Lasse Torkkeli
PhD
Internationalization of SMEs; International Entrepreneurship; Digital Entrepreneurship; Sustainable Entrepreneurship
My research interests are in the international entrepreneurship and international business domains, and include SME internationalization, especially in sustainable and digital 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"
1 of 2
- Applying generative artificial intelligence applications for academic research on firms’ nonlinear internationalization (2025)
- Review of International Business and Strategy
- Drivers of bricolage behaviour in internationalising SMEs : the role of sensemaking and institutions (2025)
- European Journal of International Management
- Codesigning Tools for Assessing Sustainability in SMEs and Public Organizations: Negotiating a Social Setting for a Codesign Study (2024) Sage Research Methods Cases Myyryläinen Heidi, Torkkeli Lasse
- Forging the future : The evolving role of individuals in B2B marketing (2024) Individuals in B2B Marketing : Sensemaking and Action in Context Ivanova-Gongne, Maria; Torkkeli, Lasse; Koporcic, Nikolina; Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm
- Individuals and virtual distance in remote B2B relations (2024) Individuals in B2B Marketing : Sensemaking and Action in Context Myyryläinen, Heidi; Torkkeli, Lasse; Durst, Susanne
- Individuals in B2B marketing - An introduction to the book (2024) Individuals in B2B Marketing: Sensemaking and Action in Context Ivanova-Gongne, Maria; Torkkeli, Lasse; Koporcic, Nikolina; Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm
- Individuals in B2B Marketing : Sensemaking and Action in Context (2024) Ivanova-Gongne, Maria; Torkkeli, Lasse; Koporcic, Nikolina; Barner-Rаsmussen, Wilhelm
- Perceptions of home-country institutions, decision-making logics, and international performance of SMEs (2024)
- International Journal of Export Marketing
- Business responsibility and effectuation in internationalized SMEs (2023)
- International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
- Dynamic managerial capability portfolios in early internationalising firms (2023)
- International Business Review
- International entrepreneurial marketing in the digital era (2023) A Research Agenda for International Entrepreneurship Yang Man, Torkkeli Lasse
- Language in intercultural business interactions: A self-perceived power perspective (2023)
- Industrial Marketing Management
- 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
- 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 - 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
- Alpha 360: Creating an Ecosystem in the Event Management Service Industry (2022) SAGE Business Cases Originals Osman Gani Mohammad, Torkkeli Lasse, Faroque Anisur R
- Corporate Social Responsibility in Social SMEs: Discourses of Prosocial Behavior in Individual, Organizational, and Societal Levels (2022)
- Sustainability
- Corporate Social Responsibility of SMEs: Learning Orientation and Performance Outcomes (2022)
- Sustainability
- Cultural sensemaking of corporate social responsibility: A dyadic view of Russian–Finnish business relationships (2022)
- Industrial Marketing Management
- Digital entrepreneurship, internationalization, and value chain implications (2022) Digital Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy Vadana Ioan-Iustin, Kuivalainen Olli, Torkkeli Lasse, Saarenketo Sami
UTU Research Portal