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News 27.04.2018

Dissertation: Supply chain partners can be closer than they appear by achieving common goals

According to Khuram Shahzad’s doctoral thesis, firms can attain buyer-supplier performance and common goals by using relationship management factors. These factors include supplier development and conflict resolution strategies, contracts, interdependence, trust, and communication that are equally important in making partners closer.

News 10.02.2018

Dissertation: Future business success requires more than cookbook recipes for capability development

“Each business-organization follows a unique path of its capability development. Therefore, the vastly used cookbook recipes of capability development do not guarantee same results across all organizations”, says Aurangzeab Butt who will defend his doctoral thesis at the University of Vaasa.

Butt’s doctoral research is a longitudinal study of organizational capability development process. The dissertation analyses the heterogenous development paths of project portfolio management capability (PPMC).

News 09.02.2018

Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre (VEBIC) searching for a new director

University of Vaasa is looking for a new director of VEBIC, the multi-disciplinary research and innovation platform in the field of energy production, energy business and sustainable development.

News 05.02.2018

Dissertation: More benefits from supplier relationships through “good cop – bad cop” tactic?

The more strategically important the supplier is, the wider interaction tactics the customer should use, indicates the doctoral thesis of Anni Rajala from the University of Vaasa.
According to the doctoral study, relational and hierarchical interaction enhances interorganizational learning, which again effects positively on organizational performance.

News 01.02.2018

Tuomas Huikkola’s doctoral dissertation was ranked the best strategy thesis by the Strategic ...

University of Vaasa’s post-doctoral researcher Tuomas Huikkola’s dissertation entitled as “Escaping the commoditization trap by going downstream: How does a manufacturer manage its capabilities to create wealth from solutions?” has been selected for the best strategy-related dissertation in Finland.

News 22.01.2018

Dissertation: Transfer Pricing of Trademark in the International Tax Law – How to Determine ...

Lic.Sc Katriina Pankakoski's doctoral dissertation examines the problem of transfer pricing of trademarks in the international tax law both theoretically and from a pragmatic point of view. Her research also provides answers to practical problems arising in transfer pricing.

News 10.01.2018

The University of Vaasa has received significant EU funding – The new research and doctoral ...

The European Union has granted a funding of nearly EUR 4 million from the Horizon 2020 programme for the GLOMO project that studies the global mobility of employees. The University of Vaasa is participating in the research project, and its share of the funding is over EUR 500,000.

The GLOMO project is establishing a new doctoral training programme that is recruiting 15 doctoral students from all over the world, which means approximately two students for each participating university. The recruitment of doctoral students for the three-year positions has just started.

News 05.01.2018

Mari K. Niemi to head InnoLab research platform at University of Vaasa

Mari K. Niemi, 43, Doctor of Social Sciences, has been appointed Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab research platform at the University of Vaasa. She took up her duties on 5 January 2018.

News 12.12.2017

Dissertation: Entrepreneurial orientation does not guarantee the success of a firm

In his doctoral dissertation, Jesse Heimonen examines what is the role of entrepreneurial orientation in improving the growth, profitability, and innovation performance of a firm. Entrepreneurial orientation refers to a firm’s willingness to proactively seek new market opportunities, experiment with innovative ideas and take risks when the outcomes are uncertain. Despite the majority of the prior literature considers entrepreneurial orientation as universally advantageous, the core message of the dissertation highlights that it is not always so.

News 11.12.2017

Dissertation: Language competence of Finnish police officers is insufficient

The language competence of police officers who work in the bilingual police departments of Finland is not on sufficient level from the point of view of language legislation. This is shown in the sociolinguistics dissertation by Sanna Heittola.

–Only a third of the Finnish officers estimate that their language competence is on such a level that they can perform their job also in Swedish, says Heittola who will defend her thesis at the University of Vaasa.