An analysis of the evolution of competitive strategies within the forestry industry is presented in this book. The argument is that the chosen context serves as an illustrative setting for a discussion related to global corporate evolution. Therefore, this analytical and rigorous book contributes to better understanding of the workings of a number of manufacturing industries through discussion of the evolutionary development within the pulp and paper industry.
Cain PJ, Hopkins AG (1994) British imperialism: innovation and expansion, 1688–1914. Longman, London/New York Chandler AD (1990) Scale and ... Penguin Books, London Hills RL (1988) Papermaking in Britain 1488–1988. A short history.
The path that each industry or firm took varied. This book argues that the specific characteristics of each industry defined the conditions of competitiveness and provide a wide range of cases as illustrations.
This decision, although it was not readily apparent at the time, would ultimately be the death knell of Entrican's ... An advantage of the kraft process was that it could use both young and fully mature trees without any loss of pulp ...
In addition, the book reviews current thinking on a wide variety of business management issues in the forest sector. The book covers managing change in the global forest sector and the impact of globalization on forest users.
Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History Mats Fridlund, Mila Oiva, Petri Paju. joined forces with some IT specialists and together they started developing computational methods to group medieval texts. Their aim was to create ...
Creating Nordic capitalism: the business history of a competitive periphery / Martin Jes Iversen and Lars Thue -- Welfare capitalism: the Swedish economy, 1850-2005 / Hans Sjogren -- Entrepreneurship and...
Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries
Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals, forecast the direction of industry development, and position...
Halliday, “Google+ Launch.” 30. The discussion of Telenor throughout this book comes from Jon Fredrik Baksaas (Telenor CEO), interview with authors, June 2014, and is supplemented by other sources where indicated. 31.
With expert contributors from a range of disciplines including strategic management, economic development, economic geography, and planning, this book assesses the contribution Michael Porter has made to these respective disciplines.