Jouni Juntunen

Jouni K. Juntunen is a Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Vaasa. His research focuses on crowd-based organizing in the development of sustainable innovations, and he is a WP leader for EU Horizon project A circular by design environmentally friendly geothermal energy solution based on a horizontal closed loop (HOCLOOP).  Jouni is a co-chair of European Academy of Management (EURAM) Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and Green-tech track. He has published in several refereed journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Research Letters.

 

 

Ella Tolonen

Ella Tolonen is a doctoral researcher in Industrial Management. Her research focuses on low-carbon transition and sustainability from the organizational perspective. In her dissertation, Ella studies incumbent organizations’ activities in the unstable operating environment posed by decarbonization. Her topics include energy communities, degrowth, sustainable and circular business models, transition risks, and just transition

 

 

 

Tommi Lehtonen

Research Director Tommi Lehtonen specialization areas are ethics, social philosophy, and the philosophy of science. His research topics include decision-making and choice behaviour, management ethics and values, and sustainable development and he has published widely in philosophical and social scientific journals. Currently, Tommi is involved in an international research project to develop genetically modified plant species for biofuel production (ASAP: The Alliance for Socially Acceptable and Actionable Plants). He examines the acceptability and ethical implications of genetically modified plants and of the biofuels produced from them. Tommi is the coordinator of the InnoLab research platform at the University of Vaasa.

 

 

Katariina Sorvari

Katariina Sorvari is a doctoral researcher at the University of Vaasa. Her research is situated in the fields of consumer research and marketing, focusing on moral consumption, online communities, and consumption practices. In her dissertation, I explore the habituation of vegan food consumption practices and what role other people and cultural context plays in it. I mainly use qualitative and interpretative research methods.