Degrees
2005 Docteur en Sciences de Gestion, IAE-AIX-ESSEC

2005 Doctor of Science in Economics and Business Administration, Vaasa University

1999 Licentiate of Science (Econ & BA), Vaasa University

1996 Master of Science (Econ & BA), Vaasa University

1989 Baccelaurate, Kokkola, Finland

Other Studies
7/2007 European Entrepreneurship Colloqium on Participant-Centered Learning, Harvard Business School

2006-07 Pedagogical Qualification Studies

2006 Undergraduate student (Mathematics & Statistics, Oulu University, Finland)

Minor topic in 2004-2005 Education & Pedagogy (25 ects, Tampere University, Finland)

Professional Occupation
Research Manager, Entrepreneurship Research, Seinäjoki Univ. of Applied Sciences, 1/2005-12/2006

Principle Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Seinäjoki Univ. of Applied Science, 1/2003-12/2004

Research Assistant, ESSEC New Business Center, 12/01-12/2002

Programme Co-coordinator, ESSEC Executive MBA, 1-11/2001

Programme Assistant, ESSEC-Philips Business School, 9/99-12/2000

Researcher (Kataja grant), 2-6/1999

Project Researcher, Vaasa University, 10/1997 - 3/1998

Project Researcher, Vaasa University, 4-12/1996

Professional development activities
Ad-hoc reviewer: Babson Conference & Academy of Management Meeting 2006

Ad-hoc reviewer: Journal of Business Venturing & Academy of Management 2004, 2005

Ad-hoc reviewer: Academy of Management (ENT & OMT divisions) 2003

Visiting Scholar, University of Colorado at Boulder 8-11/2002

EDAMBA Summer School for Doctoral Students, Soreze, France 7/2002

Doctoral Student Consortium, Babson Conference, Boulder, Colorado 06/2002

Doctoral Student Consortium, Entrepreneurship Division, AOM 7/2000

European Doctoral Program in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Mgt 1-6/1997

Earlier Teaching Experience
Business Plan Preparation, 30 hours, ESSEC-IMHI MBA students, 2007

Introduction to Entrepreneurship, 30 hours, ESSEC-IMHI MBA students, 2007

Entrepreneurship and New Venture Ideas, 4.5 ECTS, MBA students, 2004

Business Plan Preparation, 4.5 ECTS, Bachelor students, 2003, 2004, 2005

European Virtual Venturing, 4.5. ECTS, French engineering & Finnish BBA students, 2005, 2006

New Venture Creation, 4.5 ECTS, Vaasa University, Open university students, 2005

Entrepreneurship, 1.5 ECTS, Bachelor students, 2001, 2003, 2004

Research Methods in Business Studies, 1.5 ECTS, Bachelor students, 2003, 2004

Refereed Articles in Academic Journals
Tornikoski, E. & S. Newbert (2007). Exploring determinants of organizational emergence: A legitimacy perspective. Journal of Business Venturing, 22(2), 311-335.

Tornikoski, E. (forthcoming). Legitimating behaviors and organizational emergence: A resource dependence perspective. The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.

Tornikoski, E. & V. Puhakka (forthcoming). Exploring Firm Emergence: Initially Conditioned or Actively Created? International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

Kohtamäki, M., E. Tornikoski & E. Varamäki (Forthcoming). Strategic management competence of small and medium sized growth companies. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.


Refereed Articles in Books & Proceedings

Tornikoski, E. & S. Newbert (forthcoming). Personal networks, networking activity, and organizational emergence. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2007. Wellesley, MA: Babson College.

Varamäki, E. & E. Tornikoski (2007). External growth strategies (in Finnish). In M. Laukkanen (ed.). A Growth Firm. Finland: Tallentum.

Kohtamäki, M., E. Tornikoski & E. Varamäki (2007). Explorative research on strategic management competence in the small and medium sized growth firms in the South Ostrobothnia region in Finland. Proceedings of the ICSB 2007 conference, Turku, Finland.

Leskinen, P.-L., K. Melin, E. Tornikoski, E. Varamäki & J. Palojärvi (2006). The meaning of parents’ entrepreneurial activities to the entrepreneurial intentions of young adults (In Finnish). Proceedings of University of Vaasa, Research Papers 271.

Tornikoski, E. (2006). Explaining the emergence of a firm: A legitimacy perspective (In Finnish). In: The The Future Entrepreneur, 98-117. (Eds.) Halttunen J., Toivola T., Tuomi L. & Varamäki E. Helian julkaisusarja A 22, Helsinki: Edita.

Tornikoski, E. (1999). Entrepreneurship and theory development: The use of the constructivist approach in theorizing process. Proceedings of the ICSB 44. World Conference, 20-23 June 1999, Naples, Italy.


Accepted/Submitted Conference Papers
Kautonen, T., S. Luoto & E. Tornikoski. Entrepreneurial intentions in the third age: The impact of career history. Submitted to Fifth AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, February 5-8 2008, Melbourne, Australia.

