Dr. Lauri Pietinalho
E-mail:
ljp9231@stern.nyu.edu
Biography
Dr. Lauri Pietinalho joined the Business and Society Program at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business as a postdoctoral fellow in July 2022.
His research at NYU focuses on business and organizational meta-ethics. One part of his work, building particularly on pragmatism and relational scholarship, draws attention to the assumptions regarding who (and why and how) would engage in the real-life changing of circumstances for the better, when considering ethical questions from outside of those circumstances. The main part of his work aims to develop theory about the organizational premises for such embedded changes of circumstances.
For his fellowship at NYU, Dr. Pietinalho received a grant from The Finnish Foundation for Economic Education. Pietinalho completed his PhD in applied philosophy and organizational research at Aalto University, Finland. In his integrative dissertation, "Toward a Theory of an Ontology of Possibility in Organizational Settings," Pietinalho combined and drew from Edmund Phelps’s philosophy of "mass flourishing," authority paradoxes in less hierarchical organizing, and seminal theses of relational ontology.
Before his doctoral studies, Pietinalho worked as a management consultant at Booz & Company and in strategy positions at Nokia. He is a member of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University.
Research Interests
- Meta-ethics of business, organizations, and capitalism
- Relational ontology and social construction
- Pragmatism
- Less hierarchical organizing
Education
Doctor of Science (2022)
Applied Philosophy and Organizational Research
Aalto University, School of Science
Master of Science (2008)
Industrial Management
Aalto University, School of Science