People

About me

Dr. Johanna Kujala is a Professor of Management and Organizations and Vice Dean for Research at the Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business. She has a Title of Docent in Business Administration (Stakeholder Management and Business Ethics), and she is the director of the RESPMAN Responsible Management Research Group at the Tampere University. Johanna has directed several cross-disciplinary research projects, and currently, she is the PI of the Academy of Finland research project titled B2N Business to Nature: Stakeholder Driven Value Creation in Ecosystem Services, as well as a WP leader in the CICAT2025 Circular Economy Catalysts: From Innovation to Business Ecosystems research project funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland. She has acted as a visiting scholar at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2019, and at the University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy, in 2015 and 2017. Johanna has published over 50 scholarly articles in international peer-reviewed journals and volumes. Her current research interests focus on stakeholder engagement and value creation, circular economy and strong sustainability, as well as on case studies on corporate responsibility and sustainability.

Responsibilities

Current position

01.01.2019– Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University (TAU)

01.03.2017– Professor (Management and Organizations), Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University (TAU)

Previous work experience

2014–2017 Associate Professor (tenure track), School of Management, UTA

2017, 2015 Visiting research scholar, University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy

2019, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2013 Visiting research scholar, University of Virginia (UVA), USA

2012–2014 Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), UTA

2008–2012 Professor of Management and Organizations (acting), UTA

2006–2007 Lecturer of Management and Organizations, UTA 

2003–2006 Senior Researcher, Tampere University of Technology (TUT)

2002–2003 Post-doctoral researcher, TUT

About me

Kauppatieteiden tohtori, yliopistonlehtori (yrityksen johtaminen), vastuuopettaja (vastuullisen liiketoiminnan maisteriohjelma) ja dosentti (yritysetiikka ja kestävä liiketoiminta), joka on kiinnostunut vastuullisesta ja kestävästä liiketoiminnasta, kaupunkiluonnosta, biodiversiteetistä, sidosryhmävuorovaiktuksesta, liiketoiminnan roolista yhteiskunnassa sekä yritysetiikasta. Tampereen yliopiston RESPMAN-tutkimusryhmän jäsen.

Responsibilities

Tehtävät: 

Yliopistonlehtori, yrityksen johtaminen, Johtamisen ja talouden tiedekunta, Tampereen yliopisto

Vastuuopettaja, Vastuullisen liiketoiminnan maisteriohjelma, Johtamisen ja talouden tiedekunta, Tampereen yliopisto

Dosentti (Yritysetiikka ja kestävä liiketoiminta), Itä-Suomen yliopisto

Opetus: 

Vastuullinen liiketoiminta (CSR), kestävä liiketoiminta ja yritysetiikka; sidosryhmäteoria ja yhteistyö; ympäristökysymykset liiketoiminnassa (ilmastonmuutos, biodiversiteetti, kaupunkiluonto); tutkimusmenetelmät.

Kurssit: 

KAT.003 Kauppatieteellisen tutkimuksen menetelmät (yrityksen johtaminen ja vastuullinen liiketoiminta)

LFC.340 Case study: Examining leadership and sustainability challenges

KAT.VAST.398 Vastuullisen liiketoiminnan syventävä kirjallisuus

KAT.VAST.399 Vastuullisen liiketoiminnan pro gradu -seminaari

Research career

Education and other affiliations

Adjunct Professor, Business Ethics and Sustainability, University of Eastern Finland, 5/2019–present

Senior Research Fellow, MAB, Tampere University, 1–7/2019

Professor (acting), Management and Organizations, School of Management, University of Tampere, 9–12/2018, 9–12/2017

Postdoctoral researcher, School of Management, University of Tampere, 2015–2018

D.Sc. in Management and Organizations, School of Management, University of Tampere, 2014

Master of Science in Management and Organizations, School of Management, University of Tampere, 2009

International mobility

Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Society and Communication, Visiting researcher, 4–5/2019 

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Visiting Scholar, 5–6/2018 

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Visiting PhD Scholar, 1–6/2012

Aarhus School of Business, Exchange student, 2007

About me

My research interests are at the interface of business, society and the natural environment. I am interested in understanding the role of private corporations and business world in the societies' struggle with the escalating global environmental challenges. I consider accounting and accountability to be of major importance in this quest. More specifically, I keep asking whether the increased popularity of the so called sustainability accounting and reporting in the corporate sector actually enhances societies' pursuit of sustainability.

Research Group on Sustainability and Critical Accounting 

Research fields

Sustainability accounting; Social and environmental accounting; Critical accounting; Sustainability disclosures; CSR

About me

I am currently working for the Academy of Finland project entitled Constructing accountability in business-stakeholder relationships: the role of CSR communication at the Faculty of Management and Business. Prior to this, I held research-oriented positions at Turku School of Economics. 

I am broadly interested in the social and environmental dimensions of business organisations, as approached from an accounting angle. Among the more specific research topics I have been investigated is corporate sustainability communication that I have looked at from a critical stance. In recent times, particularly attractive to me is to explore the question of how accounting practices could be transformed to serve sustainability purposes rather than business interests, as they currently seem to do. One of the avenues that I have worked with stems from the possibility to mobilize accounting practices outside the business sector and use them to empower e.g. non-governmental organisations or social movements. Another research topic that I currently investigate looks at accountants and their role in changing accounting practices within business organisations in a way that better takes into consideration sustainability aims.

Research topics

sustainability accounting, counter-accounting, social movements, accountants and sustainability, accountability

About me

My research interests are situated within the field of environmental management accounting, with a particular emphasis on the incorporation of novel forms of information into organizational decision-making and managerial practices. This includes the development of sustainability accounting systems and the facilitation of organizational change, particularly in the context of the agricultural and food sectors.

About me

Member of 

• Research Group on Sustainability and Critical Accounting 

• The Changing Translatorial Landscape research group

   

Also affiliated with

• The Centre for Accounting Theory and Research at the University of Innsbruck

About me

I work as a Research Specialist in the Faculty of Management and Business (MAB). My task is to assist Vice Dean for Research in the development of the research activities and help the faculty's researchers in research-related matters, such as funding applications. 

I have worked in different research and teaching positions at Tampere University and at the University of Jyväskylä. I have received my PhD in Business studies in 2012 and I am a docent in organizational behaviour at Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics. 

Responsibilities

• Supporting funding applicants (eg. EU, Academy of Finland) together with the Research Services
• Informing researchers about research-related matters
• Developing the follow-up of research activities
• Faculty’s science communication (e.g. Influencer blog) and its development
• Developing faculty’s open access -policies
• Coordinating the work of the faculty's research development group
• Processing the research permits related to the faculty
• Secretary of the faculty’s Docent Committee

About me

University teacher and PhD researcher on sustainable value creation and stakeholder relationships

Research

Research projects: Business to Nature (B2N) (www.b2n.fi) and CICAT2025 Circular Economy Catalysts (www.cicat2025.fi)

Research group: RESPMAN Research Group (http://www.uta.fi/jkk/en/research/themes/respman.html) 

Teaching 2019-2020

KATVAS12 Sidosryhmäteoria ja -johtaminen

KATJOS44 Henkilöstöjohtamisen ajankohtaisia teemoja

About me

Member of: Research Group on Sustainability and Critical Accounting, Research Group on Public Financial Management  

Field of expertise

Accounting, activism, animals, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, critical research