Juha-Antti Lamberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1317448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juha-Antti Lamberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juha-Antti |
| FAMILY NAME | Lamberg |
| SIGNATURE | LAMBERG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3173-0199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Near-Histories and Strategy Emergence
Even when anticipated strategic decisions or actions do not materialize, they can still set in motion emergent dynamics with collateral consequences that lead to profound strategic consequences. Adopting a microhistorical lens, we elucidate the dynamics of these processes by focusing on two largely dismissed near-history episodes in the relatively recent history of the Nokia Corporation. We develop a process model that elaborates on how anticipat…
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity
The core assumption in the management literature on corporate political activity (CPA) is that firms and industry associations representing their interests seek political ends driven by strategic concerns.Other streams of research, however, emphasise the role of ideology in CPA.In this article, we study the balance between strategic and ideological orientations over time.We draw on historical data from the early 1920s to the end of the 1930s to a…
Strategy and business history rejoined
Scholars at the intersection of business history and strategic management have argued for the relevance and importance of historical methods in the study of strategic management of organizations. We flip this argument and ask about the role of strategic management concepts in the study of business history. We analyze volumes of Business History and Business History Review and a representative sample of business history books using a comprehensive…
The curse of agility
We investigate how and why the Nokia Corporation failed to develop a successful strategic response to the threats of Apple and Google in the smartphone business and instead worsened its situation through several badly timed decisions. We identify key choices in technology and organisational design that jointly constituted sufficient cause for the abandonment of the mobile phone business. By focusing on choices instead of attributes (e.g. fear or …
Thinking about industry decline
We analyze historical and longitudinal research focusing on industry decline. Our analysis suggests that the literature’s general reliance on a few meta-theoretical arguments has important consequences for how decline is framed and explained. We identify four meta-theoretical clusters in the literature: politics and market dynamics are seen as exogenous factors with deterministic features, whereas technology and management capabilities are framed…
The anatomy and causal structure of a corporate myth
In this paper we conceptualize explanations of company-specific commercial performance as corporate myths. To improve our understanding of anatomy and causal structure of corporate myths, we analyze publications that deal with Nokia's historical transformation from a loss-making 1980s conglomerate to a focused and successful telecommunications company in the early 1990s. From a corpus of related literature, 89 causal arguments are identified and …
Beyond the metaphor
This study is based on the thesis that Vladimir Propp's (1928/2001) theory of folktale structure functions not only as a morphology of folktales, but also as a structural, deep-level model of any process that includes crisis and recovery. We essentially suggest that corporate decline and turnaround processes can be emplotted into a folktale-like structure that supports Propp's theory and thereby helps uncover deep-level mechanisms governing the p…
Endogenous and exogenous variables in trade agreement policy
Trade agreement negotiations are the forum in which a state tries to synchronise its trade policies with other countries. This article examines the effects of endogenous and exogenous variables in trade agreement decision-making. The study concentrates on Finland's most important trade agreement negotiations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Great Britain, and EFT A from the 1930s to the 1960s. Finland was a small, open economy that was dependent o…
Economic interest groups in Finnish foreign-trade policy decision-making in the early years of independence
The structure of decision-making in the field of trade policy in Finland after World War I is analysed in this study, with the theory of public choice and the institutional theory of Douglass C. North as the premises. Dependent on her foreign trade, Finland was quickly forced by economic considerations to build up a trade policy of her own. One way to normalise the situation was to create corporative structures in which the private sector wielded…
The curse of agility
We investigate how and why the Nokia Corporation failed to develop a successful strategic response to the threats of Apple and Google in the smartphone business and instead worsened its situation through several badly timed decisions. We identify key choices in technology and organisational design that jointly constituted sufficient cause for the abandonment of the mobile phone business. By focusing on choices instead of attributes (e.g. fear or …
Beyond the metaphor
This study is based on the thesis that Vladimir Propp's (1928/2001) theory of folktale structure functions not only as a morphology of folktales, but also as a structural, deep-level model of any process that includes crisis and recovery. We essentially suggest that corporate decline and turnaround processes can be emplotted into a folktale-like structure that supports Propp's theory and thereby helps uncover deep-level mechanisms governing the p…
