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D-Index
68
Citations
23236
World Ranking
342
National Ranking
44

Eero Vaara publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eero Vaara sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 303 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Eero Vaara D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eero Vaara sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 68 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Eero Vaara is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions primarily lie within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences. The scientist's work has also covered several subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research topics encompass Management and Organizational Studies, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Information Systems Theories and Implementation, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Social and Cultural Dynamics, and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Eero Vaara include Richard Whittington, Ana M. Aranda, Helen Etchanchu, Innan Sasaki, and Renate E. Meyer.

Publication venues where Vaara's work appears frequently are the Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Journal.

Recent published papers include:

  • Making connections: Harnessing the diversity of strategy-as-practice research (2021), International Journal of Management Reviews
  • From Big Data to Rich Theory: Integrating Critical Discourse Analysis with Structural Topic Modeling (2021), European Management Review
  • Institutions and Actorhood as Co-Constitutive and Co-Constructed: The Argument and Areas for Future Research (2020), Journal of Management Studies
  • The Role of Language in Organizational Sensemaking: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and an Agenda for Future Research (2023), Journal of Management
  • Maintaining Strategic Ambiguity for Protection: Struggles over Opacity, Equivocality, and Absurdity around the Sicilian Mafia (2020), Academy of Management Journal

Vaara has also contributed to book publications, including the title Ambiguity in Organization Theory published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously

    Eero Vaara;Richard Whittington

  • Cultural differences and capability transfer in cross-border acquisitions: the mediating roles of capability complementarity, absorptive capacity, and social integration

    Ingmar Björkman;Günter K Stahl;Eero Vaara

  • Pulp and Paper Fiction: On the Discursive Legitimation of Global Industrial Restructuring

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Juha Laurila

  • A discursive perspective on legitimation strategies in multinational corporations

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienar

  • On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective

    Saku Mantere;Eero Vaara

  • New Ways of Seeing through Qualitative Research

    Pratima (Tima) Bansal;Wendy K. Smith;Eero Vaara

  • On the Discursive Construction of Success/Failure in Narratives of Post-Merger Integration

    Eero Vaara

  • Language and the Circuits of Power in a Merging Multinational Corporation

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Rebecca Piekkari;Risto Säntti

  • Narratives as sources of stability and change in organizations:approaches and directions for future research

    Eero Vaara;Scott Sonenshein;David Boje

  • Post‐acquisition Integration as Sensemaking: Glimpses of Ambiguity, Confusion, Hypocrisy, and Politicization

    Eero Vaara

  • Putting Communication Front and Center in Institutional Theory and Analysis

    Joep P. Cornelissen;Rodolphe Durand;Peer Fiss;John C. Lammers

  • Putting Communication Front and Center in Institutional Theory and Analysis

    Joep P. Cornelissen;Rodolphe Durand;Peer C. Fiss;John C. Lammers

  • Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

    Damon Golsorkhi;Linda Rouleau;David Seidl;Eero Vaara

  • Cultural differences, convergence, and crossvergence as explanations of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions

    Riikka M. Sarala;Eero Vaara

  • Cultural differences, convergence, and crossvergence as explanations of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions

    Riikka M Sarala;Eero Vaara;Eero Vaara

  • Struggling over subjectivity: A discursive analysis of strategic development in an engineering group:

    Pikka-Maaria Laine;Eero Vaara

  • A Recursive Perspective on Discursive Legitimation and Organizational Action in Mergers and Acquisitions

    Eero Vaara;Philippe Monin

  • On the Narrative Construction of Multinational Corporations: An Antenarrative Analysis of Legitimation and Resistance in a Cross-Border Merger

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari

  • The Process of Postmerger Integration : A Review and Agenda for Future Research

    Melissa E. Graebner;Koen H. Heimeriks;Quy N. Huy;Eero Vaara

  • The Process of Postmerger Integration: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

    Melissa E. Graebner;Koen H. Heimeriks;Quy Nguyen Huy;Eero Vaara

  • Placing Strategy Discourse in Context: Sociomateriality, Sensemaking and Power

    Julia Christine Balogun;Claus Jacobs;Paula Jarzabkowski;Paula Jarzabkowski;Saku Mantere

  • Strategies as Discursive Constructions: The Case of Airline Alliances

    Eero Vaara;Birgit Kleymann;Hannu Seristö

  • The Impact of Organizational and National Cultural Differences on Social Conflict and Knowledge Transfer in International Acquisitions

    Eero Vaara;Riikka Sarala;Günter K. Stahl;Ingmar Björkman

  • Strategy as practice : Taking Social Practices Seriously

    Eero Vaara;Richard Whittington

Frequent Co-Authors

Janne Tienari
Janne Tienari Hanken School of Economics
Theo van Leeuwen
Theo van Leeuwen University of Technology Sydney
Ingmar Björkman
Ingmar Björkman Hanken School of Economics
David Seidl
David Seidl University of Zurich
Rodolphe Durand
Rodolphe Durand Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Joep Cornelissen
Joep Cornelissen Erasmus University Rotterdam
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus
Ann Langley
Ann Langley HEC Montréal
Richard J. Whittington
Richard J. Whittington University of Sydney

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