Curriculum Vitae

Elina I. Mäkinen, Professor of Science, Technology, and Organization

Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University

Qualifications:

Docent, Sociology, University of Helsinki, 2021

Ph.D., Organization Studies, Stanford University, 2015

Master of Social Sciences, Sociology, University of Helsinki, 2008

Bachelor of Social Sciences, Sociology, University of Helsinki, 2005

Employment:

Professor, Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business. February 2023–ongoing.

Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business and New Social Research Program, Finland. May 2018–January 2023.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tampere, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Finland. August 2017–April 2018.

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Tampere, Faculty of Management, Finland. September 2015–July 2017.

Ph.D. Student Researcher, Stanford University, Graduate School of Education, Stanford, CA, USA. September 2010–August 2015.

Publications in Academic Journals:

Elina I. Mäkinen, Eliza D. Evans, & Daniel A. McFarland (2024): Interdisciplinary research, tenure review, and guardians of the disciplinary order. The Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2024.2301912

Elina I. Mäkinen & Adi Sapir (2023): Making sense of science, university, and industry: Sensemaking narratives of Finnish and Israeli scientists. Minerva: Review of Science, Learning and Policy 61: 175–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-022-09485-6

Elina I. Mäkinen & Terhi Esko (2022): Nascent academic entrepreneurs and identity work at the boundaries of professional domains. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 24(3): 167–177. https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503211063896

Elina I. Mäkinen (2022): Power and knowledge negotiations in a collectivity of practice: From peripheralization to epistemological suspicion. Management Learning 53(3): 502–524. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211036970

Elina I. Mäkinen, Eliza D. Evans & Daniel A. McFarland (2020): The Patterning of collaborative behavior and knowledge culminations in interdisciplinary research centers. Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 58(1): 71–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-019-09381-6

Elina I. Mäkinen (2019): The power of peer review on transdisciplinary discovery. Science, Technology, & Human Values 44(6): 1020–1047. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918822741

Arja Ropo, Elina I. Mäkinen & Inka Seppä (2019): Online company blogs as narrations of plural leadership. Journal of Organizational Change Management 33(4): 609–621. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-09-2018-0266

Elina I. Mäkinen (2018): Action in the space between: From latent to active boundaries. Science, Technology, & Human Values 43(2): 349–374. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243917722842

Elina I. Mäkinen (2018): Tuning clinical recruitment around cultural taboos in a human microbiome study. Science as Culture 27(4): 464–487. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2018.1508429

Elina I. Mäkinen (2018): Complexity leadership theory and the leaders of transdisciplinary science. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline 21: 133–155. https://doi.org/10.28945/4009

Paul H. Wise, Gary M. Shaw, Maurice L. Druzin, Gary L. Darmstadt, Cecele Quaintance, Elina I. Mäkinen, David Relman, Stephen R. Quake, Atul J. Butte, Martin S. Angst, Louis J. Muglia, George Macones, Deborah Driscoll, Carole Ober, Joe Leigh Simpson, Michael Katz, Jennifer Howse & David K. Stevenson (2017): Risky business: Meeting the structural needs of transdisciplinary science. The Journal of Pediatrics 91: 255–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.08.072

Patricia Bromley & Elina I. Mäkinen (2012): Diversity in civic education: Finland in historical and comparative perspective. Journal of International Cooperation in Education 14(2): 19–34.

Marita Mäkinen & Elina I. Mäkinen (2011): Teachers’ conceptualizations of scaffolding in inclusive education. In N. Lewi-Dumont & C. Dorison (Eds.): The training of all teachers in diversity of pupils. Review of Adaptation and Schooling 55(3): 57–74.

Elina I. Mäkinen (2009): Kirurgin eläkkeelle jääminen ja työstä irtautumisen haasteet, [Retiring surgeons and the difficulty of letting go] (in Finnish), Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 6/2009: 621–631.

Book Chapters:

Elina I. Mäkinen (2020): A new paradigm for research organization: Academic leadership in transdisciplinary science teams. In Communication in Transdisciplinary Teams (eds. G.R. Lotrecchiano and S. Misra). Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science Press.

Research Funding:

Competing Imaginaries of Ethical Science: Animal Experimentation, Activists, and Alternative Research Methods (IMAGES). Research project (2023–2025) funded by Emil Aaltonen Foundation (200 000 Euros). Project PI: Elina I. Mäkinen.

The Emergence of Health and Life Science Innovations (HeLSI). Research project (2020–2023) funded by the Foundation for Economic Education (200 000 Euros). Project PI: Elina I. Mäkinen.

The Emergence of Health Tech and Life Science Firms in Finland. Research project funded by the Foundation for Economic Education (20 000 Euros). Project PI: Elina I. Mäkinen.

