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Managing supply chain risk in the semi-conductor industry
(2025) Kouti, Aleksi
School of Business | Bachelor's thesis
The global semiconductor supply chain is central to modern electronic device manufacturing, playing a critical role in industries such as computing, consumer electronics, and healthcare devices. The supply chain faced unprecedented disruptions during the 2020s chip shortage, emphasizing the need for supply chain risk management. Through a literature review, this thesis identifies the major challenges the semiconductor supply chain is facing and explores risk management tools and strategies to manage current and future risks. The findings emphasize the importance of a structured risk management process - identifying, assessing, treating, and monitoring risks. To pre-pare for future disruptions, firms should build resilience and agility, improve supply chain visibility and foster cooperation and collaboration among supply chain partners. This research contributes to the supply chain risk management field by connecting research with a critical industry and recent global events, offering managers insights for dealing with uncertainty in the semiconductor supply chain.
From Product to Producer: The Impact of Perceptual Evidence and Robot Embodiment on the Human Assessment of AI Creativity
(2025-04-07) Pennanen, Niki; Linkola, Simo; Kantosalo, Anna; Hiillos, Nicolas; Männistö, Tomi; Guckelsberger, Christian
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
While creative artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming integral to our lives, we know little about what makes us call AI "creative". Informed by prior theoretical and empirical work, we investigate how perceiving evidence of a creative act beyond the final product affects our assessment of robot creativity. We study embodiment morphology as a potential moderator of this relationship, informing a 3 × 2 factorial design. In two lab experiments on visual art, participants (N = 30 + 60) assessed drawings produced by two physical robots with different morphologies, under exposure to product, process and producer as three levels of perceptual evidence. The data supports that the human assessment of robot creativity is significantly higher the more is revealed beyond the product about the creation process, and eventually the producer. We find no significant effects of embodiment morphology, contrasting existing hypotheses and offering a more detailed understanding for future work. The latter is also informed by additional exploratory analyses revealing factors potentially influencing creativity assessments, including perceived robot likeability and participants' experience with robotics and AI. Our insights empirically ground existing design patterns, foster fairness and validity in system comparisons, and contribute to a deeper understanding of our relationship with creative AI and thus its adoption in society.
Nanoengineered biomaterials for anticancer and antimicrobial drug targeting
(2025-05-14) Das, Sabya Sachi; Ruokolainen, Janne; Kesari, Kavindra Kumar
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
Innovate or exploit? : Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias
(2025-08) Faroque, Anisur R.; Shimul, Anwar Sadat; Xu, Hangjun; Kuivalainen, Olli; Murshed, Feisal; Sundqvist, Sanna
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
We contribute novel insights into how status quo bias may play a part in identifying and capitalizing on international opportunities, thus addressing a previously overlooked aspect of cognitive perspective in international entrepreneurship research. First, from an entrepreneurial process perspective, we assert that internationalizing firms can attain a performance advantage by adopting Kirznerian and Schumpeterian types of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) with the mediation of opportunity recognition and exploitation. Building on cognitive bias theory, we further posit that status quo bias plays a significant role in shaping the relationship between EO and opportunity recognition and exploitation. We test our hypotheses using survey data collected from 275 internationalizing firms. The empirical results suggest that EO variants exhibit distinct influences and are influenced in unique ways by international opportunity recognition, exploitation and status quo bias. Specifically, we find that a higher level of status quo bias strengthens the relationship between Schumpeterian EO and opportunity recognition, whereas a lower level strengthens the association between Schumpeterian EO and opportunity exploitation. However, no significant effect of status quo bias is found in Kirznerian firms. The study offers both theoretical and practical implications, and provides valuable recommendations for future research.
Uponnut katedraali: Hanke-esittely
(2025) Savolainen, Panu; Aalto, Ilari; Harjula, Janne; Kinnunen, Jussi-Pekka; Nordfors, Ulla; Paasikivi, Sofia; Ratilainen, Tanja; Vuola, Katri
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä