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Business and Management
Finland
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
65
Citations
15786
World Ranking
403
National Ranking
3

Paavo Ritala publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paavo Ritala sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 246 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Paavo Ritala D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paavo Ritala sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Paavo Ritala is affiliated with Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. Their research contributions are primarily situated within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on strategy, management, and innovation.

Their scholarly output includes a range of topics central to contemporary business studies, particularly:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Sustainable Industrial Ecology
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Among recent publications, notable papers authored or co-authored by Ritala include:

  • "Digital strategy implementation: The role of individual entrepreneurial orientation and relational capital" (2021), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "Ecosystem Legitimacy Emergence: A Collective Action View" (2021), published in Journal of Management
  • "Six ways to build circular business models" (2021), published in Journal of Business Strategy
  • "Business model innovation in social enterprises: An activity system perspective" (2020), published in Journal of Business Research
  • "Digital Platforms for the Circular Economy: Exploring Meta-Organizational Orchestration Mechanisms" (2022), published in Organization & Environment

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Ritala encompass:

  • Nancy Bocken
  • Mika Ruokonen
  • Llewellyn D W Thomas
  • Kimmo Karhu
  • Sascha Kraus

Throughout their career, Ritala has contributed to several publication venues with multiple works, including:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • R and D Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Industrial Marketing Management

Within subfields, Ritala's research is concentrated in strategy and management, marketing, industrial and manufacturing engineering, management of technology and innovation, and sociology and political science. This interdisciplinary approach underpins their engagement with evolving business challenges, especially in innovation systems and sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Incremental and Radical Innovation in Coopetition—The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Appropriability

    Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

  • What's in it for me? Creating and appropriating value in innovation-related coopetition

    Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

  • Coopetition Strategy – When is it Successful? Empirical Evidence on Innovation and Market Performance

    Paavo Ritala

  • Knowledge sharing, knowledge leaking and relative innovation performance: An empirical study

    Paavo Ritala;Heidi Olander;Snejina Michailova;Kenneth Husted

  • Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon.com

    Paavo Ritala;Arash Golnam;Alain Wegmann

  • Exploring institutional drivers and barriers of the circular economy: A cross-regional comparison of China, the US, and Europe

    Valtteri Ranta;Leena Aarikka-Stenroos;Paavo Ritala;Saku J. Mäkinen

  • Network management in the era of ecosystems: Systematic review and management framework

    Leena Aarikka-Stenroos;Paavo Ritala

  • The interaction of intellectual capital assets and knowledge management practices in organizational value creation

    Aino Kianto;Paavo Ritala;John-Christopher Spender;Mika Vanhala

  • Coopetition in new product development alliances : advantages and tensions for incremental and radical innovation

    Ricarda B. Bouncken;Viktor Fredrich;Paavo Ritala;Sascha Kraus

  • Value creation and capture mechanisms in innovation ecosystems: a comparative case study

    Paavo Ritala;Vassilis Agouridas;Dimitris Assimakopoulos;Otto Gies

  • Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda

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  • Human resources for Big Data professions: A systematic classification of job roles and required skill sets

    Andrea De Mauro;Marco Greco;Michele Grimaldi;Paavo Ritala

  • In defense of ‘eco’ in innovation ecosystem

    Paavo Ritala;Argyro Almpanopoulou

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

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

  • Intellectual capital, knowledge management practices and firm performance

    Henri Hussinki;Paavo Ritala;Mika Vanhala;Aino Kianto

  • Intellectual capital in service‐ and product‐oriented companies

    Aino Kianto;Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen;Paavo Ritala

  • Knowledge sharing and individual work performance: an empirical study of a public sector organisation

    Kaisa Henttonen;Aino Kianto;Paavo Ritala

  • Coopetition for radical innovation: technology, market and business-model perspectives

    Paavo Ritala;Liisa-Maija Sainio

  • Untangling the value-creation and value-appropriation elements of coopetition strategy: A longitudinal analysis on the firm and relational levels

    Paavo Ritala;Annika Tidström

  • Business model innovation for sustainability: exploring evolutionary and radical approaches through dynamic capabilities

    Edurne A. Inigo;Laura Albareda;Paavo Ritala

  • INNOVATION ORCHESTRATION CAPABILITY — DEFINING THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVEL DETERMINANTS

    Paavo Ritala;Leila Armila;Kirsimarja Blomqvist

Frequent Co-Authors

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen University of Oulu
Aino Kianto
Aino Kianto Lappeenranta University of Technology
Nancy Bocken
Nancy Bocken Maastricht University
Kirsimarja Blomqvist
Kirsimarja Blomqvist Lappeenranta University of Technology
Ricarda B. Bouncken
Ricarda B. Bouncken University of Bayreuth
Sascha Kraus
Sascha Kraus University of Siegen
Snejina Michailova
Snejina Michailova University of Auckland
Devi R. Gnyawali
Devi R. Gnyawali Virginia Tech
Tommi Mikkonen
Tommi Mikkonen University of Jyväskylä
Jero Ahola
Jero Ahola Lappeenranta University of Technology

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