Researchers

Note e-mail adresses are firstname.lastname@hanken.fi, but replace å, ä, ö with a, a, o.

Prof. Bo-Christer Björk (b. 1952) is Professor of Information Systems Science at the Swedish school of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland. He holds degrees from three universities. Prior to his current appointment he spent seven years as professor of Information Technology in Construction at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interests include, E-business and E-collaboration, Electronic document management, Business process and enterprise modelling, Scientific publishing using Internet technology. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (http://itcon.org/), one of the earliest Open Access refereed scientific journals, which started to appear in 1996.

Björk has participated in numerous international research projects, including the Open, self-organising repository for scientific information exchange (SciX) project, funded by the European Commission through the 5th framework IST programme during 2002-2004. The OACS research builds on and extends the preliminary studies carried out by HANKEN within the SciX project.

Prof. Niklas Bruun is the Director of the IPR University Center, an institution formed by five universities (Helsinki and Turku University, Helsinki School of Economics and Hanken and the Helsinki University of Technology) and located at Hanken. He is at present in charge of a research program financed by the Finnish Academy of Sciences "Intellectual Property Rights in Transition. Mapping the New Terrain of the Global Intellectual Property Rights Regime in the Information Age. He already in the 1980ies did research on the research contracts in universities. He is the leading academic expert in the field of copyright in Finland and the Chairman of the Finnish Copyright Council and has actively participated in the discussions about the role of IPR in universities.

Turid Hedlund, Ph.D.(Soc.Sc.) is a post-doc. researcher in the project.
The title of the doctoral thesis is: Dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval: principles, system design and evaluation. She has participated as researcher in the Europen Commission, IST programme SciX, Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange. Her research interests include, cost and business models of scientific publishing, information retrieval, scientific communication using Internet.

Jonas Holmström, M.Pol.Sc., Research assistant/doctoral student
My main research interests are the economics of scientific publishing (both journals and institutional repositories), personalization of information services and the information seeking behaviour. I am enrolled as a doctoral student at HANKEN and I will do my Ph.D. within the OACS project. I am working as a research assistant at the Swedish school of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki (HANKEN). My main responsibilities relate to SciX - the OACS predecessor. I am also involved in research regarding e-print servers, institutional repositories and grey literature sponsored by the Nordic Council for Scientific Information, NORDINFO. I have been associated lecturer at the Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University and given the courses in Information Sources, Introduction to Information Retrieval, and Economics of Information. More information is available on my site jonas.ax.

Olli Vilanka (b. 1975) received his Masters degree in Law from the University of Lapland in December 2002. He is specialised in contract and immaterial law. His M.Sc. thesis dealt with the management of copyright in the digital society.

Paulina Junni, M.Econ.Sc., Doctoral student started her studies at Hanken in the autumn of 2001. Graduated and enrolled as a doctoral student in 2003.

Anssi Öörni (b. 1966) holds a Ph.D. (Econ.) from the Helsinki School of Economics. He has previously been assistant professor at the Helsinki School of Economics and is currently acting Professor of Information Systems Science at the Swedish school of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include consumer behaviour in electronic markets, electronic banking services and mobile payment systems.

Karl-Erik Sveiby is part-time professor of Knowledge Management at Hanken since 2001. He has a background as business manager and internationally very successful consultant. He has several years of experience from the professional publishing domain (“Affärsvärlden group”). Sveiby has published several textbooks on Knowledge Management and a number of academic papers. Recently his article Collaborative Climate and Effectiveness of Knowledge Work received an award as the most outstanding paper of the year in the Knowledge Management Journal. Sveiby will bring know-how of both the publishing business and of the leading edge of knowledge management theory into the project.

Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Sciences and Interim Director Center for Information Studies, School of Information Sciences College of Communication and Information University of Tennessee.

Mikko Välimäki, PhD., LL.M, received in 2006 a Junior Fellowship at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration. He continues to lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology where he defended his doctoral thesis on open source licensing (available at http://pub.turre.com/). Previously mr. Välimäki has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His university website is at http://www.valimaki.org/.

 

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Updated: 17.09.2007