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Jouni Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi

Professor

Institutt for strategi og ledelse

E-post: kimmo.alajoutsijarvi@uia.no
Telefon: +47 38141423
Mobiltelefon: +358405047418

Kontor 9I272 (Universitetsveien 19, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

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Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi is Professor at the Department of Management and Strategy at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).

Alajoutsijärvi has a passion for research, doctoral education and tutoring. He has always been interested in conceptual innovations and discovery research. His research interest can be grouped into four domains in the area of business studies:

· Industrial business relationships and networks

· Strategies in project-based industries

· Business cycles, bubbles, booms and busts

· An important side-track: research on business schools and higher education

Alajoutsijärvi has published his work in journals such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, International Business Review, Information & Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business to Business Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Management Inquiry and International Journal of Project Management.

Alajoutsijärvi has worked as a professor in several countries, e.g. Finland, Russia, UK, UAE and Indonesia. He is also the former Dean of Oulu Business School in Finland and the leader of Finnish Graduate School of Marketing.

In addition to his academic work, Alajoutsijärvi has been consulting large and medium sized industrial corporations, as well as acted as chairman or member of management boards in a number of companies.

Forskning

Business relationships and networks, business cycles, booms and busts, research on higher education and management development.

Faglige interesser

Interorganizational relationships and networks, branding and social evaluation constructs, business cycles and bubbles, competition, and ideologies in business.

Research on universities, business schools, and project-based industries.

Undervisning

Project business, Bachelor thesis, Branding

Kort biografi

Various positions in academia, e.g. dean, department head, professor, program manager. In business: partner in a consulting company, consultant, chairman and member in board of trustees, executive education.

Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Juusola, Katariina & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2022). Business Schools in Their Ideological Prison: Why Sustainability Challenge Is Our Next Legitimacy Crisis. I Örtenblad, Anders & Koris, Riina (Red.), Debating Business School Legitimacy: Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-031-12724-3. s. 67–86.
Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Hunnes, John Arngrim & Pinheiro, Romulo (2022). Emergence and early institutionalization of competition in higher education: evidence from Finnish business schools. Tertiary Education and Management. ISSN 1358-3883. doi: 10.1007/s11233-022-09104-9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina & Siltaoja, Marjo (2022). Grandiose branding: World-class aim and its organizational consequences. Scandinavian Journal of Management. ISSN 0956-5221. 38(4). doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2022.101245.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Alon, Ilan & Pinheiro, Romulo (2021). The Marketisation of Higher Education: Antecedents, Processes, and Outcomes. . I Branch, John D. & Christiansen, Bryan (Red.), The Marketisation of Higher Education: Concepts, Cases, and Criticisms. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-67440-3. s. 17–45. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67441-0_2.
Ojansivu, Ilkka; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina & Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2021). At the temporary-permanent interface: Overcoming knowledge boundaries with boundary objects. Scandinavian Journal of Management. ISSN 0956-5221. 37(2). doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2021.101150.
Juusola, Katariina & Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2019). Revisiting Dubai’s Business School Mania. Academy of Management Learning & Education. ISSN 1537-260X. 18(3), s. 484–492. doi: 10.5465/amle.2018.0287.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2018). “We are better than Harvard”: Organizational grandiosity and narcissism. Academy of Management Annual Conference, Chicago 2018, in symposium titled: Aspirations, Bullshit, Grandiosity, and Post-truths: Jargon in Organizational Life. Academy of Management Proceedings. ISSN 0065-0668.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Kettunen, Kerttu & Sohlo, Sauli (2018). Shaking the status quo: Business accreditation and positional competition. Academy of Management Learning & Education. ISSN 1537-260X. 17(2), s. 203–225. doi: 10.5465/amle.2015.0199.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Davies, Julie & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2017). London's Business Schools: The good, the bad and the ugly? Academy of Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, 2017. Academy of Management Proceedings. ISSN 0065-0668.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2016). The "Dean's Squeeze" revisited: a contextual approach. Journal of Management Development. ISSN 0262-1711. 35, s. 326–340. doi: 10.1108/jmd-02-2015-0017.
Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Juusola, Katariina (2015). What Happens to the Professor? Business Schools, Corporatization, and Eroding Professionalism. I Bowden, Bradley & Lamond, David (Red.), Management History: Its Global Past & Present. Information Age Publishing. ISSN 978-1681231853.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Ojansivu, Ilkka & Salo, Jari (2015). Business relationships during project afterlife: antecedents, processes, and outcomes. The journal of business & industrial marketing. ISSN 0885-8624. 30(5), s. 572–583. doi: 10.1108/jbim-05-2013-0111.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Ojansivu, Ilkka (2015). Inside service-intensive projects: Analyzing inbuilt tensions. International Journal of Project Management. ISSN 0263-7863. 33(4), s. 901–916. doi: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.11.001.
Juusola, Katariina; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina & Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2015). Accelerating the Americanization of Management Education: Five Responses From Business Schools. Journal of Management Inquiry. ISSN 1056-4926. 24(4), s. 347–369. doi: 10.1177/1056492615569352.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Juusola, Katariina & Siltaoja, Marjo (2015). The legitimacy paradox of business schools: Losing by gaining? Academy of Management Learning & Education. ISSN 1537-260X. 14(2). doi: 10.5465/amle.2013.0106.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Juusola, Katariina & Lamberg, Juha-Antti (2014). Institutional logic of business bubbles: Lessons from the dubai business school mania. Academy of Management Learning & Education. ISSN 1537-260X. 13(1), s. 5–25. doi: 10.5465/amle.2012.0036.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Juusola, Katariina & Siltaoja, Marjo (2013). Academic Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Birth of Acamanic Capitalism. I Virpi, Malin; Murphy, Jonathan & Siltaoja, Marjo (Red.), Dialogues in Critical Management Studies. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISSN 978-1-78190-954-6. s. 91–121. doi: 10.1108/s2046-6072(2013)0000002010.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2013). vaan kuinkas sitten kävikään? (What happened?). Liiketaloudellinen Aikakauskirja. ISSN 0024-3469. s. 92–102.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Ojansivu, Ilkka & Salo, Jari (2013). The development of post-project buyer–seller interaction in service-intensive projects. Industrial Marketing Management. ISSN 0019-8501. 42(8), s. 1318–1327. doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.06.009.

