Antti Ainamo

The Telecom Industry as Cultural Industry? The Transposition of Fashion Logics into the Field of Mobile Telephony

The term “fashion” triggers images of frivolous symbolic production with a particular impact on women, quite a world apart at first sight from high technology and mobile telephony that traditionally tend to be associated with science, rationality and masculinity. Surprisingly, we show in this paper that the field of mobile telephony has, for a number of years now, been impacted and significantly transformed by the transposition of fashion logics. We deconstruct the process of logic transposition, considering key moments and key actors, key modes and mechanisms. The comparison of multiple case studies within the mobile telephony industry also points to the limits of transposition and to varying degrees of hybridization and logic co-habitation. This process of logic transposition is, we argue, profoundly transforming the mobile telephony industry, bringing it closer, on many counts, to “cultural industries”. In the end, we draw a number of theoretical conclusions on logic transposition as an important mechanism of institutional change.

Organisational learning and lean supply relationships: the case of Apple Ireland

Examines organisational learning in a lean supply arrangement between a multinational buyer and its local suppliers. Looks at how organisations learn and unlearn. Reviews buyer‐seller relationships. Presents a lean supply model that combines the essence of learning and buyer‐seller relationship literature. Uses as a case study the buyer‐seller relationships between the Irish subsidiary Apple Computer and two of its local suppliers. Discusses how the relationships represent co‐existence of competition and co‐operation.

Lost Opportunity Why Has Dominant Design Failed to Emerge for the Mobile Payment Services Market in Finland

The approximately 10 year history of mobile payment services is characterized by numerous failures and promising but yet uncertain future. Against this background we take a look at why a dominant design has not emerged for this payment services market in Finland, despite dozens of efforts and continuous user interest even when necessary technologies, competencies, attitudes, regulation and opportunities have existed. We developed a multidisciplinary framework to answer this question. The framework integrates the constructs and findings of earlier research on the emergence of dominant designs with the findings of the case, for which data was collected over five years. We also extended earlier research by analyzing the issue from the era of ferment to present.

Message and Medium: The Role of Consulting Firms in Globalization and its Load Interpretation

This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other. Instead, the contributors to this book show that globalization is better perceived as a dual process of institutional change at the national level, and institution building at the transnational level. Rich, supporting empirical evidence is provided along with a theoretical conceptualization of the main actors, mechanisms and conditions involved in trickle-up and trickle-down trajectories through which national institutional systems are being transformed and transnational rules emerge.

Between West and East: A social history of business journalism in Cold War Finland

The Cold War era was characterized by ideological struggles that had a major impact on economic decision-making, and also on management practice. To date, however, these ideological struggles have received little attention from management and organizational scholars. To partially fill this research gap, we focus on the role of the media in these ideological struggles. Our starting point is that the media both reflect more general societal debates but also act as an agency promoting specific kinds of ideas and ideologies. In this sense, the media exercise significant power in society; this influence, however, is often subtle and easily dismissed in historical analyses focusing on political and corporate decision-making. In this article, we focus on the role of business journalism in the ideological struggles of the Cold War era. Our case in point is Finland, which is arguably a particularly interesting example due to its geo-political position between East and West. Our approach is socio-historical: we focus on the emergence and development of business journalism in the context of the specific struggles in the Finnish political and economic fields. Our analysis shows how the business journalists struggled between nationalist, pro-Soviet and pro-West political forces, but gradually developed into an increasingly influential force promoting neo-liberal ideology

Progress in the treatment and outcome of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease patients.

ABSTRACT Introduction: The number of pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), namely Crohn´s disease, ulcerative colitis and unclassified colitis, has rapidly increased in Western countries. Areas covered: This review discusses how the treatment of pediatric IBD patients has improved,with attention given to therapeutic quality and cost. The literature search covers Medline-PubMed and the Cochrane Library, with February 2016 as the last search dates. Similarly to what has been the trend in the management of adult IBD, pediatric IBD therapy has become more active than before. High use of immunosuppressants and the availability of biological therapeutic agents has helped to control the extensive and aggressive course of pediatric IBD. Full disease control at an early phase has advantages such as preserving normal child growth and development, maintaining overall good health and quality of life, as well as decreasing the psychosocial burden of the disease. Expert commentary: A key research direction is to tailor treatment modalities according to anticipated individual phenotype and disease course. Another is to reduce healthcare costs by decreasing the so-far high rate of surgery of pediatric IBD patients, and, instead, to develop a more active approach to treatment than before.

Online News and Corporate Reputation A Neurophysiological Investigation

We examined emotional, motivational, and evaluative responses to positively and negatively valenced online news messages about companies with a good or bad corporate reputation; the valence of read ...