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Kirsi Aaltonen

Kirsi Aaltonen

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
32
Citations
4519
World Ranking
2666
National Ranking
37

Overview

Kirsi Aaltonen is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Decision Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management, Building and Construction, Management Information Systems, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The research topics covered by Aaltonen focus on Construction Project Management and Performance, BIM and Construction Integration, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Management and Organizational Studies, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, Knowledge Management and Sharing, and Educational Games and Gamification.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Aaltonen include:

  • Teachers' experiences of using game-based learning methods in project management higher education, 2022, Project Leadership and Society
  • Organizing external stakeholder engagement in inter-organizational projects: Opening the black box, 2020, International Journal of Project Management
  • Challenges of adopting agile methods in a public organization, 2022, International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
  • Project Managers' Competencies in Collaborative Construction Projects, 2020, Buildings
  • Game-Based Learning in Project Sustainability Management Education, 2021, Sustainability

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Aaltonen include Jaakko Kujala, Harri Haapasalo, Elina Jääskä, Nadezhda Gotcheva, and Sina Moradi. The number of joint publications ranges from four to eight with these collaborators.

Aaltonen's work is regularly published in a core set of academic venues. These include:

  • International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
  • Project Leadership and Society
  • International Journal of Project Management
  • International Journal of Project Organisation and Management
  • Construction Management and Economics

Best Publications

  • Stakeholder salience in global projects

    Kirsi Aaltonen;Kujala Jaakko;Oijala Tuomas

  • A project lifecycle perspective on stakeholder influence strategies in global projects

    Kirsi Aaltonen;Jaakko Kujala

  • Project sustainability strategies: A systematic literature review

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  • Project stakeholder analysis as an environmental interpretation process

    Kirsi Aaltonen

  • Response strategies to stakeholder pressures in global projects

    Kirsi Aaltonen;Risto Sivonen

  • Towards an improved understanding of project stakeholder landscapes

    Kirsi Aaltonen;Jaakko Kujala

  • Dimensions of distance in a project network: Exploring Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant project

    Inkeri Ruuska;Karlos Artto;Kirsi Aaltonen;Päivi Lehtonen

  • Organizing external stakeholder engagement in inter-organizational projects: Opening the black box

    Jere Lehtinen;Jere Lehtinen;Kirsi Aaltonen

  • Stakeholder Dynamics During the Project Front-End: The Case of Nuclear Waste Repository Projects

    Kirsi Aaltonen;Jaakko Kujala;Laura Havela;Grant Savage

  • Challenges of adopting agile methods in a public organization

    Jouko Nuottila;Kirsi Aaltonen;Jaakko Kujala

  • Stakeholder management in complex product systems: Practices and rationales for engagement and disengagement

    Jere Lehtinen;Kirsi Aaltonen;Risto Rajala

  • Politics, public servants, and profits: Institutional complexity and temporary hybridization in a public infrastructure alliance project

    Juri Matinheikki;Juri Matinheikki;Kirsi Aaltonen;Derek Walker

  • Managing Project Stakeholder Communication: The Qstock Festival Case

    Virpi Turkulainen;Kirsi Aaltonen;Päivi Lohikoski

  • A stakeholder network perspective on unexpected events and their management in international projects

    Kirsi Aaltonen;Jaakko Kujala;Päivi Lehtonen;Inkeri Ruuska

  • Toward an Improved Understanding of Agile Project Governance: A Systematic Literature Review

    Teemu Lappi;Teemu Karvonen;Lucy Ellen Lwakatare;Kirsi Aaltonen

  • Project governance in public sector agile software projects

    Teemu Mikael Lappi;Kirsi Aaltonen

  • Project Managers’ Competencies in Collaborative Construction Projects

    Sina Moradi;Kalle Kähkönen;Kirsi Aaltonen

  • Project governance and portfolio management in government digitalization

    Teemu Mikael Lappi;Kirsi Aaltonen;Jaakko Kujala

  • The formation of a collaborative project identity in an infrastructure alliance project

    Anna-Maija Hietajärvi;Kirsi Aaltonen

  • Value creation dynamics in a project alliance

    Farzad Pargar;Jaakko Kujala;Kirsi Aaltonen;Sampsa Ruutu

  • Something old, something new: Path dependence and path creation during the early stage of a project

    Kirsi Aaltonen;Tuomas Ahola;Karlos Artto

  • Stakeholder Management in International Projects

    Kirsi Aaltonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Karlos Artto
Karlos Artto Aalto University
Jaakko Kujala
Jaakko Kujala University of Oulu
Derek H.T. Walker
Derek H.T. Walker RMIT University
Risto Rajala
Risto Rajala Aalto University

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