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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: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:Pajunen, Kalle and Maunula Mari (2008).Download file: 'Internationalisation: a coevolutionary perspective'Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24 (3): 247–258.

The abstract

Earlier research has identified several organisational and contextual factors relating to the internationalisation of the firm. However, the relations between these factors and their interaction over time have not been clearly understood.

Authors: Laaksonen, Toni; Pajunen, Kalle and Kulmala, Harri I. (2008) Download file: 'Co-evolution of trust and dependence in customer–supplier relationships'
Industrial Marketing Management, 37 (8): 910–920. Open access post-print version.

The Abstract

The relational and dynamic aspects of interfirm trust and dependence produce a crucial, but insufficiently addressed, challenge for successful relationship coordination.

Authors: Pajunen, Kalle (2008).Full text: 'Institutions and inflows of foreign direct investment: a fuzzy-set analysis' Journal of International Business Studies, 39 (4): 652–669.

Abstract

This study addresses the essential question of causal complexity and diversity related to the influence of institutions on the direct investments (FDI) of multinational enterprises.

Authors:Mantere, Saku; Pajunen, Kalle and Lamberg, Juha-Antti (2007). Download file: 'Vices and virtues of politically active firms: The challenge of international economy'Forthcoming in Business & Society.

The Abstract

The authors give a critical reading of the research interests of state-of-the-art corporate political activity (CPA) literature.

Authors: Järvensivu, Paavo and Aspara, Jaakko (2007).Description:'Managerial cognition and innovation management in the pharmaceutical industry – The success of Genentech.'
Submitted to the Finnish Journal of Business Economics. Download file: Open access post-print version.

The Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to add further knowledge to the research on organizational evolution, concerning managerial cognition and organizational innovation activities. In our view, managerial cognitions are an essential link between organizational activities and developments in the business environment.

Authors: Lamberg, Juha-Antti and Tikkanen, Henrikki (2006).Download file: 'Changing Sources of Competitive Advantage: Cognition and Path Dependence in the Finnish Retail Industry' Industrial and Corporate Change 15:5, 811-846.

Nominee for the Carolyn Dexter Award (best international paper), Academy of Management 2006, Atlanta.

The Abstract

In this study, we analyze the Finnish retail industry in 1945–1995.