Beviljade stipendier 2026

Doctoral Researcher Kirsi Alahuhta       13.000
PhD Project ”When to Serve? Exploring the Motives and Boundaries of Servant Leadership in Cultivating Servant Followers”

Mr. Ahmed Ali  13.000
Creating Business Value through Immersive Digital Retail: Consumer Need for  Uniqueness, Decision Quality, and Sustainable Management Perspe

D.Sc.(Econ & BA) Irina Atkova  1.500
Navigating the Tension: Global Crises and the Evolution of Business Models in Internationalization

Dr. Hilla Back   2.200
Conference travel to HICSS-60 (Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences)

Doctoral student Daria Belova   13.000
AI-Mediated Customer Journeys and Their Impact on Overconsumption

Dr Kushagra Bhatnagar            1.500
Participation in 2026 Consumer Culture Theory Conference

Sjard Braun      2.200
Conference Travel Grant – Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (2026) – Alabama, United States

Msc Vijay Lakshmi Burman      2.200
Travel grant for 86th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management

Mrs. Tzitzi Mariana Caldera Fonseca    13.000
Doctoral Dissertation: Rethinking procurement for sustainable humanitarian assistance

M.Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.) Natali Castro Zuñiga           1.500
Cultural Layering in Internationalization – Rethinking Culture and Adaptation in the Global Expansion of Cultural Products

Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration) Susanne Maria Cederberg  13.000
Building Corporate Digital Responsibility – How Principles Are Turned Into Processes

M.Sc. Yian Chen           2.200
86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2026), 31.07.26-04.08.26, Philadelphia, PA, USA

D. Sc. (Tech) Zeerim Cheung 2.200
Strategy: Converting Regulatory Asymmetries into Advantages: From Historical Dependence to Platform?Era Regulatory Arbitrage

Associate Professor Myrto Chliova        1.500
PROS (International Symposium on Process Organization Studies) 2026

Ms. Qiyue Chu 13.000
Designing a Measurement System of Academic Quality for Executive Education

Ms Nia Chunashvili      1.500
Travel grant for EMAC 2026 Spring Conference participation

Mr. Doarka Das            6.000
Working Grant

Associate Professor William Degbey     2.200
Conference

Ph.D. Carlos Diaz Ruiz 1.350
3rd Conference of the Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research (CONNOR)

Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration Sniazhana Diduc         1.500
Core Competencies for Middle Managers Leading Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Era

MSc. Thi Duc Hanh Doan         2.325
Travel grant for 86th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management

Doctoral Researcher Wanting Du          13.000
AI-supported organizational decision-making and the enactment of multiple organizational values

Dr. Olga Dziubaniuk     1.500
IMP2026 conference travel grant

MSc Emilia Eräpolku    6.000
Seaports and the environmental upgrading of global value chains

Master of Arts VILLE ESKELINEN         13.000
Generational changes in a family corporation – elite status, family business and leadership development in Kone PLC 1928-1996

Dr. Anisur Faroque       1.500
Goal Internalization and Export Success: An Asymmetric View of Export Market Orientation and Opportunity Learning

D.(Sc.) Sara Fraccastoro          2.200
AI-Driven Scaling in the Space Business: Creating Global Competitive Advantage. Fields of International Business & Scaling.

Professor Mika Gabrielsson      2.200
Participation at ANZMAC conference and IMM Summit

Doctor of Science Peter Gabrielsson     1.500
Participation in Academy of International Business Academy  Conference 2026.

