Creating competitive advantage through co-operativeness : The strategic renewal of the Finnish S Group since the early 1980s
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A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa
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Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy ; 87
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When the co-operative movement started in Finland, the country was an autonomous Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire with ambitions to be independent. The co-operative strategy for national survival was to create competitive commercial structures relying on three pillars: a mutually coordinating ideological umbrella organization Pellervo Society, co-operative legislation and a federal two-tier organizational model. The Central Finnish Co-operative Society SOK was consequently founded in 1904 as an integral component of this structure. As the lessons derived from a study of the Finnish S Group have not been covered in detail to date, this chapter is useful as a means of supplementing the literature. Three substantive components of S Group's strong development are still missing, and it is necessary to complete the global analytical picture of consumer co-operatives. All these issues are systemic and relevant to the comprehensive interpretation of co-operativeness.Description
Publisher Copyright: © 2024 selection and editorial matter, John F. Wilson, Anthony Webster, Espen Ekberg and Samuli Skurnik. All rights reserved.
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Skurnik, S 2023, Creating competitive advantage through co-operativeness : The strategic renewal of the Finnish S Group since the early 1980s. in The Consumer Co-operative Sector : International Perspectives on Strategic Renewal. Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy, no. 87, Routledge, pp. 27-51. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333838-4