Eero Vaara
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Eero Vaara
Professor in Strategic Management
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Professor of Management and Organization
Permanent Visiting Professor, EMLYON Business School
Dean of Research - Hanken School of Economics
Chair of European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) www.egosnet.org
Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Docent, Lappeenranta University of Technology www.lut.fi
AIM (Advanced Institute of Management Research) Visiting International Fellow http://www.aimresearch.org/index.php?page=Eero-Vaara
Board member of Liikkeenjohdollinen tutkimusryhmä (LJT)
Member of Editorial board of Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Organization, Strategic Organization, Journal of Strategy and Management, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Série K d’Economies et Sociétés
Member of the Advisory Board of Organization Studies
Education
Dr.(Econ.) (Helsinki School of Economics, 1999)
Experiences
- 1998-1999 : Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Department of International Business, Assistant Professor
- 1999-2002 : Helsinki School of Economics, Department of International Business, Professor (acting)
- 2002-2003 : EM LYON, Visiting Professor
- 2003-2004 : EM LYON, Professor of Strategy
- Since 2004 : Hanken School of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Management and Organization, Professor of Management and Organization
- Since 2004 : EM LYON, Visiting professor (on a permanent basis)
- 2007-2008 : SCANCOR, Stanford, Visiting Scholar Publications & Research
Research interests :
Organizational change (mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, shutdowns)
Discourse and communication in strategy and strategizing
Critical perspectives on MNCs and globalization
Methodological and epistemological issues in management and organization research
Rewards
AWARDS
Master's Thesis of the Year Award (Finland, given by SEFEK) in 1992
Doctoral Thesis of the Year Award (Helsinki School of Economics) in 1999
Roland Calori Prize for the best paper published in Organization Studies in 2001-2002 (awarded July 2003) Researcher of the Year, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, 2006
Courses taught
Managing International Mergers and Acquisitions
Managing the Research Process
Perspectives on Organization
Quality in Research: Philosophies, Methodologies and Qualitative Methods
Other information
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNAL
Durand, R. and Vaara, E. Causation, counterfactuals and competitive advantage. Strategic Management Journal, 2009, 30(12): 1245-1264.
Vaara, E. and Monin, P. A recursive perspective on discursive legitimation and organizational action in mergers and acquisitions. Organization Science, forthcoming, 2009.
Erkama, N. and Vaara, E. Struggles over legitimacy in global organizational restructuring: A rhetorical perspective on legitimation strategies and dynamics in a shutdown case. Organization Studies, forthcoming, 2009/10.
Pälli P., Vaara, E. and Sorsa, V. Strategy as text and discursive practice: A genre-based approach to strategizing in City Administration. Discourse & Communication, 2009, 3(3): 303-318.
Joutsenvirta, M. and Vaara, E. Discursive (de)legitimation of a contested Finnish greenfield investment project in Latin America. Scandinavian Journal of Management, forthcoming, 2009.
Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Meriläinen, S. Becoming an international man: Top manager masculinities in the making of a multinational corporation. Equal Opportunities International, forthcoming, 2009.Vaara, E. and Monin, P. A recursive perspective on discursive legitimation and organizational action in mergers and acquisitions. Organization Science, forthcoming, 2009.
Kettunen, P. and Vaara, E. Miten yrityskauppatutkimuksen tuloksia voi käyttää hyväksi kuntaliitostutkimuksessa? Hallinnon tutkimus / Administrative Studies, 2009, 28(1), 3-14.
Vaara, E. and Tienari, J. A discursive perspective on legitimation strategies in MNCs. Academy of Management Review, 2008, 33(4), 985-993.
Mantere, S. and Vaara, E. On the problem of participation in strategy: A critical discursive perspective. Organization Science, 2008, 19(2), 341-358.
Björkman, I., Stahl, G. and Vaara, E. Impact of cultural differences on capability transfer in acquisitions: The mediating roles of capability complementarity, absorptive capacity, and social integration. Journal of International Business Studies, 2007, 38(4), 658-672
Kakkuri-Knuuttila, M.-L. and Vaara, E. Reconciling opposites in organization studies: The case of modernism and post-modernism. Philosophy in Management, 2007, 6(1), 97-114
Laine, P.-M. and Vaara, E. Struggling over subjectivity: A discursive analysis of strategic development in an engineering group. Human Relations, 2006, 59(5), 611-636.
