Research groups that operate wholly or partly under the Department of Economics and Management in alphabetical order. The groups are presented in alphabetical order by the last name of the group leader. The list also includes websites of the department's disciplines.
If you want to know how to manage a farm successfully or how to design effective agricultural and food policies, agricultural economics is the right choice for you. We teach and study business management and economics applied to agriculture and primary food production. Our work is closely based on biological and technical possibilities. Our research aims at solving concrete problems. The topics of production economics and farm management as well as rural entrepreneurship provide knowledge and skills for management and leadership in agricultural farms and firms. The topics of agricultural policy show how effect of agricultural, rural and food policies can be analyzed. Functioning agricultural and food markets as well as international trade have become increasingly important topics. In addition ,we study how to improve agricultural production and food security in developing countries, especially in Africa.
Agricultural Economics is one of the disciplines of the Department of Economics and Management.
We consider our food research to be a transdisciplinary endeavor toward a sustainable future in social, economic, and environmental terms. Our aim is to contribute toward a better understanding of the role of managerial, organizational, and behavioral issues in sustainable food systems.
We study the interaction of society and environment, environmental issues and problems, and nature conservation by applying economic theory and methods. We study both how economic actions affect natural resources and environment, and the preferred environmental behavior of the society and how it compares to the behavior in the markets. The goal is to find ways to fix market failures so that natural resources are utilized sustainably, while preventing the degradation of nature.
Environmental and Resource Economics is one of the disciplines of the Department of Economics and Management.
Our group is a consortium of multiple principal investigators.
Coordinator: prof. Mirja Mikkilä
Natural resources are the basis for a just, resilient and sustainable future. We research and create new solutions for forest, bio-based operational models and businesses. Sustainable and just societal transformations, sustainable governance of forest and related natural resource-based ecosystems form the framework for our research and education activities at bachelor, master and doctoral level.
EPRG studies the socio-cognitive aspects of environmental policies and sustainable technologies. Since 2008, several research projects have built up the group’s competence in environmental risk governance, knowledge integration in environmental and technology issues, and sustainability indicators and scenarios.
The group studies the drivers and the policy instruments that drive utilization and protection of aquatic environments and resources. The topics include optimal harvesting of fish stocks, cost-benefit analysis of marine protection, best practices to control invasive species and to control of oil damages. Econometrics, mathematical programming, game theory and integrated assessment models are the applied research tools.
The consumer studies research group focuses on consumption, consumers and consumerism in late modern societies. Our starting point is that consumption is a phenomenon interrelated with a variety of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental developments. We understand consumption widely as a process in which people not only act on the market as buyers but are engaged in producing meanings of consumption, appropriating, using, sharing and living with goods and services, and eventually discarding them, as well as constructing their social identities through consumption and practices related to it. Through consumption people both carry out, reproduce, and renew everyday practices as part of their social lives. We study these practices and consumption, their changes, meanings, norms, cultural dimensions, social differences, contexts, and related materialities.
Consumer Studies is one of the disciplines of the Department of Economics and Management.
Our research group investigates the becoming of sustainable economies in multiple contexts. We build on process philosophy and focus on understanding the enactors, enactments, and enablers – as well as their relations – relevant for a sustainable economy. Recent phenomena investigated include affordances, agency, culture, degrowth, social practices, self-provisioning, sufficiency, and technology. The research connects processes on the macro scale of an economy, like global matter-energy throughput, supranational governance, and sectoral policies, to the micro scale of economic organization, including business management, entrepreneurship, household consumption, and individual/communal transitions.
We are passionate about sustainability science encapsulated in our vision of "Transforming Human-Nature Relationships for a Just, Healthy and Sustainable Future." We welcome your feedback and ideas for collaboration.
Constructing sustainable practices from the perspectives of people, emerging technologies and novel economies.
Research group draws from the sustainability framework and examines the perceptions of the people and stakeholders, revolutionary technologies ranging from digital solutions to biotechnologies, and novel forms of emerging economies such as platform economy, sharing economy and bioeconomy.
Our research group in marketing focuses on developing food marketing and business in dynamic and digital environments. Research in marketing brings understanding of consumers, market places, future trends, and industries. This is needed for the supply to better meet the demand, and for building strong customer relationships. Today's businesses face many competitive, environmental and societal challenges, which ask for managing own actions to stand out in successful and sustainable ways. We want to prove that marketing matters.
Marketing (Value creation in marketing) is one of the disciplines of the Department of Economics and Management.