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Mikko I AveroMikko I Arevuo

PhD candidate, MBA (Cranfield), BA (Michigan) 
Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management
European Business School London
Member of the Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies

E-mail: arevuom@regents.ac.uk


Teaching, Research and Consultancy

Current teaching: Strategic Management, Organisational Learning, Economics of strategy/managerial economics.

Current research and consultancy interests: Use of cognitive causal maps to improve the quality of managerial decisions in complex environments, use of cognitive causal maps to improve the degree of trust in cross-cultural teams.

Mikko’s consulting work encompasses organizational resource audits, strategy workshops, and top management team facilitation. A pilot study funded by the RCL learning and teaching committee is currently undertaken to explore the development of trust and decision making effectiveness in cross cultural and multilingual student study groups through the application of cognitive causal mapping techniques.

Selected recent publications

Articles

Arevuo, M. I. (2010) The 50th law: keys to fearlessness (review), Professional Manager, 01/2010.

Arevuo, M. I. (2006 a) Gone but not forgotten: organizational unlearning, Inside Knowledge, Vol 9, 6.

Arevuo, M. I. (2006 b) Collaborative advantage: how organizations win by working together, Inside Knowledge, Vol 9, 6.

Ramalingam B. and Arevuo, M. I. (2004) Developing a holistic KM framework, Inside Knowledge, Vol 8, 3.

Arevuo, M. I. (2004) Taxonomies: frameworks for corporate knowledge (review), Inside Knowledge, Vol 7, 10.

Arevuo, M. I. (2003) The attention economy: understanding the new currency (review), Inside Knowledge, Vol 6, 9.

Arevuo, M. I. and Spong, J. (2002) Safe in the knowledge: towards collaborative working at Consignia Security, Knowledge Management Journal, Vol 5, 7.

Arevuo, M. I. (2002) Knowledge Management: best practices in Europe (review), Knowledge Management Journal, Vol 5, 6.

Arevuo, M. I. (2001) Leading the revolution (review), Long Range Planning, Vol 34.

Arevuo, M. I. (2001) Playing catch-up? Knowledge management in the financial sector, Knowledge Management Journal, Vol 5, 1.

Arevuo, M. I. (2001) The knowledge management year book 2000-2001 (review), Knowledge Management Journal, Vol 5, 2.

Arevuo, M. I. (1999) Teaching the imperceptible: intellectual capital, Inside Knowledge, Vol 2, 6.

Books

Arevuo, M. I. (2008) The challenge of strategic management: a reader (ed.), Pearson Education, Harlow, UK.

Unpublished working papers

Arevuo, M. I. (2012) How can managers visualize the firm’s value-creating resources, RBF Thought Leadership Series, Vol 1, 1 (in print).

Arevuo, M.I. (2011) Thinking strategically – easier said than done, London.

Arevuo, M.I. (2011) Irrationality in economic decisions – some historical considerations, London.

Conference papers

How can managers use cognitive causal maps to improve the quality of strategic decisions, Doctoral Colloquium, Cranfield School of Management, Spring 2011.

Exploring the tacit dimension, eTampere Symposium, Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere, November, 2002.

Biography

Mikko I Arevuo is a university lecturer, doctoral researcher, and business consultant in strategic management and organizational learning. A native of Finland, Mikko was educated in the USA and the UK. His career spans over twenty years in international corporate and investment banking, management consulting, and academia. Mikko’s research interests are in the areas of managerial and organizational cognition, and behavioral economics. His doctoral thesis at Cranfield School of Management focuses on the use of cognitive causal maps to improve the quality of managerial decisions. Mikko’s consulting work encompasses organizational resource audits, strategy workshops, and top management team facilitation, and he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in strategic management and economics of strategy/managerial economics.

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