Ainamo, A., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Between West and East: A social history of business journalism in Cold War Finland. Human Relations, 2006, 59(5), 611-636.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Laurila, J. Pulp and paper fiction: On the discursive legitimation of global industrial restructuring. Organization Studies, 2006, 27(6), 789-810.
Tienari, J.and Vaara, E. The contested terrain of globalization: Review and conceptual clarifications. Liiketaloudellinen aikakauskirja / The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, 54(3), 413-442, 2005.
Tienari, J, Søderberg, A.-M., Holgersson, C. and Vaara, E. Narrating gender and national identity: Nordic executives excusing for inequality in a cross-border merger context. Gender, Work and Organization, 2005, 12(3), 217-241.
Monin, P., Ben Fathallah, O. and Vaara, E. Conflits de normes de justice distributive dans les fusions entre égaux: Inégalité, inéquité ... et divorce chez BioMérieux-Pierre Fabre. Révue Francaise de Gestion, 2005, 31(158), 145-162.
Monin, P. and Vaara, E. La construction sociale des synergies dans les fusions et acquisitions : lorsque biomerieux et pierre fabre inventent le theranostique pour justifier leur fusion. Gérer et comprendre, 2005, 82, 37-49.
Kuronen, M.-L., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. The merger storm recognises no borders - An analysis of media rhetoric on a business manouver. Organization, 2005, 12(2), 247-273.
Piekkari, R., Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Säntti, R. Integration ordisintegration? Human resource implications of the common corporate language decision in a cross-border merger. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2005, 16(3), 333-347.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J., Piekkari, R. and Säntti, R. Language and the circuits of power in a merging multinational corporation. Journal of Management Studies, 2005, 42(3), 595-623.
Tienari, J, Huhtinen, A.-M., Vaara, E. and Syrjänen, M. Björn Wahlroos, suomalainen johtaminen ja sotilasdiskurssi. Hallinnon tutkimus / Administrative Studies, 2004, 23(2), 41-54.
Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Suomalaiset, ruotsalaiset ja yritysjärjestelyt: Miten kulttuurit eletään todeksi ja miten niitä voi yrittää johtaa. Liiketaloudellinen aikakauskirja / The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, 2004, 53(1), 92-108.
Vaara, E., Kleymann, B. and Seristö, H. Strategies as discursive constructions: The case of airline alliances. Journal of Management Studies, 2004, 41(1), 1-35.
Vaara, E. Post-acquisition integration as sensemaking: Glimpses of ambiguity, confusion, hypocrisy, and politicization. Journal of Management Studies, 2003, 40(4), 859-894.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Säntti, R. The international match: Metaphors as vehicles of social identity building in cross-border mergers. Human Relations, 2003, 56(4), 419-451.
Risberg, A., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Making sense of a transnational merger: Media texts and the (re)construction of power relations. Culture and Organization, 2003, 9(2), 121-137.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Björkman, I. Knowledge transfer around 'best practices': A sensemaking perspective. Nordic Organization Studies / Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, special issue, 2003, 5(1), 37-57.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Erkama, N. Ne glider in! Yritysjärjestelyidenmetaforisesta rakentumisesta tiedotusvälineissä. Liiketaloudellinenaikakauskirja / The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, 2003, 52(2), 288-310.
Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Ainamo, A. Liikkeenjohdollisten oppien jaorganisaatiouudistusten maastouttaminen: taikasanana muutos. Liiketaloudellinen aikakauskirja / The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, 2003, 52(2), 311-333.
Tienari, J., Holgersson, C., Meriläinen, S., Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. "We need more women in managerial jobs" - Gender equality and management in the Nordic context: Deconstruction and critical perspectives. Comportamento Organizacionale e Gestao, 2003, 9(2), 147-161.
Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Björkman, I. Global capitalism meets national spirit: Discourses in media texts on a cross-border acquisition. Journal of Management Inquiry, 2003, 12(4), 377-393.
Vaara, E. On the discursive construction of success/failure in narratives of post-merger integration. Organization Studies, 2002, 23(2), 213-250.
Vaara, E. and Tienari, J. Justification, legitimization and naturalization ofmergers and acquisitions: A critical discourse analysis of media texts.Organization, 2002, 9(2), 275-303.
