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Overview

Sami Saarenketo is affiliated with Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. Their research primarily falls within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on several subfields including Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Accounting.

The scientist's work covers multiple key topics such as:

  • International Business and FDI
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Corporate Finance and Governance

Among recent scholarly publications authored or coauthored by Sami Saarenketo are:

  • "Entrepreneurial orientation and international opportunity development by SMEs: The mediating role of decision-making logic," 2020, Journal of Small Business Management
  • "The Role of Digitalization on the Internationalization Strategy of Born-Digital Companies," 2021, Sustainability
  • "The role of home market context in business model change in internationalizing SMEs," 2020, European Business Review
  • "Business model innovation in international performance: the mediating effect of network capability," 2020, International Journal of Export Marketing
  • "Internationalisation of family enterprises: the role of entrepreneurial orientation and international growth orientation," 2021, International Journal of Business and Globalisation

Saarenketo frequently collaborates with a set of coauthors, including:

  • Lasse Torkkeli
  • Olli Kuivalainen
  • Anisur R. Faroque
  • Agnes Asemokha
  • Maria Uzhegova

Their research findings have been published in leading academic journals, with repeated contributions to:

  • International Journal of Export Marketing
  • International Journal of Business and Globalisation
  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Small Business Management
  • European Business Review

Best Publications

  • Entrepreneurial Orientation, Dynamic Capabilities and International Performance

    Ari Jantunen;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo;Kalevi Kyläheiko

  • A Global Mindset — A Prerequisite for Successful Internationalization?

    Niina Nummela;Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Strategic orientations of born globals—Do they really matter?

    Ari Jantunen;Niina Nummela;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo

  • Innovation and internationalization as growth strategies: The role of technological capabilities and appropriability

    Kalevi Kyläheiko;Ari Jantunen;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo

  • Start-up patterns of internationalization: A framework and its application in the context of knowledge-intensive SMEs

    Olli Kuivalainen;Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Dynamic knowledge-related learning processes in internationalizing high-tech SMEs

    Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen;Olli Kuivalainen;Kalevi Kyläheiko

  • Internationalization patterns of small and medium‐sized enterprises

    Olli Kuivalainen;Sanna Sundqvist;Sami Saarenketo;Rod McNaughton

  • Strategic Decision-Making of a Born Global: A Comparative Study From Three Small Open Economies

    Niina Nummela;Sami Saarenketo;Päivi Jokela;Sharon Loane

  • Linking knowledge, entry timing and internationalization strategy

    Anni Tuppura;Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen;Ari Jantunen

  • The effect of network competence and environmental hostility on the internationalization of SMEs

    Lasse Torkkeli;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo;Olli Kuivalainen

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

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

  • International Growth Orientation of Knowledge-Intensive SMES

    Niina Nummela;Kaisu Puumalainen;Sami Saarenketo

  • Business model innovation and entrepreneurial orientation relationships in SMEs: Implications for international performance

    Agnes Asemokha;Jackson Musona;Lasse Torkkeli;Sami Saarenketo

  • The dynamics of failure in international new ventures: A case study of Finnish and Irish software companies

    Niina Nummela;Sami Saarenketo;Sharon Loane

  • Dynamic capability in a small global factory

    Taina Eriksson;Niina Nummela;Sami Saarenketo

  • The strategic orientations of rapidly internationalizing software companies

    Mika Ruokonen;Sami Saarenketo

  • Digitalization of companies in international entrepreneurship and marketing

    Ioan-Iustin Vadana;Lasse Torkkeli;Olli Kuivalainen;Sami Saarenketo

  • The institutional environment for international entrepreneurship in Russia: Reflections on growth decisions and performance in SMEs

    Daria Volchek;Ari Jantunen;Sami Saarenketo

  • Institutional environment and network competence in successful SME internationalisation

    Lasse Torkkeli;Olli Kuivalainen;Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen

  • Linking knowledge and internationalization in small and medium-sized enterprises in the ICT sector

    Sami Saarenketo;Kaisu Puumalainen;Kalevi Kyläheiko;Olli Kuivalainen

  • Employer branding in power industry

    Pia Heilmann;Sami Saarenketo;Katja Liikkanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaisu Puumalainen
Kaisu Puumalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology
Olli Kuivalainen
Olli Kuivalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen University of Oulu
Rod B. McNaughton
Rod B. McNaughton University of Auckland

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