Nurmi, N., Vuorenmaa, H., Mattila, L., Mäkelä, E. and Mäntylä, V. (under review) ‘Hybrid work and the employment relationship: HRM expectations and multilevel psychological contracts’, Human Resource Management.

Vuorenmaa, H., Koivunen, T. “Gender equality as a struggle over legitimacy.” The article is under review (second round) in Organization Studies (FT50, AJG 4, IF 6.306).

Platanou, K., Vuorenmaa, H., and Mäkelä, K. “Exploring HRM Discourse Online: Integrating Author-Topic Modeling and Qualitative Methods using Social Media Data.” Accepted for AOM 2025. To be submitted to Human Resource Management (FT50, AJG 4, IF 5.078) in spring 2025.

Vuorenmaa, H. & Koivunen, T. “Imagine better. A practice theory approach to the growing complexities of changing work.” Manuscript in progress to be submitted to Organization Theory (FT50, AJG 4, IF 4.2) in autumn 2026.

Vuorenmaa, H., Sumelius, J., Sippola, M., Mäkelä, E. "Rethinking Expertise: Beyond Skills - Unveiling Essential Components for Navigating Complexity in Technological Work Environments". Work in progress for submission to Human Relations, FT 50, AJG 4, IF 5.658 during 2025

Vuorenmaa, H., Sumelius, J. & Vaara, E. “Not another HRM practice but HRM as Practice. A social practice theory approach to the everyday work of HR managers.” Manuscript in progress to be submitted to Human Relations (FT50, AJG 4, IF 5.658) in spring 2027.

Platanou, K., Sdraka, M. & Vuorenmaa, H. “Tweeting on digital Human Resource Management: Exploring the attempts to create meanings within digital institutional fields.” Based on Platanou’s dissertation (defended in December 2023), planned for submission to Organization Studies (FT50, AJG 4, IF 6.306) in spring 2027. 

Vuorenmaa, H., Sumelius, J. & Mäkelä, K. “Enabling inclusion in the hybrid workplace: Obstacles to employee participation in a digitalizing environment.” Manuscript in progress to be submitted to Human Resource Management (FT50, AJG 4, IF 6.235) in 2026.

Vuorenmaa, H. & Koivunen, T. (accepted, to be published during 2026) “Never-Ending Exit: Affective Ethnography After Leaving the Field.” Book chapter in Affective Ethnography: Canon and Dissonance of a Research Style, edited by Michela Cozza, Silvia Gherardi, Laura Lucia Parolin, and Carmen Pellegrinelli.

Gartner, Mäkelä, Sumelius, Vuorenmaa (alphabetical order) (2024) The accelerating disconnection of work from time and place: New questions for HR. in Handbook of Future of Work eds. Bondarouk and Meijerink. Forthcoming.

Vuorenmaa, Sumelius, Mäkelä (2023) Tietotyö myllerryksessä, kyvyt kateissa. In Työn kirjo ja kirous eds. Koivunen, Sippola and Melin.

Hearn, J. and Niemi, H. (2011) Interventions on, and of, Men in the Finnish State, Civil Society and Media in Elisabe!a Ruspini, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle (Eds.) Men and Masculinities Around the World, Transforming Men’s Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Niemi, H. and Jyrkinen, M. (2007) Kansainvälinen polii!inen talous in Kantola, Johanna and Valenius, Johanna (Eds). Sukupuoli maailmanpolitiikassa: 10 käsite!ä feministiseen kansainvälisten suhteiden tutkimukseen, Vastapaino, Tampere.

Hearn, J. and Niemi, H. (2007), The State in Flood, Michael, Kegan, Judith, Pease, Bob and Pringle, Keith (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Routledge, New York.

Hearn, J. and Niemi, H. (2006)‘Men’s movements and feminism in Finland: Organisations, networks and social relations’, in A. Moring (ed.) Politics of Gender, Otava, Helsinki, (Available in English, Swedish and Finnish).

European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches, Niemi, H. (2006) with Hearn, J. and Pringle, K. and members of Critical Research on Men in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 240 pp.

Niemi, H. with Pringle, K., Hearn, J. et al (2006) Men and Masculinities in Europe, Whiting & Birch, London, 280 pp.

Hearn, J. and Niemi, H, (2006) ‘Men’s movements and feminism in Finland: Organisations, networks and social relations’, in A. Moring (ed.) Politics of Gender, Otava, Helsinki, (Available in English, Swedish and Finnish).

Lattu, E., Tallberg, T. and Niemi, H. (2005) ‘Finland: gender dominance, gender equality and gender-neutrality’ in Critical Research on Men in Europe Men and Masculinities in Europe, Whiting & Birch, London.

Co-edited with Eriksson, P., Hearn, J., Jyrkinen, M., Meriläinen, S., Moisander, J., Niemi, H., Rolin, K., Vanhala, S., Hen!onen, E., Hiillos, M., Katila, S., Tallberg, T. (2004) ‘Gender and Organisations in Flux?’, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration Research Reports, Helsinki.

Selected Conference Proceedings and Presentations

Platanou, K., Sdraka, M., & Vuorenmaa, H. (2020), “Bringing social media communication into institutional work: The making of meanings of HRM digitalization on Twitter”, Presented at the 36th European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium, Hamburg 2020.

Vuorenmaa, H. Sumelius, J., & Sanders K. (2019) “What do HR managers do?”. 3rd Academy of Management HR Division International Conference 2019, Dublin.

Kauppila, O-P, Ehrnrooth, M., Mäkelä, K., Smale A., Sumelius, J. & Vuorenmaa, H. (2018) Serving to help and helping to serve: Employee reactions to HR manager servant leadership. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings 2018, 14885.

Sumelius, J., Vuorenmaa, H. & Smale, A. (2018) Line manager attributions of the HR function. Symposium presentation at the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA.

Gartner, J., Mäkelä, K., Sumelius, J. & Vuorenmaa, H. (2017) Brave New HR? The Changing Nature of Work and the Management of Human Resources. Academy of Management Proceedings 2017 (1), 13747.

Sumelius, J. Smale A., Björkman, I., Ehrnrooth, M. Kauppila, O-P, Mäkelä, K., & Vuorenmaa, H. “Influence without authority- the challenging role of the HR function”. Presented at the Critical Management Studies Conference Liverpool 2017.

Vuorenmaa, H., Vaara, E. (2016) Gender inequality and multilevel (il)legitimacy struggles: from alegitimacy to unlegitimacy to illegitimacy. Presented at the 32nd European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium, Naples, 2016.

Sumelius, J., Vuorenmaa, H. (2015) Working towards observing the everyday work & working life of HR managers. A reflection and discussion of the insecurities, responsibilities and necessary creativity of the access phase. Presented at the 31st European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium, Athens, 2015.