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Mia Leppälä is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University. She holds a Doctor of Commerce (Kauppat. toht.) in Business Administration (liiketaloustieteet) from 2024 and a Master of Commerce (Kauppat. maist.) awarded in 2004. Her research focuses on Knowledge Brokering, Enterprise Social Media, and Social Network Analysis within organizational contexts. She explores how communicative actions and media platforms facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration in communities-of-practice.
Her work analyzes actor clusters and organizational structures in enterprise social media to identify key knowledge brokers. Recent contributions include studies on scaling flat organizations and leveraging social network theory to understand media influence. Her research emphasizes practical applications of qualitative methods and data-driven insights to enhance organizational knowledge management.
Publications span conference proceedings (e.g., Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences) and a doctoral thesis exploring enterprise social media’s role in knowledge brokering. Her findings highlight challenges like information overload and the need for effective media communication strategies in complex organizational ecosystems.
No scientific awards are explicitly listed beyond academic degrees. Collaborations include work with researchers like Jouni Huhtamäki and J. A. Espinosa. Current roles involve academic visiting positions without documented grant leadership or lab affiliations.
