Mr. Juhani Vaivio

Professor of Management Accounting, Program Director

Department of Accounting

Aalto University School of Business, Runeberginkatu 22-24, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.

juhani.vaivio@aalto.fi,  tel. +358 50 331 31 69

 

1.  Personal details

Born July 15, 1961 in Helsinki.

Parents: Chancellor, Professor Fedi Vaivio and B.Sc. (Econ.) Kirsti Vaivio.

Married to M.Sc.(Econ.) Pirjo Vaivio, two sons.

Nationality: Finnish

Languages: Finnish, Swedish, French, English, some German.

 

2.  Academic Qualifications and Pedagogic Training

1988  Master of Science (Econ.), Helsinki School of Economics

1995  Licentiate of Science (Econ.), Helsinki School of Economics

2001  Doctor of Science (Econ.), Helsinki School of Economics

 

Research Scholar, Helsinki School of Economics, 1990-1994.

Visiting Scholar, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 1991-1993.

Assistant Professor, Helsinki School of Economics, 1995-2001. Acting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics, 2002-2006.

Full Professor of Management Accounting (tenured) at the Helsinki School of Economics (changed its name to Aalto University School of Economics in 2010), 2007- .

International Faculty Development Program (IFDP): IESE Business School, Barcelona, June 2007.

Faculty Development in International Business Program, The University of South Carolina, College of Business Administration, June 1990.

 

3.  Other Academic Positions

Dean, HSE Executive, Part Time and Full Time MBA Programs (“Triple Crown” accredited), 2007-2008.

Head of Department: HSE International Center (Full Time & Part Time MBA Programs), 2005-2006.

HSE Executive Education, Board of Studies: member 2007-2008.

Program Director: The Master’s Program in Accounting, Aalto University School of Business, 2011-

 

4.  Academic visits (Visiting Professor) & Teaching in Foreign Universities

Visiting professor, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Teaching in the course “Accounting for strategic decision-making”, March 2011.

Visiting professor, University of Innsbruck, School of Management:  Teaching the course “How to prepare a qualitative Master’s Thesis in management accounting”, January 2010.

Visiting professor, HEC Paris, April 2010.

Visiting professor, Università Bocconi, Department of Accounting, Milan, October 2009:  Teaching in the course “Management Accounting” (international M.Sc.-students).

Teaching the core module course “Managerial Accounting” at the HSE international Executive MBA (EMBA) program in Singapore, January, 2009.

Teaching the course “Strategic Management Accounting” at the Zagreb School of Management (ZCEM), MBA-program, Zagreb, Croatia, September 2008. Visiting Professor:  Università Bocconi, Department of Accounting, 7.- 28.10, 2009.

Teaching also partly the course “Management Accounting” (international M.Sc-students).

Visiting Professor, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice. Teaching Management Accounting part of the introductory Bachelor -level course International Financial and Management Accounting, 5.11.-4.12.2012. (30 teaching hours).

 

5.  Editorial, Review and Examiner Activities

Associate Editor: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 2009-

Member of the Editorial Board:  Accounting and Business Research, 2011-

Guest Editor:  Management Accounting Research, 2001.

Ad hoc reviewer: Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, Accounting and Business Research, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management.

External examiner of several doctoral dissertations and licentiate theses’.

 

6.  Scholarship

Articles in Refereed (Double-Blind) Journals

Vaivio, J. 1999.  Examining “The Quantified Customer”. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 24, pp. 689-715.

Vaivio, J. 1999. Exploring a “non-financial” management accounting change. Management Accounting Research, 10, pp. 409-437.

Burns, J. and Vaivio, J. 2001. Management accounting change. Management Accounting Research, 12, pp. 389-402.

Vaivio, J. 2004. Mobilizing Local Knowledge with ‘Provocative’ Non-Financial Measures. The European Accounting Review, 13 (1), pp. 39-71.

Vaivio, J. 2006. The Accounting of “The Meeting”: Examining Calculability within a “Fluid” Local Space. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 31, pp. 735-762.

Vaivio, J. and Kokko, T. 2006. Counting Big: Re-examining the Concept of the Bean Counter Controller. The Finnish Journal of Business Economics (LTA),1, pp. 49-74.

Vaivio, J. 2006. The Business Controller, Non-financial Measurement and Tacit Knowledge. The Finnish Journal of Business Economics (LTA),  2, pp. 194-212.

Vaivio, J. 2008. Qualitative Management Accounting Research:  Rationale, Pitfalls and Potential. Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, 5 (1), pp. 64-86.

