Professor Erno Tornikoski
Professor in Entrepreneurship, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Deputy Head of Department of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship
E.Tornikoski@exeter.ac.uk
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+44 (0) 1392 723231
Streatham Court 0.86
Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK
Overview
Erno Tornikoski joined the University of Exeter in March 2019. His research interests involve the application of psychological and sociological theories, and both qualitative and quantitative methods to entrepreneurship to investigate how enterprising individuals transform entrepreneurial ideas into value creating new activities. Erno has a particular interest in gestation activities, decision-making logics, the construct of control, and qualitative process studies. In addition, he is exploring new research ideas connecting entrepreneurship and the following topics: sustainable value creation, community-based resilience, and frugal innovations. Erno's research has appeared in Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, and International Small Business Journal, among others.
Nationality: Finnish
Qualifications
PhD ESSEC (2005)
Career
Erno has held the posts of Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management between 2011-2018, the Dean of Faculty and Research at ESC Saint-Etienne (2010-2011), Assintant & Associate Professor at EMLYON Business School (2007-2010), and Principal Lecturer at the Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences (2003-2006).
He received his Ph.D. is Management (Entrepreneurship) from ESSEC Business School (France), IAE-Aix en Provence (France), and Vaasa University (Finland) in 2005.
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Research
Research interests
- New venture creation
- Effectual entrepreneurial process
- Sustainablity and Innovation
I focus on the new business creation process, and especially the nascent activities of individuals who are in the process of starting new businesses. I use several theoretical approaches to investigate and understand this crucial period of new business creation, such as Effectuation, Legitimacy, Personal networks, and Initial conditions. Empirically I have been generalist in entrepreneurship, and more recently starting to direct my research more and more towards sustainable based innovations. Methodologically I have been using variance models (theory testing), more recently I have built an interest and curiosity towards qualitative process studies (theory generation), which I intend to focus more and more during the coming years.
Publications
Journal articles
Tornikoski E, Lofsten H, Isaksson A, Rannikko H, Buffart M (In Press). Impact of initial business model on the growth trajectory of new technology-based firms - a path dependency perspective. The Journal of Technology Transfer Abstract.
Ivanova S, Tornikoski E (In Press). Termination of Nascent Entrepreneurship: the Central Effects of Action Crisis in New Venture Creation. Journal of Small Business Management Abstract.
Tornikoski E, Newbert S, Augugliaro J (In Press). To get out of the building or not? That is the question: the benefits (and costs) of customer involvement during the startup process. Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Tounés A, Tornikoski E (2024). Are business growth and entrepreneurial motivations competing with environmental intention among nascent entrepreneurs?. European Business Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print).
Tornikoski E (2024). Editorial: Navigating Theoretical Frontiers: Articulating Contributions through Consensus Shifting and Creation. Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 22(4), 11-14.
Von Bonsdorff M, Tornikoski E, Pynnönen K, Tolvanen A (2022). Aging Small Business Owner-managers and Business Exit: Longitudinal Investigation. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1).
Claeyé F, Boughattas Y, Tornikoski ET (2022). Formation of Social Entrepreneurial Intention: a Qualitative Grounded Approach at the Base of the Pyramid. Administrative Sciences, 12(1). Abstract.
Rannikko H, Buffart M, Isaksson A, Löfsten H, Tornikoski ET (2022). Mobilising finance and achieving early growth in new technology-based firms: a legitimacy perspective. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 28(6), 1532-1555. Abstract.
Newbert SL, Tornikoski E, Augugliaro J (2020). The Benefits (and Costs) of Involving Customers in the Startup Process: an Empirical Investigation. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1).
Tounés A, Tornikoski ET, Gribaâ F (2020). The Environmental Intention of Owner-Managers: the Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation in Tunisian Industry. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 28(01), 1-29. Abstract.
