Hanna Lehtimäki (Ph.D. Bus Econ) is a professor of Innovation Management in Business School and a Director of Research Center for Sustainable Circular Economy (CECE) at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research examines circular economy with theoretical frameworks on innovation management, strategic management, organization theory, leadership, and entrepreneurship. She and her research team, SunLab, advance transdisciplinary social sciences research and societal impact in sustainable circular economy transition. In her capacity as a Vice Director of UEF strategic research community Sustainable Resource Society: Circular Economy, Energy and Raw Materials (RESOURCE RC), she advances multidisciplinary social sciences research agenda for sustainability transition in business and society. Her research has appeared in journals internationally and she has recently co-edited books on art and sustainability and catalyzing sustainable circular economy.
She leads a Finnish Indian research consortium Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics: Indo-Finnish Scientific Collaboration for Innovation (CESMI). She also leads a research project Leading Regenerative Circular Economy (LEADSUS) funded by the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education and is a work package leader in Academy of Finland funded research project Multi-level governance of critical materials for future electric mobility (GOVERMAT). She was a vicePI and a work package leader in an Academy of Finland Strategic Research Council project Circular Economy Catalysts: From Innovation to Business Ecosystems (2019-2023).
She is the leader of Sustainability leadership international Master’s programme at the UEF Business School and a multidisciplinary minor Sustainable Business and Society.
Research groups
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Innovation Management (INNO) 24.10.2017 -
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Sustainable Innovation Lab 01.08.2022 -
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Research Center for Sustainable Circular Economy 01.08.2021 -
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Microplastic research 01.09.2016 -
Projects
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Circular economy skill development for working life, CE4All 01.04.2024 - 31.05.2027
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Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics: Indo-Finnish Scientific Collaboration for Innovation 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2024
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Making Circular Economy Socially Inclusive through Entrepreneurship (Project MILESTONE) 01.09.2022 - 31.08.2025
Publications
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Arvostava älykkyys sosiaalisen kestävyyden edistämiseksi työpaikoilla
Leppälä, Kristina; Parkkinen, Ida; Lehtimäki, Hanna. 2024. Neonataalihoitaja. 31: 19-21 -
Installation humor: a resistive social practice identified in the engineering workplace
Leppälä, Kristina; Lehtimäki, Hanna. 2024. International journal of organization theory and behavior. [Epub ahead of print 28 May 2024]: 1-15 -
Sustainability of the use of critical raw materials in electric vehicle batteries: A transdisciplinary review
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Karhu, Marjaana; Kotilainen, Juha M; Sairinen, Rauno; Jokilaakso, Ari; Lassi, Ulla; Huttunen-Saarivirta, Elina. 2024. Environmental challenges. 16: -
Catalysts for Urban Circularity: Reasoning by analogy approach
Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Kokko, Marika; Kujala, Johanna; Lehtimäki, Hanna; Nieminen, Jere. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka(toim.) , 2023. The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. s. 21-41. Routledge -
Catalysts in a Sustainable Circular Economy: Directions for future research
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka; Kotilainen, Juha. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka(toim.) , 2023. The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. s. 584-588. Routledge -
Enablers of a circular economy: A strength-based stakeholder engagement approach
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Kujala, Johanna; Thatchenkery, Tojo. Teoksessa: Kujala, Johanna; Heikkinen, Anna; Blomberg, Annika(toim.) , 2023. Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Circular Economy: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. s. 365-392. Palgrave Macmillan -
In the margins of stakeholder engagement: Fringe stakeholders' inclusion in sustainability transition initiatives
Galvão Lyra, Mariana; Lehtimäki, Hanna. Teoksessa: Kujala, Johanna; Heikkinen, Anna; Blomberg, Annika(toim.) , 2023. Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Circular Economy: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. s. 393-425. Palgrave Macmillan -
Introduction: Circular economy catalysts in sustainability transition
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka; Kotilainen, Juha. Teoksessa: Lehtimäki, Hanna; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Jokinen, Ari; Jokinen, Pekka(toim.) , 2023. The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. s. 1-17. Routledge -
Oveluutta ja ketteryyttä tarvitaan
Henttonen, Kaisa; Piispanen, Ville-Veikko; Lehtimäki, Hanna. 2023. Uusiouutiset. : 18 -
Project-based practices for promoting a sustainability transition in a city organization and its urban context
Lehtimäki, Hanna; Jokinen, Ari; Pitkänen, Jatta. 2023. International journal of project management. 41: . 102516