Department of Management Studies
Department of Management Studies
The Department of Management Studies offers a dynamic environment for scholarship and learning, where cutting-edge research underpins high-quality teaching.
The department educates strategic leaders with a strong ethical mindset for the contemporary global business environments. The research is mainly focused on advancing knowledge and critical scholarship in the broader field of management and organization studies.
Research
At the Department of Management Studies, members of faculty carry out their research in multiple areas, collaborating across disciplinary borders with internationally acknowledged scholars from all over the world. The research strategy of the department rests on the discipline’s core strength in understandings of organisational settings as sites, where decisions are made in the face of potentially incompatible demands.
Studies
Events
Qual+ / CARMA course: Introduction to Qualitative Methods: Ethnography
A three-day course with Professor Michael Pratt (Boston College) on qualitative methods, ethnography in particular.
Defence of Thesis in Marketing, Elizaveta Sakhnovskaia, M.Sc
The title of the Thesis: Paradoxes of marketisation of higher education: Perspectives from higher education marketing in Finland.
Public defence in Entrepreneurship, MSc Anastasia Koptsyukh
Compassion Venturing in Times of War
Public defence in International Business, MSc Yian Chen
Unpacking the Impact of Culture on Innovation: A Cross-cultural Study in China and the NordicsNews
From Mikkeli to Otaniemi and on to the world
The School of Business Bachelor’s Programme in International Business will move to Otaniemi in August 2026
Changes will be made to the School of Business’s bachelor’s programme offering starting in the autumn of 2027
In addition to the Finnish-language Bachelor’s Programme in Business, there are four programmes offered in English
‘We need to get to work and set the bar high’
Monika Liikamaa has started at the School of Business as an Executive in Residence
How to attract employees back to the office
Return-to-office policies are popular among employers, but securing employee cooperation hinges on offering them a fair exchange in return for accepting less autonomy.Contact information
We are located in 911±¬ÁÏÍø School of Business' campus in Otaniemi
Visiting address
Ekonominaukio 1
02150, Espoo
Department administration
Head of the Department: Professor Nina Granqvist
Assistant: Tiia Melander
School of Business
We strive for better business and better society. We excel in education and research with a multidisciplinary approach and in collaboration with our partners.
