Anna Karhu
anna.karhu@utu.fi +358 29 450 4067 +358 50 505 7868 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku : https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2205-0108 Kauppapolitiikka ja liiketoiminta geopoliittisessa maailmassa |
Trade policy, Institutional theory; Retail internationalisation; Pharmaceutical industry; Institutional logics; Institutional complexity, Collective agency
I am a Research Manager at Pan-European Institute. I am working to develop education and research that connects global trade policy changes and international business environments and opportunities. My research is mostly done in externally funded projects. The latest research themes have been the development of Finnish competitiveness, the impact of global megatrends on the international business environment, and the influence of blockchain technology on international business research. I am also engaged in teaching related to international business and policy interaction, and supervise master's theses.
My doctoral dissertation is focused on the institutional complexity development of the pharmaceutical industry. I have my Master’s degree from Lappeenranta University of Technology (Industrial Management) and my Bachelor’s degree from Turku University of Applied Sciences (Biotechnology).
My research focuses on the interaction of business and policy. My research focuses on understanding the changing international business environment and the different levels of dynamics at interplay. In addition to understanding the complexity of the business environment, I am interested in the ability and opportunities of multiple actors to jointly overcome complex challenges through collective agency. The wiser themes in my research are trade policy changes and influences on the business environment, pharmaceutical industry transformation, and the development of consumer society.
I am responsible for a trade policy-related course at the Master's level and a MOOC course. I also engage in other teaching. I coordinate a multidisciplinary minor focusing on trade policy and global trade development. In addition, I supervise Master's thesis groups and TSE exe programs' participants' final reports.
- Evolution of Consumption and Global Retail Transformation
(Conference Poster: Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy) (2020) Elina Pelto, Anna Karhu, Lauri-Matti Palmunen - Institutional change through collective opportunity recognition: case of maritime industry
(Conference Poster: 46th Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy) (2020) Anna Karhu, Eini Haaja - Turning point in trade policy: Need for multidisciplinary co-operation (2020)
- Baltic Rim Economies
- Change or be changed? The interplay between MNE post-entry behavior and host country informal institutions (2019)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business
- Changing landscape of retailing (2019)
- Baltic Rim Economies
- Creativity in highly institutionalized industries inducing change: Pharmaceutical industry
(Presentation at the 25th Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Vaasa 22.-24.8. 2019) (2019) Anna Karhu - Maailmankauppa murroksessa (2019)
- Turun Sanomat
- MNE as a catalyst for field-level institutional change in the Russian bakery sector (2019)
- Baltic Journal of Management
- Stakeholder responses and the interplay between MNE post-entry behavior and host country informal institutions
(Esitys 45th European International Business Academy Conferencessa, Leeds 13.-15.12. 2019) (2019) Elina Pelto, Anna Karhu - The future of pharma: technology, policy and business
(Futures Conference-abstrakti, Turku 2019) (2019) 20th Futures Conference: Book of Abstracts Anna Karhu



