People

Fellow, International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM)

Matine – The Scientific Advisory Board for Defence, member of Tampere sub-committee

Chair of WCEAM 2015 and SICFP’11–conferences

Network of Fluid Power Centres in Europe, executive secretary 1998-2013

• Mechatronics Research Group

• SNOBI

Recipient of Annual Research Grants from - Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation (2018-2020) & Finnish Cultural Foundation (2016-2017)

Recipient of encouragement grant from The Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion (2019)

Enable Finnish Manufacturing Companies to successfully implement advanced service based business models (Pay-per-use, pay-per-output & pay-per-outcome). Enhance the understanding and standards of business model research at Tampere University. 

1. Menon, K., Kärkkäinen, H., Wuest, T., & Gupta, J. P. (2018). Industrial internet platforms: A conceptual evaluation from a product lifecycle management perspective. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 0954405418760651. 
2. Menon, K., Kärkkäinen, H., & Wuest, T. (2019). Industrial internet platform provider and end-user perceptions of platform openness impacts. Industry and Innovation, 1-27.
3. Mittal, S., Khan, M. A., Purohit, J. K., Menon, K., Romero, D., & Wuest, T. (2019). A smart manufacturing adoption framework for SMEs. International Journal of Production Research, 1-19.) 
4. Menon K, Karkkainen H, Jussila J, Huhtamäki J, Mukkamala RR, Lasrado LA, Vatrapu R, Hussain A. Analysing the role of crowdfunding in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a social media event study of two competing product launches. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. 2018;33(4):575-606
5. Menon K, Karkkainen H, Jussila J, Huhtamäki J, Mukkamala RR, Lasrado LA, Vatrapu R, Hussain A. Analysing the role of crowdfunding in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a social media event study of two competing product launches. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. 2018;33(4):575-606. 

Future Spaces

SNOBI

- Kukkamalla, P.K., Bikfalvi, A. and Arbussa, A. (2020), "The new BMW: business model innovation transforms an automotive leader", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JBS-02-2020-0021. 

- Prasanna Kumar Kukkamalla, Andrea Bikfalvi and Anna Arbussa (2019). “Collaborative partnerships in the automotive industry: key motives and resource integration strategy”, accepted in International Journal of Business Innovation and Research. 

- Prasanna Kumar Kukkamalla, Miia Martinsuo, Andrea Bikfalvi and Anna Arbussa (2019). “Creating and developing the actor-network for a car manufacturing firm’s mobility services”, accepted in International Journal of Services and Operations Management. 

- Kukkamalla, P.K., Bikfalvi, A. and Arbussa, A (2019). Framework for service business model innovation: An explanatory case study on BMW ConnectedDrive services. 4th International Conference on New Business Models: New Business Models for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Transformation (pp. 776-804). Berlin: Berlin: ESCP Europe. ISBN 978-3-96705-001-1 

- Kukkamalla, P.K., Bikfalvi, A. and Arbussa, A (2017). Systematic review of organizational change towards servitization in Manufacturing . 6th International Conference on Business Servitization (ICBS 2017 - Barcelona) (pp. 87-91). Barcelona: Omniscience. DOI: 10.3926/serv2017 / ISBN: 978-84-946352-7-4