Hellgren, B., Löwstedt, J., Puttonen, L., Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Werr, A. How issues become constructed in the media: "Winners" and "Losers" in the AstraZeneca merger. British Journal of Management, 2002, 13(2), 123-140.
Vaara, E. Role-bound actors in corporate combination: A study of decision making in change processes following a merger. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2001, 17(4), 481-509.
Vaara, E. Constructions of cultural differences in postmerger change processes: A sensemaking perspective on Finnish-Swedish cases. Management, 2000, 3(2), 81-110.
Kuronen, M.-L., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. "Päättyykö Meritan viidakkoretki?" Kielitieteilijän ja organisaatiotutkijan tulkintaa muutoksen sosiaalisesta rakentumisesta.Virittäjä, 2000, 104(4), 518-541.
Vaara, E. Cultural differences and postmerger problems: Misconceptions and cognitive simplifications. Nordic Organization Studies / Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 1999, 1(2), 59-88.
Tienari, J., Vaara, E and Kaihua, K. Talouden diskurssien uusintamisen jäljillä: Eli miten yritysjärjestelyä käsitellään suomalaisessa lehdistössä. Hallinnon tutkimus / Administrative Studies, 1999, 18(3), 232-250.
ESSAYS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Vaara, E. Kritiska perspektiv på företagsförvärv och fusioner. Ekonomiska samfundets tidksrift, 2004, 3, 141-145.
Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Kieli on valtaa fuusioissa(kin): Uusia haasteita organisaatioiden kehittämistyöhön. Aikuiskasvatus, 21(3), 2001, 250-256.
BOOK REVIEWS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Vaara, E. Book review: On new directions in strategy-as-practice literature: Strategy as practice: An activity-based approach: From process to practice. Organization, 2007, 14(2), 303-306.
Vaara, E. Book review: Strategic alliances as social facts: Business, biotechnology and intellectual history. Journal of International Business Studies, 2004, 35, 75-77.
Vaara, E. Book review: Cultural dimensions of international mergers andacquisitions. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2000, 16, 101-107.
EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Angwin, D. and Vaara. E. Connectivity in merging organizations. Special issue in Organization Studies, 2005, 26(10), 1445-1453.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Hammarkvist, K.-O. Organizational implications of industrial restructuring. Special issue in Nordic Organization Studies/Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 2003, 5(1).
EDITORIALS IN SPECIAL ISSUES
Angwin, D. and Vaara, E. 'Connectivity' in merging organizations: Beyond traditional cultural perspectives. Special issue in Organization Studies, 2005, 26(10), 1445-1453.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Hammarkvist, K.-O. Understanding the organizational implications of industrial restructuring. Special issue in Nordic Organization Studies / Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 2003, 5(1), 3-10.
BOOKS AND EDITED BOOKS
Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D. and Vaara, E. Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice, forthcoming 2008.
Fellman, S., Hjerppe, R., Kuusterä, A. and Vaara, E. (editors). Corporate governance and stakeholders. Helsinki, Suomen Tiedeseura, forthcoming.
Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. (editors). Merging across borders: People, cultures and politics. Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School Press, 2003.
Mannio, P., Vaara, E. and Ylä-Anttila, P. (editors). Our path abroad. Exploring post-war internationalization of Finnish corporations. Helsinki,Liikkeenjohdollinen tutkimusryhmä, ETLA, 2003.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
Peltonen, T. and Vaara, E. Critical approaches to comparative HRM. In C. Brewster and W. Mayrhofer (eds.), Handbook of Comparative HRM, forthcoming, 2009/2010.
Laine, P.-M. and Vaara, E. Struggling over subjectivity: A critical discourse analysis of strategic development. In D. Golsorkhi, L. Rouleau. D. Seidl and E. Vaara (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice, forthcoming, 2009.
Vaara, E. CDA as methodology in SAP research. In D. Golsorkhi, L. Rouleau. D. Seidl and E. Vaara (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice, forthcoming, 2009.
Vaara, E. and Tienari, J. Critical discourse analysis. In A. J. Mills, G. Durepos, E. Wiebe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, forthcoming, 2009
Pälli, P., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Textual analysis. In A. J. Mills, G. Durepos, E. Wiebe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, forthcoming, 2009
Mantere, S., Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Välikangas, L. 2008. Strategia ajatteluna ja puheena: kehys strategiselle uudistumiselle. In. P. Kuusela and M. Kuittinen (eds.), Organisaatiot muutoksessa. Unipress, Finland, 2008.
