Tanja Leppäaho

Tanja Leppäaho
Full professor (tenured)
Business Studies
LUT Business School
Lappeenranta
+358 40 191 9448
Research areas
Business and International Management

Biography

I hold a tenured Professorship in Entrepreneurship and act as Vice Director for LBM Doctoral School, LUT University, Finland. 

I am also a distinguished international research affiliate at Bhavan’s SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, INDIA.

Previously (2014 and 2017), I worked in a tenure track in international business and entrepreneurship at the University of Jyväskylä in between and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK in between 2012 and 2016. 

My list of publications can be found through Orcid and Google Scholar. I have published in various journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, British Journal of Management, Family Business Review, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and International Business Review.

I have supervised five doctoral theses, visited several leading universities, given speeches in recognized societal-level organizations and events, and among others been granted, together with Professor Sarah Jack, the best paper award by the leading conference in entrepreneurship, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. I have also co-edited the first ever Handbook, Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization (published early 2021). I am in the editorial review board of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 

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