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Eero Vaara

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Eero Vaara (Ph.D. Econ) is a Professor of Organization and Management at Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland. He is also the leader of the Future of Work Program (https://www.aalto.fi/future-of-work) and Strategy Work Program (strategywork.org).

He is a permanent Visiting Professor at EMLYON Business School, France, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University, UK. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Hanken School of Economics, Jyväskylä University and Lappeenranta University of Technology. He has previously served as the Chair of European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) and as representative-at-large of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. He is now a board member of the European Institute for Advanced Studies of Management (EIASM) and Scandinavian Consortium of Organizational Research (SCANCOR, Stanford and Harvard).

His research focuses on organizational and strategic change that he examines from discursive and narrative perspectives. This work deals with strategy process and practice research, studies of radical change such as mergers and acquisitions, work on institutional change and legitimation, research on multinational corporations and globalization, and historical analysis of management and organizations. His research has been published in leading journals such as Academy of Management Annals; Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Learning and Education; Academy of Management Review; British Journal of Management; Gender, Work and Organization; Human Relations; Journal of Business Venturing; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Management Inquiry; Journal of Management Studies; Organization; Organization Science; Organization Studies; Scandinavian Journal of Management; Strategic Management Journal; and Strategic Organization. He has also authored books and edited volumes (e.g., the Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice 2010/2015, Language and Communication at Work: Discourse, Narrativity and Organizing 2014 and Visual and Multimodal Research in Organization and Management Studies 2019). He has received several awards for his contributions, including the first Roland Calori Prize for the Best Paper published in Organization Studies (2002) and the OMT Best Published Paper Award 2014 (with Joep Cornelissen and Saku Mantere). He has received an honorary doctorate from Estonian Business School, and he is a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.

He is now serving as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal. He is an editorial board member in Academy of Management Discoveries, Organization Studies, Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Organization. He has also been a guest editor for special issues: SI on strategy and discourse in JMS in 2004, STF on communication, cognition and institutions in AMR in 2015, and SI on strategy process and practice research in SMJ (2018).

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New demands on leadership

Taking historical embeddedness seriously

Strategic decision-making 3.0

Taking social practices seriously

Struggles of legitimacy in mediatized society

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Eero Vaara (Ph.D. Econ) is a Professor of Organization and Management at Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland. He is also the leader of the Strategy Work Program (strategywork.org).

He is a permanent Visiting Professor at EMLYON Business School, France, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University, UK. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Hanken School of Economics, Jyväskylä University and Lappeenranta University of Technology. He has previously served as the Chair of European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) and as representative-at-large of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. He is now a board member of the European Institute for Advanced Studies of Management (EIASM) and Scandinavian Consortium of Organizational Research (SCANCOR).

His research focuses on organizational and strategic change that he examines from discursive and narrative perspectives. This work deals with strategy process and practice research, studies of radical change such as mergers and acquisitions, work on institutional change and legitimation, research on multinational corporations and globalization, and historical analysis of management and organizations. His research has been published in leading journals such as Academy of Management Annals; Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Learning and Education; Academy of Management Review; British Journal of Management; Gender, Work and Organization; Human Relations; Journal of Business Venturing; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Management Inquiry; Journal of Management Studies; Organization; Organization Science; Organization Studies; Scandinavian Journal of Management; Strategic Management Journal; and Strategic Organization. He has also authored books and edited volumes (e.g., the Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice 2010/2015 and Language and Communication at Work: Discourse, Narrativity and Organizing 2014). He has received several awards for his contributions, including the first Roland Calori Prize for the Best Paper published in Organization Studies (2002) and the OMT Best Published Paper Award 2014 (with Joep Cornelissen and Saku Mantere). He has received an honorary doctorate from Estonian Business School, and he is a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.

He is now serving as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal. He is an editorial board member in Academy of Management Discoveries, Organization Studies, Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Organization. He has also been a guest editor for special issues: SI on strategy and discourse in JMS in 2004, STF on communication, cognition and institutions in AMR in 2015, and SI on strategy process and practice research in SMJ (forthcoming).

Watch:

New demands on leadership

Taking historical embeddedness seriously

Strategic decision-making 3.0

Taking social practices seriously

Struggles of legitimacy in mediatized society

Tutkimustiedon levittäminen ja käytännön relevanssi


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Eero Vaara has Master's degrees from Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki School of Economics. He got his PhD (Econ) at Helsinki School of Economics in 1999. He has previously worked as a professor of Strategy and Organization at EMLYON Business School (2003-2004) and as Professor of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics (2004-2014). He also served as the first Vice Rector and Dean of Research at Hanken. He has held long-term visiting positions at Stanford University (SCANCOR) and HEC Paris.

His hobbies include taking care of and serving two teenagers, running and skiing, occasional playing of the keyboard, and detective stories.

 

Background

Eero Vaara has Master's degrees from Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki School of Economics. He got his PhD (Econ) at Helsinki School of Economics in 1999. He has previously worked as a professor of Strategy and Organization at EMLYON Business School (2003-2004) and as Professor of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics (2004-2014). He also served as the first Vice Rector and Dean of Research at Hanken. He has held long-term visiting positions at Stanford University (SCANCOR) and HEC Paris.

His hobbies include taking care of and serving two teenagers, running and skiing, occasional playing of the keyboard, and detective stories.

 

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