Vaara, E. Strategy as discourse: A critical discursive perspective. In D. Golsorkhi, L. Rouleau. D. Seidl and E. Vaara, Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice, 2008.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Irrmann, O. Crafting and inter-national identity: The Nordea case. In L. Lerpold, D. Ravasi, J. van Rekom and G. Soenen, Organizational Identity in Practice, 2007, 215-230.
Vaara, E. and Tienari, J. M&As as stereotyping: Banal ideas and self-serving explanations. In D.Angwin (ed.). Images of mergers and acquisitions. Blackwell, 2007.
Vaara, E. and Laine, P.-M. A critical discourse analysis perspective on strategy. In J. Todoli, M. Labarta and R. Dolon (eds.). Critical discourse analysis. L’analisi critica del discurs. Qauderns de Filologia. Estudis Linguistics (Universitat de València), 2007, 301-315.
Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Erkama, N. The Gospel according to the global market – How journalists frame ownership in the case of Nokia in Finland. In P. Kjaer and T. Slaatta (eds.) Mediating business: The expansionof business journalism. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2007, 187-214.
Ainamo, A., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Professionalization of business journalism. In P. Kjaer and T. Slaatta (eds.) Mediating business: The expansionof business journalism. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2007, 73-99.
Vaara, E. and Laine, P.-M. Strategy discourse as subject for critical discourse analysis. A chapter in an edited book on the applications of critical discourse analysis. Qauderns de Filologia. Estudis Lingüistics (Universitat de València), 2007.
Vaara, E. Tieteestä ulospäin – reflektiiviseen suuntaan? In A. Paalumäki (ed.), Tieteestä ulospäin: Puheenvuoroja kauppatieteellisen tiedon merkityksestä yhteiskunnassa, Turku School of Economics, Turku, 2006, 171-178.
Vaara, E. Laatu. In M. Jakonen, J. Peltokoski and A. Virtanen (eds.), Uuden työn sanakirja. Tutkijaliitto, Helsinki, 2006, 415-419.
Vaara, E. and Laine, P.-M. Kriittinen diskurssianalyysi metodologiana strategiatutkimuksessa. In Henttonen, E., Kakkuri-Knuuttila, M.-L. and Rolin, K. (eds.), Soveltava yhteiskuntatiede ja filosofia. Gaudeamus, Helsinki, 2006, 155-173.
Vaara, E. La stratégie comme discourse: Esquisse d'un cadre conceptual. In D. Golsorkhi (ed.), La fabrique de la stratégie: Une perspective multidimensionnelle, Institut Vital Roux, Vuilbert, 2006, 49-63.
Björkman, I. and Vaara, E. In A. Risberg. Case Nordea Markets: Socio-cultural integration challenges. Mergers and acquisitions: A critical reader. Routledge, 2006.
Kakkuri-Knuuttila, M.-L. and Vaara, E. Back to the roots of the linguistic turn: Arguments against causal social research reconsidered. In S. Linstead and A. Linstead (eds.), Thinking organization, Routledge, London, 2005, 17-38.
Björkman, I., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. A learning perspective on socio-cultural integration in a multi-organizational international merger. In G. Stahl and M. Mendenhall (eds.), Mergers and acquisitions: Managing culture and human resources, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2005.
Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Meriläinen, S. Yhteisyyden rakentuminen haastattelussa. In J. Ruusuvuori and L. Tiittula (eds.), Haastattelu: Tutkimus, tilanteet ja vuorovaikutus. Vastapaino, Tampere, 2005.
Vaara, E. and Tienari, J. Critical discourse analysis as methodology forcritical international business studies. In Marschan-Piekkari, R. and Welch, C. (eds.) Handbook of qualitative research methods for international business. Edward Elgar, 2004.
Hellgren, B., Löwstedt, J., Tienari, J., Vaara, E. and Werr, A. Management consultants as agents of homogenization: Consulting roles and processes in corporate mergers and acquisitions. In A. Buono (ed.), Creative consulting: Innovative perspectives on management consulting, in Research in management consulting series (volume 4),. Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2004, 99-122.
Vaara, E. and Tienari, J. The balance of power principle: Nationality, politics and the distribution of organizational positions. In Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Merging across borders: People, cultures and politics. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2003.
