Research Groups
Sustainable innovation research team (SUN LAB) examines ways to advance sustainability transition through innovation. SUN LAB study practices, processes, and people involved in sustainable innovations.
Systemic thinking is required to understand the complexity, interconnectedness and interdependencies in sustainable innovations. Attention to environmental, social and economic value creation is necessary for conducting business that is sustainable, responsible and ethical. SUN LAB examine sustainable innovations with expertise on strategic management, leadership, organizing, and entrepreneurship. The team produces new knowledge about circular economy, platform economy, and digitalization.
SUN LAB has specialized in qualitative research methods with expertise on ethnographic research, storytelling method, discourse analysis and other interpretative research methods. The team also performs quantitative research and network analysis.
SUN LAB works with companies of all sizes and interacts with sustainability leaders in a variety of business areas and in the public sector.
The research group Tourism Business is concerned with understanding the creation, development and communication of customer value-based experiences in tourism business destinations including networking and competitive stakeholders. The group pursues an understanding of customer value expectations among different leisure and tourist segments and an understanding of the management of these expectations.
In their research, nature, lakes, and forests in particular, are understood as a resource and environment for nature-based tourism experiences, which are co-created with customers and service providers, with an overall mission of economically, ecologically, and socio-culturally sustainable activities, aiming for the well-being of tourists and society. The research group is concerned with understanding the creation, development, and communication of customer value-based experiences in tourism destinations including networking, and competitive stakeholders. The group pursues an understanding of customer value expectations among different tourist segments and an understanding of the management of these expectations. Some of the topics of their research group, e.g. Social Tourism, are primarily interdisciplinary, striving from findings between disciplines.