Satu Teerikangas
Professor of Management and Organization
satu.teerikangas@utu.fi +358 29 450 3599 +358 40 706 5985 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku Office: 225 |
Strategic change; Sustainability agency; Biodiversity-respectful leadership; Sustainability transitions; Circular economy; Mergers and acquisitions; Post-merger integration; Qualitative research; Grounded theory
Dr Sc (Eng) Satu Teerikangas is Professor of Management and Organization at Turku School of Economics as well as Honorary Professor at University College London. Satu bears a cosmopolitan background cutting across three continents. Before an academic career, Satu worked with Shell in the Netherlands and the UK in management consulting and HR roles. After defending her PhD at Aalto University in 2006, Satu was Assistant Professor, before she was tenured to Associate Professor in Management at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London.
In 2021-2026, she is co-leading the Strategic Research Council funded research project BIODIFUL - Biodiversity respectful leadership, while also involved as one of the co-PIs in the Finnish Academy's Profilation 6 (2021-2026)-funded BIODIFORM consortium connecting Biodiversity & business in an interdisciplinary setting across University of Turku. In parallel, Satu is responsible for the work package on Ecosystems & Agency in the Finnish Academy's Strategic Research Council funded project CICAT2025 - Accelerating transitions toward circular economy 2019-2023. Previously, she has been responsible for the Work Environment Fund funded research project TYÖ2 studying colleagueship 2018-2019, the Turku City's Strategic Urban Development Program funded research project on Urban Strategic Planning 2018-2019.
Satu’s research centers on the management of strategic change, a research theme set at the frontiers of strategic management, organization theory and organization development. Her focus in the study of strategic change centers on the management of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and sustainability transitions. Within this remit, Satu’s empirical and conceptual contributions relate to the sociocultural dynamics of strategic change, change agents, and research methods. She has authored over 120 publications, including academic articles, special issues, books, book chapters, managerial articles and international conference papers. Her international academic journal publications appear in e.g. Journal of Management, British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, International Business Review, European Management Review, European Journal of Management, Management International Review, and Sustainability.
As an academic, her approach to scientific inquiry is collaborative and interdisciplinary. She is lead editor of the Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency (2021) published by Edward Elgar, and co-editor of the Handbook of Mergers and Acquisitions (2012) published by Oxford University Press. She presently co-edits special issues in International Journal of Project Management, European Management Journal, and Sustainability, while she has published special issues in Scandinavian Journal of Management, and European Journal of International Management. Together with international colleagues, she initiated and chaired the M&A track at the annual conference of the European Academy of Management (2008-2014), and regularly co-chairs the M&A track at the annual conference of the European Group of Organization Studies. She is member of the editorial review boards of Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, and section editor of Sustainability. In 2014, she was awarded the Emerald Publishing Outstanding Contributor Award, while she has also received reviewer and international conference best paper awards. Her review of the cultural challenges in M&As featured in Forbes (2016). Her research has featured on BBC Radio4, Sweden's radio, and various Finnish media outlets. In 2020, she received the societal impact award of Turku School of Economics.
Satu’s research engagement is closely tied to industry and the daily practice of work, in particular as regards Nordic multinationals and public sector organizations. She is principal investigator in research project grants awarded e.g. the Finnish Academy's Strategic Research Council 2019-2021, by the Finnish Work Environment Fund 2018-19, Mercuri Urval Global, City of Turku 2018-2019, and co-investigator in research project grants previously awarded e.g. by the Finnish National Technology Agency, and Finnish Ministry of Education. Paralleling teaching and research engagements, she is actively involved in community service roles at department, faculty and university levels.
In terms of
teaching, her experience spans the domain of management and organizations, at
undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD, and executive levels. Within this remit, she
has instructed courses on organizational management, leadership, the management
of change, the management of inter-firm partnerships, international management,
and research methods. In terms of highlights, the undergraduate program that she
contributed to was voted among the five best undergraduate programs at
University College London in 2014, receiving a full 100% satisfaction score in
the National Student Satisfaction Survey published by Times Higher Education.
In September 2015, the Times Higher Education scored the program the United
Kingdom’s best undergraduate program in its disciplinary area. In 2020, she was awarded the executive teacher of the year award by University of Turku's Executive education.
Satu is co/instructor of seven PhD candidates graduated from e.g. University College London, University of Turku, and Aalto University. She has acted as external examiner of PhD theses completed at HEC Montreal, University of London, University of Oxford, University of Leeds, Vaasa University & Aalto University.