Vaara, E., Risberg, A., Søderberg, A. and Tienari, J. Nation talk: The construction of national stereotypes in a merging multinational. In Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Merging across borders: People, cultures and politics. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2003.
Vaara, E., Tienari, J. and Björkman, I. Best practice is West practice? A sensemaking perspective on knowledge transfer. In Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Merging across borders: People, cultures and politics. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2003.
Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Travellers in the long hours culture – Increased pressure on individuals in the Nordic organization. In Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Merging across borders: People, cultures and politics. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2003.
Björkman, I., Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. Trapped in the past or making use of previous experience? On learning in post-merger integration. In Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Merging across borders: People, cultures and politics. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2003.
Tienari, J., Holgersson, C., Søderberg, A.-M., and Vaara, E. An uneasy coupling - Reflections on women and management in a merging organization. In Søderberg, A.-M. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Merging across borders: People, cultures and politics. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2003.
Barner-Rasmussen, W., Björkman, I. and Vaara, E. The limits of learning in step-wise international industrial restructuring: Case Sanitec. In Mannio, P., Vaara, E. and Ylä-Anttila, P. (eds) Our path abroad. Our path abroad. Exploring post-war internationalization of Finnish corporations. Helsinki, Liikkeenjohdollinen tutkimusryhmä, ETLA, 2003.
Vaara, E. and Tainio, R. Strategizing around internationalization: Changing ideas and ideologies in Partek 1898 – 2002. In Mannio, P., Vaara, E. and Ylä-Anttila, P. (eds) Our path abroad. Our path abroad. Exploring post-war internationalization of Finnish corporations. Helsinki, Liikkeenjohdollinen tutkimusryhmä, ETLA, 2003.
Tienari, J. and Vaara, E. From correspondence to cross-border mergers: The internationalization of Finnish commercial banks after World War II. In Mannio, P., Vaara, E. and Ylä-Anttila, P. (eds) Our path abroad. Our path abroad. Exploring post-war internationalization of Finnish corporations. Helsinki, Liikkeenjohdollinen tutkimusryhmä, ETLA, 2003.
Vaara, E. Paraisten yhtymän liiketoimintarakenteen muutos 1898 - 2000: Dramatiikkaa, politiikkaa ja retoriikkaa. In A. Kuusterä (ed.), Suuryritys ja sen muodonmuutos: Partekin satavuotinen historia, Edita, Helsinki, 2002. Pp. 195-236.
Vaara, E. Omstrukturering av Pargaskoncernens affärsverksamhet 1898 - 2000: dramatik, politik och retorik. In A. Kuusterä (ed.), Ett storföretag och dess metamorfos: Parteks hundraåriga historia, Edita, Helsinki, 2002. Pp. 193-235.
Lilja, K., Tainio, R. and Vaara, E. Konsernijohdon voima ja voimattomuus: Partek Lehdon ja Taxellin aikana. In A. Kuusterä (ed.), Suuryritys ja sen muodonmuutos: Partekin satavuotinen historia, Edita, Helsinki, 2002. Pp. 237-264.
Lilja, K., Tainio, R. and Vaara, E. Koncernledningens styrka och maktlöshet: Partek under Lehto och Taxell. In A. Kuusterä (ed.), Ett storföretag och dess metamorfos: Parteks hundraåriga historia, Edita, Helsinki, 2002. Pp. 237-264.
Vaara, E. and Peltonen, T. Kriittisiä näkökulmia kansainvälistymiseen jaglobalisaatioon. In H. Seristö (ed.) Kansainvälinen liiketoiminta, WSOY, 2002. Pp. 286-308.
Seristö, H. and Vaara, E. A sensemaking perspective on international alliances. In U. Lehtinen and H. Seristö, Perspectives on Internationalization, Helsingin kauppakorkeakoulun kuvalaitos, Helsinki, 1999.
Vaara, E. Reflections on research approaches and success in mergers and acquisitions. In T. Elfring, H. S. Jensen and A. Money (eds.), Theory building in the business sciences, Handelshøjskolens Forlag, Copenhagen, 1996.
Vaara, E. Linking social construction of success and stakeholder thinking. In J. Näsi (ed.), Understanding stakeholder thinking, Gummerus, Jyväskylä, 1995. Profile
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