Mrs Tamara Galkina     1.500
Attending IERC 2026 Conference

Professor of Management Nina Granqvist          25.000
Support for SCANCOR Finland

Dr. Ilia Gugenishvili     1.500
Travel grant to present the paper on Virtual Influencers and Consumer Behavior at the 55th Annual EMAC Conference

Dr. Daria Hakola           1.500
Attending RENT 2026 conference

D. Sc., Docent Anna Hannula 1.500
Participation in Corporate Responsibility Research Conference 2026

Associate Professor Akram Hatami        1.500
Organizaing a track for NFF conference: Ethical practices in Nordic cross-sectoral collaboration

D.Sc. (Econ. and Bus. Adm.) Minna Heikinheimo          1.500
Platformization of B2B service sales – dynamic capability requirements for value orchestration

KTM Lauri Horelli         1.100
Temporal, Narrative, and Boundary Work in Shaping the Emerging Field of Quantum Computing

Dr. Henri Hussinki        1.500
Enhancing organizational resilience with data-driven management

Msc Christian Barika Igbeghe  2.500
Presenting at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting 2026

Mr. Totti Ikäheimonen  1.200
AIB Annual Conference in Manchester

Doctoral Researcher Farrukh Iqbal        2.200
To present research work in the 36th POMS 2026 conference, USA

D.Sc. Jamshed Iqbal    12.000
Chief Sustainability Officers and Corporate Greenwashing, related to research visit to SCANCOR, Stanford University, USA

PhD Kata Isenring-Szabo         2.200
Organizing Symposium and Presenting Own Paper at AOM 2026 Conference

MSc Nevena Isic          13.000
Decoding Big Tech Programmatic M&A Strategies and Their Role in Fostering Innovation in Finland

Consumer Vulnerability and Consumer Resilience Induced by Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Services Amiira Ismail            13.000
Working grant

DSc (Econ) Maria Ivanova-Gongne       1.150
Refugee and immigrant entrepreneurship and integration – participation in NCSB conference

KTM Kasimir Jolkkonen           13.000
Corporate Strategy under Geopolitical Pressure: Adaptation, Commitment, and the Limit of Agency

PhD (econ), Docent Hannele Kauppinen-Räisänen        1.500
Meal planning and AI

Doctoral Researcher Canan KELES       13.000
Entrepreneurial Value Creation in Post-Industrial Cultural Hubs: A Trialactic Perspective  on Heritage-Based Transformation

MSc (Econ. & Bus. Adm.) Joona Kemppainen   1.500
Participation in 2026 Academy of International Business (AIB) conference in Manchester

PhD Fares Khalil          1.500
Attending the IMP 2026 conference, Ankona, Italy.

Dr. Owais Ur Rehman Khan     2.200
Attending AOM 2026 Conference

Syeda Mansura Khatoon          700
Participation in Frontiers in Service conference 2026

Hoang Khuat    13.000
Non-Human Actors in Marketing: From Fragmented Technologies to Voice-Based Interaction

Master of science in Business administration Marjan Kiani          13.000
Advancing Circular Economy in fashion SMEs through AI-Supported Marketing: Evidence from Oulu

D.Sc. (Econ. and Bus. Adm.) Juha Pentti Kinnunen 1.500
NFF 2026 Conference Travel

Miss Tamara Kirkwood-Wright  4.100
Research visit to George Washington University, USA

Dr Minnie Kontkanen    1.500
The role of informal and formal institutions in the adaptation of circular business model innovation

Doctoral Researcher Anastasia Koptsyukh       2.200
CCT 2026 Conference Attendance

Ms. Ksenia Kosheleva  13.000
Marketization of Arts and Culture: The Market Systems Perspective

Associate Professor Alexei Koveshnikov           2.200
Attending AOM 2026 annual conference

Dr. Emmanuel Kusi Appiah      1.500

Conference participation

Ms Christa Könönen    13.000
Doctoral Dissertation: Polyphonic Strategy: Understanding Competitive Advantage as Communication

Doctor of Science (Economics and Business Administration) Ana Paula Lafaire   1.500
Ethical and political potential of everyday creativity

Doctoral reseacher Mikko Lampinen     1.500
Ecosystem governance in circular economy of sustainability transition materials

STATE OR MARKET? THE EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FIELD IN SOUTH KOREA Yeon Kyu Lee  1.500
Participation in Twelfth Annual University of Edinburgh Business School Paper Development Workshop (UEBS)

Doctoral Researcher Simo Pekka Elias Lehtovirta         1.500
Presenting at the 2026 AMA Winter Academic Conference, Madrid, Spain