Meetings of the Minds: Knowledge Integration Processes in Transdisciplinary Science. Ph.D. research project funded by Alfred Kordelin Foundation Grant (12 000 Euros).

Meetings of the Minds: Knowledge Integration Processes in Transdisciplinary Science. Ph.D. research project funded by Alfred Kordelin Foundation Grant (11 000 Euros).

Meetings of the Minds: Knowledge Integration Processes in Transdisciplinary Science. Ph.D. research project funded by Foundation for Economic Education Grant 2013 (10 000 Euros).

Meetings of the Minds: Knowledge Integration Processes in Transdisciplinary Science. Ph.D. research project funded by Emil Aaltonen Foundation Grant for Young Researcher (23 500 Euros).

Meetings of the Minds: Knowledge Integration Processes in Transdisciplinary Science. Ph.D. research project funded by Emil Aaltonen Foundation Grant for Young Researcher (21 500 Euros).

Organization of Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars:

"Data Workers in Organizations: What they do, how they do, and why they do it!" Showcase Symposium sponsored by the Organization and Management Theory division and the Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization division. The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. August 7, 2022.

“Isolation and Solitude in Academic Work” online panel discussion. Organized by the Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies Association. March 9, 2021.

Mentoring program for junior researchers in the field of Science, Technology, & Society. Workshop organized by the Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies Association in collaboration with Tampere University, University of Helsinki, and University of Turku. Three workshops in 2019–2020.

“Creating Academic Knowledge in the Age of Research Impact.” Session organized at the Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference. Tampere University, Finland. June 13–14, 2019.

Nordic Science and Technology Studies Pre-Conference for Doctoral Researchers. Tampere University, Finland. June 12, 2019.

Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference. Tampere University, Finland. June 13–14, 2019.

“Embarking on Interdisciplinary Endeavors: In Search of Effective Collaboration Practices.” Session organized at the Science, Technology, and Society Symposium “Ideals and Practice of Interdisciplinary Research.” University of Tampere, Finland. June 14–15, 2018.

“Beyond the Ivory Tower: Knowledge Production between Academic and Non-Academic Science.” Panel organized at the Science of Team Science Conference. Clearwater, Florida. June 12–14, 2017.

Invited Presentations:

From Knowledge Mediators to Disenchantment with Big Data Analytics. Ethnography Atelier, Research Seminar Series. April 5, 2022.

Professional Vision and Disenchantment with Big Data Analytics. The Changing Nature of Work paper development workshop organized by Stanford University’s Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations. October 14–17, 2021.

Opportunities for Knowledge Anchoring in Translational Science. Diversity in Science –workshop at Tampere University. May 10, 2019.

The Power of Peer Review on Transdisciplinary Discovery. Perspectives on Science –seminar at TINT (Center for Philosophy of Social Science), University of Helsinki. March 11, 2019.

Seven Years at Stanford. Silicon Valley Alumni meeting at the Academy of Finland, Helsinki. February 14, 2019.

Knowledge Integration Processes in Translational Research: The Case of the Premature Birth Center. Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR) Speaker Series at University of Tampere. October 17, 2017.

Knowledge Integration Processes in Translational Research: The Case of the Premature Birth Center. Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning (CHILL) at Nottingham University Business School, UK. May 24, 2017.

Awards and Distinctions:

National Teaching Award granted by the Finnish Business School Graduates for a teacher able to provide the best experience of presence and communal learning environment in remote teaching during the academic year of 2020–2021.

Journal of Organizational Change Management Literati Award for Outstanding Reviewer in 2020.

"Visual representations as catalysts for interprofessional boundary work" by Elina I. Mäkinen and Charles J. Gomez nominated for That’s Interesting! -award at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 36th Colloquium in 2020.

Selected as one of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA Junior Fellows for the 2010 summer program organized in Helsinki, Finland.

Presentations at Conferences:

Aleksi Niittymies, Eetu Wallius, & Elina I. Mäkinen: Understanding Context: Exploring the Potential of Conceptual Tools from Gamification. Presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. August 4–8, 2023.

Elina I. Mäkinen, Eliza D. Evans, & Daniel A. McFarland: Interdisciplinary Research, Tenure Review, and Guardians of the Disciplinary Order. Presented at the Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference at University of Oslo, Norway. June 7–9, 2023.

Elina I. Mäkinen, Eliza D. Evans, & Daniel A. McFarland: Guardians of the discipline: Institutional maintenance through tenure review. Presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Seattle, Washington, USA. August 5–9, 2022.

Aurélie Toivonen, Elina I. Mäkinen, & François Cooren: Backstage communication and the co-construction of entrepreneurial pitches: A CCO perspective on the making and unmaking of an entrepreneur. Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 38th Colloquium organized by WU Vienna. July 7–9, 2022.

