Tuomas Huikkola

Background

I hold a doctoral degree (econ.) from the University of Vaasa (Finland) and MSc degree (philosophy) from the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona (Spain).

I work as an Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in the School of Management at the University of Vaasa. I focus on strategic management, servitization, and digital transformation among technology companies.

My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuomas-huikkola-7823ba4/?originalSubdomain=fi

Teaching

I teach in Master and MBA level courses. I am responsible for the courses "Business Development in Practice" and "Research Update in Strategic Management" in the EFMD-accredited program Strategic Business Development.

Homepage of the program: https://www.univaasa.fi/en/for/student/programmes/master/strategic_business_development/

Research

My research expertise is related to a firm's strategic renewal. In particular, I study how established companies renew themselves under disrupted markets. I have published in a number of journals, including Technovation, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Service Management, and Research-Technology Management.

Please see my ResearchGate profile from here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tuomas_Huikkola

Most recent peer-reviewed publications

Rabetino, R., Kohtamäki, M. & Huikkola, T. (2023). Digital Service Innovation (DSI): A Multidisciplinary (re)view of its origins and progress using bibliometric and text mining methods. Journal of Service Management, 35(2), 176-201.

Kohtamäki, M., Rabetino, R. & Huikkola, T. (2023). Learning in strategic alliances: Reviewing the literature streams and crafting the agenda for future research. Industrial Marketing Management, 110, 68-84.

Huikkola, T., Kohtamäki, M. & Ylimäki, J. (2022). Becoming a smart solution provider: Reconfiguring a product manufacturer's strategic capabilities and processes to facilitate business model innovation. Technovation, 118, 102498.

Makkonen H., Nordberg-Davies, S., Saarni, J. & Huikkola, T. (2022). A contextual account of digital servitization through autonomous solutions: Aligning a digital servitization process and a maritime service ecosystem transformation to autonomous shipping. Industrial Marketing Management, 102, 546-563.

Huikkola, T., Kohtamäki, M., Rabetino, R., Makkonen, H. & Holtkamp, P. (2021). Unfolding the Simple Heuristics of Smart Solution Development. Journal of Service Management, 33(1), 121-142.

Huikkola, T., Kohtamäki, M., Rabetino, R., Makkonen, H. & Holtkamp, P. (2021). Overcoming the challenges of smart solution development: Co-alignment of processes, routines, and practices to manage product, service, and software integration. Technovation, 118, 102382.

Huikkola, T. & Kohtamäki, M. (2021). Managerial Heuristics in Servitization Journey. In Kohtamäki, M., Baines, T., Rabetino, R., Bigdeli, A., Kowalkowski, C., Oliva, R. & Parida, V. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Servitization (Palgrave-MacMillan, London)

Huikkola, T., Einola, S. & Kohtamäki, M. (2021). Typologies of Manufacturer Identities in the Age of Smart Solutions. In Kohtamäki, M., Baines, T., Rabetino, R., Bigdeli, A., Kowalkowski, C., Oliva, R. & Parida, V. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Servitization (Palgrave-MacMillan, London)

Huikkola, T., Rabetino, R., Kohtamäki, M. & Gebauer, H. (2020). Firm Boundaries in servitization: Interplay and repositioning practices. Industrial Marketing Management, 90, 90-105.

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