Outi Ihanainen-Rokio
Outi Ihanainen-Rokio, PhD, works as a Senior University Lecturer at the Faculty of Business in Vaasa, in the English master's program Digital Business and Management. She is a hybrid entrepreneur whose career combines university education with practical leadership and entrepreneurship coaching. She works part-time at Novia.
Ihanainen-Rokio is an educator with solid experience in competence development through participant-oriented methods. She has a deep understanding of sustainable governance, corporate social responsibility, and managing experts in a complex environment. These are also her areas of research interest.
Outi has previously worked, for example, as a Professor of Practice in organizational communication at the University of Helsinki and as director of personnel and competence development in growth companies. In her doctoral dissertation, she studied management communication in expert organizations. Ihanainen-Rokio has a vocational teacher qualification as an e-learning specialist.
Areas of Expertise and interest
- Sustainability
- Leadership
- Organizational Communication
Teaching
- Organizational Development
- Self-Leadership and Personal Development
- Leadership
- Project Management
Ongoing Project
Global Reporting Initiative
Period: 1.1.2024 - 31.12.2024
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) & Nordic Sustainability Reporting Standard (NSRS) are frameworks used by companies to maintain sustainability reporting that meets both companies' and stakeholders' information needs. The goals for this project are: To research the challenges that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ostrobothnia face regarding the use of the standard.
Past Projects
MOOC: Entrepreneurship for Sustainability and Wellbeing in an Era of Digitalisation.
Period: 2022–2023
Publications
Ihanainen-Rokio, O. (2022) Kestävyysmurroksen keinot. Kestävyysmurros yrityksissä ja organisaatioissa. Luku kirjassa (toim. Halonen,T., Korhonen-Kurki K., Niemelä J. & Pietikäinen, J.) Kestävyyden avaimet—Kestävyystieteen keinoin ihmisen ja luonnon yhteiseloon, Gaudeamus.
Hämäläinen, A. & Ihanainen-Rokio, O. (2019) Vertaistukea, verkostoitumista ja virkistymistä. Kirjassa Hämäläinen A. (toim.) Time2grow. Työhyvinvointi kasvaa vuorovaikutuksessa, (pp. 32-42). Xamk inspiroi 18, Kaakkois-Suomen ammattikorkeakoulu.
Ihanainen-Rokio, O. (2014). Value of the Balanced Scorecard for organizational communication in knowledge-intensive firms. Jyväskylä studies in humanities 223. University of Jyväskylä.
Ihanainen-Rokio, O. (2013). Strategic Management of Knowledge Workers: Communicational Value of Balanced Scorecard. In Schmidt, C.M., Dimants, A., Lehtonen, J., Nielsen, M. (eds.) Kulturspezifik in der europäischen Wirtschaftskommunikation, Vol.22 of the series Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation (pp. 47- 71). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
Rantapuska, T., & Ihanainen, O. (2008). Acquiring Information Systems through Organisational Learning. In 2nd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (pp. 363-370).
Rantapuska, T., & Ihanainen, O. (2008). Knowledge use in ICT investment decision making of SMEs. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 21(6) (pp. 585-596).