Associate Professor Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen            2.200
Consumer Culture Theory Conference

PhD/Docent Emilene Leite        1.500
PARTICIPATION IN AMA GLBOAL CONFERENCE 2026

Professor Tanja Leppäaho        7.000
The Success of Artek and Iittala in Japan and Its Influence on Finnish National Identity

Director Mikko Leppämäki        150.000
Organizing high-quality methodological courses in KATAJA

Master of Social Sciences Saara Leppänen        1.500
EURAM conference participation

Ms Yanwen Li  1.500
Conference travel to present my doctoral research at the 2026 European International Business Academy (EIBA) Conference, 10–13 December 2026

Kaja Kirstine H Lilleng 18.000
Post Doc Research on Value Beyond Profit: The Emergence of New Valuation Practices in Finance

D.Sc. Yanqing Lin        2.200
Consumer Acceptance of Drone Food Delivery Services

Mrs. Linyu Liu  1.500
Travel for AIB 2026 funding

Doctor of Science in Business and Economics Eva-Lena Lundgren-Henriksson  1.200
Research visit to WU Vienna Business School

Doctoral Researcher Merja Luostarinen            1.500
Participation in the International Self-determination Theory conference

Dr. Stefan Lång            980
Travel expenses in connection to the 23rd Nordic Conference on Small Business Research (NCSB) Bodø, Norway

D.Sc. (Econ. and Bus. Adm.) Markus Makkonen            1.500
39th Bled eConference

PhD Nando Malmelin   1.500
Conference participation

Roman Mamzer            13.000
Living the Entrepreneurial Self: An Existential Study of Authenticity

Professor Maula Markku           2.800
Venture Capital, Corporate Venturing, and Growth

D.Sc. (Econ. and Bus.Adm.) Leppäniemi Matti   1.500
Participation at 39th Bled eConference

 

D.Sc. (Econ. and BA) Gustav Medberg  975
Presentation of the paper ”Value-In-Life: A Third Customer Value Perspective” at the 2026 Frontiers in Service Conference

Doctoral Researcher Sanchi Mehra       2.200
Data Collection for Project ’Queering the Corporate: On the Office Floor in Urban India’

Dr. Irina Mihailova        1.500
Cultural Layering in Internationalization – Rethinking Culture and Adaptation in the Global Expansion of Cultural Products

PhD (Adjunct Professor) Antti Miihkinen           1.500
Travel grant for EAA Annual Congress in Prague in May

Master of Science seyedehfatemeh Mirbagherimarvili  18.000
working grant

Master of Science (MSc) Havva Mohammad Parast       13.000
Exploring Value Co-Creation in Circular Ecosystems: Insights from Finland’s Circular Innovation Hubs

Assistant Professor Mekhail Mustak      5.400
Beyond Silos: Developing an Integrated Understanding of Customer Success Management and Service Recovery

Juliane Möllmann        1.470
Travel grant for RnD Management conference

Michel Nader Sayun     1.500
Reaching the Skin: Materiality and Designers’ Professional Identity Work

Arash Naghdi   1.500
Participation in 2026 ICR Academic Conference in Pisa

Ankita Nayak    2.200
Radical collective future-making for transformation of economic regimes into novel bioeconomies

PhD Pasi Nevalainen    3.000
Organize a Conference

Assistant Professor of International Business Aleksi Niittymies   7.350
Organizing a module of ‘The Nordic Research School in International Business’ (NORD-IB)

Assistant Professor of International Business ALEKSI NIITTYMIES         1.200
Participation to 20th Organization Studies Summer Workshop

D.Sc. (Econ) Olga Novikova      1.500
Participation and paper presentation at the Business Model Conference 2026

PhD Candidate Elmira Nurbayeva         13.000
Advanced Models for Scenario-based Decision Analysis

Doctor of Science Sarri Nykänen           2.200
Did We Succeed? Incentive Systems as Facilitative Symbolic Artifacts

MSc (Econ) Mari Ojala  1.500
Conference paper presentation: Thriving at work in a more-than-human society. A practice-theoretical lens to meaningful work.