Tornikoski, E. & Kautonen, T. Entrepreneurial intentions and the aging population: Application and test of the theory of planned behavior. Accepted to the RENT XXI Conference, Cardiff, November 2007.


Refereed Conference Papers without Published Proceedings
Bouchikhi, H. & E. Tornikoski. Exploration and exploitation under resources scarcity: Evidence from entrepreneurial succession. Babson 2007 conference, IE, Madrid, Spain.

Tornikoski, E. & V. Puhakka. Exploring firm emergence: Initially conditioned or actively created? IECER 2007 conference, Montpelier, France.

Saarakkala, M., E. Tornikoski, E. Varamaki & M. Kohtamaki. A framework for micro firm growth processes: Theory and practice. IECER 2007 conference, Montpelier, France.

Puhakka, V., S. Sipola & E. Tornikoski. The relationship between environmental dynamism and opportunity recognition: Moderating effects of intellectual- and social capital. EDGE Conference 2006, Singapore.

Tornikoski, E. (2005). Exploring determinants of organizational emergence: Institutional perspective. Academy of Management Meeting, August 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Tornikoski, E. (2005). Exploring the determinants of organizational emergence. Babson College Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference, June 2005, Babson College, Boston, USA.

Tornikoski, E. & S. Newbert (2004). The effects of improvising, networking, and organizing activities on organizational emergence: A resource dependence perspective. Babson College Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference, June 2004, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

Newbert, S. & E. Tornikoski (2003). Founding success and emerging organizations: An institutional perspective. Babson College Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference, June 2003, Boston, USA.

Tornikoski, E. & H. Bouchikhi (2002). Toward a mid-range theory of new venture performance. Academy of Management Meeting, August 2002, Denver, CO, USA.

Tornikoski, E. & H. Bouchikhi (2001). Toward mid-range theories of new venture performance: Building sector idiosyncrasy and life-cycles into research on performance. EGOS 17th Colloquium, 5-7 July, 2001, Lyon, France.

Tornikoski, E. & H. Bouchikhi (2001). Integrating industry and life in models of new venture performance. RENT XV Conference, 22-23 November, 2001, Turku, Finland.

Tornikoski, E. (1988). Visionary entrepreneurship as sense-making activity. 10th Nordic Conference of Small Business Research, 14-16 June 1998, Växjö, Sweden.


Monographies
Varamäki, E., Saarakkala, M., Tornikoski, E. (eds.) (2007). Essence of Growth Entrepreneurship and SME Growth Strategies in South Ostrobothnia (in Finnish). Publications of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences A: Research Reports 5.

Tornikoski, E. (2007). The focus of firm behavior after growth period (in Finnish). In Varamäki, E., Saarakkala, M., Tornikoski, E. (eds.), Essence of Growth Entrepreneurship and SME Growth Strategies in South Ostrobothnia. Publications of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences A: Research Reports 5.

Tornikoski, E. & Varamäki, E. (2007). The sources of firm growth (in Finnish). In Varamäki, E., Saarakkala, M., Tornikoski, E. (eds.), Essence of Growth Entrepreneurship and SME Growth Strategies in South Ostrobothnia. Publications of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences A: Research Reports 5.

Varamäki, E., E. Tornikoski, M. Saarakkala (2007). The management of internal and external growth in firms (in Finnish). In Varamäki, E., Saarakkala, M., Tornikoski, E. (eds.), Essence of Growth Entrepreneurship and SME Growth Strategies in South Ostrobothnia. Publications of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences A: Research Reports 5.

Varamäki, E., E. Tornikoski, M. Saarakkala (2007). The identification of Growth Firms in South Ostrobothnia –Research methods and data (in Finnish). In Varamäki, E., Saarakkala, M., Tornikoski, E. (eds.), Essence of Growth Entrepreneurship and SME Growth Strategies in South Ostrobothnia. Publications of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences A: Research Reports 5.

Varamäki, E., M. Saarakkala, E. Tornikoski & T. Heikkilä (2007). The profile of growth firms in South Ostrobothnia (in Finnish). In Varamäki, E., Saarakkala, M., Tornikoski, E. (eds.), Essence of Growth Entrepreneurship and SME Growth Strategies in South Ostrobothnia. Publications of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences A: Research Reports 5.

Karppanen, E., Tornikoski, E., Töytäri R., Urponen H., Uusitalo T. 1 Holm K. (2007). Audit of the Lahti Polytechnic quality assurance system (in Finnish). The Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council FINHEEC, 1:2007, Tampere: Tammer-Paino Oy.

Tornikoski, E., E. Varamaki, M. Kohtamaki, E. Petaja, T. Heikkila & K. Sorama (2006). The perception of entrepreneurship about growth opportunities and consequences of growth in knowledge intensive business services in South and Central Ostrobothnia -The explanatory study of Pro-Advisor project (In Finnish). Publications of Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences B: Reports 27.

Kupsala, R. & Tornikoski, E. (2006). The environmental attitudes of entrepreneurs in energy-technology sector (In Finnish). Proceedings of University of Vaasa, Reports 135.

