Been there, done that (almost)

Time to move on (hopefully)

24.9.2015Anniina Rantakari

Oulu Business SchoolDepartment of Management and International Business

Anniina Rantakari, kevät 2015

Anniina Rantakari, kevät 2015

Who am I?

Doctoral candidate – Oulu Business School Doctoral Program

Major: Management Studies started in 2012 Supervisor: professor Vesa Puhakka Topic of the thesis: ‘Strategy as dispositive’ – essays

of productive power and resistance in organizational strategy-making Strategy as dispositive Resistance as productive force in strategy-making Participation as biopower – the dynamics of control and self-actualization in

strategy-making Narratives and processuality

Anniina Rantakari, kevät 2015

Where am I now?

Almost there (I’ll just quickly make few minor revisions…)

‘In the final stages of revision’ (I’ll never get out of this loop)

My ‘plan’: to send the manuscript to pre-examination within a week

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My journey - FUNDING

2012-2013: Started as a project researcher in Tekes-funded project called INWORK

2014-2015: OBS-DP (Oulu Business School Doctoral Program)

Other funding: Finnish Foundation of Economic Education Martti Ahtisaari International Doctoral Programme Oulu University Scholarship Foundation

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My journey – Does doctoral student have a life?

Don’t take advice from work-a-holics !!!! Research is life Family: nine-year-old daughter Enjoy little things in life coffee and chocolate Prioritize coffee and chocolate Prepare to all-nighters coffee and chocolate

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How I pulled through it (at least almost)

Choose a supervisor with whom you like to work Find people who think alike / who challenge your thinking Don’t wait for guidance Search for your own voice Go to conferences present your early work and

thoughts Coffee and chocolate

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Key factors during my journey

A topic that I have passion to Amazing supervisor – I have only one supervisor Other mentors and co-authors Not counting the working hours Accepting that writing the thesis is more difficult than

you thought Just write, even though you have no clue what to write Coffee and chocolate

‘Supervisor’s guide to (galaxy) PhD’• ‘If you don’t have a doctorate, you’re nothing’• ‘Always look around before badmouthing

about others, not afterwards’• ‘You’ll be a researcher one day. It’ll take ten

years, but one day…’

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What next ?

Sending the manuscript to pre-examination Defence Life goes on – already started research projects beyond

the dissertation Nothing changes