Ruth Alas

Ruth Alas

Ruth Alas (5 August 1960 – 23 January 2018) was an Estonian management scientist. She was the head of the Department of Management of the Estonian Business School until her death.[1][2] Alas has written more than 100 articles and 23 textbooks in topics relating to management and business.[3]

Education

  • Türi Secondary School (1978)[4]
  • Tallinn Polytechnical Institute (currently Tallinn Technical University), Faculty of Economics (1983)[4]
  • Tartu State University (currently University of Tartu), Faculty of Psychology (1987)[4]
  • Estonian Business School, International Business Management, Master's degree (1997)[4]
  • Bentley College (currently Bentley University), Faculty of Management, management training (1997)[4]
  • IESE Business School, University of Navarra (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa, Universidad de Navarra), international complementary training (1999)[4]
  • Estonian Business School, Business Management, Doctoral degree (PhD) (2002)[4]
  • University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics, Doctoral degree (PhD in the field of economics (2004)[4]

Career

Alas worked as a programmer and a consultant. From 1995 she was a lecturer at the Estonian Business School, where she became a member of the senate in 1997, and head of the Department of Management in 2003.[4] She has written about change management in organizations.[5]

Alas has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics,[6] the Journal of Change Management,[7] the Journal of East European Management Studies,[8] Human Resource Development International,[6] the International Journal of Strategic Change Management,[9] the Baltic Journal of Management,[10] the Journal of Business Economics and Management,[11] Engineering Economics,[12] Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal,[13] Women in Management Review,[14] Chinese Management Study,[15] the International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management,[16] Social Science Research Network,[17] and others.

References

  1. ↑ Suri raske haigusega võidelnud majandusprofessor Ruth Alas. delfi.ee (24 January 2018)
  2. ↑ In Memoriam – Ruth Alas. ebs.ee (25 January 2018)
  3. ↑ Al-Hakim, Latif; Jin, Chen, eds. (2010). Innovation in Business and Enterprise: Technologies and Frameworks. Business Science Reference. p. 337. ISBN 9781615206445.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The personal bibliography of Ruth Alas. Tallinn : Estonian Business School, 2015. ISBN 978-9949-9447-9-8 (pdf). In Estonian. Retrieved 17 March 2016
  5. ↑ Edwards, Vincent (January 2013). "Crisis management in Chinese organizations, benefiting from the changes/Governance of life in Chinese moral experience, the quest for an adequate life". Asia Pacific Business Review. 19 (1): 140–142. doi:10.1080/13602381.2012.690219. Retrieved 17 March 2016 – via EBSCO. (Subscription required (help)).
  6. 1 2 Alas, Ruth; Sharifi, Sudi (1 January 2002). "Organizational learning and resistance to change in Estonian companies". Human Resource Development International. 5 (3): 313–331. doi:10.1080/13678860210143550. ISSN 1367-8868.
  7. ↑ Alas, Ruth (1 September 2007). "The Triangular Model for Dealing with Organizational Change". Journal of Change Management. 7 (3–4): 255–271. doi:10.1080/14697010701770495. ISSN 1469-7017.
  8. ↑ Alas, Ruth; Vadi, Maaja (1 January 2004). "The impact of organisational culture on attitudes concerning change in post-soviet organisations". Journal for East European Management Studies. 9 (1): 20–39. JSTOR 23280841.
  9. ↑ Alas, Ruth; Vadi, Maaja (2006). "The impact of organisational culture on organisational learning and attitudes concerning change from an institutional perspective". International Journal of Strategic Change Management. 1 (1/2): 155. doi:10.1504/ijscm.2006.011109.
  10. ↑ Alas, Ruth and Vadi, Maaja (2006). "The employees' attitudes and their connections with the organisational culture in the process of change in the Estonian organisations". Baltic Journal of Management. 1 (1): 49–66. doi:10.1108/17465260610640877.
  11. ↑ Alas, Ruth; Kraus, Ants; Niglas, Katrin (1 January 2009). "Manufacturing strategies and choices in cultural contexts". Journal of Business Economics and Management. 10 (4): 279–289. doi:10.3846/1611-1699.2009.10.279-289.
  12. ↑ Tafel-Viia, Külliki; Alas, Ruth (4 October 2015). "Differences and Conflicts between Owners and top Managers in the Context of Social Responsibility". Engineering Economics. 64 (4). doi:10.5755/j01.ee.64.4.11621 (inactive 2018-02-01).
  13. ↑ Alas, Ruth (2005). "Job related attitudes and ethics in countries with different histories". Cross Cultural Management: an International Journal. 12 (2): 69–84. doi:10.1108/13527600510798024.
  14. ↑ Alas, Ruth and Rees, Christopher J. (2005). "Estonia in transition: exploring the impact of change on women managers". Women in Management Review. 20 (6): 446–460. doi:10.1108/09649420510616827.
  15. ↑ Alas, Ruth (2008). "Attitudes and values in Chinese manufacturing companies: A comparison with Japanese, South Korean and Hong Kong companies". Chinese Management Studies. 2 (1): 32–51. doi:10.1108/17506140810866232.
  16. ↑ Alas, Ruth; Vadi, Maaja; Sun, Wei (1 January 2008). "Connections between factors of readiness to change in Chinese organisations". International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management. 1 (2): 219–231. doi:10.1504/IJCCM.2008.017172.
  17. ↑ Alas, Ruth; Papalexandris, Nancy; Galanaki, Eleanna; Niglas, Katrin (2014). "Managerial Values and Employee Commitment in a Cultural Context". SSRN Electronic Journal. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2508123. SSRN 2508123.
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