Nikodemus Solitander works as Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Corporate Geography at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. He holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management and Corporate Geography.

His main expertise is in the areas of corporate responsibility, business ethics, design & creative industries, and responsible management education. He has a keen interest in pedagogical development and techniques.

Currently he acts as coordinator for Hanken's study module in Corporate Responsibility and has been heavily involved in the implementation of the Principles of Responsible Management Education at Hanken; establishing the CR3 conference (renamed as the CR3+ conference); and is one of the founders of the Research Group on Corporate Responsibility, Ethics & Management Education (CREME) at Hanken.

He has also  been working as program leader for various Hanken & SSE Executive Education programs.

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Teaching on masters, undergraduate, MBA and executive level. Main areas of teaching: CSR, environmental management, business environment studies, corporate/economic geography, Latin American business, and creativity & design management.

Currently I teach in the following courses: Introduction to Supply Chain Management and Corporate Geography; Corporate Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility: From Principle to Practice ; Introduction to Corporate Responsibility; Theories and Research in Corporate Geography; and the Bachelor's Thesis course.

Ph.D. thesis supervision: Heidi Herlin, Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Kristoffer Wilén

Research interests: sustainable development, Corporate Social Responsibility, responsible management education; creative industries, design management, globalization and its discontent, political ecology, industrial clusters, regional and urban development, airport cities, critical management studies; governmentality.

 Links: CR3+ Conference

 The Research Group on Corporate Responsibility, Ethics & Management Education (CREME)

Recent publications

(forthcoming) (jointly with M.Fougère, A.Sobczak, H.Herlin),'We Are the Champions: Organizational Learning and Change for Responsible Management Education', Journal of Management Education, accepted for publication

(2012) (jointly with M.Hasu & K-H Leitner), 'Accelerating the Innovation Race: Do we need reflexive brakes?' in P. Gripenberg, K.-E. Sveiby and B. Segercrantz (eds.) Challenging the Innovation Paradigm. London: Routledge

(2011) Designing Creativity Through Clusters: A periodisation of cluster discourse, Economics and Society, Publication of the Hanken School of Economics (nr.229), Helsinki

(2010) (jointly with Martin Fougère) ‘Governmentality and the Creative Class: Harnessing bohemia, diversity and freedom for competitiveness’. International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 4(1), pp. 41-59

(2010) (jointly with Maria Solitander) 'The sharing, protection and thievery of Intellectual Assets— The Case of the Formula 1 Industry', Management Decision, 48 (1), pp.37-57

(2009) 'Better by Design? A critical appraisal of the creative economy in Finland', In Rusten G., Bryson J. (eds.) Industrial Design, Competition and Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.

(2009) (jointly with Martin Fougère) ‘Against Corporate Responsibility: Critical reflections on thinking, practice, content and consequences’. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 16(4), 217-227.

(2009) (jointly with Martin Fougère) ‘Sustainable Development in the Age of Natural Capitalism: Making the world while saving profits’. In S.B. Banerjee, V.C.M. Chio and R. Mir (eds.) Organizations, Markets and Imperial Formations: Towards an Anthropology of Globalization. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Full publications list

Link (HARIS database)