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\"\"Jouni Juntunen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jouni K. Juntunen<\/a> 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).\u00a0 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Ella Tolonen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ella Tolonen<\/a> 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<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Tommi Lehtonen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research Director Tommi Lehtonen<\/a> <\/em>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,\u00a0Tommi 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.<\/p>\n

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Antti M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antti M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4<\/a> is an assistant professor in regional development and sustainability transitions at the school of Management. His research interests include regional innovation activities & cooperation, innovation policies, innovation systems, smart specialisation, green innovations, helix theories & related measurements.<\/p>\n

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Shah Rukh Shakeel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shah Rukh Shakeel<\/a> is an assistant professor at the school of Marketing. His research focuses on energy transitions and the role of digital technologies, evolvi<\/p>\n

ng markets, and consumer behaviour in shaping them. He explores how technology adoption, social acceptance, and transformative marketing practices influence energy markets, support energy system development, and play a role in advancing these transitions.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Katariina Sorvari<\/strong><\/p>\n

Katariina Sorvari<\/a> 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Essi Vesterinen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Essi Vesterinen<\/a> is a doctoral researcher at the School of Marketing and Communication. Her research is situated in the fields of consumer research and marketing, focusing on sustainable consumption, anti-consumption, consumer well-being and social marketing.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hassan Yousaf<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hassan Yousaf<\/a> is a doctoral researcher at the School of Technology and Innovation, University of Vaasa. His research focuses on the role of different actors in accelerating energy transitions, with a particular interest in how intermediaries foster collaboration among actors with vested interests and shape new pathways for sustainability.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Talha Anis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talha Anis<\/a> is a doctoral researcher at the School of Industrial Management, University of Vaasa. His research focuses on exploring energy justice, social acceptance, and just transitions, with particular emphasis on the measurement and operationalization of energy justice from theory into practice.<\/p>\n

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\"LyLy Pham<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ly Pham<\/a> is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Accounting and Finance, University of Vaasa. Her research examines how financial and non-financial firms disclose emissions, climate-related information, and biodiversity risks, as well as the firm- and institutional-level factors shaping these disclosures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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).\u00a0 Jouni […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uwasa.fi\/sbsgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}