Vera Haataja is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Business Humanities and Law and a member of the Rethinking Entrepreneurship project group. Her research focuses on social and individual change through entrepreneurship and its potential to create more equitable societies, particularly in terms of empowerment, emancipation, and responsibility. She is particularly interested in how social structures, both formal and informal institutions, enable and constrain entrepreneurial activity, and how these structures are altered through entrepreneurial activity. Vera is also researching entrepreneurial responsibility and the ethical orientation of entrepreneurs to understand how they create responsible entrepreneurial processes and make ethically informed decisions.
Hägg, G., Haataja, V., Kurczewska, A., & McKelvie, A. (2024). Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 48(4), 1110-1126. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587241227072
Haataja, V. (2023) Empowerment and Emancipation in Entrepreneurship: Towards a 'Change - Creator' Perspective. Aalto University publication series Doctoral Theses, 174/2023.
