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Eini Haaja serves as Research Manager and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pan-European Institute (PEI) within the University of Turku's Turku School of Economics, while also holding affiliation with the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). With continuous service at PEI since 2008 across research, teaching, and administrative capacities, she specializes in International Business dynamics with particular emphasis on Baltic Sea and Barents Sea regional development, maritime industry networks, and sustainability transformations.
Dr. Haaja holds a Doctor of Science in Economics. Her research portfolio centers on International Business, Maritime Industry competitiveness, Sustainability transitions, Digitalisation impacts, SME internationalisation, Geoeconomic developments, Arctic business environments, and Baltic Sea regional economics. She investigates how maritime ecosystems navigate sustainability challenges through collaborative innovation, stakeholder engagement, and adaptation to geopolitical disruptions, with growing focus on cruise industry transformations and shipbuilding network dynamics.
Analysis of her 2024-2025 publications reveals concentrated scholarly activity in maritime sustainability transitions, showing strong thematic alignment around eco-innovation in shipbuilding networks, multi-actor green transition experiences, and competitiveness maintenance amid geopolitical disruptions. Her work consistently bridges theoretical frameworks of international entrepreneurship with practical applications in maritime value chains, demonstrating methodological evolution toward futures research and multidisciplinary approaches.
Dr. Haaja maintains extensive teaching experience at Turku School of Economics, supervising numerous master's and bachelor's thesis students while delivering courses on Eastern European and Arctic business environments. She has secured substantial research funding including the MUUTOS project (Foundation for Economic Education), ECOPRODIGI (EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme flagship project with €4.2 million budget), SusCon (Business Finland), and SmartComp (EU Interreg Central Baltic Programme), demonstrating exceptional grant acquisition capabilities across European and national funding mechanisms.
As integral member of the Pan-European Institute and Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, she actively participates in multidisciplinary research collectives examining sustainable industrial transformation, particularly through her current Postdoctoral project 'Agents of sustainable industrial transformation – exploring the multilevel dynamics in maritime industry' which employs futures research methods to analyze shipbuilding ecosystem evolution.
