Henri Hakala, lecturer from the University of Vaasa, Finland is a visiting scholar at the UPO until early December 2010. His main research interests are within strategic management, especially strategic orientations and on the development of strategy tools. He is a member of the ‘Strategy, Networks and Enterprise’ research group (SNE) at the University of Vaasa. The SNE group is most renowned for its long-standing research into multilateral and dyadic inter-organisational relationships within industrial value systems. Group’s research on strategy and entrepreneurship has focused on the strategic competences of SME’s, mostly within the technology industry; the group has also recently extended its focus towards research on industrial services business.

Within his home department of management, there is also a very active HRM-research group, focusing especially on IHRM topics such as, Managing Human Resources in Foreign Subsidiaries, Managing Expatriation, Mobility and Global Careers; and Managing Workforce Diversity, as well as on strategic HRM issues such as HRM and performance, Organisational learning and knowledge management.

Henri may be reached at henri.hakala@uwasa.fi or by dropping by room 7.3.9. He is keen to meet other researchers from UPO to discuss research, introduce his own or colleagues work, or just to discuss and learn more about the Spanish way of life.