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Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2018). A vision for future business schools (in Finnish) pp. 48-88. Painosalama. ISBN 978-951-29-7300-2. 40 s.

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Inkpen, Andrew; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Alon, Ilan (2023). Stakeholder Stigmatization and social media communities.
Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Ojansivu, Ilkka (2023). Strateginen kehittämisprojekti yliopistossa vaatii pelisilmää. Projektitoiminta. ISSN 1455-4178. 1(1).
Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina; Inkpen, Andrew; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Alon, Ilan (2022). Presentation at SCANCOR workshop: Stigmatization and stakeholder activism.
Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Hunnes, John Arngrim & Pinheiro, Romulo (2022). Presentation at EGOS Colloquium: Emergence and early institutionalization of competition in higher education: Evidence from Finnish business schools.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Juusola, Katariina & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2020). Presentation at NEON conference: What ails contemporary business schools?
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Juusola, Katariina & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2019). Presentation at the Nordic Academy of Management Conference: What ails contemporary business schools? .
Ojansivu, Ilkka; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina & Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2018). Shifting boundaries: renewal projects within hybrid organizations. The 34th EGOS Colloquium 2018, Tallinn.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2018). The transformation of universities in Nordic countries (in Finnish).
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2018). Analytics for Management and Economics Conference. A member of programme committee. My duty was to evaluate papers.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2018). Business Schools' implicit ideologies (in Finnish). Kauppatieteellisiä kaikuja. 1(1).
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina & Ojansivu, Ilkka (2018). Presentation at EGOS Colloquium: Shifting boundaries: renewal projects within hybrid organizations.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2018). Work and Career in Business Schools. The doctoral course at Aalto Business School.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2018). Article in conference proceedings Aspirations, Bullshit, Grandiosity, and Post-truths: Jargon in Organizational Life : “We are better than Harvard”: Organizational grandiosity and narcissism .
Ojansivu, Ilkka; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina & Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2017). Project organizing under institutional complexity: comparative analysis of three AACSB accreditation projects in Nordic business schools. The 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, Copenhagen.
Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo; Davies, Julie & Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina (2017). Institutional logics and regulatory changes: A case study of new entrants in the UK’s management education field. British Academy of Management annual conference, 5th-7th September 2017, University of Warwick, UK.
Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Tikkanen, Henrikki (2017). The past, present and future of doctoral education in Finnish business schools. The 24th Nordic Academy of Management Conference, 23rd-25th August 2017, Nord University Business School, Bodø, Norway.
Davies, Julie; Kettunen, Kerttu Pauliina & Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo (2016). Business School Strategies and Simon’s Vision: Empirical Comparisons of Two London-based Business Schools. British Academy of Management annual conference 2016, Newcastle, UK.
Due, Anne Lise; Alajoutsijärvi, Jouni Kimmo & Knudsen, Harald (2023). Revisiting Theory Y: Exploring the impact of positive leader assumptions on leadership for intrinsic motivation in followers. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 9788284271514. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Intrinsic motivation is a powerful but often underutilised resource in today’s workplace. Organisations may therefore miss out on a key contributor to creativity, productivity, and profitability, while employees miss out on a source of meaning, fulfilment, and well-being in their work. Leaders play an important role in influencing employee motivation. Although previous research has produced a wealth of knowledge about how to promote intrinsic motivation, it appears that few leaders fully translate this knowledge into practice. It is therefore timely to revisit McGregor’s (1960/2006) Theory Y, which proposes that having positive assumptions about human nature and human behaviour can influence leaders to engage in practices that promote intrinsic motivation in followers. This study explores the lived experience of twelve Norwegian top leaders to understand how having positive assumptions about human nature and human behaviour can help leaders promote intrinsic motivation in followers. The methodology is interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings support that the informants have positive assumptions about human nature and human behaviour, and that they translate these assumptions into practice by engaging in an extensive range of practices that promote intrinsic motivation in followers. Additionally, this study identifies a set of mediating personal convictions that help explain whether and to what extent leaders translate their assumptions into practice. This study contributes to understanding of McGregor’s theory in two ways. Firstly, it proposes an intermediate step in the process of translating leader assumptions into leader practices, and identifies five personal convictions involved in this step. Secondly, it proposes a model that further explains the role of these personal convictions in determining whether and to what extent leader assumptions are translated into leader practices that promote intrinsic motivation in followers. The study thereby advances our understanding of the relationship between Theory Y assumptions and Theory Y practices.

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