Kirsi Eräranta is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Communication at Aalto University School of Business, Department of Management Studies in Finland. Her research focuses on the politics of business–society relations, and its complex implications for contemporary organizations and their stakeholders. She is a sociologically oriented organizational communication scholar, whose research agenda is theoretically positioned at the interface of discourse and critical management and organization studies, with a specific focus on topics such as gender, diversity and inclusion; corporate social responsibility; precarious work; and identity. In her research, Eräranta develops and deploys discursive theoretical and methodological perspectives to explore and examine contemporary social issues and organizational phenomena in order to advance knowledge of the relationships between business, government and society and, in particular, how these relationships change over time in the global world. Her research has appeared in journals such as Human Relations; Organization Studies; Gender, Work and Organization; and Social Science History.

Siw Tone Innstrand is a professor in occupational health psychology in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for Health Promotion Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has a PhD from NTNU on the interaction between work and family.

Her research interests include, among others, occupational health, health promotion, work-family balance, work engagement and burnout, interventions, and implementation research. Innstrand has initiated and developed ARK, which is a comprehensive implementation program to promote psychosocial work environment in academia. Currently over 19 universities and university colleges in Norway (N>30.000), and two in Sweden, are using ARK regularly in their systematic health, work and safety efforts.

In 2016-2017 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to work for one year at UC Berkeley’s Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces. This resulted in the project Healthy workplaces, a collaboration project between NTNU, UC Berkeley and BI Campus Stavanger. Innstrand was the principal investigator (PI) for Norway, financed by a Peder Sæther grant.

Currently she is the WP leader in the EU project H-work - Multilevel Interventions to Promote Mental Health in SMEs and Public Workplaces. Together with 14 partners from nine different countries, she will develop and test interventions, measuring instruments, tools and models to promote mental health in Europe.

She has received her second Fulbright Scholarship to do research on Healthy workplaces in the US in the light of COVID-19.

Mariia Kobzeva, PhD in Political Science, is a postdoctoral fellow in global Arctic studies at the Department of Social Sciences, UiT Norwegian Arctic University. Mariia focuses on Sino-Russian relations in the Arctic amid the new balance of power, as well as on Russian and Chinese foreign policies. In 2020, Mariia was an awardee of a Centre universitaire de Norvège à Paris stipend for a two-month research project “French-Russian-Chinese cooperation in Arctic LNG projects” (conducted at Sorbonne Université). Mariia was awarded China-Nordic Arctic Research Center fellowship (upcoming visit to Tongji University, Shanghai in 2021). She is a member of the War and Peace Dynamics group at the UiT. In 2021, Mariia received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship grant (MSCA-IF) for the research project on Arctic security regime adaptation (the starting date is in fall 2022).

Iiris Saittakari is a Postdoctoral Researcher in International Business at Aalto University School of Business in Finland. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled The location of headquarters: why, when and where are regional mandates located? in May 2018. Her research interests include the location and relocation of headquarters, the meaning of location, the politization of multinational corporations, and the associated policy implications. She is currently working on a research project that aims to understand the multifaceted meaning of location including both physical and perceptual aspects. This Academy of Finland and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation funded project focuses on the location of multinational corporations’ headquarters due to their importance for businesses and societies alike. Various types of headquarters employ high-skilled employees, bring tax revenue, and attract further investments to a location, making potential host locations compete for them. Furthermore, multinational corporations are powerful politicized institutions that are not afraid to use their bargaining power during the location negotiation processes. At the same time, they have become targets for political campaigns mobilized against their location decisions. In her research, Saittakari thus not only focuses on the physical aspects but also the political, social and emotional dimensions associated with location.

Emilia Vähämaa is an Associate Professor in finance at the Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Her research interests are in the areas of banking, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and perfomance measurement. Her articles have appeared e.g. in Journal of Business Ethics, Accounting Horizons, and Journal of Financial Services Research.