Doctor of Social Sciences Reetta Oksa  590
Conference presentation: Feeling an outsider and lonely at work: Does the work mode matter?

PhD Laura Olkkonen    6.500
Organizing the International CSR Communication Conference (CSRCOM)

Ms Barbara Gema Onate Santibanez   13.000
Corporate water stewardship governance in mining

Doctoral Researcher Blessing Oyinlola 13.000
Responsible or Strategic? ESG Performance and Tax Avoidance in Private Finnish Firms.

Dr Lauri Paavola          2.200
Attending AOM 2026 conference

Miss Yue Pan   13.000
Business Actors as Catalysts in Low-Carbon Transitions: A Finland-China Case Study

Leonie Paul     2.200
From Head to Heart: Sensemaking in Sustainability Leadership

DSc (Econ & Bus admin) Visa Penttilä   1.200
Nordic academy of management conference participation

Dr. Valeria Penttinen    1.500
2026 AMA GLOBAL CONFERENCE

Ms. Helen Pervez         13.000
Governance of Generative AI

PhD Eleonora Picco     1.500
AIB Conference 2026

Dr., Docent Ville-Veikko Piispanen       1.500
Conference travel grant – NFF2026

Master of Science, Accounting Aatu Pulkkinen  2.200
Participation in advanced doctoral research training in accounting (HARDI)

Dr. of Sc. Economics and Business Administration Daniela Pyhäjärvi      1.500
Participation in the International Conference on Organizational Discourse Work, Words and Lifeworlds in Amsterdam

MSc Olli Rappe            1.300
Travel grant for the 16th International Conference on Organizational Discourse

Sonja Raunio   1.500
Travel grant for Nordic Academy of Management conference 2026

Mr. Muhammad Zeshan Razzaq           1.500
Empirical Evidence on Digital Technologies for Circular Product Management: A Systematic Literature Review

D.Sc. (Econ) Riku Reunamäki   1.500
Collaborative qualitative research across cultural contexts (travel grant for EIBA)

Associate Professor Tiina Ritvala          3.000
Research Visit to ESADE

Miss Margot Rocheteau            1.200
Participation at the AIRL-SCM 2026 Conference

Doctorate Candidate Juliana Rodrigues dos Reis         1.200
Participation in the GRONEN Conference 2026

MSc (Econ.) Victor Rubanovitsch         13.000
Artificial Intelligence in B2B Sales: Implications for Sales Work, Organizations, and Buyer Experience

KTM, FM Annika Saarikoski     6.000
Entrepreneurship as an experience of self-managerial agency: An applied phenomenological study on the sense and meaning of entrepreneuring

Alireza Safarpour         1.500
Conference EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains 2026

Iiris Saittakari   1.200
Organization Studies Summer Workshop

Ms Diellza Salihu         1.500
Participating in and presenting an accepted abstract at a peer-reviewed conference in Italy

D.Sc (Econ. & Bus.Adm) Lotta Salin      1.500
9th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium (IPLS)

Kirsi Salonen   1.500
Conference participation, GRONEN 2026

DSc Sonja Sarasvuo    1.500
Participation in 2026 AMA Global Marketing Conference

Doctoral researcher, Architect MSc, MA Hanne Savolainen        6.000
Organising style – Building coherence within low-hierarchical creative work in a top architecture firm

Doctoral Researcher Irina Sergeeva      2.000
Travel grant to the Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), 2026

Miss Aya Shaker           1.500
Participation in the 2026 AMA Global Conference in Nice: Reconceptualizing Perceived Brand Globalness: Scale Development and Validation

MSc. Lotta Sihvo Matikainen    2.200
Addressing wicked sustainability problems with stakeholder engagement

D.Sc. Econ. Antti Sihvonen      1.500
Participation in 33rd EIASM Innovation and Product Development Management Conference

PhD. (Econ) Jenniina Sihvonen            1.000
Travel grant for NRWC 2026 -conference in Stockholm

