As a researcher and university lecturer at Business School, I study leadership issues and trust development, trust breaches, and trust restoration in work communities and networks, particularly from a process ontological perspective. Processes of organizational behavior inspire me as interpretations of actors. In my studies, I apply experimental, creative qualitative methods of data collection and analysis (e.g., method of empathy-based stories, compassion method, portraiture, and co-produced autoethnography). In pedagogy, I rely on inquiry learning with different collaborative learning methods (drama, escape room, lego pedagogy). I received the University of Eastern Finland’s Skilled Teacher Award in 2018, the Finnish Economists’ Teaching Award in 2019 for my courageous development of online teaching, and the Optimi Good Teacher Award in 2023.
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Bringing novel methodologies into trust research: An ethnographical approach to studying distrust in work relationships
Leppälä, Kristina; Kosonen, Päivi; Ikonen, Mirjami. 2023. Itä-Suomen yliopisto -
Trust during the Mentoring Process from the Mentor’s Perspective
Karhapää, Sari-Johanna; Ikonen, Mirjami. 2023. Nordic journal of business. 72: 237-255 -
Trust in mentoring in the pre-career context of the business students
Karhapää, Sari-Johanna; Ikonen, Mirjami. 2023. Itä-Suomen yliopisto -
Trust in organizational management: Addressing the challenges of sustainability transitions
Ikonen, Mirjami; Kosonen, Päivi. 2023. -
Luottamuksen palauttaminen muutoksen jälkeen
Ikonen, Mirjami. Teoksessa: Kantanen, Helena; Koskela, Merja(toim.) , 2022. Poikkeuksellinen viestintä. s. 82-95. ProCom – Viestinnän ammattilaiset ry -
Parantaako aika haavat luottamuksen rikkoutuessa? Narratiivinen tutkimus suomalaisilta työpaikoilta
Mättö, Satu; Ikonen, Mirjami, Savolainen, Taina. Teoksessa: Laakkonen, Erja; Sotkasiira, Tiina; Lehto, Iiris; Heikkilä, Mirva(toim.) , 2022. Haavoilla - käsite ja kokemus : aikuiskasvatuksen näkökulmia rikkoviin elämäntilanteisiin. s. 156-184. Jyväskylän yliopisto -
Studying trust in the leader by co-produced autoethnography: an organizational esthetics approach
Kosonen, Päivi; Ikonen, Mirjami. 2022. Journal of Organizational Ethnography. [Article publication date: 21 February 2022]: 1-17 -
The Trust in mentoring in the pre-career context of the business students
Karhapää, Sari-Johanna; Ikonen, Mirjami. Teoksessa: (toim.) , 2022. NFF 2022 Conference Papers . s. 1-13. Örebro universitet -
The shaking nest of trust: A case study of funding reform in a higher education organization
Kosonen, Päivi; Ikonen, Mirjami; Savolainen, Taina. 2022. Journal of trust research. 12: 43-65 -
“It’s Time to Focus on Humanity”: Millennial Business Students’ Perceptions of Competencies Needed by Future Leaders
Koponen, Jonna; Heikkilä, Essi; Karhapää, Sari-Johanna; Ikonen, Mirjami; Hiltunen, Esa. 2022. Nordic journal of business. 71: 102-125