2026 Eero Vaara: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	68	342	320	45	39	303	23236

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

1529
Citations
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

799
Citations
Pulp and Paper Fiction: On the Discursive Legitimation of Global Industrial Restructuring

Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Juha Laurila

774
Citations
A discursive perspective on legitimation strategies in multinational corporations

Eero Vaara;Janne Tienar

713
Citations
On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective

Saku Mantere;Eero Vaara

698
Citations
New Ways of Seeing through Qualitative Research

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

616
Citations
On the Discursive Construction of Success/Failure in Narratives of Post-Merger Integration

Eero Vaara

601
Citations
Language and the Circuits of Power in a Merging Multinational Corporation

Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Rebecca Piekkari;Risto Säntti

587
Citations
Narratives as sources of stability and change in organizations:approaches and directions for future research

Eero Vaara;Scott Sonenshein;David Boje

548
Citations
Post‐acquisition Integration as Sensemaking: Glimpses of Ambiguity, Confusion, Hypocrisy, and Politicization

Eero Vaara

546
Citations
Putting Communication Front and Center in Institutional Theory and Analysis

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

532
Citations
Putting Communication Front and Center in Institutional Theory and Analysis

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

529
Citations
Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

Damon Golsorkhi;Linda Rouleau;David Seidl;Eero Vaara

526
Citations
Cultural differences, convergence, and crossvergence as explanations of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions

Riikka M. Sarala;Eero Vaara

479
Citations
Cultural differences, convergence, and crossvergence as explanations of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions

Riikka M Sarala;Eero Vaara;Eero Vaara

479
Citations
Struggling over subjectivity: A discursive analysis of strategic development in an engineering group:

Pikka-Maaria Laine;Eero Vaara

463
Citations
A Recursive Perspective on Discursive Legitimation and Organizational Action in Mergers and Acquisitions

Eero Vaara;Philippe Monin

462
Citations
On the Narrative Construction of Multinational Corporations: An Antenarrative Analysis of Legitimation and Resistance in a Cross-Border Merger

Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari

461
Citations
The Process of Postmerger Integration : A Review and Agenda for Future Research

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

448
Citations
The Process of Postmerger Integration: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

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

448
Citations
Placing Strategy Discourse in Context: Sociomateriality, Sensemaking and Power

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

441
Citations
Strategies as Discursive Constructions: The Case of Airline Alliances

Eero Vaara;Birgit Kleymann;Hannu Seristö

407
Citations
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

381
Citations
Strategy as practice : Taking Social Practices Seriously

Eero Vaara;Richard Whittington

251
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Janne Tienari Hanken School of Economics

Theo van Leeuwen University of Technology Sydney

David Seidl University of Zurich

Ruth Wodak Lancaster University

Richard J. Whittington University of Sydney

Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus

François Cooren University of Montreal

David M. Boje New Mexico State University

Peter Fleming University of Technology Sydney

Jason D. Shaw Nanyang Technological University

External Links

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