Tornikoski E, Maalaoui A (2019). Critical reflections – the Theory of Planned Behaviour: an interview with Icek Ajzen with implications for entrepreneurship research. International Small Business Journal
Jiang Y, Tornikoski ET (2019). Perceived uncertainty and behavioral logic: Temporality and unanticipated consequences in the new venture creation process. Journal of Business Venturing, 34(1), 23-40. Abstract.
Maalaoui A, Tornikoski E, Partouche J, Safraou I (2019). Why Some Third Age Individuals Develop Entrepreneurial Intentions: Exploring the Psychological Effects of Posterity. Journal of Small Business Management
White SR, Tornikoski E (2019). Wise Folks Rush in: Affective Bases of Legitimacy Judgements and the Expectation of Thriving. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1).
Laukkanen M, Tornikoski ET (2018). Causal mapping small business advisors’ belief systems: a case of entrepreneurship policy research. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 24(2), 499-520. Abstract.
Jiang Y, Tornikoski E (2018). Evolution of Perceived Uncertainty and Behavioral Logic: Evidence from High-tech Ventures. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1).
Jiang Y, Jathol BA, Tornikoski E, Klyver K (2018). Looking Back and Forth - Swing the Uncertainty Construct with Pakistani Ventures. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1).
Rannikko H, Tornikoski E, Isaksson A, Löfsten H (2018). Survival and Growth Patterns among New Technology-Based Firms: Empirical Study of Cohort 2006 in Sweden. Journal of Small Business Management, 57, 640-657.
Tounés A, Tornikoski ET, Gribaa F (2018). The Formation of Environmentally Friendly Intentions of SME Owner-Managers in an Emerging Country: the Case of Tunisian’s Textile–Clothing Industry. Organization and Environment, 32, 528-554. Abstract.
Tornikoski ET, Rannikko H, Heimonen TP (2017). Technology-Based Competitive Advantages of Young Entrepreneurial Firms: Conceptual Development and Empirical Exploration. Journal of Small Business Management, 55(2), 200-215. Abstract.
Varamäki E, Joensuu S, Tornikoski E, Viljamaa A (2015). The development of entrepreneurial potential among higher education students. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 22(3), 563-589. Abstract.
Tornikoski E, Renko M (2014). Timely creation of new organizations: the imprinting effects of entrepreneurs' initial founding decisions. Management (France), 17(3), 193-213. Abstract.
Joensuu S, Viljamaa A, Varamäki E, Tornikoski E (2013). Development of entrepreneurial intention in higher education and the effect of gender - a latent growth curve analysis. Education and Training, 55(8-9), 781-803. Abstract.
Varamäki E, Tornikoski E, Joensuu S, Ristimäki K, Blesa A, Ripolles M (2013). Entrepreneurial intentions among higher education students in Finland and Spain: Developing and piloting a survey instrument. International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector, 5(4), 1-16. Abstract.
Newbert SL, Tornikoski ET, Quigley NR (2013). Exploring the evolution of supporter networks in the creation of new organizations. Journal of Business Venturing, 28(2), 281-298. Abstract.
Kautonen T, van Gelderen M, Tornikoski ET (2013). Predicting entrepreneurial behaviour: a test of the theory of planned behaviour. Applied Economics, 45(6), 697-707. Abstract.
Newbert SL, Tornikoski ET (2013). Resource acquisition in the emergence phase: Considering the effects of embeddedness and resource dependence. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 37(2), 249-280. Abstract.
Newbert SL, Tornikoski ET, Quigley N (2012). Exploring the Evolution of Supporter Networks in the Creation of New Organizations. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012(1).
Tornikoski ET, Kautonen T, Le Loarne S (2012). Le rôle de l'âge dans l'intention entrepreneuriale: Quelles leçons sur les seniors ?. Revue Francaise de Gestion, 227(8), 95-109.
Newbert SL, Tornikoski ET (2012). Supporter networks and network growth: a contingency model of organizational emergence. Small Business Economics, 39(1), 141-159. Abstract.
Kautonen T, Tornikoski ET, Kibler E (2011). Entrepreneurial intentions in the third age: the impact of perceived age norms. Small Business Economics, 37(2), 219-234. Abstract.
