Anna-Maija NisulaLappeenranta – Lahti University of Technology LUT · LUT School of Business and Management
Anna-Maija Nisula
D.Sc (Econ. & Bus.Adm)
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January 2020 - September 2024
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Publications (30)
Background: In the current knowledge age, the performance of logistics firms increasingly depends on knowledge and capabilities they can leverage in value-creation processes. The objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between knowledge-based human resource management (HRM) practices and organizational performance mediated by log...
While the work realm moves toward digital environments, the antecedents of knowledge worker digital creativity remain poorly understood. This study investigated the digital work environment as a sociotechnical environment and contextual enhancer of knowledge worker digital creativity. We proposed a research model that links perceived organizational...
A fundamental challenge for interorganizational innovation projects is employing diverse actors’ knowledge, expertise and perspectives for situation-specific demands of complex innovation. Innovation advancement is dependent on the degree to which knowledge is used and synthesized to address emerging and situation-specific demands of innovation. Th...
This study investigated the role of creativity and general self-efficacy as factors that give rise to organizational knowledge workers’ entrepreneurial intentions. It also examined the interaction effect of creativity and general self-efficacy in relation to entrepreneurial intention. The research model was tested by applying partial least squares...
Creativity and resilience are critical capacities for entrepreneurs in today’s economy. We investigated university graduate entrepreneurs’ individual determinants such as entrepreneurial motivations and positive self-concepts in relation to entrepreneurs’ creativity and resilience. Specifically, we tested the proposed research model using a survey...
Participative processes and the empowerment of citizens are seen as central aspects of social innovation, which involves collaborative activities between the private, public and third sectors. It is important to identify the factors influencing citizen involvement, and we therefore investigate how people can be encouraged to contribute to improving...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of personal resources on knowledge workers’ job engagement in the contemporary economy. Work itself and work environments are currently undergoing fundamental changes. As such, the focus of engagement research is shifting to an interest in personal resources and the psychological capita...
The present paper proposes a conceptual model in which both personal and perceived workplace-related factors affect vocational students’ workplace learning success in real workplace environments, with workplace learning success constituted by students’ professional learning and satisfaction. We empirically tested the proposed model in two survey da...
Although the collective view is receiving increasing attention in research, this perspective is missing from the approaches for fostering creativity and ideation. The present study aims to fill this research gap by understanding ideation as a collective phenomenon and by introducing a novel method for fostering collective ideation. The study builds...
This chapter amplifies the understanding of organizational knowledge creation by examining the creation of new knowledge through the lens of improvisation. Such an approach views knowledge creation as a spontaneous process where thinking and action converge and underlines the synthesis of diverse actors' knowledge and perspectives in a flexible and...
In the present study, we report on the current state of knowledge management (KM) implementation in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the logistics sector in Finland. In particular, we propose that KM practices could be utilised in the logistics industry to overcome threats from the competition and grasp opportunities presented by the cu...
Although organisational creativity has become an increasingly important performance driver, little is known about how it can be built and stimulated. The existing literature has mostly focused on techniques for improving idea generation in specific and occasional problem-solving situations. However, there is scarce research about how to improve cre...
We present an empirical study in which we contrast two creativity methods, the lateral thinking method and the improvisational theatre method, to investigate their applicability for advancing participatory innovation. While both of the contrasted methods aim to increase creativity as a means of improving participative innovation, they differ in ter...
Although organisational creativity has become an increasingly important performance driver, little is known about how it can be built and stimulated. The existing literature has mostly focused on techniques for improving idea generation in specific and occasional problem-solving situations. However, there is scarce research about how to improve cre...
Even if creativity is an essential part of innovative work, surprisingly, little is known about the creativity of employee-experts and entrepreneur-experts. Awareness of the motivations that enhance creativity are important for any innovative company, because entrepreneurial motivations are likely to drive innovative individuals’ creativity and per...
This study examines the antecedents of individual innovative behaviour in short-term
innovation camp conditions. Innovation is increasingly a joint activity conducted in various
kinds of temporary settings that collect widely diverse people together for a brief time to work
on a particular problem. As innovativeness of interplaying individuals is k...
This study examines how perceived group climate shapes the creativity of groups in temporary, collaborative and non-virtual innovation setting. As no previous studies have examined antecedents of group creativity in temporary non-virtual innovation settings, this study takes as a starting point the findings of the current studies in conventional on...
This study examines the role of knowledge management (KM) practices in fostering the improvisational capacities of employees. A survey data-set of 593 responses of employees in a city organisation was tested with partial least squares modelling. The results indicated that KM practices positively affect employee improvisation. The study suggests tha...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of perceived supervisor support on individual improvisation, and the mediating role of the psychological empowerment and improvisation-related self-efficacy in that relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
– The data were collected in 2011 from the large municipal organization. The tota...
This paper extends understanding on the practical development of team creativity and innovativeness in organisations by exploring the concept of playfulness and its implementation in practice. We discuss what playfulness means in the context of creativity and innovativeness and illustrate its application through three action research projects. As a...
The objective of this chapter is to increase understanding and management of knowledge management in public sector organizations. In this chapter the knowledge management-based assessment and development process of organizational renewal capability is presented, and it is demonstrated in one large municipal (city) organization. The chapter thereby...
This study examines the development of organisational renewal capability in the public sector and is based on a model of organisational renewal capability developed in a private sector context. Assessing the key strengths and weaknesses of renewal-related organisational capacities, our model depicts the resulting development process. We examine the...
Even though the demand for innovation is widely articulated in both professional and academic press, there is still a lack of validated metrics for assessing organizational capacities for innova-tion as well as systematic methods for developing them. To bridge these gaps in the current litera-ture, this paper presents a method for evaluating and de...
The objective of this chapter is to increase understanding and management of knowledge management in public sector organizations. In this chapter the knowledge management-based assessment and development process of organizational renewal capability is presented, and it is demonstrated in one large municipal (city) organization. The chapter thereby...
Projects
Project (1)
The objective of this research project is to study the dynamic forms of organizing knowledge and co-creation in the digital economy. The project aims to extend understanding of the knowledge and value co-creation processes as well as related skills, capabilities and mechanisms across organizational and cultural borders in the digital and global economy.
