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
Nomi Byström
2025
Atanu Chaudhuri, Jayanth Jayaram, Jan Holmström
2025
International Journal of Production Research
Zeinab Farshadfar, Siavash H. Khajavi, Tomasz Mucha, Kari Tanskanen
2025
Waste Management
Devin Guthrie, Joe Maffly-Kipp, Chase Gause, Jinhyung Kim, Frank Martela, Joshua A. Hicks
2025
Journal of Positive Psychology
Esko Hakanen, Ville Eloranta, Claire Shaw, Pekka Töytäri
2025
Academy of Management Perspectives
Jari Huikku, Jouko Karjalainen, Tomi Seppälä
2025
Accounting and Business Research
David Ing, Susu Nousala
2025
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
Alireza Jaribion
2025
Riitta Juvonen, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Esa Saarinen, Anna Maria Teperi
2025
THEORETICAL ISSUES IN ERGONOMICS SCIENCE
Jani Kaitosalmi, Milla Ratia, Paulus Torkki
2025
Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.