Juha TuunainenUniversity of Oulu · Department of Marketing; Management and international Business
Juha Tuunainen
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Introduction
I work as Professor at Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, and as Docent at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki. My research focuses on:
- university organization,
- innovation policy, processes and management,
- strategic management of technology-based companies, and
- scientific practices.
I teach courses on business research methods and globalization and international management. I also supervise thesis work by under and post-graduate students.
Additional affiliations
January 2013 - August 2014
September 2005 - December 2012
January 1997 - August 2005
University of Helsinki
Position
- Researcher, Doctoral Candidate
Publications
Publications (61)
In this study, we widen the understanding of how the dialectics of distributed leadership develop as part of discursive interactions in an interorganizational setting directed at renewal. Using a dialectical perspective, we analyzed developmental meetings of an entrepreneurship hub and identified three dialectics, namely disagreement versus encoura...
Snellmanilainen sivistyskäsite syventää keskustelua jatkuvasta oppimisesta. Se kuitenkin edellyttää uudenlaisia tutkimusavusteisia menetelmiä ja oppimisympäristöjä, joissa työntekijät, kehittäjät ja johtajat yhdessä kehittävät työtään ja osaamistaan ja tuottavat ratkaisuja ongelmiin.
The focus of this paper is on novel, multi-organizational hybrid forms of organizing in a healthcare context. The paper contributes to organizational hybridity research, which has prominently drawn from the neo-institutional theory’s notion of institutional logics and conceptualized hybrid organizations as combining distinct logics in their operati...
The challenge research universities encounter in introducing entrepreneurship education is observable in the contrast it creates with discipline-based education. Due to the differing purposes of science and business-oriented education, universities engage in experimenting with organisational forms designed to advance entrepreneurship at their socie...
This study is an investigation of the bright and dark sides of entrepreneurship, with a focus on well-being experienced by entrepreneurs operating in work communities of various sizes. The results show that a central element in the well-being experiences of all entrepreneur groups was autonomy. In addition, the solo entrepreneurs derived a positive...
Purpose:
While previous health-care-related hybridity research has focused on macro- and micro-level investigations, this paper aims to study hybridization at the organizational level, with a specific focus on decision-making. The authors investigate how new politico-economic expectations toward a university hospital as a hybrid organization becom...
Aligning itself with the interactive perspectives in research on science’s social impact, this article combines the concept of productive interactions with the method of framing. We argue that this provides a more nuanced picture of the productive interactions between researchers and stakeholders in the social sciences. This approach offers a way t...
Aligning itself with the interactive perspectives in research on science’s social impact, this article combines the concept of productive interactions with the method of framing. We argue that this provides a more nuanced picture of the productive interactions between researchers and stakeholders in the social sciences. This approach offers a way t...
Close interaction between universities, industries, and governments has given rise to hybrid organizations incorporating economic development alongside scientific research and higher education. We will approach this phenomenon and the related organization-theoretical problems by looking at two cases of discipline making to discuss the potential of...
This paper will address problems in strategic management process from the perspective of organisational decline. It will review the literature on early warning signals of decline and contribute to an understanding of their role in organisational development. To facilitate more advanced theorising about early warning signals, the paper will draw fro...
Available online at https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/issue/view/4251
The present study analyses data collected from a series of developmental seminars in a fingerprint laboratory during which fingerprint examiners jointly discussed and developed their work processes, analytical methods, decision-making criteria and rules of documentation. The analysed organizational development took place in the context of moving fr...
The proliferation of network research has confused the meaning of the concept of network. To enhance
conceptual clarity, this paper distinguishes between four concepts of network: economic, social, socio-
economic, and objectual. Each of these has a different understanding of the fundamental character
of networks. They also differ in relation to me...
Because of the gross difficulties in measuring the societal impact of academic research, qualitative approaches have been developed in the last decade mostly based on forms of interaction between university and other societal stakeholders. In this paper, we suggest a framework for qualitative analysis based on the distinction between three dimensio...
An important prerequisite for the renewal of Finland’s industrial and economic base is the ability of the universities to promote the renewal of the knowledge base. The UNI project studied ways in which changes in external funding mechanisms and recent governance changes in Finnish universities have changed the framework conditions influencing inno...
Universities are central institutions in the current knowledge society. Their role is to provide new scientific and technological knowledge, to educate people to serve the society and to alleviate societal problems of various kinds. To these ends universities have been streamlined to perform more efficiently. Simultaneously, the separate institutio...
