University of Vaasa

Sustainability Crafting: How Employees Translate Sustainability Intentions Into Green Behaviors

ABSTRACT Despite growing organizational emphasis on sustainability, employees often fail to translate their sustainability intentions into workplace behaviors, resulting in a persistent intention–behavior gap. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior and the job crafting literat...

Optimal inertia allocation in networked DC microgrids with guaranteed steady-state and small-signal stability

DC microgrids (MGs) are considered an efficient solution for integrating distributed energy sources. In these networks during dynamic power imbalances, the stored energy in the capacitor of DC bus provides the natural tendency to resist voltage changes, equivalent to the physical...

How do public planners perceive their scope of action?

Agency and structure are frequently identified as crucial determinants in shaping planning policies, although in-depth insights into the agency of individuals remain scarce. This article studies how public sector employees working in the field of planning perceive their own scope...

Early interaction among public and private actors in public procurement: a boundary work perspective

Purpose This study aims to explore the boundary work strategies of buyers and suppliers during the early interaction phases of the public procurement process. It also examines how those strategies influence the transition from traditional arm’s-length interaction to relational in...

Mitigating Climate Change Risks by Adopting Emerging Technologies: A Contextual Comparative Exploration of Fast Fashion Supply Chains

Abstract Empirical research suggests that the fast fashion (FF) industry is a major contributor to global climate change. Fast-fashion supply chains (FFSCs) are inherently complex due to the multiplicity of processes, locations, and stakeholders involved. This research explores t...

Mechanisms for digital business model innovation in international new ventures from developing economies

Digital international new ventures (DINVs) increasingly leverage ecosystem partnerships to drive digital business model innovation (DBMI) and navigate global markets. However, research to examine how such partnerships contribute to DBMI is limited, particularly in resource-constr...

Quantifying and integrating decision-making for geothermal well life-cycle risk under geological uncertainty: A review

As global energy systems shift toward low-carbon models, deep geothermal energy is an important clean resource with stable output and high potential. Commercial development, however, remains constrained by heavy upfront capital costs and geological uncertainty. Well construction...

Repeat SPAC Sponsors

ABSTRACT Sponsors are the key value‐generating resource for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). We identify a subgroup of sponsors—repeat sponsors—who have formed and managed multiple SPACs. Repeat sponsors identify target companies faster, and their SPACs merge with p...

The interplay of social capital, digital transformation and sustainability for designing international marketing strategies: a systematic literature review

Purpose This study systematically reviews the current literature on the role of social capital in adopting digital technologies and achieving sustainability. The current investigation identifies key insights across social capital, digital transformation and sustainability paradig...

Business families and rural social entrepreneurship: an institutional logics perspective

The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of social entrepreneurship in rural areas, with a focus on rural business families as integrated local actors. To this end, we employed an abductive multiple-case study design, conducting 68 in-depth interviews with sta...

How non-market collaboration shapes stakeholders' wellbeing through climate-risk management strategies in emerging market B2B firms?

Climate change poses threats to stakeholders' wellbeing, defined as their satisfaction, value realisation, expectations, and retention with the firm. While research has established that enhancing stakeholders' wellbeing requires cross-sector collaboration, industrial marketing sc...

Can Common Recycling Targets Deliver Convergence? Evidence From EU Municipal Waste Recycling, 2004–2023

ABSTRACT The EU Waste Framework Directive sets common municipal waste recycling targets for all Member States, yet large cross‐country gaps persist. This paper examines whether EU‐27 recycling rates converged over 2004–2023, whether convergence stalled after 2018, and which facto...

The Price of Opportunity for a Fresh Graduate

The case follows Agness, a young graduate beginning her first professional role in a luxury real estate firm dominated by male employees. As she navigates an attractive career opportunity, she encounters increasingly ambiguous interactions with the firm's owner-manager, including...

A Narrative View of Curiosity in Organizations

How can managers be curious and incurious at the same time? This question emerged as a puzzling anomaly from interview data collected with operational managers and supervisors confronting early signals of platform-economy disruption. Rather than stable differences across responde...

Resolving the Performance Feedback Puzzle: CEO Psychopathy, Heterogeneous Emotional Responses to Aspiration Gaps, and Risk-Taking

Theoretical perspectives provide conflicting predictions regarding how firms adjust risk-taking in response to performance–aspiration gaps. The behavioral theory of the firm attributes increased risk-taking to problemistic search under negative gaps, whereas threat–rigidity theor...

The interactional work of translating clinical practice guidelines in primary care organisations: a microethnographic study of professionals’ meetings

Implementation science has long emphasised interactive strategies in advancing knowledge translation in healthcare organisations. Various types of meetings, for example, are widely used to share information and align professionals’ views with recommendations. Yet there is limited...

Stakeholder Integration, Ethical Orientation, and Environmental Performance: Evidence From SMEs in Ghana

ABSTRACT This paper offers a novel theoretical account of how and when stakeholder pressures translate into environmental performance. Building on the Natural Resource‐Based View, we develop a moderated‐mediation model showing (a) stakeholder integration mediates the effect of pr...