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24.10.2025

Navigating Self-Management and Resilience in Expert Organizations: Insights from a Finnish Doctoral Study

Juha Kinnunen’s blog text about his doctoral thesis. In today’s rapidly evolving work environments, the concepts of self-management and resilience have become central to organizational development. Yet, despite their popularity in leadership discourse, empirical research on how these concepts are understood and enacted within organizations remains limited. This gap is precisely what my doctoral dissertation, […]

24.10.2025

Why our plastic problem needs a new way of thinking – and how circular solutions can help

This blog is based on a paper Circular Plastic Ecosystems – Collaboration Dynamics and Strategic Specialization by Ville-Veikko Piispanen, Kristina Leppälä and Hanna Lehtimäki presented at the EURAM2025 conference 23.-25.6.2025, Florence, Italy. PlasticsCircularity Business Finland, 257/31/2024.  Every year, the world produces more than 450 million tons of plastic, and nearly all made from fossil fuels. […]

24.9.2025

From Balance Sheets to a Balanced Planet: My journey from Accounting to Sustainability Leadership

Danushika Samaranayake’s blog text on her journey towards sustainability leadership. I have a background in Accounting and Finance. With a solid academic foundation in Business Administration, followed by professional qualification from the institute of chartered accountants of Sri Lanka, and over ten years of experience in accounting and finance, I found myself deeply rooted in […]

16.9.2025

The Quiet Side of Sustainability: Why the Little Things Matter

Kristina Leppälä’s blog text on how sustainability is shaped by everyday human actions, conversations, and voluntary choices—not just by technologies or policies—emphasizing that real impact comes from people making meaningful changes in their lives. When we talk about sustainability, the spotlight usually lands on big things like new technologies (Tech!), ambitious climate targets (Numbers!), and […]

16.9.2025

Municipal Waste Companies as Circular Economy Actors: Insights from Finland

Tuuli Leskinen’s blog text on her Master’s thesis that explores how Finnish municipal waste management companies perceive and enact their role in the circular economy, especially in relation to plastics recycling, within the context of the PlasticsCircularity research project. In this blog text, I will tell about my Master’s thesis, which I have completed at […]

15.9.2025

Leading Employee-Driven Innovation Remotely: Practical Insights for Success

Angeliina Knuutinen’s blog text on Remotely Leading Employee-Driven Innovation. Innovations are the cornerstone of organisations’ survival and success, especially in today’s rapidly changing work environment, where remote work has become an established part of everyday life. Employee-driven innovation, where ordinary employees generate and implement new ideas without specific development tasks, has become a prevalent way […]

15.9.2025

Student blog: “Sustainability is not a luxury; it is a basic human right.”

Alexandra Huhta’s student blog text from Master’s degree programme of Sustainability Leadership. “Sustainability is not a luxury; it is a basic human right.” This quote by Jim McClelland, which I came across in one of the peer-reviewed articles I read during my master’s studies, has stayed with me ever since and continuously influences how I […]

15.9.2025

My journey from Human Resource to Sustainability Leadership

Sital Pokhrel’s student blog text from Master’s degree programme of Sustainability Leadership. Every individual journey starts with that single spark. For me that spark came when I was pursuing Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (BBA). I vividly remember attending a seminar which shaped my future education and professional journey. In that seminar, I got opportunity […]

12.5.2025

Student blog: Leading with a purpose – My transition from Quality and business management into Sustainability leadership

Adeepa Chandrawansa’s student blog text from Master’s degree programme of Sustainability Leadership. My professional life revolved around quality management, operational efficiency, financial performance, customer satisfaction and strategic management for more than a decade. With an Entrepreneurship and Management bachelor’s degree along with 11 years professional experience in the Revenue Cycle management industry , I expertise […]

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