Riikka
Harikkala-Laihinen
tutkijatohtori, Kansainvälinen liiketoiminta
D.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration
Asiantuntijuusalueet
Mergers and acquisitions
Employee emotions
Emotional climate
Communication
Interaction
Biografia
Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen is a
Postdoctoral Researcher in International Business. She has graduated
from Turku School of Economics in 2019. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked
in the Tekes-funded EmoMA-project. In addition to research and
teaching, she updates the IB internet and intranet pages, and instructs a
weekly TSE faculty exercise class.
Opetus
Riikka has supervised Masters’ Theses
in the International Business faculty at TSE since 2015. She has
completed an introductory course of University Pedagogy.
Tutkimus
Riikka's doctoral research focused on employee emotions following cross-border acquisitions. She looks at ways for organizations to increase positivity during change periods, in order to ease the process and achieve better results. In addition to socio-cultural integration, which is the focus of her doctoral research, these findings can help practitioners in other types of organizational change initiatives. Her current work centers on cross-cultural communication and management.
Julkaisut
Managing Positive Change: Emotions and Communication Following Acquisitions (2022)
Journal of Change Management
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Hooked on a feeling? An interpretive study of organizational identity (dis)continuity during strategic change programmes† (2022)
International Journal of Project Management
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity (2022)
Leisure Sciences
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
In-Between Worlds – Liminal Experiences of Finnish-Born Cosmopolitans (Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business 2021) (2021)
Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business
(Muu (O2))
Cosmopolitans as migrant entrepreneurs (2021)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Introducing entrepreneurial devotion through a layered perspective to affect (Presentation at the XXXV RENT Conference 2021) (2021)
Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Conference
(Muu (O2))
When all doors close: Implications of COVID-19 for cosmopolitan entrepreneurs (2020)
International Small Business Journal
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Finding continuity - the identity struggles of a serial acquirer (2020)
Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy
(Muu (O2))