Assistant Professor Ausrine Silenskyte 2.200
AIB 2026: Internationalization of environmentally and socially sustainable companies

Doctoral Researcher Suvi Sillanpää      13.000
Doctoral Dissertation: Fatherhood and Work

DSc Researcher Johan Sjölund            1.500
Entrepreneurship conferences 2026 (NCSB, NFF, RENT) – participation fees and travel costs

Postdoctoral Researcher Kirsi Snellman           1.500
Masked Motives in Local Resistance: Uncovering Stigma in Green Steel Foreign Direct Investment

Doctoral Researcher YANG Songlin      1.500
Participation in EIBA Conference in Denmark

PhD Virpi Sorsa           2.200

Presentation of two article manuscripts in scientific conferences

Dr Muhammad Sufyan 1.500
Conference participation

D.Sc. Caroline Sundgren          1.300
PHILOS 2026 Colloquium attendance

Dr Mari Suoranta          2.200
Firm growth and entrepreneurial ecosystems: how do incubators & accelerators support?

Master of Science Inka Sylgren 1.500
Travel grant for European Health Management Conference 2026

Dr. Sc. (Bus. & Econ.) Henna Syrjälä     1.500
Scientific travelling

Ms. IQRA TARIQ           13.000
Impulse Buying in Digital Commerce: Behavioral and Physiological Insights for Responsible Business Design

Master of Arts Jarmo Taskinen 1.500
Participation in the 2026 Organization Studies Summer Workshop (Greece)

MSc. Tra Tham 13.000
Exploring AI Explainability in Accounting, Audit and Organizational Governance

Mr Ashish Thapliyal     13.000
Impact of Flexible Working on Workplace Wellbeing: Exploring the Role of Human Needs on Subjective Wellbeing

Dr. Deniz Turkcu          1.500
the 30th Annual Logistics Research Network (LRN) Conference

MSc Emmi Turunen      1.500
Participation in Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia

Mr. Atta ur Rehman      1.500
Travel to NFF conference 2026

D.Sc. Laura Urrila         1.500
Participation as a presenter in NFF, Nordic Academy of Management 2026 conference, Aarhus, Aug 12-15

MSc. Maria Uusitalo     13.000
Doctoral research ”On losing and seeking: Exploring organizational creativity as a collective process”

KTT Outi Uusitalo         1.500
Participating conference World Biodiversity Forum 2026 in Davos, Switzerland

  1. Mark van der Giessen 1.500
    Attending Organization Studies 2026 Annual Workshop

Doctoral researcher Mai Vo       13.000
Business administration: supply chain governance and emissions reduction

Valentina Voimavuo     2.200
AOM conference

Ms Ngo Bao Ngoc Vu   1.200
Travel grant for presenting a paper at a conference

Doctor of Science (Econ. & Bus. Adm, Accounting) Marjo Väisänen        1.500
Participation to New Directions in Management Accounting conference in Milan

Dr. Fan Wang   2.200
Dynamic willingness to share personal health data in health innovation ecosystems

Ms Chathurangani Dilini Kumari Jayathilake Weerasekara Mudiyanselage     1.500
RENT 2026 Conference visit

Mr Fredrik Weibull       6.000
The Genesis of Recruitment

M.Soc.Sc. Iris Wrede    1.500
Participation in the Nordic research school of international business (NORD-IB)

David Wunder  1.500
Multi-Level Drivers of SFDR Classification in European VC

Participation in 2026 European Conference of Information Systems Leyla Yacine 1.500
Conference participation, ”Becoming GenAI literate for career sustainability”

MSc. Ryoko Yamada    13.000
Control Beyond Intent: How Work Is Shaped in Practice

Ms Baolin Yang            5.000
Research visit to the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada

Master of Science Wei Yao        13.000
Exploring algorithmic realities: The multifaceted impacts of algorithmic management on platform workers

MSc Perihan Asli Özdal           13.000
Doctoral thesis in marketing: ”Market Innovation in Culturally Stigmatized Product Categor