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Overview

Kaisu Puumalainen is affiliated with Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on Business, Management and Accounting, with notable subfields including Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Business and International Management.

The main topics covered in Puumalainen's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Family Business Performance and Succession, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Service and Product Innovation, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts.

Several recent papers illustrate Puumalainen's research contributions. These include:

  • Business Model Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review (2020), published in International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management
  • Professional football clubs and empirical evidence from the COVID-19 crisis: Time for sport entrepreneurship? (2021), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Business model innovation: Identifying foundations and trajectories (2020), published in Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Non-sustainable buying behavior: How the fear of missing out drives purchase intentions in the fast fashion industry (2023), published in Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Passionate and engaged? Passion for inventing and work engagement in different knowledge work contexts (2021), published in International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

Puumalainen frequently publishes in several academic venues including:

  • Review of Managerial Science
  • Business Strategy and the Environment
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing
  • International Journal of Business and Globalisation
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborations with other researchers form an important aspect of Puumalainen's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sascha Kraus
  • Helena Sjögrén
  • Matthias Filser
  • Pasi Syrjä
  • Jonas Hammerschmidt

The combination of research topics, publication outlets, and co-authorship networks positions Puumalainen within the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management, with attention to socio-economic influences on business practices and organizational development.

Best Publications

  • Entrepreneurial Orientation, Dynamic Capabilities and International Performance

    Ari Jantunen;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo;Kalevi Kyläheiko

  • A Global Mindset — A Prerequisite for Successful Internationalization?

    Niina Nummela;Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • The role of trust in organisational innovativeness

    Riikka Ellonen;Kirsimarja Blomqvist;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Strategic orientations of born globals—Do they really matter?

    Ari Jantunen;Niina Nummela;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo

  • Innovation and internationalization as growth strategies: The role of technological capabilities and appropriability

    Kalevi Kyläheiko;Ari Jantunen;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo

  • Nature and dynamics of appropriability: strategies for appropriating returns on innovation

    Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Drivers of entrepreneurial intentions in sustainable entrepreneurship

    Anna Maija Vuorio;Kaisu Puumalainen;Katharina Fellnhofer

  • Start-up patterns of internationalization: A framework and its application in the context of knowledge-intensive SMEs

    Olli Kuivalainen;Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Key antecedents to "export" market-oriented behaviors: a cross-national empirical examination

    John W Cadogan;Nicola J Paul;Risto T Salminen;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Dynamic knowledge-related learning processes in internationalizing high-tech SMEs

    Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen;Olli Kuivalainen;Kalevi Kyläheiko

  • Sustainable business model adoption among S&P 500 firms: A longitudinal content analysis study

    Paavo Ritala;Pontus Huotari;Nancy Bocken;Nancy Bocken;Laura Albareda

  • Entrepreneurial orientation: Growth and profitability of Finnish small- and medium-sized enterprises

    Juha Soininen;Minna Martikainen;Kaisu Puumalainen;Kalevi Kyläheiko

  • Risk-based classification of supplier relationships

    Jukka Hallikas;Kaisu Puumalainen;Toni Vesterinen;Veli-Matti Virolainen

  • The effects of country characteristics, cultural similarity and adoption timing on the diffusion of wireless communications

    Sanna Sundqvist;Lauri Frank;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • The impact of global economic crisis on SMEs

    Juha Soininen;Kaisu Puumalainen;Helena Sjögrén;Pasi Syrjä

  • Linking knowledge, entry timing and internationalization strategy

    Anni Tuppura;Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen;Ari Jantunen

  • The effect of network competence and environmental hostility on the internationalization of SMEs

    Lasse Torkkeli;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo;Olli Kuivalainen

  • The Effect of Environmental Turbulence and Leader Characteristics on International Performance: Are Knowledge‐Based Firms Different?

    Olli Kuivalainen;Sanna Sundqvist;Kaisu Puumalainen;John W. Cadogan

  • Export marketing, interfunctional interactions, and performance consequences

    John W. Cadogan;Sanna Sundqvist;Risto T. Salminen;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • International Growth Orientation of Knowledge-Intensive SMES

    Niina Nummela;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo

Frequent Co-Authors

Sami Saarenketo
Sami Saarenketo Lappeenranta University of Technology
Olli Kuivalainen
Olli Kuivalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen University of Oulu
Anne Toppinen
Anne Toppinen University of Helsinki
John W. Cadogan
John W. Cadogan University of Leicester
Joni-Kristian Kamarainen
Joni-Kristian Kamarainen Tampere University
Sascha Kraus
Sascha Kraus University of Siegen
Nancy Bocken
Nancy Bocken Maastricht University
Susanne Durst
Susanne Durst Reykjavík University
Paavo Ritala
Paavo Ritala Lappeenranta University of Technology

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