Päivikki Kuoppakangas
Docent, D.Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm) | Research Manager
paivikki.kuoppakangas@utu.fi +358 29 450 4871 +358 50 327 1283 : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8026-0501(external) |
Meaningful work, value co-creation, strategic dilemma management, decision-making, change management
An academic researcher anad developer in the field of management and organizations.
From an international perspective, Kuoppakankaa has extensive experience in international cooperation. She has participated and been in numerous international research projects as a researcher and networked with international researchers. She has also spent two years teaching international MA and BA degrees in the UK (degree awarding university based in the USA) and interim Dean at School of Business in the UK.
Over time, the content of her work has become increasingly focused on co-value creation, public management and well-being. Before joining the academia, Kuoppakangas has worked in administrative positions in the EU, among others. He has also been awarded the Researcher of the Year Award at the Pori University Centre in 2013.
Her recent research themes have focused on issues such as change processes and the relevance of education and work in universities and public organisations, management challenges in public organisations including social and health sector. Service users' experiences and value co-creation. Managing meaningful work and the challenges of digitalisation, AI technology and utilization of BigData in organisations . Some of the publications focus or contextualise on public or private welfare services, while most of them focus more broadly on public services, such as municipal or urban management and academia.
Päivikki supervises PhD, Master’s and Bachelor thesis works. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in management and organisation
- (2025)
- Information Systems FrontiersNordic Journal of Business
- Asumissosiaalinen lähityö gentrifioituvalta asuinalueelta poismuuttamaan joutuvien asukkaiden parissa (2024)
- Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu
- Push and pull factors affecting in leaving academia (2024)
- Tertiary Education and Management
- Detecting and managing the mechanism of perceived meaningfulness of work and digital transformation in public sector health and social care services (2023)
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change
- Gentrifioituvalta kaupunkialueelta pois muuttamaan joutuneiden asumispolut ja asumissosiaalinen työ (2023) Sosiaalityön tutkimuksen päivät 2023: Abstraktikirja Niemi Veera, Juhila Kirsi, Perälä Riikka, Mäki Jenni, Kuoppakangas Päivikki
- (2023)
- Tutkiva Sosiaalityö
- (2023) Finnish Public Administration: Nordic Public Space and Agency Kuoppakangas Päivikki, Stenvall Jari, Laitinen Ilpo
- (2023) Finnish Public Administration: Governance and Public Management. Laitinen Ilpo, Stenvall Jari, Kuoppakangas Päivikki
- Social Learning and Reputation Management in an Espionage Crisis (2023)
- Corporate Reputation Review
- Palvelulupauksen täydentäminen asiakaslupauksella: Arvolupausten lähestyminen ja arviointi omakuvasta? (2022)
- Focus localis
- Analysis of consumers’ negative perceptions of health tracking in insurance – a value sacrifice approach (2021)
- Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
- An analysis of the ownership and customer support activities of mutual insurance companies (2021)
- Nordic Journal of Business
- Finland (2021) Europe from 1870 to 2020, A Geographic and Historical Insight into the Process of European Integration Stenvall Jari, Kuoppakangas Päivikki, Talonen Antti
- Change Strategy (CS): Is There Any? (2020)
- COVID-19 triggering homecare professionals’ change of attitudes towards e-Welfare (2020)
- Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare
- Examining the Core Dilemmas Hindering Big Data-related Transformations in Public-Sector Organisations (2019)
- NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
- Organisatoriset dilemmat ja niiden rekonsiliaatiot sairaalaorganisaatiossa
(Abstrakti esityksestä Hallinnon tutkimuksen päivillä, 24.-25.11. 2016 Kuopio) (2016) Hallinnon Tutkimuksen Päivät Kuopiossa 2016 Terhi Tevameri, Tomi J. Kallio, Päivikki Kuoppakangas - University performance measurement in the post-NPM era: Contradictory goals (conference proceeding) (2016) IRSPM Conference 2016 Proceedings Kallio Kirsi-Mari, Kuoppakangas Päivikki
- A Reconceptualization of Change Strategy – One Application of Dilemma Theory (2015)
- Journal of Change Management
- Challenges in delivering brand promise – focusing on municipal healthcare (2015)
- International Journal of Public Sector Management