Mikko 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Unpublished working papers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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