People

About me

Head of the Research Centre Terra and research group TerraRoad operating as a part of it

Special expertise: traditional and alternative earth construction materials as well as the investigation of their properties; performance, design, modelling, maintenance and remediation of infrastructures; monitoring of the performance of full-scale infrastructures.

Responsibilities

University teacher

Field of expertise

Teacher e.g. business and competitive intelligence, business analysis and information analytics.

Researcher and doctoral thesis worker.

Research unit

Information and knowledge management

About me

Dr. Aki Jääskeläinen works as an Associate Professor (tenure track) at the unit of Industrial Engineering and Management and manages Operations and Supply Chain Group. His is also an Adjunct Professor at LUT University. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications. He has also written books for practitioners and participated in several development projects of Finnish organizations. 

Responsibilities

Leader of the Finnish master's programme on Industrial Engineering and Management

Leader of the Operations and Supply Chain Group (OSCG)

Responsible teacher at the courses: 

TUTA.252 Toiminnanohjaus   

TUTA.352 Tuotannon suunnittelu ja kehittäminen  

Field of expertise

Performance measurement and management

Purchasing and supply management

Operations management and operations strategy

Quality management

Information management

Research unit

Operations and Supply Chain Group

Field of expertise

Construction management and economics, Lean management, Construction project management and contracting, Production planning and control, Whole-life costs, Sustainable development, Circular economy, Low-carbon construction.

About me

Johanson is a professor of Administrative Science and Director of the research group. Previously, he has been professor of public financial management at University of Tampere and Research Manager at the University of Helsinki. His academic output cover some 100 pieces of published research.

Johanson's current research interests deal with the examination of hybridity and strategy formation in government. Johanson's other areas of research activity include examination of public policies in the social and health policy domain and in the scrutiny of pension policies. In addition, he has studied the aspects of performance in work teams and features of projectified governance.

Relational emphasis and network thinking signify cross-cutting themes of his research.

Research topics

Hybrid governance, strategy formation, teams, project management, social and health policy, pension policy, government reforms

Research unit

Faculty of Management and Business

Research fields

Public administation, Public policy, hybridity, strategic management