Mats Ehrnrooth (PhD) is a researcher at Hanken currently employed as project manager by two large scale research projects funded by Tekes and the Academy of Finland respectively. He defended his PhD thesis in 2002. After working in the business sector 2001-2003 he returned to Academia in 2004. His academic work experience also includes associate and assistant professorships at the Department of Management and Organization at Hanken.
Since 2004, Mats Ehrnrooth has planned and taught the intermediate level Master's course on Human Resource Management (2254) at Hanken. He has also taught human resource management (HRM) at the advanced level, contributed to the program for doctoral education at Hanken (Department of Management and Organization) and lectured for MBA students.
He has taken courses in pedagogics (‘MBA teachers´ Program’ in 2005/2006 arranged by Helsinki School of Economics and ‘Teaching skills in a business school environment’ in 2008 arranged by Hanken).
He has supervised 27 Master's theses, and co-supervised one doctoral dissertation.
Mats Ehrnrooth’s PhD thesis dealt with challenges and complexities related to research on HRM and performance, as well as philosophical foundations of such research. His current research interests concern HRM and performance, international HRM, organizational capabilities and the resource-based view as well as the (non-)utility of philosophy for management science.
Current research projects
Several manuscripts in different stages of the publication process concerning HRM and performance, workload, creativity, situational strength and HRM strength, dynamic capabilities, organizational competence, and international human resource management. In addition, current projects include research in collaboration with Russian scholars on the management of domestic Russian organizations, continued collaboration with Nordic multinational corporations on the measurement of the effectiveness of HRM implementation as well as research on the relationship between study success and career success.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
Ehrnrooth, M. and Björkman, I. (Forthcoming): An integrative HRM process theorisation - beyond signalling effects and mutual gains. Accepted for publication in Journal of Management Studies.
Koveshnikov, A., Barner-Rasmussen, W., Ehrnrooth, M., Mäkelä, K. (Forthcoming): A framework of successful organizational practices in Western multinational companies operating in Russia. Accepted for publication in the Journal of World Business.
Björkman, I., Ehrnrooth, M., Smale, A. and John, S. (2011): The Determinants of Line Management Internalisation of HRM Practices in MNC Subsidiaries. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 22, 1654-1671.
Mäkelä, K., Björkman, I. and Ehrnrooth, M. (2010): How do MNCs establish their talent pools? Influences on individuals’ likelihood of being labeled as talent. Journal of World Business. 45, 134-142.
Mäkelä, K., Björkman, I. and Ehrnrooth, M. (2009): MNC subsidiary staffing architecture: Building human and social capital within the organization. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 20, 1273–1290.
CHAPTERS IN REFEREED ACADEMIC BOOKS
Björkman, I., Ehrnrooth, M., Mäkelä, K. & Barner-Rasmussen, W. (2009). Performance Managament Across Borders. In Sparrow, P. (ed.): Blackwell Handbook of International HR Research: Integrating People, Process and Context. London: Blackwell
ACADEMIC MONOGRAPHS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Björkman, I, Barner-Rasmussen, Ehrnrooth, M., Koveshnikov, A., Mäkelä, K., Vaara, E. and Zhang, L. (2009). Cross-border competence management – Voices from China and Russia. Hanken School of Economics, Research Reports 68.
Björkman, I., Ehrnrooth, M. and Mäkelä, K. (2009). Talent management – Haaste ja mahdollisuus kehittyvillä markkinoilla. Työn Tuuli, 1, 28-32.
Ehrnrooth, M. (2004): Soft Strategic Human Resource Management – the Very Idea. EDAMBA Journal, May.
Ehrnrooth, M. (2002): Soft Strategic Human Resource Management – the Very Idea. An Exploration into a Social Science. Doctoral thesis. Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.
Ehrnrooth, M. (1997): The resource based view and strategic human resource management. Working paper, 360. Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration
