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Overview

Janne Tienari is affiliated with the Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Their work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant focus on several subfields including Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Education, and Safety Research.

Tienari's research topics are concentrated on Management and Organizational Studies, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Gender Politics and Representation, Participatory Visual Research Methods, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, and Gender, Feminism, and Media.

The scholar has published several recent papers, notable examples include:

  • "Dangerous Knowledge: The Political, Personal, and Epistemological Promise of Feminist Research in Management and Organization Studies," 2020, International Journal of Management Reviews
  • "Writing resistance together," 2020, Gender Work and Organization
  • "Academic identities and sense of place: A collaborative autoethnography in the neoliberal university," 2021, Management Learning
  • "Artificial intelligence and rationalized unaccountability: Ideology of the elites?," 2020, Organization
  • "Social media and hyper-masculine work cultures," 2020, Gender Work and Organization

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Susan Meriläinen
  • Paul Savage
  • Scott Taylor
  • Katja Einola
  • Mikko Vesa

Publication venues where Tienari has multiple contributions comprise:

  • Gender Work and Organization
  • Management Learning
  • Organization
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Learning and Education

Tienari has authored books published by Bristol University Press eBooks and Tampere University Press eBooks. The available titles include "Moomin Management" (2024) and "Työn arjen tarinat - työelämän etnografiaa" (2025).

Best Publications

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

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Juha Laurila

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

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Rebecca Piekkari;Risto Säntti

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

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari

  • Ethos at stake: Performance management and academic work in universities

    Kirsi Mari Kallio;Tomi J. Kallio;Janne Tienari;Timo Hyvönen

  • Integration or disintegration? Human resource implications of a common corporate language decision in a cross-border merger

    Rebecca Piekkari;Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Risto Säntti

  • Justification, Legitimization and Naturalization of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Texts

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari

  • Management Consultant Talk: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Normalizing Discourse and Resistance:

    Susan Merilianen;Janne Tienari;Robyn Thomas;Annette Davies

  • Hidden contexts and invisible power relations: A Foucauldian reading of diversity research

    Pasi Ahonen;Janne Tienari;Susan Meriläinen;Alison Pullen

  • The International Match: Metaphors as Vehicles of Social Identity-Building in Cross-Border Mergers

    Eero Vaara;Janne Tienari;Risto Säntti

  • Hegemonic Academic Practices: Experiences of Publishing from the Periphery

    Susan Carita Meriläinen;Janne Tienari;Robyn Thomas;Annette Davies

  • Becoming "world-class"?Reputation-building in a university merger

    Hanna‐Mari Aula;Janne Tienari

  • Balancing acts: Managing employees and reputation in social media

    Joonas Rokka;Katariina Karlsson;Janne Tienari

  • Headhunters and the ‘ideal’ executive body

    Susan Carita Meriläinen;Janne Tienari;Anu Elina Valtonen

  • Organizational Reforms, `Ideal Workers' and Gender Orders: A Cross-Societal Comparison

    Janne Tienari;Sigrid Quack;Hildegard Theobald

  • How issues become (re)constructed in the media : Discursive practices in the AstraZeneca merger

    Bo Hellgren;Jan Lowstedt;Liisa Puttonen;Janne Tienari

  • Time’s up! Feminist theory and activism meets organization studies:

    Emma Bell;Susan Carita Meriläinen;Scott Taylor;Janne Tienari

  • Johtaminen ja organisointi globaalissa taloudessa

    Janne Tienari;Susan Meriläinen

  • Global Capitalism Meets National Spirit: Discourses in Media Texts on a Cross-Border Acquisition

    Janne Tienari;Eero Vaara;Ingmar Björkman

  • Gender and National Identity Constructions in the Cross-Border Merger Context

    Janne Tienari;Anne-Marie Søderberg;Charlotte Holgersson;Eero Vaara

  • Academic writing as love

    Carol Marie Kiriakos;Janne Tienari

Frequent Co-Authors

Eero Vaara
Eero Vaara University of Oxford
Snejina Michailova
Snejina Michailova University of Auckland
Albert J. Mills
Albert J. Mills Saint Mary's University
Carl Rhodes
Carl Rhodes University of Technology Sydney

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