Strategy and Venturing
The Institute of Strategy and Venturing enjoys an international reputation for research and teaching excellence in its core areas.
Research Groups
At DIEM, creating and transforming technology-based business is approached from three complementary perspectives: strategy and venturing, operations, and people.
Research Groups
Logistics Research
We have conducted research since 1990s on, among other things, e-commerce, e-grocery logistics, supply chain management, technologies on product-centric material flow management, manufacturing operations control, and sourcing.
Service Engineering and Management
The Service Engineering and Management (SEM) group investigates services and service operations in inter-organizational service systems. Services have become a salient focus of economic and industrial activity and the body of scientific knowledge on services is growing rapidly. The SEM research group combines multidisciplinary knowledge to conducting multi-method research on services.
Project Business
The PB research group examines projects in their wider business contexts, beyond traditional single project management. Research topics include, among others, the management of global projects, strategic and result-oriented project management, portfolio and stakeholder management and performance measurement in project business, and project sales and marketing.
Virtual and Mobile Work
The VmWork group examines dispersed and mobile work in its contexts by analyzing and modeling it.
Organization Design and Leadership
The Organization Design and Leadership group conducts research and contributes to teaching area of knowledge and competence management, with a special interest in knowledge-intensive businesses.
Latest publications
Joffrey Fuhrer, Frank Martela, Florian Cova
2026
Personality and Individual Differences
Esko Hakanen, Jan Holmström, Kirsi Immonen
2026
International Journal of Operations and Production Management
Heli Koski, Otto Kassi, Fabian Braesemann
2026
Industrial and Corporate Change
Frank Martela, Mohsen Joshanloo, Kuba Krys
2026
Social Indicators Research
Tapio Pitkäranta, Leena Pitkäranta
2026
Computational Intelligence - 17th International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2025, Proceedings
Miika Vanhanen, Jussi Jaakkola, Juhani K.E. Airaksinen, Olli Halminen, Jukka Putaala, Pirjo Mustonen, Jari Haukka, Juha Hartikainen, Alex Luojus, Mikko Niemi, Miika Linna, Mika Lehto, Konsta Teppo
2026
IJC Heart and Vasculature
David Wunder, Markku Maula
2026
Research Policy
Eero Aalto
2025
C. Bartolini, E. Lindfors, M. Giroletti, A. Tramacere, F. Giacchino, F. Casaburo, D. Cerasole, I. Myserlis, A. Lähteenmäki, M. Tornikoski, F. D’Ammando, N. Marchili, S. Righini, E. Angelakis, A. Kraus, R. Rao, M. Gurwell, G. Keating, I. Agudo, A. Marscher, S. Jorstad, E. Bissaldi, L. Di Venere, F. Giordano, S. Loporchio
2025
POS Proceedings of Science
Nomi Byström
2025
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