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Risto Rajala
Researcher at Aalto University
Publications - 124
Citations - 3404
Risto Rajala is an academic researcher from Aalto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Business model & Service (business). The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 123 publications receiving 2749 citations. Previous affiliations of Risto Rajala include North-West University & Helsinki University of Technology.
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Service Innovation Myopia? A New Recipe for Client-Provider Value Creation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the service innovation strategies in the ICT field from the perspective of the resource-based view of the firm and the management competencies involved, and provide a recipe for managing the service co-creation modes, with guidelines given on how to succeed through collaborative capabilities and culture.
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Social capital in the growth of science-and-technology-based SMEs
TL;DR: In this article, the role of social capital and its structural, relational and cognitive dimensions in the growth of science and technology-based SMEs is explored, and a conceptual framework is developed to describe their development through four overlapping phases, each of which involves different managerial tasks.
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Theory and practice of value co-creation in B2B systems
Marko Kohtamäki,Risto Rajala +1 more
TL;DR: The co-creation of value and the coproduction of value proposition have attracted enormous interest in the B2B service and solutions research as discussed by the authors, and many papers have been published in the areas of management, marketing, strategy, and operations.
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Learning and innovation in inter‐organizational network collaboration
Mika Westerlund,Risto Rajala +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between firms' learning orientation and network collaboration and investigate how learning orientation enhances network collaboration, and discuss the role of the co-innovation focus in the learning orientation-network collaboration relationship.
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Managing inter-organizational networks for value creation in the front-end of projects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify activities that facilitate the development of interorganizational networks and augment value creation among multiple organizations in the front-end of projects and identify four activities and five network attributes that explain how inter-organizational network can be managed for value creation.