Rita Järventie Thesleff

Professor of Practice, CEMS Academic Director, at Aalto University School of Business

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  • Aalto University School of Business

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Biography

Aalto University School of Business

I completed my doctorate in marketing at the Aalto University School of Economics in 2011. Currently I work as the Academic Director for CEMS MiM. My research interests include organizational and individual identities, roles, strategic change, employee and corporate branding, and practice based perspective on strategy. Recently, I have also studied the strategic challenges that the digital technology and the emerging participatory media culture bring about for organizations within media industry.

Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Journal article-refereed, Original research

Finding an emergent way through transformational change a narrative approach to strategy

Horst, Sven Ove; Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2016 in JOURNAL OF MEDIA BUSINESS STUDIES (Jonkoping Internationa Business School, Jonkoping University)
ISSN: 1652-2354

Roles and identity work in “at-home” ethnography

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Logemann, Minna; Piekkari, Rebecca; Tienari, Janne
2016 in Journal of Organizational Ethnography (EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING)
ISSN: 2046-6749

Roles as Mediators in Identity Work

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Tienari, Janne
2016 in ORGANIZATION STUDIES (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD)
ISSN: 0170-8406

The strategic challenge of continuous change in multi-platform media organizations - A strategy-as-practice perspective

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Moisander, Johanna; Villi, Mikko
2014 in JMM INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON MEDIA MANAGEMENT (Routledge)
ISSN: 1424-1277

Organizational dynamics and complexities of corporate brand building - a practice perspective

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Moisander, Johanna; Laine, Pikka-Maaria
2011 in SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT (ELSEVIER SCI LTD)
ISSN: 0956-5221

Book section, Chapters in research books

Strategic communication during change

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Moisander, Johanna; Villi, Mikko
2015
ISBN: 978-0-415-53001-9

Strateginen johtaminen ja strategiatyö mediayhtiöissä

Moisander, Johanna; Laine, Pikka-Maaria; Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2015
ISBN: 978-952-495-370-2

Conference proceedings

Constructing a corporate brand with consultants - a practice perspective

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2015
ISBN: 978-1-905952-64-9

Branding training episodes as therapy sessions - and as sites for interdiscursive strategizing

Horst, Sven-Ove; Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2014

Constructing identity at work: A performative approach to corporate identity

Horst, Sven-Ove; Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Lillqvist, Ella
2014

The strategic practice of corporate branding generated in dynamic client-consultant interaction

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2014

A challenging compatibility between organizational identity and corporate brand

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2014

The role of a journalist in a multi-platform environment - a challenge to the identity work

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2014

Communicating organizational downsizing: Exploring a conflict in the use of strategic discourses

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Horst, Sven-Ove
2013

Virtual music-making communities as sites of collective, social creativity

Thesleff, Axel; Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2013

Rethinking "role" in client-consultant interaction

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Tienari, Janne
2012

The trustworthy big sister and rebellious little sisters: the complexities, dynamics and ambiguities of brand management in participatory media culture

Könkkölä, Saara; Järventie-Thesleff, Rita; Villi, Mikko
2011

Co-creating an implementation narrative on corporate branding in a streamof sense-making activities a practice perspective

Järventie-Thesleff, R.; Moisander, J.
2010

Publications intended for professional communities

Article in professional conference proceedings

Joint development of journalistic competences and organizational capabilities - a practice based performative perspective

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2016

Strategic wayfinding during emergent change in media organizations - a narrative approach

Horst, Sven-Ove; Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2015

Emergent framing practices in brand related strategy making

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2015

Effectiveness of successive strategic episodes in bringing about change

Järventie-Thesleff, Rita
2016

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