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  1. How clear communication and business networks drive innovation in international SMEs

    Article • Baltic Journal of Management, June 2026, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  2. Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences

    Article • Nature, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christoph Huber, Micah Altman, Felix Holzmeister, Master Maciej Behnke, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  3. Leadership Traits Maintaining Work Engagement During Change Negotiations

    Article • European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance, November 2025, Academic Conferences and Publishing International - ACPIL

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  4. From Destructive Leadership to Good Leadership in Expert Organisations: Identifying the Determinants of Effective Leadership

    Article • European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, September 2025, Academic Conferences and Publishing International - ACPIL

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  5. Unraveling the Role of Culture in Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

    Article • European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, September 2025, Academic Conferences and Publishing International - ACPIL

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  6. Dynamic Capabilities in Social Entrepreneurship: A Case Study on Social Value Creation

    Article • European Conference on Knowledge Management, August 2025, Academic Conferences and Publishing International - ACPIL

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  7. Using AI for doing scientific research on firms' foreign market exits and re-entries

    Article • Review of International Business and Strategy, May 2025, Emerald

    PhD Tiia Vissak, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  8. Drivers of bricolage behaviour in internationalising SMEs: the role of sensemaking and institutions

    Article • European J of International Management, January 2025, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  9. Individuals and virtual distance in remote B2B relations

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  10. Individuals in B2B Marketing

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  11. Perceptions of home-country institutions, decision-making logics, and international performance of SMEs

    Article • International Journal of Export Marketing, January 2024, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  12. Codesigning Tools for Assessing Sustainability in SMEs and Public Organizations: Negotiating a Social Setting for a Codesign Study

    Article • January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  13. International entrepreneurial marketing in the digital era

    Article • December 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  14. Language in intercultural business interactions: A self-perceived power perspective

    Article • Industrial Marketing Management, November 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Maria Elo, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  15. Sustainable Entrepreneurship Management and Digitalization: A Green Digital Innovation Radar

    Article • Sustainability, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Sascha Fuerst, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  16. Dynamic managerial capability portfolios in early internationalising firms

    Article • International Business Review, February 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  17. Sense or Sensibility? Managerial Sensemaking and Responsible Business Practices in International Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  18. Multi-Country Multi-Respondent Data Collection and Analysis: Challenges for Mixed Methods Approach in an International Project Framework

    Article • January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  19. Sensemaking of environmental commitment: a socio-historical contextualization of post-Soviet managers’ views

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  20. Matching International Business Teaching with the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Introducing Bi-directional Reflective Learning

    Article • Journal of Teaching in International Business, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maria Elo, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  21. Resilient growth in international entrepreneurship

    Article • Small Enterprise Research, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  22. Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Gerardus JM Lucas, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Felix Holzmeister, PhD Tiia Vissak, Dr Steve MJ Janssen, Dr Hinrich Voss, Raquel Freitag, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  23. Business responsibility and effectuation in internationalized SMEs

    Article • International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  24. Corporate Social Responsibility in Social SMEs: Discourses of Prosocial Behavior in Individual, Organizational, and Societal Levels

    Article • Sustainability, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  25. Corporate Social Responsibility of SMEs: Learning Orientation and Performance Outcomes

    Article • Sustainability, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor of Management Susanne Durst, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  26. Survival strategies of Finnish SMEs in the time of global crisis

    Article • April 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  27. Cultural sensemaking of corporate social responsibility: A dyadic view of Russian–Finnish business relationships

    Article • Industrial Marketing Management, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  28. Network exploration and exploitation capabilities and foreign market knowledge: The enabling and disenabling boundary conditions for international performance

    Article • Industrial Marketing Management, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  29. Alpha 360: Creating an Ecosystem in the Event Management Service Industry

    Article • January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  30. Glostars: How to Grow and Internationalize a Digital Start-up?

