Global Strategy - blog

Authors:Juha-Antti Lamberg, Kalle Pajunen, Petri Parvinen and Grant T. Savage (2008).Download file: 'Stakeholder management and path dependence in organizational transitions'Management Decision 46:6, 846-863. Open access post-print version.

Authors:Juha-Antti Lamberg, Henrikki Tikkanen, Tomi Nokelainen and Henri Suur-Inkeroinen (2008).Download file: 'Competitive dynamics, strategic consistency, and organizational survival'Strategic Management Journal, 30:1, 45-60 Open access post-print version.

Authors: Mattsson, Juha T.; Järvinen Joonas M. J. (2008).Download file: 'Specialize? Or diversify? Or do Both? - Niche Width Strategies in Emerging, Technology Based Industries' Paper presented at the Scancor 20th Anniversary Conference, Palo Alto, Nov 21-23, 2008

Authors:Pajunen, Kalle (2008).Full text: 'The nature of organizational mechanisms'Organization Studies, 29 (11): 1449–1468.

Authors:Jaakko Aspara (2008).Download file: 'Creating and Capturing Design Value' Note that the article starts on page 28 of the linked volume.

Abstract

Design research, as well as related fields such as consumer and marketing research, have lacked comprehensive conceptualizations of how the use value of the products of an individual company translates into economic value for that company.

Authors: Petri Parvinen, Antti Vassinen, Jaakko Aspara, Joel Hietanen, Henrikki Tikkanen (2008).Download file: 'Cognitive Consensus Enables the Weaving of a Net of Business Partners in the Boat Industry' Proceedings of the 23rd IMP Conference, Phuket, Thailand, 9-12 December, 2007.

Authors: Aspara, Jaakko; Pajunen, Kalle; Tikkanen, Henrikki; Tainio, Risto (2008).Download file: 'Explaining Sacrifice of Long-Term Investments for Short-Term Earnings: Spiral of Silence in Financial Markets' Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 8-13 August 2008, Anaheim, California.

Authors: Aspara, Jaakko; Hietanen, Joel; Parviainen, Petri; Tikkanen, Henrikki (2008).Download file: 'An Exploratory Empirical Verification of Blue Ocean Strategies: Findings from Sales Strategy' Proceedings of the Eighth International Business Research (IBR) Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 27-28 March, 2008.

In addition to planning the new Glostra web site I've been compiling a project into the Glostra Wiki, dealing with "Web 2.0", especially concentrating on the phenomenon's effects on the business world (Enterprise 2.0). The new tools transforming our dear web, making the user a key player in content generation and categorization, also present great opportunities for companies to enhance their operations. By a smart introduction of wikis, blogs, tagging systems and other social software, organizations can considerably promote both their internal and external information flows, collaboration between different parties, information findability and the hugely important creation of social ties and networks, essential to all knowledge workers.

Paavo Järvensivu comments on Financial Times, August 1.

David Shaywitz and Nassim Taleb ("Drug research needs serendipity", July 30) see a match between agile innovators that provide cutting-edge research and pharma companies that can bring this research into the market by orchestrating the entire process. While this kind of arrangement may seem promising at first sight, there is a major caveat.