Anu Puusa
Professor
Professor in Management
Deputy Head of Department
Business School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
anu.puusa@uef.fi | +358 50 442 3376
I work as a Professor in Management and exercise the art of management in practice too by being the Deputy Head of Department at the Business School of the University of Eastern Finland.
My current research interest areas are co-operatives, work-community skills/Organization Citizenship behaviour, organizational identity and change. I have published textbooks and numerous journal articles and other publications.
I also believe in giving back: I have positions of trust such as membership of the board at Cooperatives Europe, Pellervo Coop Center and Pohjois-Karjalan Osuuskauppa, a regional consumer cooperative that is part of S-Group (I am bit of a co-operative enthusiastic)
I am experienced organizational speaker and an awarded teacher. I am an academic who does not believe that theory and practice are opposites. My philosophical background lies in the interpretative paradigm: “We look at the same target, but do we see the same thing?”
I am a realist who tend to look at the bright side of life. I believe in the power of questions. Joint pondering and cooperation are the ways forward.
Research groups
Publications
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Autonomiaa vai kontrollia? Tapaustutkimus lisääntyvään itseohjautuvuuteen pyrkivästä organisaatiosta
Kinnunen, Juha; Puusa, Anu; Kuittinen, Matti. 2024. Hallinnon tutkimus. 43: 37–50 -
Echoes of Co-operatives from the North - the Breakthrough of the Finnish Cooperative Movement
Puusa, Anu; Karhu, Sami. 2024. Deusto, estudios cooperativos. 23: 35-57 -
The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Finland and Lessons We Can Learn from It
Puusa, Anu; Karhu, Sami. 2024. Deusto, estudios cooperativos. 23: 75-106 -
Democratic Cooperative Governance: Role Ambiguity, Pseudo-Democracy and Tacit Acceptance?
Puusa, Anu; Saastamoinen, Sanna. Teoksessa: Novkovic, Sonja; Miner, Karen; McMahon, Cian(toim.) , 2023. Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations: The Cooperative Difference. s. 145-175. Palgrave Macmillan -
Asiantuntijaorganisaatioiden muuttuvat työyhteisökulttuurit Euroopassa: Uusi työ, arvot, menetelmät ja johtaminen (WoCuE). WoCuE-hankkeen loppuraportti
Puusa, Anu; Tuominen, Pasi; Ylönen, Katariina. 2022. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Reports and studies in social sciences and business studies. . Itä-Suomen yliopisto -
Changing Workplace Cultures in the Knowledge-Intensive Sector in Europe: New Work, Values, Methods and Management (WoCuE). Final report of the WoCuE project
Puusa, Anu; Tuominen, Pasi; Ylönen, Katariina. 2022. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Reports and studies in social sciences and business studies. . Itä-Suomen yliopisto -
Co-operative identity and the dual nature: From paradox to complementarities
Novkovic, Sonja; Puusa, Anu; Miner, Karen. 2022. Journal of co-operative organization and management. 10: -
Co-operative identity interpretations and their correspondence with the original cooperative mission
Puusa, Anu; Davis, Peter. Teoksessa: (toim.) , 2022. ICA CCR European Research Conference - Athens 2022. s. 1-20. -
Co-operative values or common values?
Saastamoinen, Sanna; Puusa, Anu. 2022. -
Colluding to conceal the co-operative difference? A discourse analytical study of Finnish S Group's nationwide price-drop campaign
Puusa, Anu; Saastamoinen, Sanna . 2022. Journal of co-operative studies. 2021; 54 : 51-62