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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

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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