Globalization, pervasiveness of information and communication technologies, and the build-up of knowledge society and related policies have led to growth and redistribution of knowledge and highly trained labour supply. The foundation of competitiveness is now more dependent on valuable knowledge resources that are distributed widely across the glo...
Universities are central institutions in the current knowledge society.
Their role is to provide new scientific and technological knowledge, to
educate people to serve the society and to alleviate societal problems
of various kinds. Because of their importance, universities have been
streamlined to make them more efficient and capable of fulfilling...
The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of the development of trust during commercial product development collaboration. It elaborates on a performance-based conception of trust by analyzing the history of cooperation between two biotechnology firms. The means and mechanisms of trust formation in the different phases of this collabora...
This article discusses the interaction between university research and society and examines various forms and means of that interaction. In addition, it considers the impact of university research in the humanities and social sciences. Three case studies are followed in the fields of 1) Finno-Ugric and Baltic-Finnish languages, 2) multidisciplinary...
The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of the calculative bases of trust and distrust during the negotiation phase of new commercial collaboration relationships. Whereas the existing literature mostly offers quantitative snapshot pictures of inter-firm trust formation, this research followed a process-oriented approach. Analysis of i...
This paper analyses Finnish biotechnology policy and combines this with a look at the evolution of a university spin-off company's business models. It offers a rare grass-roots perspective on policy implementation and further develops the business model concept. Business models should be understood as future-oriented ‘where-to’ artefacts that can b...
The growing role of universities in the knowledge economy as well as technology transfer has increasingly been conceptualized in terms of the hybridization of public academic work and private business activity. In this article, we examine the difficulties and prospects of this kind of intermingling by studying the long-term trajectories of two rese...
This article studies the learning and capability formation of a biotechnology firm by analysing its development path, which is composed of successive product development and innovation processes. In collaborative product development work, network collaboration, as well as the acquisition of new competences and learning, evolves simultaneously and i...
Universities in the Western countries have become complex organizations involving many kinds of activities. Since the Second
World War, the traditional functions of universities — academic research and higher education — have expanded simultaneously
as universities have taken on a whole variety of societal service functions often termed the univers...
This study challenges the thesis that universities worldwide are being transformed into entrepreneurial universities.Of particular interest is the idea that entire universities are restructuring themselves into “quasi-incubators” for startups.This thesis is evaluated in light of a case study of a hybrid firm that operated in the confines of a tradi...
This study draws from the social world perspective to examine the relation-ships between scientific disciplines (i.e., molecular biology, plant physiol-ogy, agronomy, horticulture, and agroecology) at a university department in the field of plant production research. The interview data obtained in the study revealed that the complex organizational...
This article reflects on current debate over transformations of scientific research and universities. Four well-known mutation theories (Mode-2 knowledge production, triple helix of university–industry–government relations, academic capitalism and enterprise university), and their recent critiques, are reviewed. It is suggested that a better unders...
The main contribution of this paper for social studies of scientific practice is to use and further elaborate the concept of experimental system. It is expanded from mere epistemic concerns to also incorporate the built-in practicality and societal relevance of scientific research. For this, an analysis of object construction by a potato-biotechnol...
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This paper takes a critical stand towards the Mode-2 thesis and the Triple-Helix model as schemes to describe the association of university research with applied motives and commercial and industrial actors. By drawing from a case study of a plant-bio- technology research group, which transformed into a start-up company, the paper suggests that usi...
The main contribution of this paper for social studies of scientific practice is to use and further elaborate the concept of experimental system. It is expanded from mere epistemic concerns to also incorporate the built-in practicality and societal relevance of scientific research. For this, an analysis of object construction by a potato-biotechnol...
Projects
Projects (3)
Many of the Western welfare societies are at the doorsteps of profound, even revolutionary, change of their societal systems to respond to phenomena, such as aging of population and increase of chronic illnesses. The project examines the transformative organizational change processes in various multi-actor settings within health care and hospital contexts. The overall research question of the project is: How can humans be empowered for transformative change of the health care system?
The project improves understanding of the consequences of intensified societal engagement of the university. It applies new ideas from systems-theoretical understanding of organizations to analyze communicative decision making about new forms of university education inspired by economic and political concerns of the current innovation policy. The project thus increases knowledge about universities’ organizational challenges in the radically contingent society. By observing and analyzing internal structural couplings between education, science, economy and politics, it goes further from the established analyses of organizational sense making, hybridization, isomorphism and networking, and opens up a novel avenue for theoretical specification of the alleged hybridity in the current university.
