Joni Riihimäki

Joni Riihimäki earned a Master’s (M.Sc.) in Industrial Management with a specialization in Technology Management and Innovation from the University of Vaasa, Finland. During this time, he gained international experience in research at the Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, where he worked as a research project lead on the topic of “Managing Business Intelligence System Performance to Support Decision-making in Business Processes”.

At the Friedrich-Alexander University, he works as a research assistant at the Chair of Information Systems, Innovation and Value Creation since 2022.

His research interests include industrial transformation and innovation, open innovation, organizational resilience, decision support systems, and business intelligence.

Dissertation Research Overview

The doctoral research examines how firms design and manage open innovation in uncertain and disruptive environments. It adopts a balanced perspective by addressing not only the benefits of openness but also its risks, failure mechanisms, and longer-term organizational implications. The research focuses on how collaboration design, partner selection, and governance shape innovation outcomes and how open innovation contributes to organizational resilience through the development of dynamic capabilities. By integrating insights from innovation management and strategic management, the dissertation presents a comprehensive framework that links open innovation practices to innovation performance and resilience, with implications for both theoretical and managerial decision-making.

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