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Mika Westerlund

Mika Westerlund

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Business and Management

D-Index
45
Citations
8257
World Ranking
1289
National Ranking
57

Overview

Mika Westerlund is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. The focus of their work lies mainly within the management of technology and innovation, media technology, and marketing. Additional subfields include sociology and political science, as well as strategy and management.

Their research spans a variety of key topics including innovative approaches in technology and social development, smart cities and technologies, innovation and knowledge management, blockchain technology applications and security, service and product innovation, sharing economy and platforms, and ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence.

Westerlund has contributed to numerous publications, with a significant number appearing in the Technology Innovation Management Review. Other frequent publication venues include the Journal of Innovation Management, Sustainability, International Journal of Innovation Management, and the International Journal of Bibliometrics in Business and Management.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Westerlund are:

  • Digitalization, Internationalization and Scaling of Online SMEs (2020), Technology Innovation Management Review
  • A Review and Categorization of Artificial Intelligence-Based Opportunities in Wildlife, Ocean and Land Conservation (2022), Sustainability
  • Collaborative innovation for sustainability in Nordic cities (2021), Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Living Labs: From Niche to Mainstream Innovation Management (2021), Sustainability
  • Autonomous vehicle solutions and their digital servitization business models (2022), Technological Forecasting and Social Change

The researcher maintains collaborative relationships with several frequent co-authors, including Seppo Leminen, Diane A. Isabelle, Mervi Rajahonka, Gregory Sandstrom, and Anna-Greta Nyström.

Best Publications

  • The Emergence of Deepfake Technology: A Review

    Mika Westerlund

  • Living labs as open-innovation networks

    Seppo Leminen;Mika Westerlund;Anna-Greta Nyström

  • A systematic review of living lab literature

    Mokter Hossain;Seppo Leminen;Seppo Leminen;Mika Westerlund

  • Designing Business Models for the Internet of Things

    Mika Westerlund;Seppo Leminen;Mervi Rajahonka

  • Managing the Challenges of Becoming an Open Innovation Company: Experiences from Living Labs

    Mika Westerlund;Seppo Leminen

  • Actor roles and role patterns influencing innovation in living labs

    Anna-Greta Nyström;Seppo Leminen;Seppo Leminen;Mika Westerlund;Mika Kortelainen

  • Service Innovation Myopia? A New Recipe for Client-Provider Value Creation

    Kristian Möller;Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund

  • Social capital in the growth of science-and-technology-based SMEs

    Jukka Partanen;Kristian Möller;Mika Westerlund;Risto Rajala

  • Learning and innovation in inter‐organizational network collaboration

    Mika Westerlund;Risto Rajala

  • Towards IOT Ecosystems and Business Models

    Seppo Leminen;Seppo Leminen;Mika Westerlund;Mika Westerlund;Mervi Rajahonka;Riikka Siuruainen

  • Linking Living Lab Characteristics and Their Outcomes : Towards a Conceptual Framework

    Carina Veeckman;Dimitri Schuurman;Seppo Leminen;Mika Westerlund

  • Business Models – A New Perspective on Firms' Assets and Capabilities Observations from the Finnish Software Industry

    Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund

  • Towards innovation in Living Labs networks

    Seppo Leminen;Mika Westerlund

  • A relationship value perspective of social capital in networks of software SMEs

    Mika Westerlund;Senja Svahn

  • Purchasing strategies in supply relationships

    Senja Svahn;Mika Westerlund

  • Living Labs as Open-Innovation Networks

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  • Green Innovation Games: Value-Creation Strategies for Corporate Sustainability:

    Tommi Lampikoski;Mika Westerlund;Risto Rajala;Kristian Möller

  • Environmental sustainability in industrial manufacturing: re-examining the greening of Interface's business model

    Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund;Tommi Lampikoski

  • The future of the Internet of Things: toward heterarchical ecosystems and service business models

    Seppo Leminen;Mervi Rajahonka;Mika Westerlund;Robert Wendelin

  • Industrial internet of things business models in the machine-to-machine context

    Seppo Leminen;Seppo Leminen;Mervi Rajahonka;Robert Wendelin;Mika Westerlund

  • A typology of creative consumers in living labs

    Seppo Leminen;Anna-Greta Nyström;Mika Westerlund

  • Strategic flexibility in open innovation – designing business models for open source software

    Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund;Kristian Möller

Frequent Co-Authors

Risto Rajala
Risto Rajala Aalto University
Kristian Möller
Kristian Möller Aalto University
Matti Mäntymäki
Matti Mäntymäki University of Turku
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen University of Oulu

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