... The paper is one of the few that shed light on how corporate governance and ownership structures affect the performance of small private firms. Jaana Lappalainen can be contacted at: jaana.lappalainen@kajak.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Finland Small to medium‐sized enterprises...

... with the effects of recession at the firm's operational level and the paper expands prior knowledge by taking the EO‐performance relationship into the context of recession. Juha Soininen can be contacted at: juha.soininen@lut.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Finland Small to medium‐sized...

... Limited 2012 Finland Forestry Competences Organizational change Forest company Maintenance The theoretical framework of this paper is based on competency development and organizational change. Behaviourism saw the process of learning as a straightforward mechanism – the result...

... members of one family business in Louisiana, USA and one in Finland in order to contribute to the understanding of succession preparation in small family businesses with two generations. Evolutionary economics was adapted for this interdisciplinary study to explain evolutionary changes in a family...

... management (HRM) practices on the impersonal dimensions of organizational trust. Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses are tested on a sample of 715 respondents from large corporations in the ICT and forest industries in Finland. Structural equation modelling was used. Findings Employee trust...

...” individual telework, it is quite clear that this, one of the most vividly discussed forms of distributed work, has failed to live up to its initial promises. In the most “advanced” countries like Finland, for example, official statistics indicate that 8 per cent of the active labour force in 2008 did some...

... details see Lundström et al., 2008). The paper describes the entrepreneurship policies embedded in the national contexts within two of these European countries, Finland and Ireland, and offers an understanding of the evolution of their entrepreneurship policies. The paper focuses on three...

...) – with the difference that innovations relate to a specific point in time, commercialization. Innovation Environmental management Paper industry Finland Sweden Technological innovations with potential for reduced environmental impacts, i.e. environmental innovations, have been identified as key...

..., along with their tasks and gives examples of the focal nets embedded in the wider network. Primary healthcare is organized in Finland through approximately 270 municipal health centres in 415 (often co‐operating) municipalities (www.kunnat.net). The Finnish system in municipal primary healthcare...

... after which population continues to decrease. The low level of migration and no rise in fertility are crucial in this population prospect. In Finland the baby boom generation was born after the war in 1945‐1959 (Piekkola, 2004 , p. 5). Aging of the population will increase the demand for health...

... on preferences, and that credibility for the product increases particularly due to the producers' well‐known reputation and to the fact that the producer of the particular brand is domestic or local (Srinivasan et al., 2004). Hence, we propose that: Consumer behaviour Finland Drugs Medicines...

... Finland was supplemented by a secondary data collection on financial issues. Findings The results show that in nearly four‐fifths of the firms a team was involved in the management. The logistic regression model revealed statistically significant differences between firms with entrepreneurial teams...

... with questionnaires and interviews among microbusinesses in the industries of craft and rural tourism in the area of North Karelia, Eastern Finland. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the analysis. Findings The paper found that the motives and goals of the small business owners were...

...) Back order charge. (14) The financial loss caused by the outdated blood units. Data was collected and validated together with hospital transfusion service personnel. Supply chain management Blood transfusion Inventory management Health services Simulation Finland...