Draft:Eero Vaara

Eero Vaara is an academic in the areas of strategic and institutional change and an expert in discursive and narrative perspectives. Currently, he is a Professor of Organisations and Impact at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor in Department of Management Studies at Aalto University, Finland .

Eero Vaara's present research is looking into the dynamics of strategy formulation and implementation, institutional change and legitimation, and globalism, corporations and nationalism. He has impacted the disciplines of management and strategy, with an h-index of 66 and 23000 citations from his work. According to Jorge E. Hirsch, who originally suggested h-index as a metric, a "truly unique" academic has an h-index of 60.

Research and publications
Eero Vaara´s research is focusing on following four areas:


 * radical organisational and strategic change
 * strategy process and practice research
 * MNCs, nationalism and globalisation
 * institutional change and legitimation

Eero Vaara's scholarly efforts have been directed towards advancing the application of critical discursive perspectives in organisation and strategy research, as well as in sophisticated explorations of organizational narratives. His findings have been disseminated in top-tier management publications. He has served as an Associate Editor in Academy of Management Journal received several international awards for his publication. These include Roland Calori Prize for the Best Paper published in Organisation Studies in (awarded July 2003), Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division´s Best Published Paper Award 2014 and Journal of International Business Studies Silver Medal for Significant Contributions to International Business in 2019.

Most cited works (google scholar)

 * Vaara, E., & Whittington, R. (2012). Strategy-as-practice: Taking social practices seriously. Academy of Management Annals, 6(1), 285-336.
 * Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D., & Vaara, E. (Eds.). (2010). Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice. Cambridge University Press
 * Bansal, P., Smith, W. K., & Vaara, E. (2018). New ways of seeing through qualitative research. Academy of management journal, 61(4), 1189-1195

Teaching
Eero Vaara serves as the Academic Director of the DPhil management program at Saïd Business School and contributes to various postgraduate and executive courses. Grounded in a constructionist approach to learning, his teaching philosophy prioritizes students' experiences, fosters classroom dialogue, and cultivates critical thinking skills.