TORNIKOSKI ET (2011). LEGITIMATING CHARACTERISTICS AND FIRM EMERGENCE. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 16(03), 233-256.
Kautonen T, Luoto S, Tornikoski ET (2010). Influence of work history on entrepreneurial intentions in 'prime age' and 'third age': a preliminary study. International Small Business Journal, 28(6), 583-601. Abstract.
Kautonen T, Kibler E, Tornikoski E (2010). Unternehmerische Intentionen der Bevölkerung im erwerbsfähigen Alter. ZfKE – Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, 58(3), 175-196.
Tornikoski ET, Kautonen T (2009). Enterprise as sunset career? Entrepreneurial intentions in the ageing population. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 8(2), 278-291. Abstract.
Tornikoski ET, Puhakka V (2009). Exploring firm emergence: Initially conditioned or actively created?. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 7(1), 123-138. Abstract.
Tornikoski E (2009). Legitimating behaviors and firm emergence: a resource dependence perspective. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 5(2), 121-138. Abstract.
Kohtamäki M, Tornikoski E, Varamäki E (2009). The strategic management competence of small and medium-sized growth firms. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 7(1), 139-150. Abstract.
Tornikoski ET, Newbert SL (2007). Exploring the determinants of organizational emergence: a legitimacy perspective. Journal of Business Venturing, 22(2), 311-335. Abstract.
Chapters
Boughattas Y, Tornikoski ET (2023). Data Congruence in What They Say, Do and Feel: the Role of Researcher's Sensory Processing Sensitivity Trait. In (Ed) Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Those Who Research, Emerald, 27-41.
Rannikko H, Tornikoski E, Isaksson A, Löfsten H, Rydehell H (2018). Chapter 9: Empirical exploration of a cohort of new technology-based firms in Sweden: what happens to them during their early years?. In (Ed) The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Contexts, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Rannikko H, Tornikoski E, Isaksson A, Löfsten H, Rydehell H (2018). Empirical exploration of a cohort of new technology-based firms in Sweden: What happens to them during their early years?. In (Ed) The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Contexts: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research, 166-186. Abstract.
Varamäki E, Tornikoski E, Joensuu S, Ristimäki K, Blesa A, Ripolles M (2015). Entrepreneurial intentions among higher education students in Finland and Spain: Developing and piloting a survey instrument. In (Ed) Economics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 759-775. Abstract.
Tornikoski ET, Viljamaa A, Varamäki E (2015). Hybrid entrepreneurship during retirement: Comparison of motives and aspirations. In (Ed) Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Retirement, 187-208.
Tornikoski ET, Viljamaa A, Varamäki E (2015). Hybrid entrepreneurship during retirement: Comparison of motives and aspirations. In (Ed) Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Retirement, 187-208.
Fayolle A, Basso O, Tornikoski ET (2011). Entrepreneurial commitment and new venture creation: a conceptual exploration. In (Ed) Handbook of Research on New Venture Creation, 160-182.
External Engagement and Impact
External positions
- Associate Editor, Journal of Small Business Management
- Consulting Editor, International Small Business Journal
- Member of the Research Committee, Entrepreneurship Division, AOM
- Member of the Board of Reviewers, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC)
Teaching
In my teaching (undergraduate, graduate) I encourage participants to become active learners. I prefer asking the participants to work on real life start-up projects to make them experience some of the central the entrepreneurial challenges. I also use cases (printed, videos, etc.) to illustrate conceptual points and to engage the participants in discussions. Topic wise majority of my teaching has been concerned with entrepreneurship/new business creation (Opportunity identification & Evaluation; Customer Insights; Value Proposition Design; Business Model Design; Business Model Innovation; Resource Acquisitions; Business Planning; Entrepreneurial Storytelling & Pitching, etc.).During the past four years I have been training a diverse set of managers/cadres of Schneider Electric in France in Lean Innovation Discovery and Unique Value Proposition Design.
Modules
2023/24
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