Johanna Kujala

Dr. Johanna Kujala is a Professor of Management and Organizations and Vice Dean for Research at the Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business. She has a Title of Docent in Business Administration (Stakeholder Management and Business Ethics), and she is the director of the RESPMAN Responsible Management Research Group at the Tampere University. Johanna has directed several cross-disciplinary research projects, and currently, she is the PI of the Research Council of Finland funded research project titled ​Collective stakeholder action for commons: Integrating business-stakeholder value creation with polycentric governance (Action4Commons). Previously she has led the Academy of Finland funded research project titled B2N Business to Nature: Stakeholder Driven Value Creation in Ecosystem Services, as well as acted as a WP leader in the CICAT2025 Circular Economy Catalysts: From Innovation to Business Ecosystems research project funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland. She has acted as a visiting scholar at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia and at the University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy. Her research has been published in Business & Society and Journal of Business Ethics, among others. Altogether, she has published over 130 scholarly articles in international peer-reviewed journals and volumes. Her current research interests focus on stakeholder theory and engagement, sustainable value-creation, circular economy, and commons governance.

Current position

01.01.2019– Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University (TAU)

01.03.2017– Professor (Management and Organizations), Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University (TAU)

Previous work experience

2014–2017 Associate Professor (tenure track), School of Management, UTA

2017, 2015 Visiting research scholar, University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy

2019, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2013 Visiting research scholar, University of Virginia (UVA), USA

2012–2014 Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR), UTA

2008–2012 Professor of Management and Organizations (acting), UTA

2006–2007 Lecturer of Management and Organizations, UTA 

2003–2006 Senior Researcher, Tampere University of Technology (TUT)

2002–2003 Post-doctoral researcher, TUT