Pekka Stenholm
D. Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.), Senior Research Fellow
pekka.stenholm@utu.fi +358 29 450 3957 +358 50 505 6537 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1507-3109 |
Nascent entrepreneurship; emotions, identity, and entrepreneurship; formation of new business ideas; institutions and entrepreneurship; disruptive forces and organizational renewal; decision-making;
Before and after defending my doctoral thesis in marketing in 2004 I focused in investigating entrepreneurship at the individual, firm, and societal levels. Already during that very period of time I worked as a researcher/senior researcher at the Entrepreneurship Unit, School of Economics at the University of Turku. In 2007-2009 I worked as a visiting research scholar at the George Mason University (VA, USA), and between 2018-2019 I worked as an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Pori Unit at the University of Turku.
Currently, I work as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. In my current research endeavors I focus on entrepreneurial, decision making, behavior, and nascent venturing. I was involved in our DISCE-project (funded by EU H2020) which focused among other things on earning logics and entrepreneurial behavior in creative and cultural sectors and professionals. Currently, I'm involved in ECOCRIN-projected (funded by Business Finland), in which we investigate how public policies could support ‘unleashing’ the potential of creative sectors for innovation, growth and internationalisation.
Well, it varies, but currently I investigate among others why successful entrepreneurs contribute their succes to luck, agency and emotions in entrepreneurship education, and the dimensions of and relationships between different entrepreneurial motivations, to name a few.
I "teach" entrepreneurship at University of Turku, School of Economics. I really do not teach, as teaching is more about co-creating a learning enviroment that supports curiosity through which students use their entrepreneurial me.
Most rewarding teaching load has been our star, Startup! course, during which students from the University of Turku, University of Applied Sciences, University of Human Applied Sciences and Åbo Akademi, are exposed to entrepreneurial behavior, idea validation and similar magic. It was awared as the most entrepreneurial act at the University of Turku in 2016. In this course, I have been mentoring over hundred student-based startup teams in their early stages. Nice.
I have also had a privilege to participate in planning and conducting the innovation process for the Business Innovation Camps organized by Turku School of Economics' CCR, and in teaching University of Turku's Graduage School's courses and TSE exe's MBA-education. Eat failure for breakfast!
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - Finnish 2009 Report (2010) Stenholm, P.; Heinonen, J.; Kovalainen, A.; Pukkinen, T.
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - How Legislative Requirements Impact the Entrepreneurial Orientation of Social Enterprises: An Empirical Study (2010) Proceedings of the ICSB World Conference Duvnäs, H., Stenholm, P., Brännback, M., Carsrud, A.L.; Post, C.R.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Institutional Approach on Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurship (2010) Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Stenholm, P., Autio, E.; Acs, Z.J.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Perceived Learning Outcomes in Entrepreneurship Education – The Impact of Student Motivation and Team Behaviour (2010)
- Education and Training
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Role of Opportunity Discovery Strategies in Business Idea Development in Entrepreneurship Education (2010) Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research Heinonen, J., Hytti, U.; Stenholm, P.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Teaching students to generate business ideas - focusing on student motivation and students teams (2010) Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Universities. The Proceedings of the 3rd International FINPIN Conference Hytti, U.; Stenholm, P.; Heinonen, J.; Seikkula-Leino, J.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - The necessary attributes of firm growth (2010) 16th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research Stenholm, P.; Toivonen, J.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - The role of entrepreneurial orientation and discovery of growth opportunities in family firm growth. (2010) Proceedings of the RENT XXIV Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Conference Stenholm, Pekka; Pukkinen, Tommi; Heinonen, Jarna
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Trying on Entrepreneurship for Size: Understanding the Dynamic Nature of Entrepreneurial Intentions. (2010) Proceedings of the RENT XXIV Conference Kiviluoto, N., Brännback, M., Stenholm, P., Carsrud, A.; Malinen, P.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Ideative nonchampion: A person worth identifying? (2009) Proceedings of the 16th International Product Development Management Conference Pitkänen Kirsi, Sandberg Birgitta, Stenholm Pekka
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication) - Managing Business Transfer: Comap Ltd and FirmX Ltd (2005)
- International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
