 1-33. doi:10.1017/beq.2021.14

Toivonen, A., & Toivonen, P. U. (2014). The transformative effect of top management governance choices on project team identity and relationship with the organization—An agency and stewardship approach. International Journal of Project Management, 32(8), 1358-1370.

Toivonen, A. (2017). When all hope is lost: Mobilization fatigue and the aftermath of demobilization. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2017, No. 1, p. 16852). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

Toivonen, A., & Rivera-Santos, M. (2016). Facing formalization pressures: Understanding options and choices for informal entrepreneurs. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2016, No. 1, p. 15442). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

• MULTI-ACT
• Towards eco-welfare state: Orchestrating for systemic impact (ORSI)
• Constructing accountability in business-stakeholder relationships: the role of CSR communication

Latest publications:

Lukka, K., Modell, S. and Vinnari, E. 2022. Exploring the “theory is king” thesis in accounting research: the case of actor-network theory. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35(9), 136-167.

Peda, P. & Vinnari, E. 2022. To build or not to build? Mobilization of uncertainty arguments in public decision-making on private megaprojects. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 34(6), 235-262.

Vinnari, E. & Vinnari, M. (2022). Making the invisibles visible: including animals in sustainability (and) accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 82, 102324.

Vinnari, E., Baxter, J. & Chua, W.F. 2022. Accounting, Accountability and Animals. Editorial. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 84, paper 102412.

Vinnari, E. (2021). Animals, activists and accounting: On confronting an intellectual dead end. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 41(3), 194-200.

Vinnari, E. & Vinnari, M. 2021. Accounting for animal rights. In: J. Bebbington, C. Larrinaga, B. O’Dwyer & I. Thomson (eds.). Handbook on Environmental Accounting. London: Routledge.

Silvola, H. & Vinnari, E. 2021. The limits of institutional work: a field study on auditors’ efforts to promote sustainability assurance in a trust society. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 34(1), 1-30. 

Laine, M. & Vinnari, E. 2020. Counter-narratives in accounting research: a methodological perspective. In: Lueg, K., & Lundholt, M. W. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Peda, P. & Vinnari, E. 2020. The discursive legitimation of profit in public-private service delivery. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2019.06.002

Dillard, J. & Vinnari, E. 2019. Critical dialogic accountability: From accounting-based accountability to accountability-based accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 62, 16-38.