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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. […]

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