    Article • January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  31. Overcoming Practical Challenges in Cross-Sectional Survey Data Collection

    Article • January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  32. The Future of International Entrepreneurship Post-COVID-19

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  33. The Role of Digitalization on the Internationalization Strategy of Born-Digital Companies

    Article • Sustainability, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  34. Microfoundations of network exploration and exploitation capabilities in international opportunity recognition

    Article • International Business Review, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  35. Business Model Innovation in the Internationalization of SMEs: The Role of Causation and Effectuation

    Article • January 2021, HICSS Conference Office

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  36. Enabling and disenabling boundary conditions of export marketing assistance: an interdisciplinary framework

    Article • J for Global Business Advancement, January 2021, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  37. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research

    Article • Journal of Business Ecosystems, July 2020, IGI Global

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  38. Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs: antecedents and profitability outcomes

    Article • Journal of International Entrepreneurship, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  39. The role of home market context in business model change in internationalizing SMEs

    Article • European Business Review, January 2020, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  40. Research Handbook on Start-Up Incubation Ecosystems

    Article • January 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  41. Business model innovation in international performance: the mediating effect of network capability

    Article • International Journal of Export Marketing, January 2020, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  42. Making Sense of Culture in Management: Qualitative Sensemaking Approach in Explaining Cross-Cultural Business Networking

    Article • January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  43. Value-chain digitalization of born-digital companies

    Article • International Marketing Review, December 2019, Emerald

    Iustin Vadana, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  44. Internationalising SMEs and Social Networks in the Global South

    Article • November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  45. The Role of Responsible Business Practices in International Business Relationships Between SMEs from Developed and Emerging Economies

    Article • November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  46. Renewable energy market SMEs: antecedents of internationalization

    Article • Critical Perspectives on International Business, October 2019, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  47. The Effect of Emerging Economies Operations on Knowledge Utilization: The Behavior of International Companies as Exaptation and Adaptation

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  48. Microfoundations of Novelty in Foreign Locations–Exaptation in First- Time FDI Modes

    Article • Academy of Management Proceedings, August 2019, The Academy of Management

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  49. Business model innovation and entrepreneurial orientation relationships in SMEs: Implications for international performance

    Article • Journal of International Entrepreneurship, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  50. Institutional environment and network competence in successful SME internationalisation

    Article • International Marketing Review, February 2019, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  51. Internationalization of born digital companies

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Iustin Vadana, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  52. The Role of Culture in Responsible Business Practice: An Exploration of Finnish and Russian SMEs

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  53. Country institutional profiles: evidence from Colombian software exporters

    Article • Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, November 2018, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli, Dr Sascha Fuerst

  54. The Rise and Fall of an International New Venture: The Case of an Online Medical Tourism Platform

    Article • September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli, Dr Sascha Fuerst

  55. Chapter 1: A Global Mindset – Still a Prerequisite for Successful SME Internationalisation?

    Article • August 2018, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  56. No manager is an island: culture in sensemaking of business networking

    Article • Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, June 2018, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  57. Subsidiary’s Network Competence: Finnish Multinational Companies in Russia

    Article • Journal of East-West Business, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  58. The entrepreneurial ecosystem and born globals: the Estonian context

    Article • Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy, May 2018, Emerald

    Hannes Velt, Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  59. Uncovering new value frontiers: the role of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in nurturing born globals

    Article • International Journal of Export Marketing, January 2018, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  60. CSR-Driven Entrepreneurial Internationalization: Evidence of Firm-Specific Advantages in International Performance of SMEs

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  61. Sustainability and Knowledge Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Growth: Evidence from Internationalizing Finnish SMEs

    Article • December 2017, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  62. Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in Internationally Operating SMEs: Implications for Performance

    Article • November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  63. Network competence in Finnish SMEs: implications for growth

    Article • Baltic Journal of Management, April 2016, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  64. Business Strategies in Internationalisation Outcomes among SMEs

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  65. Dynamic capabilities in MNCs: subsidiary international business competence in the Finnish-Russian context

    Article • International Journal of Multinational Corporation Strategy, January 2016, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  66. Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs: Implications for growth and performance

    Article • management revue, January 2015, Nomos Verlag

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  67. Do All Roads Lead to Rome? The Effect of the Decision-Making Logic on Business Model Change

    Article • Journal of Entrepreneurship Management and Innovation, January 2015, Fundacja Upowszechniajaca Wiedze i Nauke Cognitione

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  68. Profitable SME internationalisation: the influence of cross-relational and relationship-specific network competence

    Article • International Journal of Procurement Management, January 2014, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  69. Managerial sensemaking of interaction within business relationships: A cultural perspective

    Article • European Management Journal, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Ivanova-Gongne , Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  70. The effect of network competence and environmental hostility on the internationalization of SMEs

    Article • Journal of International Entrepreneurship, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  71. Chapter 5 The Effect of Network Competence and Environmental Hostility on the Propensity of SMEs to Internationalise

    Article • January 2011, Emerald

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  72. The development of network competence in an internationalized SME

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli

  73. Drivers and Barriers of International Growth: Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises from Finland

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Lasse Torkkeli