About
Mikko Laamanen is Head of Research and Research Professor with the Technology and Sustainability research group at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO). He received his PhD from Hanken School of Economics (Finland) and has held academic positions in Finland, France, Germany and United Kingdom.
His research programme is situated at the intersection of sociologies of consumption, organization and social movements. He is an expert in the everyday politics of technology, inclusion and social change. His current projects investigate
- the organising of local production and consumption practices in urban areas as well as developing and conflict economies
- the platformisation of sharing
- resistance to digitalisation and digital surveillance
- sustainable and responsible consumption and production of arts
Mikko has published in leading journals and edited volumes in marketing and management, organizational sociology, sociology of consumption, social movement and environmental studies. He is an editorial board member of Consumption and Society and Journal of Macromarketing.
Mikko is the co-coordinator of the European Sociological Association research network on the Sociology of Consumption (RN05). He is research fellow at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute SERI (Germany), the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Germany) and the Center for Organizational Research COR at the University of California, Irvine (USA).
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Atanasova, Aleksandrina; Eckhardt, Giana M.;
Laamanen, Mikko
(2024).
Platform cooperatives in the sharing economy: How market challengers bring change from the margins.
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01042-9
Laamanen, Mikko
; Mikołajewska-Zając, Karolina
(2024).
Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment.
18 p.
Information, Communication & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2352631
Charitsis, Vassilis;
Laamanen, Mikko
(2024).
When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: Data activism meets place-based collective action.
Social Movement Studies.
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2123314
Laamanen, Mikko
; Forno, Francesca; Wahlen, Stefan
(2023).
Neo-materialist movement organisations and the matter of scale: Scaling through institutions as prefigurative politics?.
Journal of Marketing Management.
Vol. 39.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2022.2045342
Laamanen, Mikko (2022). Organizing prefiguration. Monticelli, Lara (Ed.). The Future is Now. An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics . p. 191-203. Bristol University Press.
Forno, Francesca;
Laamanen, Mikko
; Wahlen, Stefan
(2022).
(Un-) sustainable transformations: Everyday food practices in Italy during COVID-19.
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy.
Vol. 18.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2037341
Gross, Nicole;
Laamanen, Mikko
(2021).
‘Hey, you there! Marketing!’ On ideology and (mis)interpellation of the marketing educator as subject.
Journal of Marketing Management.
Vol. 38.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2021.1944896
Laamanen, Mikko
; Moser, Christine; Bor, Sanne; den Hond, Frank
(2020).
A partial organization approach to the dynamics of social order in social movement organizing.
Current Sociology.
Vol. 68.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120907643
Katila, Saija;
Laamanen, Mikko
; Laihonen, Maarit; Lund, Rebecca; Meriläinen, Susan; Rinkinen, Jenny; Tienari, Janne
(2020).
Becoming academics: embracing and resisting changing writing practice.
Qualitative research in organization and management.
https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-12-2018-1713
Laamanen, Mikko ; Bor, Sanne; den Hond, Frank (2019). The dilemma of organization in social movement initiatives. Ahrne, Göran; Brunsson, Nils (Ed.). Organization outside Organizations: The Abundance of Partial Organization in Social Life. p. 293-317. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108604994.014
