Johanna Raitis is a senior researcher in International Business at the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland. Johanna defended her doctoral dissertation titled Identity and Multinational Corporation - Building Unity within Diversity in 2015. Since then she has worked in various research projects, such as the Tekes funded "Emotions in Mergers and Acquisitions" (2015-2017) and the Academy of Finland funded "Cosmopolitan Life, Identity and Future of Work" (2022-2026). In 2021-2024 she was a member of the Executive Committee of Cultural Memory and Social Change at the Turku University. Johanna has firsthand experience in cultural encounters and adaptation having studied and worked abroad several years in Australia, Brazil, France, Belgium and Chile.

Johanna´s research is about values, identity, change, migration and culture in organizational life. She has published an article on system-spanning values work in the Journal of Management Studies, edited a book on socio-cultural integration in mergers and acquisitions with a Nordic view (Palgrave Macmillan) and contributed to several internationally published articles and book chapters. She has an extensive experience in designing and conducting cross-cultural research having collected data in 14 countries and conducted interviews with more than 400 individuals representing 22 nationalities. In terms of research approaches, Johanna excels in in-depth qualitative methods and data storytelling.  Interviews, participant observation and close collaboration with the case companies are at the core of her research.

Johanna has an extensive teaching and supervising experience in bachelor’s and master’s levels. She has taught international business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, global innovation, qualitative research methods and cross-cultural management. As a teacher she advocates and practices learning based teaching methods and student-centered approaches. She has supervised around 100 bachelors and 50 masters’ theses, as well as several leadership program theses at Executive Education and Development program at Turku University.  Currently she is supervising one doctoral candidate. Johanna has developed her teaching by completing pedagogical studies and mental health first aid course.