Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen
D.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration
riikka.m.harikkala@utu.fi Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7603-1434 |
Employee emotions; Cosmopolitanism; Emotional climate; Communication; Interaction; Mergers and acquisitions
Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen is a Lecturer in International Business. She has graduated from Turku School of Economics in 2019. Her research interests lie in the field of emotion studies, widely adapted to working contexts. In addition to research and teaching, she updates the IB internet and intranet pages, and instructs a weekly TSE faculty exercise class.
The overarching theme of Riikka's research is emotions, which she has explored in multiple ways, for example: emotion elicitation in individuals and groups at work, employees’ emotional bond to organizational identity, embodied emotions during leisure time activity, and work-related emotions in unforeseen circumstances. She is currently collaborating on projects on emotional dynamics in the life course of cosmopolitans, the influence of emotional attachment in family firm internationalization, and EDI in international business. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Change Management.
Riikka has supervised Masters’ Theses in the International Business faculty at TSE since 2015. She has completed 60 ECTS University Pedagogy studies gaining her teaching proficiency, and 32 ECTS Positive Psychology Practitioner studies as continuing education.
- Emotions in sustainability advancement : Multiactor experiences of the ongoing green transition (2025)
- Journal of Cleaner Production
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - And it feels like… home? – A qualitative study of migration-related emotions among international PhD students in Finland and the UK
(Presentation at the 22nd Nordic Migration Research Conference 2024) (2024) Harikkala-Laihinen, Riikka; Nummela, Niina
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Cosmopolitan disposition (2024) Elgar Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Management Nummela, Niina; Harikkala-Laihinen, Riikka; Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Eriikka; Raitis, Johanna
(D2 Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa) - From words to action (research): a new generation of workplace training (2024)
- Journal of Workplace Learning
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - In-between worlds - Being and becoming a cosmopolitan
(Presentation at the European International Business Association Conference (EIBA) 2024) (2024) Raitis, Johanna; Nummela, Niina; Harikkala-Laihinen, Riikka
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Why do we resist equality, diversity, and inclusion? Rethinking EDI from an evolutionary psychology perspective
(Presentation at the European International Business Academy Annual Conference (EIBA) 2024) (2024) Gajewska-De Mattos, Hanna; Harikkala-Laihinen, Riikka; Clegg, Jeremy
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - COSMO – Cosmopolitan management – a must for international businesses?
(Presentation at the NOS-HS Cosmo Workshop 2023) (2023) Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka, Nummela Niina, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka, Raitis Johanna
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - From working hard to being hard working – The maintenance and mobilization of cultural capital among Finnish migrants in Florida (2023) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Migration in International Business Raitis Johanna, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka, Nummela Niina, Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - Global talent marketplace – A Finnish perspective on recruitment and onboarding
(Presentation at the 17th Vaasa International Business Conference 2023) (2023) Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka, Nummela Niina, Raitis Johanna, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Settling in and inclusion of returnees and global talent – preliminary findings from company perspective
(Presentation at The 5th Odense IE Workshop 2023) (2023) Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka, Nummela Niina, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka, Raitis Johanna
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Cosmopolitans as self-initiated expatriates
(Presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Self-initiated Expatriates 2022) (2022) Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka, Nummela Niina, Raitis Johanna, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Hooked on a feeling? An interpretive study of organizational identity (dis)continuity during strategic change programmes† (2022)
- International Journal of Project Management
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Managing Positive Change: Emotions and Communication Following Acquisitions (2022)
- Journal of Change Management
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Who is a cosmopolitan? Conceptualising the phenomenon in international management
(Presentation at the 26th Biannual NFF Conference 2022) (2022) Nummela Niina, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen, Johanna Raitis
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity (2022)
- Leisure Sciences
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Cosmopolitans as migrant entrepreneurs (2021) Global Migration, Entrepreneurship and Society Nummela Niina, Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka, Raitis Johanna
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - In-Between Worlds – Liminal Experiences of Finnish-Born Cosmopolitans
(Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business 2021) (2021) Nummela Niina, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka, Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka, Raitis Johanna
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Introducing entrepreneurial devotion through a layered perspective to affect
(Presentation at the XXXV RENT Conference 2021) (2021) Proceedings of RENT XXXV Conference Ilonen Sanna, Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Finding continuity - the identity struggles of a serial acquirer (2020) Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Finding positivity in a merger of equals (2020) Managing emotions in organizations: Positive employee experiences following acquisitions Harikkala-Laihinen Riikka, Nummela Niina, Hassett Melanie, Raitis Johanna
(B2 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)
