• Comment: Please use a neutral tone, for example avoiding statements like "has significantly impacted" or "a remarkable individual". Broc (talk) 17:40, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: The sources are primary and thus unable to establish notability per WP:GNG. There is nothing in the draft that would obviously satisfy WP:NACADEMIC, either, although the h-index of 66 does sound pretty good (albeit that it isn't actually mentioned anywhere in the draft). Declining for now, hoping that some more tangible evidence of notability is revealed. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:42, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
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Eero Vaara is an academic in the areas of strategic and institutional change and an expert in discursive and narrative perspectives. Currently, he is a Professor of Organisations and Impact [1] at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor in Department of Management Studies at Aalto University, Finland[2].

Eero Vaara's present research is looking into the dynamics of strategy formulation and implementation, institutional change and legitimation, and globalism, corporations and nationalism [1][3] [4] . He has impacted the disciplines of management and strategy, with an h-index of 66 and 23000 citations [5] from his work. According to Jorge E. Hirsch, who originally suggested h-index as a metric, a "truly unique" academic has an h-index of 60[6][7].

Research and publications

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Eero Vaara´s research is focusing on following four areas:

  • radical organisational and strategic change
  • strategy process and practice research
  • MNCs, nationalism and globalisation
  • institutional change and legitimation

Eero Vaara's scholarly efforts have been directed towards advancing the application of critical discursive perspectives in organisation and strategy research, as well as in sophisticated explorations of organizational narratives. His findings have been disseminated in top-tier management publications. He has served as an Associate Editor in Academy of Management Journal[8] received several international awards for his publication. These include Roland Calori Prize for the Best Paper published in Organisation Studies [9] in (awarded July 2003), Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division´s Best Published Paper Award 2014[10] and Journal of International Business Studies Silver Medal for Significant Contributions to International Business in 2019 [11].

Most cited works (google scholar)

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  • Vaara, E., & Whittington, R. (2012). Strategy-as-practice: Taking social practices seriously. Academy of Management Annals, 6(1), 285-336 [12].
  • Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D., & Vaara, E. (Eds.). (2010). Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice. Cambridge University Press[13]
  • Bansal, P., Smith, W. K., & Vaara, E. (2018). New ways of seeing through qualitative research. Academy of management journal, 61(4), 1189-1195[14]

Teaching

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Eero Vaara serves as the Academic Director of the DPhil management program at Saïd Business School and contributes to various postgraduate and executive courses. Grounded in a constructionist approach to learning, his teaching philosophy prioritizes students' experiences, fosters classroom dialogue, and cultivates critical thinking skills [1].

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Eero Vaara | Saïd Business School". www.sbs.ox.ac.uk. 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  2. ^ "Eero Vaara". Aalto University's research portal. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  3. ^ "Eero Vaara´s ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  4. ^ "Open Strategy". Open Strategy - The Dynamics and Success Factors of Participatory Strategy Work. 2023. Retrieved 19 Feb 2024.
  5. ^ "Eero Vaara Google Scholar profile". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  6. ^ Hirsch, J. E. (2005-11-15). "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (46): 16569–16572. arXiv:physics/0508025. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10216569H. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1283832. PMID 16275915.
  7. ^ "What is a good h-index? [with examples]". Paperpile. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  8. ^ "Journal Editorial Team". AOM_CMS. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  9. ^ "EGOS - Roland Calori Prize - European Group for Organizational Studies". www.egos.org (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  10. ^ "2014 OMT Best Published Paper Award". Aalto-yliopiston tutkimusportaaliin (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  11. ^ Verbeke, A.; Fariborzi, H. (2019-12-01). "Celebrating 50 Years of JIBS". Journal of International Business Studies. 50 (9): 1441–1447. doi:10.1057/s41267-019-00272-2.
  12. ^ Vaara, Eero; Whittington, Richard (2012). "Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously". Academy of Management Annals. 6 (1): 285–336. doi:10.5465/19416520.2012.672039. ISSN 1941-6520.
  13. ^ Golsorkhi, Damon; Rouleau, Linda; Seidl, David; Vaara, Eero (2015-10-01). Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (Report). HAL.
  14. ^ Bansal, Pratima (Tima); Smith, Wendy K.; Vaara, Eero (2018). "New Ways of Seeing through Qualitative Research". Academy of Management Journal. 61 (4): 1189–1195. doi:10.5465/amj.2018.4004. ISSN 0001-4273. S2CID 149816788.