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| Tekijä: | Ainamo, A. |
| Otsikko: | Coevolution of individual and firm-specific competences: the imprinting conditions and globalization of the Jaakko Pöyry Group 1946-1980 |
| Lehti: | Scandinavian economic history review
2005 : VOL. 53:1, p. 19-43 |
| Asiasana: | Companies Internationalization Globalization Case studies History Nordic countries Finland |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | In many ways, Finland remained isolated from the process of Americanization in Western Europe until the 1980s. This paper inquires into the history of a Finnish firm founded and successfully internationalized in the 1950s to reveal why and how it adopted leading American management ideas and practices into its internationalization (henceforth as: int.) process without any American agency. Firstly, the paper reviews how there is a gap btw. the American and Nordic traditions in research into the int. of the firm. Secondly, it reviews methods of social history etc. Thirdly, it presents the imprinting conditions and the history of the Jaakko Pöyry Group from 1946 and 1980 as a partly sequential and partly coevolutionary process of the following elements: 1. the entrepreneurial (here as: ent.) development of core competencies by a founder individual, 2. ent. diversification of markets and services by the firm founded, 3. coevolution btw. the firm and the founder within the embedded environments. It is concluded among others how the firm emerged to play a leading role, why the firm with its founder could function as global brokers of knowledge and competences (in conditions of isolation), and what kind of general lessons the combination of individual agency and globalization might contain. |
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