She currently teaches on the following courses:
- JOS4 Managing Change
- JOS8 Advanced Strategic Management in the Digital Era
- JOS9 Readings in Strategic Management
- JOS15 Readings in Responsible Business
- JOPG1 Master's Thesis Seminar in Management & Organization
- YLJ7 Qualitative research methods (for PhD students)
- JOJ14 Advanced Readings in Management & Organization (for PhD students)
- EMBA and executive programs
- Addressing the biodiversity crisis via leadership – An interdisciplinary review, concept development & research agenda
(Presentation at the Corporate Responsibility Research Conference (CRRC) 2023) (2023) Teerikangas Satu, Sääksjärvi Ilari, Räikkönen Juulia, Salo Matti, Uusitalo Outi, Pecoraro Maria, Onkila Tiina, Puustinen Sari, Uusitalo Ville, Mäkelä Marileena, Unkila Milla, Salo Mia, Tyrväinen Liisa, Hopia Anu, Rouhiainen Henna, Svels Stina, Grenman Miia, Kuhmonen Irene, Ahvenharju Sanna, Lauttamäki Ville, Järviö Natasha, Tuomasjukka Saska, Turunen Marja, Veijalainen Anu, Sorakunnas Esko, Lappalainen Roni, Lappalainen Otto, Walhsten Aliisa, Luoma Tommi, Hakulinen Anna, Oksanen Hanna, Möksy Juulia, Kervinen Ville, Lehtovaara Katri
(Other (O2)) - Biodiversity and Business – A Literature Review and Future Research Agenda
(Presentation at the Corporate Responsibility Research Conference (CRRC) 2023) (2023) Teeikangas Satu, Unkila Milla, Mäkelä Marileena, Möksy Juulia, Kervinen Ville, Lappalainen Otto, Turunen Marja
(Other (O2)) - Biodiversity and Business – A literature review
(Conference poster: BIODIFUL - Consortium Leadership Forum 2023) (2023) Unkila Milla, Teerikangas Satu, Möksy Juulia, Turunen Marja, Marileena Mäkelä
(Other (O2)) - Evidence of biodiversity-promoting leadership in companies? A closer look at small-sized primary food producers
(Presentation at the Corporate Responsibility Research Conference (CRRC) 2023) (2023) Hakulinen Anna, Teerikangas Satu, Turunen Marja
(Other (O2)) - In Search of Biodiversity-Respectful Leadership in the Food Business - Illusion or Folly?
(Presentation at the British Academy of Management Conference 2023) (2023) Turunen Marja, Möksy Juulia, Teerikangas Satu
(Other (O2)) - In the “Crossfire” of the acquisition process: Exploring middle managers’ unfolding mediation dynamics (2023)
- European Management Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Katse vuoteen 2500 (2023)
- Kehittyvä elintarvike
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Kestävää johtamista (2023) Teerikangas Satu
(Audiovisual material (I1)) - Luontokadon torjuntaan tarvitaan vahvoja johtajia (2023)
- MustRead
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Managing People and Culture in Mergers and Acquisitions (2023) Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management Teerikangas Satu, Stahl Günter K., Björkman Ingmar, Mendenhall Mark E.
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Motivational Strategies of Circular Economy Companies: Five Case Studies from Finland (2023) The Routledge Companion to Leadership and Change Valkjärvi Mira, Koistinen Katariina, Teerikangas Satu
(Book chapter (B2)) - Respectful and Disrespectful Leadership in the Food Chain
(Conference abstract: Vastuullisen liiketoiminnan tutkimuspäivät 2023) (2023) Turunen Marja, Hakulinen Anna,Teerikangas Satu.
(Other (O2)) - Strategies of Biodiversity Leadership in the Food Chain
(Conference abstract: Sustainable Science Days 2023) (2023) Turunen Marja, Möksy Juulia, Teerikangas Satu
(Other (O2)) - Sustainability agency in business: an interdisciplinary review and research agenda (2023) A Research Agenda for Sustainability and Business Onkila Tiina, Teerikangas Satu, Koistinen Katariina, Mäkelä Marileena
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Toward A Typology of Circular Economy Agency (2023) The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy Teerikangas Satu, Onkila Tiina, Koistinen Katariina, Hirvensalo Antero, Korsunova Angelina, Mäkelä Marileena, Sarja Milla, Valkjärvi Mira, Reynolds Noelia-Sarah
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Acquired middle managers’ strategy roles and value creation in cross-border acquisitions (2022)
- European Management Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Biodiversiteetti pelastuu johtajuudella (2022)
- BIODIFUL-blogi
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Bold ambition, blunted agency? Examining top management perspectives on a circular economy transition in Finland (2022)
- Energy Research and Social Science
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Boundary spanning and boundary breaking research in M&A: Taking stock and moving forward to reinvent the field (2022)
- European Management Journal
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Change Organizations in Planned Change - A Closer Look (2022)
- Journal of Change Management
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))