Ruth Alas (5 August 1960 in Türi – 23 January 2018 in Tallinn) 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 wrote more than 100 articles and 23 textbooks in topics relating to management and business.[3]
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 wrote about change management in organizations.[5]
Alas 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,[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.