Government action, cartels, and national corporations - the development strategy of a small peripheral nation during the period of crisis and economic disintegration in Europe. (Finland 1918–1938)

Kuisma, Markku

doi:10.1080/03585522.1993.10415871

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“…In the general debate about resource-based industry and its trajectories, the literature on forestry (pulp and paper) is not as extensive as the literature on minerals (principally oil; Karl, 1997). However, the forest industry has been extensively studied in Finland and no other industry has received such social, economic, political, and environmental focus (Kuisma, 1993;2006). There is also a budding body of literature on the new paper pulp investments in the Global South.…”

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Globalization as the ‘Pulping’ of Landscapes: Forestry Capitalism's North–South Territorial Accumulation

Kröger¹

2013

Globalizations

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The article presents the findings of a long-term incorporated comparison of forestry capitalism's globalization process. Primary data was collected by participant observation in pulp investment areas in Brazil between 2004 and 2011 and semi-structured interviews with key industry personnel, particularly in Finland. It is argued that the key cyclic change in industrial forestry from innovation-capitalization to material-territorial accumulation explains why and how the industry has globalized to the south via industrial tree plantations. The interlinked northern (Finnish) and southern (Brazilian) cases reveal that industry trajectories are influenced by who controls the supply chains of commodities. The findings are relevant for theorizing about the globalization of natural resource exploitation sectors. Changes in agrarian political economies and agency of state, business, and social movement actors-that is, socio-ecological relations and landscapes-help to explain how and why national and global capitalism and its developmental-environmental impacts are transformed. Keywords· industrial tree plantations, · pulp and paper industry, · forest industry, · Brazil, · Finland, · Pöyry, · agrarian political economy, · capitalist world-system

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Globalization as the ‘Pulping’ of Landscapes: Forestry Capitalism's North–South Territorial Accumulation

Kröger¹

2013

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“…We began our data collection with a thorough examination of existing historical studies (e.g. Heikkinen, 2000; Kuisma, 1993a, 1993b). This phase resulted in a consensus‐type understanding of the coarse‐grained process characteristics prior to, during, and after the focal period of 1917–19.…”

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Agency, Institutional Change, and Continuity: The Case of the Finnish Civil War

Lamberg¹,

Pajunen

2010

J Management Studies

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The purpose of this paper is to study the role of individual agency in the process of institutional change. We conducted a historical study to explore the motivations and activities of two prominent individuals in business and politics before, during, and after the Finnish Civil War. Our most important finding is that the improvised actions of individuals with complex interests were causally related to long-term institutional changes. Specifically, our study contributes to theory development in the field of institutional analysis by showing how individual actors can be a mechanism for both institutional continuity and change. On the practical side, our account can help managers understand the power of improvised activities in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, especially if there is the possibility of acting in concert.

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“…Robustness Test #5, Role of Export Cartels: Finland had a tradition of export cartels that started prior to World War II (Kuisma 1993, Fellman 2015; the largest manufacturing sectors were and are heavily export oriented. As we discuss in more detail later in this paper, the Finnish trade arrangements post-World War II were such that export cartels may have facilitated collusion in the domestic market; see also Schultz (2002) who has argued for the importance of such a mechanism.…”

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Cartels Uncovered

Hyytinen

Steen

Toivanen

2018

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

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How many cartels are there, and how long do they live? The answers to these questions are important in assessing the need for competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that takes into account that often it is not known whether a cartel exists or not. We take the model to data from a period of legal cartels—Finnish manufacturing industries 1951–1990. Our estimates suggest that once born, cartels are persistent; by the end of the period, almost all industries were cartelized. (JEL D43, K21, L12, L13, L41, L60)

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Government action, cartels, and national corporations - the development strategy of a small peripheral nation during the period of crisis and economic disintegration in Europe. (Finland 1918–1938)

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Globalization as the ‘Pulping’ of Landscapes: Forestry Capitalism's North–South Territorial Accumulation

Globalization as the ‘Pulping’ of Landscapes: Forestry Capitalism's North–South Territorial Accumulation

Agency, Institutional Change, and Continuity: The Case of the Finnish Civil War

Cartels Uncovered

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