Elina I. Mäkinen, Eliza D. Evans, & Daniel A. McFarland: Guardians of the discipline: Institutional maintenance through tenure review. Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 38th Colloquium organized by WU Vienna. July 7–9, 2022.

Elina I. Mäkinen & Charles J. Gomez: Professional vision and disenchantment with Big Data analytics. Presented at the 12th International Process Symposium “Organizing beyond organizations for the common good: Confronting major societal challenges through process studies.” September 1–4, 2021.

Aurélie Toivonen & Elina I. Mäkinen: The relational creation of an entrepreneurial culture: How frames are articulated and negotiated in organizing processes. Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 37th Colloquium organized by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (online due to COVID-19). July 8–10, 2021.

Elina I. Mäkinen: Power and knowledge negotiations in a collectivity of practice: From peripheralization to epistemological suspicion. Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 37th Colloquium organized by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (online due to COVID-19). July 8–10, 2021.

Terhi Esko & Elina I. Mäkinen: Nascent entrepreneurs and identity work at professional boundaries. Presented at the European Academy of Management 20th Conference organized by Trinity College Dublin (online due to COVID-19). December 4–6, 2020.

Elina I. Mäkinen & Charles J. Gomez: Visual representations as catalysts for interprofessional boundary work. Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 36th Colloquium organized by University of Hamburg (online due to COVID-19). July 2–4, 2020.

Terhi Esko & Elina I. Mäkinen: Professional role identities on the move: Identity work at boundaries among nascent university-based entrepreneurs. Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 36th Colloquium organized by University of Hamburg (online due to COVID-19). July 2–4, 2020.

Terhi Esko & Elina I. Mäkinen: Professional role identities on the move: Diversity and change in entrepreneurial stories. Presented at the Responsible Business Research Seminar at Tampere University, Finland. March 11–12, 2020.

Elina Mäkinen: Tuning clinical recruitment around cultural taboos in a human microbiome study. Presented at the Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference at Tampere University, Finland. June 13–14, 2019.

Arja Ropo, Elina Mäkinen & Inka Seppä: Online company blogs as narrations of plural leadership. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research in Barcelona, Spain. March 26–28, 2018.

Elina Mäkinen: Interpretation and use of visual representation of data in a collaboration between academia and industry-based researchers. Presented at the Science of Team Science Conference in Clearwater Beach, FL, USA. June 12–14, 2017.

Elina Mäkinen: Interpretation and use of visual representations of data in a collaboration between academia and industry-based researchers. Presented at the Science and Technology Studies Symposium: Experimentation and Evidence in Helsinki, Finland. June 8–9, 2017.

Elina Mäkinen, Elias Pekkola, Jussi Kivistö, Jari Stenvall & Taru Siekkinen: The Path to academic worthiness—Implementing tenure track in Finnish universities. Presented at the 8th Nordic Working Life Conference in Tampere, Finland. November 2–4, 2016.

Elina Mäkinen: Figuring out figures and training a professional eye. Presented at the Workshop on Visuality, Materiality,…Multimodality: Novel (Methodological) Approaches to the Study of Meaning, Organizations, and Institutions in Copenhagen, Denmark. September 22–23, 2016.

Elina Mäkinen: The life and death of research projects—A longitudinal ethnographic study on a new transdisciplinary research center. Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 32nd Colloquium in Naples, Italy. July 7–9, 2016.

Elina Mäkinen: Picturing premature birth. Presented at the 6th Organizations, Artifacts, and Practices Workshop (Materiality and Institutions in Management and Organization Studies) in Lisbon, Portugal. June 23–24, 2016.

Elina Mäkinen: The life and death of transdisciplinary research projects. Presented at the Research Seminar on Responsible Business in Tampere, Finland. March 17, 2016.

Elina Mäkinen: Dry-lab, wet-lab, and clinical expertise: Different styles of science and the assessment of knowledge creation in bioinformatics. Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Association for Administrative Studies in Tampere, Finland. November 26–27, 2015.

Elina Mäkinen: The power of peer evaluation on scientific exploration: The shaping of boundaries around premature birth. Presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, CA. August 16–19, 2014.

Eliza Evans, Elina Mäkinen & Daniel A. McFarland: Evaluation, identity, and interdisciplinarity: How tenure review creates rebels, heroes, and reformers. Presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, CA, USA. August 16–19, 2014.

Elina Mäkinen, Eliza Evans & Daniel A. McFarland: A comparative study on interdisciplinary research centers. Presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, NY, USA. August 10–13, 2013.

Elina Mäkinen: Struggles over disciplinary boundaries in anthropology. Presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Boston, MA, USA. March 21–24, 2013.

Elina Mäkinen: Disciplinary boundaries and departmental struggles in anthropology. Presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver, CO, USA. August 17–20, 2012.

Elina Mäkinen: Surgeons and normative retirement. Presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association in Oakland, CA, USA. April 8, 2010.