The structures of industries, the economic geography of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the global configurations of supply chains can be considered to be the three key factors essential to understanding contemporary globalization on a micro-level. In practice, the competitive position of a...

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s phone business has considerable implications for Nokia and potentially for Finland as a country, but little immediate effects on Microsoft and related industries. One might ask, couldn’t there have been better remedies for the challenges both Microsoft...

Technology and service platforms are becoming even more important to firms and countries as software built on these platforms is integrated into physical end-products and services across business environments. We find two especially significant topics to explore. First, there is a clear...

Tässä tutkimuksessa analysoidaan digitaalisten palvelujen arvoketjuja, arvonsyntymistä ja -jakautumista. Osassa näissä palveluissa vallitsevat huomattavat skaalatuotot. Tällöin yhden lisäkappaleen tuottaminen ei maksa käytännössä mitään, mikä on mahdotonta missään fyysisessä...

This article investigates how current global intellectual property (IP) litigation provides insight into the competitive landscape of mobile internet, the strategic thinking processes of firms, and the old mobile telecommunications incumbents and new entrants from internet that are vying for...

In this paper, we study the value chain of a Finnish designed bicycle and how the value added of the product is spread through the value chain in three distinct cases. In the first case the bicycle is manufactured in Finland by the researched company. In the two other cases the manufacturing of...

In this paper, we examine new Internet ecosystem strategies through compre-hensive OECD PATSTAT patent data analyses focusing on mobile operating system software firms. We also describe current patent disputes between mobile hardware firms and mobile operating system software firms in the US and...