Strategy and business history rejoined
Scholars at the intersection of business history and strategic management have argued for the relevance and importance of historical methods in the study of strategic management of organizations. We flip this argument and ask about the role of strategic management concepts in the study of business history. We analyze volumes of Business History and Business History Review and a representative sample of business history books using a comprehensive…
The anatomy and causal structure of a corporate myth
In this paper we conceptualize explanations of company-specific commercial performance as corporate myths. To improve our understanding of anatomy and causal structure of corporate myths, we analyze publications that deal with Nokia's historical transformation from a loss-making 1980s conglomerate to a focused and successful telecommunications company in the early 1990s. From a corpus of related literature, 89 causal arguments are identified and …
Economic interest groups in Finnish foreign-trade policy decision-making in the early years of independence
The structure of decision-making in the field of trade policy in Finland after World War I is analysed in this study, with the theory of public choice and the institutional theory of Douglass C. North as the premises. Dependent on her foreign trade, Finland was quickly forced by economic considerations to build up a trade policy of her own. One way to normalise the situation was to create corporative structures in which the private sector wielded…
Endogenous and exogenous variables in trade agreement policy
Trade agreement negotiations are the forum in which a state tries to synchronise its trade policies with other countries. This article examines the effects of endogenous and exogenous variables in trade agreement decision-making. The study concentrates on Finland's most important trade agreement negotiations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Great Britain, and EFT A from the 1930s to the 1960s. Finland was a small, open economy that was dependent o…
Beyond the metaphor
This study is based on the thesis that Vladimir Propp's (1928/2001) theory of folktale structure functions not only as a morphology of folktales, but also as a structural, deep-level model of any process that includes crisis and recovery. We essentially suggest that corporate decline and turnaround processes can be emplotted into a folktale-like structure that supports Propp's theory and thereby helps uncover deep-level mechanisms governing the p…
The anatomy and causal structure of a corporate myth
In this paper we conceptualize explanations of company-specific commercial performance as corporate myths. To improve our understanding of anatomy and causal structure of corporate myths, we analyze publications that deal with Nokia's historical transformation from a loss-making 1980s conglomerate to a focused and successful telecommunications company in the early 1990s. From a corpus of related literature, 89 causal arguments are identified and …
Thinking about industry decline
We analyze historical and longitudinal research focusing on industry decline. Our analysis suggests that the literature’s general reliance on a few meta-theoretical arguments has important consequences for how decline is framed and explained. We identify four meta-theoretical clusters in the literature: politics and market dynamics are seen as exogenous factors with deterministic features, whereas technology and management capabilities are framed…
The curse of agility
We investigate how and why the Nokia Corporation failed to develop a successful strategic response to the threats of Apple and Google in the smartphone business and instead worsened its situation through several badly timed decisions. We identify key choices in technology and organisational design that jointly constituted sufficient cause for the abandonment of the mobile phone business. By focusing on choices instead of attributes (e.g. fear or …
Strategy and business history rejoined
Scholars at the intersection of business history and strategic management have argued for the relevance and importance of historical methods in the study of strategic management of organizations. We flip this argument and ask about the role of strategic management concepts in the study of business history. We analyze volumes of Business History and Business History Review and a representative sample of business history books using a comprehensive…
Near-Histories and Strategy Emergence
Even when anticipated strategic decisions or actions do not materialize, they can still set in motion emergent dynamics with collateral consequences that lead to profound strategic consequences. Adopting a microhistorical lens, we elucidate the dynamics of these processes by focusing on two largely dismissed near-history episodes in the relatively recent history of the Nokia Corporation. We develop a process model that elaborates on how anticipat…
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity
The core assumption in the management literature on corporate political activity (CPA) is that firms and industry associations representing their interests seek political ends driven by strategic concerns.Other streams of research, however, emphasise the role of ideology in CPA.In this article, we study the balance between strategic and ideological orientations over time.We draw on historical data from the early 1920s to the end of the 1930s to a…
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