Paavo Ritala

13.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
172 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Paavo Ritala is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Paavo Ritala has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Strategy and Management, 31 papers in Marketing and 25 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Paavo Ritala's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (87 papers), Business Strategy and Innovation (54 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (22 papers). Paavo Ritala is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (87 papers), Business Strategy and Innovation (54 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (22 papers). Paavo Ritala collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Sweden and Netherlands. Paavo Ritala's co-authors include Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen, Leena Aarikka‐Stenroos, Aino Kianto, Mika Vanhala, Sascha Kraus, Argyro Almpanopoulou, Nancy Bocken, Heidi Olander, Laura Albareda and Snejina Michailova and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Management and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Paavo Ritala

161 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Incremental and Radical Innovation in Coopetition—The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Appropriability

2012 448 citations Paavo Ritala, Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen profile →
Exploring institutional drivers and barriers of the circular economy: A cross-regional comparison of China, the US, and Europe

2017 447 citations Paavo Ritala et al. profile →
Knowledge sharing, knowledge leaking and relative innovation performance: An empirical study

2014 417 citations Paavo Ritala et al. Technovation profile →
Coopetition Strategy – When is it Successful? Empirical Evidence on Innovation and Market Performance

2011 398 citations Paavo Ritala profile →
Network management in the era of ecosystems: Systematic review and management framework

2017 307 citations Paavo Ritala et al. profile →
Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda

2022 169 citations Justyna Dąbrowska, Argyro Almpanopoulou et al. R and D Management profile →
Ecosystem Legitimacy Emergence: A Collective Action View

2021 165 citations Llewellyn D W Thomas, Paavo Ritala profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paavo Ritala Finland	52	6.6k	1.9k	1.8k	969	953	172	9.5k
Alberto Ferraris Italy	53	3.8k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	173	8.7k
Stefano Bresciani Italy	46	3.4k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	964 1.0×	143	7.9k
Christopher L. Tucci Switzerland	27	3.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	504 0.5×	109	7.2k
Marcel Bogers Denmark	41	4.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	439 0.5×	129	7.5k
Manlio Del Giudice Italy	54	6.0k 0.9×	3.3k 1.8×	2.4k 1.4×	1.9k 2.0×	1.3k 1.4×	177	11.4k
Malte Brettel Germany	48	3.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	200	8.2k
Christoph Zott France	17	5.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	29	9.8k
Nicolai J. Foss Denmark	42	4.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.9×	127	8.4k
Shlomo Y. Tarba United Kingdom	54	4.7k 0.7×	974 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	2.2k 2.3×	183	8.5k
Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli Italy	57	4.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	2.7k 2.8×	1.1k 1.1×	176	10.4k

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Hussinki, Henri, Paavo Ritala, Mika Vanhala, Aino Kianto, & Joel Mero. (2025). Effects of Big Data Analytics on Firm Innovativeness: The Role of a Data‐Driven Culture. Knowledge and Process Management. 32(4). 161–173.

Kohtamäki, Marko, Rodrigo Rabetino, Vinit Parida, & Paavo Ritala. (2025). Strategy in the digitalization era. International Journal of Management Reviews. 27(3). 309–323. 1 indexed citations

Saunila, Minna, et al.. (2025). AI and employee wellbeing in the workplace: An empirical study. Journal of Business Research. 199. 115584–115584. 4 indexed citations

Ritala, Paavo, et al.. (2025). Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism. Journal of Management Studies. 63(2). 761–807. 4 indexed citations

Ritala, Paavo, et al.. (2024). Developing industrial AI capabilities: An organisational learning perspective. Technovation. 138. 103120–103120. 8 indexed citations

Thomas, Llewellyn D W, et al.. (2024). Vertical and horizontal complementarities in platform ecosystems. Innovation. 27(3). 369–393. 11 indexed citations

Ritala, Paavo, et al.. (2024). The Metaverse Flywheel: Creating Value across Physical and Virtual Worlds. California Management Review. 66(4). 80–101. 15 indexed citations

Ritala, Paavo & Marin Jovanovic. (2023). Platformizers, Orchestrators, and Guardians: Three Types of B2B Platform Business Models. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

Dąbrowska, Justyna, Argyro Almpanopoulou, Alexander Brem, et al.. (2022). Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda. R and D Management. 52(5). 930–954. 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dąbrowska, Justyna, Argyro Almpanopoulou, Henry Chesbrough, et al.. (2021). The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Beautiful of Digital Transformation: A Critical Multi-Level Research Agenda. 1 indexed citations

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Ritala, Paavo, Abayomi Baiyere, Mathew Hughes, & Sascha Kraus. (2021). Digital strategy implementation: The role of individual entrepreneurial orientation and relational capital. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 171. 120961–120961. 141 indexed citations

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Karhu, Kimmo & Paavo Ritala. (2020). Slicing the cake without baking it: Opportunistic platform entry strategies in digital markets. Long Range Planning. 54(5). 101988–101988. 45 indexed citations

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Phillips, Mark & Paavo Ritala. (2019). A complex adaptive systems agenda for ecosystem research methodology. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 148. 119739–119739. 123 indexed citations

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Patala, Samuli, et al.. (2018). Championing processes and the emergence of industrial symbiosis. Regional Studies. 53(4). 528–539. 24 indexed citations

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Bocken, Nancy, Paavo Ritala, & Pontus Huotari. (2017). The Circular Economy: Exploring the Introduction of the Concept Among S&P 500 Firms. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(3). 487–490. 108 indexed citations

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Ritala, Paavo, et al.. (2016). How Do Ambidextrous Teams Create New Products? Cognitive Ambidexterity, Analogies, and New Product Creation. Knowledge and Process Management. 23(1). 3–17. 13 indexed citations

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Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen, Pia, Paavo Ritala, & Liisa‐Maija Sainio. (2013). Protection of Radical Innovations - Differences in Domestic and International Markets. 9(1). 1. 4 indexed citations

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Ritala, Paavo. (2013). Linking the unlinked: knowledge‐based perspective on non‐routine change. Management Decision. 51(6). 1176–1189. 9 indexed citations

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Ritala, Paavo, et al.. (2011). A Problem Solving Typology of Service Business. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management. 9(1). 8 indexed citations

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Ritala, Paavo. (2010). Coopetitive advantage – How firms create and appropriate value by collaborating with their competitors. LUTPub (LUT University). 14. 70–70. 13 indexed citations

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