Tornikoski, E., A. Kalliosaari, M. Ristila, E. Varamaki (2006). The use of start-up counceling system and the choices related to the creation of a firm (In Finnish). Proceedings of University of Vaasa, Reports 134.

Rankila, M & Tornikoski, E. (2006). The career reasons of custopreneurs (In Finnish). Proceedings of University of Vaasa, Reports 131.

Tornikoski, E. (2005). Exploration des Déterminants de l'Emergence d’Entreprise: Une Perspective de Légitimité. Thèse pour le Doctorat de Sciences de Gestion, Université Aix-Marseille III –Paul Cézanne, Programme Doctoral ESSEC. Mention : Très honorable avec félicitation de jury.

Tornikoski, E. (2005). Legitimated elements and legitimating behavior as determinants of organizational emergence. Doctoral thesis, Acta Wasaensis nro 137, Vaasa University, Finland.

Tornikoski, E. & M. Saarenpää (2005). The role of a business plan for resource acquisition during business start-up process (In Finnish). Proceedings of University of Vaasa, Reports, 123.

Tornikoski, E., R. Lahti, A. Pukkila & A. Särkäniemi (2005). Entrepreneurs and life long learning –Small investigation of meaningful learning experiences (In Finnish). Proceedings of University of Vaasa, Reports, 122.

Tornikoski, E. (2005). Theorizing in entrepreneurship. Vaasa University Proceedings. Reports, 121.

Tornikoski, E. (2004). Can one incubate entrepreneurship in Polytechnics? (In Finnish). In: At the Edge of Change, (Ed.) Marko Järvenpää, Julkaisuja ja selvityksiä B17, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences.

Varamäki, E., E. Tornikoski, T. Ranta, K. Sorama, T. Rouhunkoski, E. Petäjä & T. Pihkala (2004). The spin-off potential of the enterprises in the subregion of Seinäjoki (In Finnish). Vaasa University Proceedings. Reports 109.

Petäjä, E., E. Tornikoski, E. Varamäki (2004). Business incubator activities in South Ostrobothnia: Current state and development needs (In Finnish). Vaasa University Proceedings. Reports, 113.

Tornikoski, E. (1999). Entrepreneurship through constructivist lenses: Visionary entrepreneurship process –A conceptual development. Post graduate pre-doctoral thesis, University of Vaasa, Department of Management and Organization.


Publications in Popular Press & Other Articles
Newbert, S. & E. Tornikoski (2007). Want your start-up to be successful? Appearance is everything. Interview by Lesleie Taylor in Breaking Entrepreneurial News of the INC.com magazine, February 23rd, 2007.(http://www.inc.com/criticalnews/articles/200702/emerging.html)

Tornikoski, E. (2006). The entrepreneurial intentions of young adults are increased by responsible jobs in family businesses (In Finnish). The newspaper of Entrepreneurs in Ostrobothnia region, 25.4.2006

Tornikoski, E. (2006). Business Planning as a mean to improve business succession (In Finnish). Ilkka newspaper 16.5.2006, Seinäjoki, Finland.

Varamäki, E., E. Tornikoski & E. Petäjä (2005). Knowledge intensive business services (In Finnish). Etelä-Pohjanmaan Talous -barometer 2/2005, 7-9. Etelä-Pohjanmaan Liitto -Ennakointiportaali.

Varamäki, E., E. Tornikoski, T. Ranta, K. Sorama, T. Rouhunkoski & E. Petäjä (2004). Seinäjoen seudun kärkiyritykset suhtautuvat positiivisesti spin-offeihin. 30.0.2004, Ilkka-lehti, Seinäjoki.

Tornikoski, E. (2002). Studying organizational emergence. Paper presented in the 11th EDAMBA Summer School, June 2002, Soreze, France.

Tornikoski, E. (2000). New venture performance in internet related start-ups. Presented in the Doctoral Consortium, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management Meeting, August 2000, Toronto, Canada.

Ropega, J., Stoolhuis, M., Tidåsen, C. & Tornikoski, E. (1997). The Västbo Industrial District as an Industrial Market. Research Paper, European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Växjö University, School of Management and Economics.

Tornikoski, E. (1997). Theoretical Approaches to Entrepreneurship: The Economic Approach. Research Paper, European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department d’Economia de l’Empresa.

Experience in Auditing Quality Assurance Systems
Appointed by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council to be a member of an external evaluation team, which audited the quality assurance system of Lahti University of Applied Sciences, November-December 2006.
Member of an external evaluation team, which audited the plans of Master level programs of Entrepreneursip Business College Vern (Zagreb, Croatia) in 2005

Expert Tasks
Member of the Board, BIC Botnia (Business & Innovation Centre in Ostrobothnia), 5/2005-12/2006
Member of evaluation team of national business plan competition, Venture Cup Finland, 2004, 2005
Member of the Steering Committee of "Successful SME Ownership Transfer" –project of the Busines School 2004, 2005.
Member of evaluation team of business plan competition of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Versailles, Paris, 2002.
Member of pre-selection team of Tremplin Entreprise business plan competition, 2001, 2002.