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Author: Ville Airo (2010).Download file: Regulation and Coordination in European Generic Medicines Industry: A Fuzzy Set Analysis Masters thesis, Aalto University School of Science and Technology

The global pharmaceutical industry is changing. A number of factors, like rising health care costs, indicate that the importance of generic medicines is growing. The European companies have particularly been affected by the harmonization of inner markets and changes in legislation. Therefore, the main research problem of the thesis is: what kind of business environment favors generic medicines industry. Secondary problems of the thesis discuss the industry dynamics at the European level in more detail through regulatory and other factors.

Author: Emmi Tuomainen (2009).Download file: Competitive Actions and Profitability in the U.S. Forestry Industry Masters thesis, University of Tampere

Profitability is an extremely important issue for every company as it is an essential part of its continuity. Competitive actions taken by a company have an influence on the company’s performance and thus its profitability. It is not, however, clear what kind of actions promote and what kinds of actions, on the contrary, hinder the profitability of a company.

Author: Sihvonen, Antti (2010).Download file: Success Strategies in Declining Industries Masters thesis, Aalto University School of Economics, Department of Marketing and Management

The Abstract

Objective of the study

The broad aim of this research is to understand how organizations can succeed in declining industries. This is examined from the viewpoint of strategy, where strategy types are used to explain success in declining industries. In particular, this research aims at uncovering what kind of strategies lead to success in certain kinds of decline conditions. Existing research on this topic has focused on population ecology and strategic management. This research aims at linking these two discourses to produce an investigation of how a member of a distinct population can succeed, when the population faces decline.

Authors: Pietinalho, Lauri (2008).Download file: Evolution of Interorganizational Networks: Evidence from Pulp and Paper Industry in 1992–2006 Masters thesis, Helsinki University of Technology

The Abstract

Interorganizational alliance and cooperation networks are the backbone of contemporary economy. With concentration on their core competencies, economic actors are increasingly depended on each other. Implications of these networks to individual firms have been widely studied by organizational and management scholars, however, with a connotation of network stability.

Authors: Peni, Mikko (2008).Download file: 'The financing of explorative and exploitative activities: A comparative study of the Finnish post-IPO high-tech companies' Master's Thesis, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

The Abstract

Companies that engage in explorative activities face challenges of organizing the financing to balance time asymmetry between expenses and incomes. Investments in explorative activities may bind relatively significant amount of resources while earnings from these activities are uncertain. Exploitation, indeed, often has an opposite impacts.

Authors: Liang, Fang (2007).Download file: 'The evolutionary phases of knowledge transfer and inter-organizational competitive advantage in Finnish-Chinese strategic alliances in the diagnostics industry' Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland.

The Abstract

Globalization has changed and will continue to shape the ways firms carry out their economic and profit-seeking activities. However, going it alone into a new country or business sector is always full of unpredictable risks.

Authors: Järvinen, Joonas (2007).Download file: 'Success and survival of Finnish new biotechnology firms' Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland.

The Abstract

Future prospects of the global biotechnology industry are commonly considered excellent. However, the current situation of the Finnish biotechnology industry is somewhat alarming; its growth has almost ceased. Therefore, in order to turn the development of the Finnish industry, it is important to study the determinants affecting firm success and survival.

Authors: Lauerma, Mikko (2007).Download file: 'Scenario development: The case of the Russo-Baltic food retail market' Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland.

The Abstract

Firms interact on two dimensions, with their direct competitors and with their suppliers and customers. Especially in industries where supply chains have an important role, firms are very dependent on their suppliers one side and their customers on the other. A firm’s power within the value network influences he amount of value it is able to appropriate from it.

Authors: Vaskelainen, Taneli (2006).Download file: 'Cognitive Change: An Empirical Study in the Pulp and Paper Industry.' Master’s thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

Finalist in the Finnish Strategic Management Society’s annual strategy thesis competition

The Abstract

This study researches change in managerial cognitions over time. Lately there has been a growing interest in the cognitive view of strategy within the strategic management literature. This view considers the inability to adjust cognitions to environmental changes to be a major factor explaining the demise of organizations.

Authors:Järvensivu, Paavo and Laukkanen, Mikko (2006).Download file: 'Managerial Cognitions and Business Model Evolution in the Biotechnology Industry - Cases Amgen and Genentech.' Master's Thesis, Helsinki School of Economics HSE, Helsinki, Finland.

The Abstract

Objectives
The study aims to discover how business models have evolved in the biotechnology industry by analyzing two US-based case companies, Amgen and Genentech. Emphasis is put on managerial cognitions and their role in the coevolution of business models and the business environment.