Vaivio, J. and Sirén, A. 2010. Insights into Method Triangulation and “Paradigms” in Interpretive Management Accounting Research. Management Accounting Research, 21 (2), pp. 130-141.

Vaivio, J. 2012. Steinar Kvale & Svend Brinkmann:  Interviews – Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing. Second Edition, Sage Publications, 2009: Book Review. The European Accounting Review, 21 (1), pp.183-189.

 

Book Chapters

Virtanen, K., Malmi, T., Vaivio, J. and Kasanen, E. 1996. Drivers of Management Accounting in Finland, in Management Accounting – European Perspectives, ed. by Alnoor Bhimani. Oxford University Press, U.K.

Troberg, P. and Vaivio, J. 2002. Taloushallinto kansainvälisessä liiketoiminnassa (transl. ”Financial management in international business”), in Kansainvälinen taloushallinto (transl. International Financial Management), ed. by. Hannu Seristö. WSOY, Helsinki.

Vaivio, J. 2005.  “Strategic” Non-Financial Measurement in an Organizational Context: A Critique, in Accounting in Scandinavia – The Northern Lights, ed. by Sten Jönsson and Jan Mouritsen. Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press.

Vaivio, J. 2007. Qualitative Research on Management Accounting: Achievements and Potential, in Issues in Management Accounting, third edition, ed. by Robert Scapens & Trevor Hopper. Pearson UK. 

Vaivio, J. 2007. “From bean counters to change agents”: Where Kari Lukka’s influence extends beyond accounting research, in Total Quality in Academic Accounting – Essays in honour of Kari Lukka, ed. by Markus Granlund. Publications of the Turku School of Economics, C, 3.

 

7.  Academic presentations in other universities, by invitation

“Insights into method triangulation and paradigms in interpretive management accounting research”, invited research presentation, Auckland University of Technology, March 2011.

“Qualitative Research: An overview”. Presentation to accounting M.Sc-students, Auckland University of Technology, March 2011.

Living in ”Transparency”:  Exploring the Interface of Management Accounting and the Operational at Rautaruukki Plc. , invited research presentation at HEC Paris, Department of Accounting and Control,  April, 2010.

“Living in ‘Transparency’. Exploring the Interface of Management Accounting and the Operational at Rautaruukki Plc.”, invited presentation at the departmental research seminar, University of Innsbruck, 2010.

“The Business Controller and Performance Measurement”, University of Edinburgh, 2009.

”Straddling” Paradigms, Method Triangulation and Interpretive Management Accounting Research, invited presentation at the departmental research seminar, Università Bocconi, Milan, 2009.

“New Directions for Management Accounting”, by invitation of Soochow University Executive MBA-program, Taipei, 2007.

“New directions in Management Accounting”, Keynote Speaker, University of Gothenburg, 2007.

“Strategic non-financial measurement: a critique”, invited speaker, Management Accounting Research Group Conference, London School of Economics, 2005.

“Non-financial measurement in a local setting, invited speaker, University of Edinburgh, 2004.

“Non-financial measurement in an organizational context”, Keynote Speaker,  Umeå University, 2002.

 

8.  Academic Teaching Portfolio at the Helsinki School of Economics, 1997-

• Management Accounting (international MBA Full Time & Part Time)
• Strategic Management Accounting (Master’s program, graduate)
• Management Control and Corporate Finance in the ”New Economy” (CEMS / graduate)
• Methodology of the M.Sc. Thesis (graduate)
• Introduction to Management Accounting (HSE English Track / undergr.)
• Master’s Thesis Seminar (graduate)
• Methodology of Qualitative Research (doctoral students)

 

9. Most important partner organizations in a) MBA teaching, in b) developing MBA education & teaching skills and in c) executive education & management training

I have been speaking hundreds of hours in different executive education and management development programs, in Finland and abroad – in HSE MBA sessions, in HSE Executive Education’s open enrollment programs, in HSE Executive Education’s company-specific training programs, as well as in various internal training programs of individual organizations. These partners include:

• Helsinki School of Economics international FT / PT MBA programs
• Association of MBAs (AMBA, London): member of accreditation team at Copenhagen Business School, 2007.
• Helsinki School of Economics Executive Education (HSEEE)
• Nordic Leadership Executive Training Program (NORLET) in St.Petersburg, Russia and Tallinn, Estonia.
• HSE Centre for Russian and Baltic Studies 
• Volvo Trucks, Sweden, Nokia, Siemens Finland, Finland Post, The Finnish Ministry of Justice, Basware, TietoEnator, Technomen, The City of Helsinki, The City of Vantaa, The City of Espoo, IIR-Finland , Aalto Pro.