• An agile co-creation process for digital servitization: A micro-service innovation approach 

      Sjödin, David; Parida, Vinit; Kohtamäki, Marko; Wincent, Joakim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In this paper, we explore how manufacturing firms and their customers co-create digital service innovations in an attempt to address the digitalization paradox. We present empirical insights from a case study of four ...
    • Agile new solution development in manufacturing companies. 

      Huikkola, Tuomas; Kohtamäki, Marko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This conceptual paper proposes a new agile solution development model for technology and manufacturing companies. The flexible model consists of five key phases: 1) new idea screening, 2) idea nurturing, 3) conversion of ...
    • Agile product development practices for coping with learning paradox in R&D offshore units 

      Kuivalainen, Janne; Kunttu, Iivari; Kohtamäki, Marko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      R&D offshoring involves the relocation of in-house R&D activities to subsidiary units located in other countries, often associated with low-cost engineering work, to meet global operational requirements. The main motivation ...
    • Coping with the relational paradoxes of outcome-based services 

      Korkeamäki, Lauri; Sjödin, David; Kohtamäki, Marko; Parida, Vinit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      By entering outcome-based service (OBS) relationships, industrial service providers and their customers realign their business interests to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. The move towards OBS represents a shift from ...
    • Open Strategy in a Smart City 

      Einola, Suvi; Kohtamäki, Marko; Hietikko, Harri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      To attract new companies and a talented workforce in a way that increases income streams, cities are searching for strategic capabilities by using a variety of strategic practices. The present study participates in the ...
    • A (Re)view of the Philosophical Foundations of Strategic Management 

      Rabetino, Rodrigo; Kohtamäki, Marko; Federico, Juan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This paper aims to review how different approaches to social inquiry (e.g. positivist, postpositivist, interpretive, postmodernist and critical theory) have been used in strategy research and how these main paradigms engage ...
    • Seeking ’Strategy’ in Business Intelligence Literature: Theorizing BI as part of strategy research 

      Talaoui, Yassine; Kohtamäki, Marko; Rajala, Risto (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This paper connects the business intelligence (BI) literature with research in strategic management by plotting the existing research strands on BI: environmental scanning, competitive intelligence, executive information ...
    • Servitization research: A review and bibliometric analysis of past achievements and future promises 

      Khanra, Sayantan; Dhir, Amandeep; Parida, Vinit; Kohtamäki, Marko (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Manufacturing firms are increasingly adopting a strategy known as 'servitization' to add services to existing product-based offerings to stimulate additional revenue and growth. While the emerging research domain of ...
    • To outcomes and beyond: Discursively managing legitimacy struggles in outcome business models 

      Korkeamäki, Lauri; Kohtamäki, Marko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Outcome business models (OBMs) guarantee and deliver economic and operational results for customers. The risk transfer from customer to provider enables the emergence of new value drivers, such as mutual learning. However, ...
    • Worth the risk? The profit impact of outcome-based service offerings for manufacturing firms 

      Korkeamäki, Lauri; Kohtamäki, Marko; Parida, Vinit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Because research on outcome-based service offerings (OBS) is very case study oriented, we lack empirical knowledge of OBS provider profitability in general. Drawing upon an unbalanced panel dataset (n = 1566, N = 14,756), ...