Eini Haaja
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) eini.haaja@utu.fi +358 29 450 4714 +358 50 446 0085 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8391-1181 |
• International opportunity recognition and joint internationalisation of SMEs
• Competitiveness of industries (e.g. maritime sector) amidst megatrends, disruptions and geoeconomic developments
• International business-policy dynamics
• Business opportunities and political risks for foreign investors in Russia and in the Arctic
• Years of practical experience in project planning, application of external funding and project management (e.g. Interreg BSR Programme, EMFF, Business Finland, various foundations)
D.Sc. (Econ.) Eini Haaja is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pan-European Institute (PEI) and in Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). Haaja has been working at PEI since 2008 in various research, teaching and administrative positions. She has specialised in International Business with an emphasis on the business development in the Baltic Sea and Barents Sea regions. Business opportunities and networks in maritime and offshore industry are of particular interest to her. She has been involved in several research projects and has published articles concerning business prospects, risks and collaborative dynamics, most recently focusing on the internationalisation, digitalisation and sustainability in the maritime sector.
Currently Haaja is the Principal Investigator in MUUTOS-project funded by the Foundation for Economic Education. As an example of her prior research projects, she successfully coordinated a project application process for the ECOPRODIGI project which received co-financing and the flagship status from the EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme. The project started in late 2017 with a budget of 4,2 million euros with the aim of increasing eco-efficiency in maritime sector processes through digitalisation. Previously she has also worked in SusCon project (co-financed by Business Finland) and SmartComp project (co-financed from EU Interreg Central Baltic Programme), for instance.
Currently Haaja is conducting a Postdoctoral research project at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). The project is titled "Agents of sustainable industrial transformation – exploring the multilevel dynamics in maritime industry" and it focuses on understanding how different actors in shipbuilding industry context drive, and could drive, the whole industry ecosystem more sustainable. Besides literature on international entrepreneurship and business networks, which are already familiar to Haaja, the project seeks to benefit from new, multidisciplinary approaches, including futures research methods.
Through her previous positions at Turku School of Economics, Haaja has years of experience in supervising master's thesis students and also some Bachelor's thesis students. She has also organised and taught basic and advanced-level courses in International Business concerning the business environments in Eastern Europe and the Arctic region. Haaja has also completed some university pedagogical courses to strengthen her teaching skills.
- Jakso 5: Risteilyromantiikan kuumat kertomukset (2024) Valovirta Elina, Haaja Eini
(Audiovisual material (I1)) - Bringing sustainability to shipbuilding through supplier integration (2023) Haaja Eini, Saarni Jouni
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Creating collective institutional agency through imaginaries
(Presentation at the Futures Conference on the 14th of June in Turku, Finland) (2023) Karhu Anna, Haaja Eini
(Other (O2)) - Going green but seeing red: Nested tensions in initiating market shaping for sustainability
(Presentation at the 39th IMP Conference on the 23rd of August in Manchester, UK)
(2023) Haaja Eini, Nordberg-Davies Sini, Syväri Mariia
(Other (O2)) - Jakso 2: Karibian laivojen kestävät kuviot (2023) Haaja Eini, Valovirta Elina
(Audiovisual material (I1)) - Navigating in fog: Cruise shipbuilding industry’s unawareness of passengers’ environmental sustainability demands
(Presentation at World Leisure Congress on the 13th of December in Dunedin, New Zealand) (2023) Haaja Eini, Lusby Carolin
(Other (O2)) - Resilience through collective agency? Policymakers’ perspective on advancing sustainability and security together with businesses
(Presentation at the AIB-World Conference on the 7th of July in Warsaw, Poland) (2023)- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business
(Other (O2)) - Surviving the jungle or driving the change: international entrepreneurs as agents in institutional change (2023) A Research Agenda for International Entrepreneurship Haaja Eini, Karhu Anna, Paavilainen-Mäntymäki Eriikka
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The green transformation of the European maritime sector: Six tricks to support sustainable cruise shipbuilding (2023) Aro Elisa, Haaja Eini
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Transforming institutions and industry change – Sustainability-driven maritime industry
(Poster presentation at the 49th European International Business Academy Conference (EIBA), Lisbon, Portugal, 2023) (2023) Haaja Eini, Karhu Anna, Aro Elisa
(Other (O2)) - Conclusions: The Future of Trade Policy in the Not So United World (2022) Global Trade and Trade Governance During De-Globalization Haaja Eini, Karhu Anna
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Dynamics of co-creating sustainable innovations in an international project business network: The role of hub company in shipbuilding industry context
(Presentation at the AIB-UKI conference on the 9th of April 2022 in Reading, UK)
(2022) Haaja Eini, Evers Natasha
(Other (O2)) - Global Trade and Trade Governance During De-Globalization: Transforming Trade Policy for Not-So-United World (2022) Karhu Anna, Haaja Eini
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - How actors at different levels manage the transforming international business arena? – SMEs as agents in institutional change
(Presentation at the AIB-UKI conference on the 8th of April 2022 in Reading, UK) (2022) Haaja Eini, Karhu Anna
(Other (O2)) - Lessons from Trade Policy Research (2022) Global Trade and Trade Governance During De-Globalization Karhu Anna, Haaja Eini
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Making international business fly amidst the rising threat of trade war (2022)
- International Business in Turku School of Economics Blog
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Orchestrating in business networks to enhance the co-creation of eco-innovations
(Presentation at the 38th IMP Conference on the 31st of August 2022 in Florence, Italy) (2022) Haaja Eini, Evers Natasha
(Other (O2)) - The flourish, failure and future phases of joint internationalisation: a longitudinal case study on collective international opportunity recognition (2022)
- European Journal of International Management
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Developing a Digital Platform in Inter-Firm Collaboration: Challenges of Materialising a Collective Opportunity (2021) Contemporary Issues in International Business and Entrepreneurship Aro Elisa, Haaja Eini
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Institutional change through collective opportunity recognition: case of maritime industry
(Conference Poster: 46th Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy) (2020) Anna Karhu, Eini Haaja
(Other (O2))