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"
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- Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data (2022)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Matching International Business Teaching with the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Introducing Bi-directional Reflective Learning (2022)
- Journal of Teaching in International Business
- Network exploration and exploitation capabilities and foreign market knowledge: The enabling and disenabling boundary conditions for international performance (2022)
- Industrial Marketing Management
- Overcoming Practical Challenges in Cross-Sectional Survey Data Collection (2022) SAGE Research Methods Cases Torkkeli Lasse, Faroque Anisur R
- Resilient growth in international entrepreneurship (Editorial) (2022)
- Small Enterprise Research
- Sensemaking of environmental commitment: a socio-historical contextualization of post-Soviet managers’ views (2022)
- Scandinavian Journal of Management
- 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
- 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
- Always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres? comparative discourse analysis of the perception of international entrepreneurship during pandemic (2021) Empirical International Entrepreneurship: A Handbook of Methods, Approaches, and Applications Torkkeli Lasse, Ivanova-Gongne Maria, Vuorio Anna, Kulkov Ignat
- Contemporary Issues in International Business and Entrepreneurship (2021) Torkkeli Lasse
- COVID-19: SMEs, Export Promotion Services and Attention-Based View (2021) Contemporary Issues in International Business and Entrepreneurship El-Guili Hamza, Torkkeli Lasse, Faroque Anisur R
- Enabling and disenabling boundary conditions of export marketing assistance: an interdisciplinary framework (2021)
- Journal for global business advancement
- Future of International Entrepreneurship (2021) Contemporary Issues in International Business and Entrepreneurship Torkkeli Lasse
- International Business and Entrepreneurship in the 21st century (2021) Contemporary Issues in International Business and Entrepreneurship Torkkeli Lasse
- The rise of Cleantech in Finland – Emergence, Development and Internationalization: An Organizational Ecology Perspective (2021) Contemporary Issues in International Business and Entrepreneurship Laine Igor, Torkkeli Lasse
- The Role of Digitalization on the Internationalization Strategy of Born-Digital Companies (2021)
- Sustainability
- To Internationalise Entrepreneurially from Low-Tech Emerging Market: The Role of International Entrepreneurial Capability and Orientation in Early Internationalising Firms from Bangladesh (2021) Empirical International Entrepreneurship: A Handbook of Methods, Approaches, and Applications Faroque Anisur R., Mahmud Hasan, Torkkeli Lasse, Saarenketo Sami
- Making Sense of Culture in Management: Qualitative Sensemaking Approach in Explaining Cross-Cultural Business Networking (2020) SAGE Research Methods Cases Lasse Torkkeli, Maria Ivanova-Gongne
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