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Risto Rajala

Risto Rajala

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
38
Citations
5331
World Ranking
1869
National Ranking
17

Risto Rajala 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 Risto Rajala sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 173 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Risto Rajala 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 Risto Rajala 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: 67 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: 38 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Risto Rajala is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics including Management and Organizational Studies, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Ethics in Business and Education, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Healthcare Policy and Management, and Healthcare Quality and Management.

Recent publications by Risto Rajala include:

  • Integrating CSR with Business Strategy: A Tension Management Perspective, 2020, Journal of Business Ethics
  • Engaging a product-focused sales force in solution selling: interplay of individual- and organizational-level conditions, 2020, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • Digital Transformation: The Interplay of Explorative and Exploitative Capability Development, 2020, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Revisiting the unholy alliance of health-care operations: payor-provider integration of occupational health services, 2020, International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • The Effects of Competence-Based, Expressive and Collaborative Service Performance on the B2B Service Relationship, 2021, Technology Innovation Management Review

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Risto Rajala include:

  • Jaakko Siltaloppi
  • Anna Salonen
  • Harri Terho
  • Eva Böhm
  • Ari Virtanen

Risto Rajala's work is often published in recognized academic venues such as:

  • Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Technology Innovation Management Review
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Business Ethics

The research provided by Rajala contributes to multiple areas of business and management research with interdisciplinary approaches that include ethics, healthcare management, organizational behavior, and innovation studies.

Best Publications

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

    Kristian Möller;Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund

  • Theory and practice of value co-creation in B2B systems

    Marko Kohtamäki;Risto Rajala

  • 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

  • Value-based selling: An organizational capability perspective

    Pekka Töytäri;Risto Rajala

  • Managing inter-organizational networks for value creation in the front-end of projects

    Juri Matinheikki;Karlos Artto;Antti Peltokorpi;Risto Rajala

  • Why people use online social media brand communities: A consumption value theory perspective

    Puneet Kaur;Amandeep Dhir;Risto Rajala;Yogesh Dwivedi

  • Organizational and institutional barriers to value-based pricing in industrial relationships

    Pekka Töytäri;Risto Rajala;Thomas Brashear Alejandro

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

    Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund

  • Strategies for Integrating Stakeholders into Sustainability Innovation: A Configurational Perspective

    Jouni Juntunen;Minna Halme;Angelina Korsunova-Tsaruk;Risto Rajala

  • Knowledge sharing through virtual teams across borders and boundaries

    Olli-Pekka Kauppila;Risto Rajala;Annukka Jyrämä

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

    Tommi Lampikoski;Mika Westerlund;Risto Rajala;Kristian Möller

  • A Framework for Analyzing Software Business Models

    Risto Rajala;Matti Rossi;Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen

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

    Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund;Tommi Lampikoski

  • Information sharing for sales and operations planning: Contextualized solutions and mechanisms

    Riikka Kaipia;Jan Holmström;Johanna Småros;Risto Rajala

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

    Jere Lehtinen;Kirsi Aaltonen;Risto Rajala

  • Flow in context

    Puneet Kaur;Amandeep Dhir;Sufen Chen;Risto Rajala

  • Integrating CSR with Business Strategy: A Tension Management Perspective

    Jaakko Siltaloppi;Risto Rajala;Henri Hietala

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

    Risto Rajala;Mika Westerlund;Kristian Möller

  • Why do young people tag photos on social networking sites? Explaining user intentions

    Amandeep Dhir;Puneet Kaur;Risto Rajala

  • Does a contextualized theory of planned behavior explain why teenagers stay in virtual worlds

    Matti Mäntymäki;Jani Merikivi;Tibert Verhagen;Frans Feldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Westerlund
Mika Westerlund Carleton University
Kristian Möller
Kristian Möller Aalto University
Amandeep Dhir
Amandeep Dhir University of Agder
Karlos Artto
Karlos Artto Aalto University
Matti Rossi
Matti Rossi Aalto University
Marko Kohtamäki
Marko Kohtamäki University of Vaasa
Faïz Gallouj
Faïz Gallouj University of Lille
Jan Holmström
Jan Holmström Aalto University
Matti Mäntymäki
Matti Mäntymäki University of Turku
Stephen L. Vargo
Stephen L. Vargo University of Oklahoma

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