2026 Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	35	2189	2058	28	28	150	6301

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen 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 Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 150 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen 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 Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields including Strategy and Management, Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Communication.

Their research focuses on multiple interconnected topics such as Innovation and Knowledge Management, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, Service and Product Innovation, Knowledge Management and Sharing, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Management and Organizational Studies, and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development.

Notable recent publications include:

Adaptive learning in cross-sector collaboration during global emergency: conceptual insights in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Multinational Business Review
Orchestrating innovation networks: Alignment and orchestration profile approach, 2021, Journal of Business Research
The dark side of open innovation: Individual affective responses as hidden tolls of the paradox of openness, 2021, Journal of Business Research
How to Appropriate Value from General-Purpose Technology by Applying Open Innovation, 2021, California Management Review
Distinguishing between appropriability and appropriation: A systematic review and a renewed conceptual framing, 2021, Research Policy

Frequently publishing in prominent venues, Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen's work appears often in the International Journal of Innovation Management, Academy of Management Proceedings, Technovation, Journal of Business Research, and Innovation.

Collaborations with other researchers play a significant role in their work. Frequent co-authors include Jialei Yang, Lauri Haapanen, Ahmad Arslan, Ioana Stefan, and Wim Vanhaverbeke, reflecting a sustained engagement with scholars active in innovation and management research.

Best Publications

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

Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

840
Citations
What's in it for me? Creating and appropriating value in innovation-related coopetition

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

751
Citations
Playing the collaboration game right—balancing trust and contracting

Kirsimarja Blomqvist;Pia Hurmelinna;Risto Seppänen

492
Citations
Nature and dynamics of appropriability: strategies for appropriating returns on innovation

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Kaisu Puumalainen

318
Citations
Appropriability regime for radical and incremental innovations

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Liisa-Maija Sainio;Tiina Jauhiainen

289
Citations
Intellectual capital in service‐ and product‐oriented companies

Aino Kianto;Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen;Paavo Ritala

282
Citations
Constituents of radical innovation—exploring the role of strategic orientations and market uncertainty

Liisa-Maija Sainio;Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

193
Citations
Orchestrating R&D networks: Absorptive capacity, network stability, and innovation appropriability

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Heidi Olander;Kirsimarja Blomqvist;Victoria Panfilii

164
Citations
The role of trust and contracts in the internationalization of technology-intensive Born Globals

Kirsimarja Blomqvist;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Niina Nummela;Sami Saarenketo

161
Citations
The Janus face of the appropriability regime in the protection of innovations: Theoretical re-appraisal and empirical analysis

Unknown

152
Citations
Tug of war in innovation - coopetitive service development

Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Kirsimarja Blomqvist

138
Citations
Enabling collaborative innovation – knowledge protection for knowledge sharing

Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen

137
Citations
Orchestrator types, roles and capabilities – A framework for innovation networks

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Satu Nätti

112
Citations
Coping with rivals’ absorptive capacity in innovation activities

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Heidi Olander

104
Citations
Managing the appropriability of R&D collaboration

Kaisa Henttonen;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Paavo Ritala

97
Citations
The dynamics of relational and contractual governance mechanisms in knowledge sharing of collaborative R&D projects

Heidi Olander;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Kirsimarja Blomqvist;Paavo Ritala

96
Citations
WHAT'S SMALL SIZE GOT TO DO WITH IT? PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL ASSETS IN SMEs

Heidi Olander;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Jukka Mähönen

93
Citations
Coordination in innovation‐generating business networks – the case of Finnish Mobile TV development

Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen;Satu Nätti

92
Citations
Protection for profiting from collaborative service innovation

Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen;Paavo Ritala

91
Citations
Orchestrating innovation networks: Alignment and orchestration profile approach

Unknown

79
Citations
Constituents and outcomes of absorptive capacity – appropriability regime changing the game

Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen

73
Citations
Absorptive capacity and network orchestration in innovation communities – promoting service innovation

Satu Nätti;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Wesley J. Johnston

68
Citations
DO SMEs BENEFIT FROM HRM-RELATED KNOWLEDGE PROTECTION IN INNOVATION MANAGEMENT?

Heidi Olander;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Pia Heilmann

66
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paavo Ritala Lappeenranta University of Technology

Kirsimarja Blomqvist Lappeenranta University of Technology

Kaisu Puumalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology

Wim Vanhaverbeke University of Antwerp

Sami Saarenketo Lappeenranta University of Technology

Ismail Golgeci University of Auckland

Zaheer Khan University of Aberdeen

Aino Kianto Lappeenranta University of Technology

Kristian Möller Aalto University

Ilan Alon Ariel University

External Links

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