Forskning och handledning

På denna sida finns information om forskning och handledning.

Forskning

Hanken är en forskningsintensiv högskola, vilket betyder att forskningen utgör grunden för all vår verksamhet.

Handledning

Bra handledning är viktigt för att komma igång med karriären efter doktorsexamen. På Hanken får du personlig, individuellt skräddarsydd handledning i bästa nordiska tradition. Alla våra handledare är erfarna, internationellt aktiva akademiker i framkanten av sina respektive forskningsområden. Du kan kontakta en examenshandledare i huvudämnet före du ansöker till forskarutbildningen för att diskutera dina planer och få information om forskningsinriktningen och forskarstudierna inom ämnet.

Vi frågade några av våra handledare om forskarstudier inom deras huvudämnen, nedan kan du läsa deras svar (på engelska):

 

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Gyöngyi Kovacs, Erkko Professor in Humanitarian Logistics:

We have a very active research group that organises doctoral courses and frequent research seminars for doctoral students in our major (Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility)... Read more

 

Denise Salin

Denise Salin, Professor in Management and Organisation

Doctoral students are strongly encouraged to publish and to present their work at international conferences during their doctoral studies.  More generally, there is a high level of international publishing in Management and Organisation with many articles, chapters and books being produced by faculty and researchers. Read more 

 

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Nari Lee, Professor in Intellectual Property Law

A master’s degree specializing in intellectual property has been popular in Europe... Read more

 

 

 

Joakim Wincent, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Management

The major in entrepreneurship encourages PhD candidates to develop strong skills for a fruitful career in our field... Read more

 

Peter Björk, Professor in Marketing

 Peter Björk, Professor in Marketing

All doctoral students in Marketing complete four in-house doctoral courses: 1) 'Managing the Research Process', which introduces you to the requirements of a doctoral thesis ... Read more

 

Accounting:

Helsinki Topics: Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance and Auditing, Sustainability Reporting und Climate Scenario Planning.

Vasa Topics: Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance and Auditing

 

Commerical Law:

We are interested in applicants in broad areas of business law related research topics and we encourage applications from the researchers with cross disciplinary interests. Examples of research interest areas of our current faculty members are: sustainability and business law including intellectual property, trade secret and data law, corporate governance and tax law, digital economy and commercial law.

 

Economics:

We accept PhD-students with an orientation towards all core areas of Economics. We have a particular interest for PhD-students in the fields where have a particularly high research capacity: Applied Microeconometrics, Applied microeonomic theory and game theory, Behavioral Economics, Competition Economics, Experimental economics, Industrial Economics.

 

Entrepreneurship, Management and Organisation:

We are interested in general topics of entrepreneurship. Exemples of areas with an interest to our faculty is start-ups, pivoting, corporate entrepreneurship, psychology in entrepreneurship, AI and entrepreneurship.

 

Finance:

Current dissertation topics on: "Macroeconomic Implications of Corporate Finance" and "Interconnectedness of Financial Frictions and Labor Market Frictions".

 

Management and Organisation:

HR, leadership and well-being, Strategy-as -Practice, Coopetition, new business models and networks, workplace bullying, business and society, CMS-related topic and responsible organizing. 

Marketing:

Overarching themes:

  • Service systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Sustainability

Innovation & Strategic marketing:

  • Innovation (B2B, B2C, C2C) 
  • Strategizing and managerial sensemaking 
  • Market shaping 
  • Digitalization 
  • Internationalization and international marketing

Customer-centricity & Market insights:

  • Customer insights  
  • Customer experience  
  • Customer value  
  • Consumer culture 
  • Data analytics 
  • Data-driven decision making and management 

Consumers & Well-being:

  • Sustainable consumption, degrowth, and circular economy  
  • Experiences of vulnerability  
  • Compulsive consumption  
  • Well-being, dignity, and quality of life 
  • Empowerment 
  • Misinformation and disinformation in service systems

B2B Marketing & Sales:

  • Sustainability and financial performance 
  • Pricing in business markets 
  • Servitization and solutions 
  • B2B branding 
  • Strategic sales management 
  • Global key account management and value networks 
  • Internationalization and international marketing

     

Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility:

Humanitarian logistics:

  • Humanitarian logistics services
  • Crisis preparedness
  • Logistics for people in the move
  • Humanitarian logistics in conflict and complex emergencies
  • Circular economy and waste management in humanitarian logistics
  • Supply chain risk resilience and security
  • Resilient freight transport systems
  • Security of supply
  • Supply chain risk management especially with regards to cascading disasters, overlapping ones, and their incident evolutions
  • Medical logistics/medical supply chains

Sustainable and responsible SCs:

  • Carbon removal de-circularity 
  • Corporate sustainability due diligence in supply chains

Sustainable and circular procurement:

  • Sustainable innovative last mile distribution

Technologies and solutions for circular/resilient/sustainable supply chains