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Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
35
Citations
6301
World Ranking
2188
National Ranking
28

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

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

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

  • Playing the collaboration game right—balancing trust and contracting

    Kirsimarja Blomqvist;Pia Hurmelinna;Risto Seppänen

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

    Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Appropriability regime for radical and incremental innovations

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

  • Intellectual capital in service‐ and product‐oriented companies

    Aino Kianto;Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen;Paavo Ritala

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Tug of war in innovation - coopetitive service development

    Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Kirsimarja Blomqvist

  • Enabling collaborative innovation – knowledge protection for knowledge sharing

    Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen

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

    Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Satu Nätti

  • Coping with rivals’ absorptive capacity in innovation activities

    Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Heidi Olander

  • Managing the appropriability of R&D collaboration

    Kaisa Henttonen;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Paavo Ritala

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Paavo Ritala;Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen;Satu Nätti

  • Protection for profiting from collaborative service innovation

    Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen;Paavo Ritala

  • Orchestrating innovation networks: Alignment and orchestration profile approach

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

    Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen

  • Absorptive capacity and network orchestration in innovation communities – promoting service innovation

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

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

    Heidi Olander;Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen;Pia Heilmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Paavo Ritala
Paavo Ritala Lappeenranta University of Technology
Kaisu Puumalainen
Kaisu Puumalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology
Wim Vanhaverbeke
Wim Vanhaverbeke University of Antwerp
Sami Saarenketo
Sami Saarenketo Lappeenranta University of Technology
Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan University of Aberdeen
Ismail Golgeci
Ismail Golgeci University of Auckland
Aino Kianto
Aino Kianto Lappeenranta University of Technology
Kristian Möller
Kristian Möller Aalto University
Maximilian von Zedtwitz
Maximilian von Zedtwitz Copenhagen Business School
Ilan Alon
Ilan Alon Ariel University

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