Lasse Torkkeli
PhD
lasse.torkkeli@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0750-4087 |
Internationalization of SMEs; International Entrepreneurship; Digital Entrepreneurship; Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor at LUT Business School, and Adjunct Professor of International Business in the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku.
Published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and supervised ca. 50 final theses (at bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels).
Project manager, principal investigator and/or co-investigator in projects since 2015, including:
- International Opportunities and Business Models in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (IOBMEE)
- LAB UX Center
- SEinHE - Developing Social Entrepreneurial Skills in Higher Education
Enhancing Value Creation and Value Capture through Business Model Configuration: An Ecosystem Perspective (ENHANCE) - Boosting the Internationalization of Cleantech SMEs (BICS)
- Go East: Sustainable internationalization of Finnish SMEs to Russia
- Digipro: Internationally Scalable Business from Digitality
The most frequently published author in Web of Science- and Scopus-ranked journals on the topic of SME internationalization, as of December 2023. Published in journals such as International Business Review, International Marketing Review, and in Industrial Marketing Management, among other journals and publishers.
Responsible teacher in a wide range of Master’s and Bachelor’s and Doctoral degree courses at LUT School of Business and Management and LAB University of Appliced Sciences including:
- Accenture Case Workshop (2016-2020)
- Asian Management (2015-2017)
- Contemporary Issues in International Business and Entrepreneurship (2019-2020)
- Contemporary Issues in International Marketing (2014-2015)
- Digital Transformation Management (2022-)
- Doctoral Course in Theories of International Business (2017)
- Ethics, Governance & Responsible Management (2021-)
- International Entrepreneurship Challenge (2016-2020)
- Internationalization of the Firm and Global Marketing (2010-2015)
- Liiketoiminnan ohjaus- ja informaatiojärjestelmät (2014-2016)
- Project Course in Strategy and Business Models (2016)
- Research in International Business and Entrepreneurship (2019-2020)
- Strategy Consulting (2012, 2014-2016)
- Strategy Project (2017)
- Strategic Marketing Project (2018)
- Theories and Research in International Business (Doctoral course, 2019)
- Tutkimus ja kehittäminen (2021)
In addition:
-Visiting lecturer at Turku School of Economics, 2015, course “Exports and SME Internationalisation”
-Visiting lecturer at TalTech University, 2023, course "Theories of entrepreneurship"
- Business responsibility and effectuation in internationalized SMEs (2023)
- International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Dynamic managerial capability portfolios in early internationalising firms (2023)
- International Business Review
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - International entrepreneurial marketing in the digital era (2023) A Research Agenda for International Entrepreneurship Yang Man, Torkkeli Lasse
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Language in intercultural business interactions: A self-perceived power perspective (2023)
- Industrial Marketing Management
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Multi-Country Multi-Respondent Data Collection and Analysis: Challenges for Mixed Methods Approach in an International Project Framework (2023) Sage Research Methods: Business Myyryläinen Heidi, Torkkeli Lasse
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Sense or Sensibility? Managerial Sensemaking and Responsible Business Practices in International Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
(2023) Sustainable International Business: Smart Strategies for Business and Society Uzhegova Maria, Ivanova-Gongne Maria, Torkkeli Lasse
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The role of external crises in international SMEs’ business models: an institution-based view (2023) Contextual Embeddedness of Entrepreneurship: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research Durst Susanne, Torkkeli Lasse, Ainamo Antti
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Alpha 360: Creating an Ecosystem in the Event Management Service Industry (2022) SAGE Business Cases Originals Osman Gani Mohammad, Torkkeli Lasse, Faroque Anisur R
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Corporate Social Responsibility in Social SMEs: Discourses of Prosocial Behavior in Individual, Organizational, and Societal Levels (2022)
- Sustainability
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Corporate Social Responsibility of SMEs: Learning Orientation and Performance Outcomes (2022)
- Sustainability
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Cultural sensemaking of corporate social responsibility: A dyadic view of Russian–Finnish business relationships (2022)
- Industrial Marketing Management
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Digital entrepreneurship, internationalization, and value chain implications (2022) Digital Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy Vadana Ioan-Iustin, Kuivalainen Olli, Torkkeli Lasse, Saarenketo Sami
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data (2022)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Matching International Business Teaching with the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Introducing Bi-directional Reflective Learning (2022)
- Journal of Teaching in International Business
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Network exploration and exploitation capabilities and foreign market knowledge: The enabling and disenabling boundary conditions for international performance (2022)
- Industrial Marketing Management
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Overcoming Practical Challenges in Cross-Sectional Survey Data Collection (2022) SAGE Research Methods Cases Torkkeli Lasse, Faroque Anisur R
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Resilient growth in international entrepreneurship (Editorial) (2022)
- Small Enterprise Research
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Sensemaking of environmental commitment: a socio-historical contextualization of post-Soviet managers’ views (2022)
- Scandinavian Journal of Management
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Survival Strategies of Finnish SMEs in the Time of Global Crisis (2022) Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the COVID-19 Response Saarenketo Sami, Kuivalainen Olli, Torkkeli Lasse, Isotalo Akseli, Myers Alexander
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The Future of International Entrepreneurship Post-COVID-19 (2022) Socioeconomic Dynamics of the COVID-19 Crisis: Global, Regional, and Local Perspectives Torkkeli Lasse, Faroque Anisur, Velt Hannes
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3))