Saara Taalas är innehavare av Linnéuniversitetets IKEA-professur, som är inriktad mot innovation and livet hemma. Professuren är placerad inom företagsekonomi, och fokuserar på bryggan mellan kundens behov och produktionens villkor.
Undervisning
5FE07E INNO Master’s thesis seminar
5FE06E Entrepreneurship thesis seminar
4FE151 Contemporary Entrepreneurship Research
4FE150 Entrepreneurship and Social Change
4FE149 Entrepreneurship in Context
4FE148 Entrepreneurship Process and Practice
4FE113 Organisation and Wicked Problems
Uppdrag
Ämnesföreträdare för entreprenörskap 2023-2024
Prodekan 2021-2023
Forskningsledare för Leadership and Organizational Renewal 2019-2021
Vi är kvalitetscertifierade
Ekonomihögskolan och Linnéuniversitetet är ackrediterade av The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; AACSB.
Mina forskargrupper
Publikationer
Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
- Taalas, S.L. (2020). Witnessing Eve : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Gender, embodiment and fluidity in organization and management. Abingdon, Routledge. 75-91.
- Mitchell, L., Taalas, S.L. (2020). ‘It’s not fair!’ : game and affective communities of entrepreneurship. Passion and entrepreneurship : contemporary perspectives and new avenues for research. London, Palgrave Macmillan. 113-136.
- Olaison, L., Taalas, S.L. (2017). Game of gamification : marketing, consumer resistance and digital play. The business of gamification : a critical analysis. New York, Routledge. 59-80.
- Taalas, S.L. (2013). Creativity and the post-original : Maritime Centre Vellamo and Kotka-Hamina Region. The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development : A Scandinavian Perspective. Oxford, UK, Routledge. 147-160.
- Taalas, S.L., Bakker, P. (2011). Il business dell’adult content : Una rilettura del concetto di innovazione. Il porno espanso : Dal cinema ai nuovi media. Milano, Mimesis edizioni.
- Häkkinen, L., Nummela, N., Taalas, S.L. (2010). Motives and boundary conditions of mergers and acquisitions in media : a Nordic perspective. Media mergers and the defence of pluralism. Göteborg, Nordicom. 21-40.
- Häkkinen, L., Nummela, N., Taalas, S.L. (2009). On motives for acquisition activity in the media sector : understanding actions through contextualization. The media as a driver of the information society. Lisbon, MediaXXI. 157-178.
- Taalas, S.L. (2009). Notes on Fan Organization : Organization of Consumption in Copyrighted Economy. What about Cultural Policy? : Interdisciplinary perspectives on culture and politics. Helsinki & Jyväskylä, Minerva Kustannus. 233-249.
Konferensbidrag (Refereegranskat)
- Klintman, M., Olaison, L., Taalas, S.L. (2017). ‘The mad, the stupid and the morally degenerate’ : stodge food vegans and sustainable food consumption revisited. SCOS 2017: Carne - flesh and organization : book of abstracts. 60-61.
- Olaison, L., Taalas, S.L. (2015). Anxiety and Trust in Systemic Forms of Entrepreneurship : The Case of the 'Sharing Economy'. Paper presented at the 6th Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Sydney, Australia, November 30-December 2, 2015.
- Taalas, S.L., Olaison, L. (2015). The liminal space of gamification : interrupted rituals of failed online marketing campaigns. Paper presented at the APROS/EGOS Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 9-11, 2015.
- Cassinger, C., Taalas, S.L., Vazques, C. (2011). Branded space-times : narrative production of organisational identity and image. 7th Global Brand Conference of the Academy of Marketing’s Brand Corporate Identity and Reputation Special Interest Group, Oxford, April 6-9, 2011.
Konferensbidrag (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
- Karlsson, M., Taalas, S.L. (2015). Social Entrepreneurship Breaking Bad : Reflexive creative subjectivity of 'Friendly Rebels'. Paper presented at the 10th OS Summer Workshop 2015: Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship, Chania, Crete, Greece, May 21–23, 2015.
- Taalas, S.L. (2013). Situating life at home in management studies : from Mrs. Beeton to fan innovation. .
- Taalas, S.L., Sandberg, D. (2011). Bridging life at home and sustainable production.. Rediscovering Wood : The Key to a Sustainable Future.
- Taalas, S.L. (2011). Notes on the materiality of the immaterial. .
Proceedings (redaktörskap) (Refereegranskat)
- Ropo, A., Taalas, S.L., Mäenpää, M. (2010). Creative economy and beyond : conference proceedings. Helsinki, Creative Industries Finland. 361.
Rapport (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
- Taalas, S.L. (2010). Kohti hybriditalouden haastetta : keskustelua luovasta taloudesta Suomessa . Helsinki, Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön julkaisuja. 59.