Mikko Ketokivi

Mikko Ketokivi

Research scientist focusing on how organizations are designed.

RADAR THINKER

Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2023. 

FAST FACT

Co-editor in chief, Journal of Operations Management, 2015-2017.

FAST FACT

Panelist, Evaluation of the Finnish Innovation System, 2009.

Ideas

An industrial entrepreneur who works in particular with early-stage start-ups, Ketokivi’s academic research and teaching focus on the economics of organization, operations management, and research methods. His special interest is in contemporary views on general management and governance, topics that he approaches primarily from a practice-based perspective, and he focuses on theories of the firm, research methodology, scientific reasoning, argumentation, and philosophy of science.

Bio

Professor of operations management and organization design at IE University, Madrid, Ketokivi holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Minnesota. He teaches, or has taught, at business schools in the United States, France, Switzerland, Spain, and in his native Finland. Ketokivi is currently a distinguished visiting scholar at the Center for Values-Driven Leadership at the Benedictine University, Chicago.

Content

Efficient Organization: A Governance Approach (with Joseph T Mahoney, Oxford University Press, 2022); Statistical Inference and Scientific Argumentation (Helsinki University Press, 2015, in Finnish); Manufacturing in Transition: A New Challenge for Strategic Management (Talentum, Helsinki, 2005, in Finnish).

NATIONALITY: Finnish

Media picks

Verdict

“Rigorous researcher providing practical, evidence-based insights into how organizations function.”

Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50

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