Kristiina Mäkelä is an Academy of Finland -funded Post Doc researcher at the Department of Management and Organization at Hanken. She earned her PhD at Helsinki School of Economics in September 2006, which received the European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA) 2008 prize for the best doctoral dissertation in Europe. She is currently based in the UK, sharing her time between a Tekes-funded project on Global Talent Management at Hanken, and an international research project on the commercialization of innovations led by professor Julian Birkinshaw from London Business School. She is also teaching at Henley Management School at Reading University. She has published on HRM and knowledge related topics in a number of international journals including Journal of Management Studies, International Business Review, Journal of Managerial Psychology, International Studies of Management and Organization, and International Journal of Human Resource Management.

International Business & Human Resource Management

International business, knowledge-related issues in multinational corporations, human resource management, social capital and interpersonal networks

- Ambos, T., Mäkelä, K., Birkinshaw, J. & D’Este, P. (2008): “When Does University Research Get Commercialised? Creating Ambidexterity in Research Institutions”. Forthcoming in Journal of Management Studies.

-Björkman, I., Barner-Rasmussen, W., Ehrnrooth, M. & Mäkelä, K. (2008) “Performance Management across Borders”. Forthcoming in Sparrow, P. (Ed.) Handbook of International HR Research: Integrating People, Process and Context. Oxford: Blackwell.

- Mäkelä, K., Ehrnrooth, M. & Björkman, I. (2008) ”MNC Subsidiary Staffing Architecture: Building Human and Social Capital within the Organization”. Forthcoming in International Journal of Human Resource Management.
-Mäkelä, K. & Suutari, V. (2008): “Global Careers: A Social Capital Paradox”. Forthcoming in International Journal of Human Resource Management.
- Mäkelä, K., Barner-Rasmussen,W. & Björkman, I. (2008) “Drivers of Interpersonal and Inter-unit Trust in Multinational Corporations”. Forthcoming in Feldman, M.P. & Santangelo, G.D. (Eds.) New Perspectives in IB Research. Progress in International Business Research, Volume 3.
-Mäkelä, K., Kalla, H. & Piekkari, R. (2007) ”Interpersonal Similarity as a Driver of Knowledge Sharing within Multinational Corporations.”.  International Business Review, 16(1): 1-22.
-Mäkelä, K. (2007) “Knowledge Sharing through Expatriate Relationships: A Social Capital Perspective”. International Studies of Management and Organization, 37(3): 108-126.
-Suutari, V. & Mäkelä, K. (2007) “The Career Capital of Managers with Global Careers”.Journal of Managerial Psychology, 22(7): 628-648.