Mirja Iivonen

Mirja Iivonen received her Ph.D. in Information Studies at the University of Tampere in 1995. The topic of her dissertation was consistency in the formulation of query statements in online bibliographic retrieval. Currently she is the Director of Tampere University Library and senior scholar attached to the Department of Information Studies at the University of Oulu where she previously held a full professorship and worked as the head of the department. She has supervised several doctoral and master students. She has worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Rutgers, and at the University of Maryland, both in the United States. Her main research interest include information storage and retrieval, in which area her latest publications are focusing on the searching on the web, and knowledge management. Currently she is involved especially in management and leadership issues both in theory and practice.

Publications

Trust in Knowledge-Based Organizations
Trust in Knowledge-Based Organizations
Maija-Leena Huotari, Mirja Iivonen. © 2005. 5 pages.
The knowledge-based society of the 21st century is characterized by knowledge generation as the primary source of wealth and social well-being. As partly intangible in nature...
Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations
Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations
Maija Leena Huotari, Mirja Iivonen. © 2004. 352 pages.
Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations aims at tying trust to knowledge management (KM). It highlights the complexity of the invisible phenomenon of trust...
Managing Knowledge-Based Organizations Through Trust
Managing Knowledge-Based Organizations Through Trust
Maija-Leena Huotari, Mirja Iivonen. © 2004. 29 pages.
This chapter provides a comprehensive basis for understanding the role of trust in knowledge management and systems in organizations. The point of departure is the resource and...
Trust Building as a Management Strategy
Trust Building as a Management Strategy
Mirja Iivonen. © 2004. 21 pages.
This chapter explores trust as a management strategy by applying Henry Mintzberg’s idea of strategy thinking as seeing. Trust building has been described by paying attention to...