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Organizational Innovation and Institutional Change: The Case of Valio in Finland

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

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Field Value
 
Title Organizational Innovation and Institutional Change: The Case of Valio in Finland
 
Creator Lamprinakis, Lampros
 
Subject organizational innovation; structural change; qualitative; analysis; Valio; Finland
 
Description Firms in the agri-food industry are embedded in a system of institutions, regulations and policies that shape their economic environment and affect their conduct and performance. Changes in this system can propose new challenges for the firms that need to adequately and efficiently change and adapt to the emerging environment. The following article examines how deep structural changes in the institutional and regulatory setting can be effectively addressed by organizational innovation and what can be the catalysts behind a successful innovation effort. In doing so the analysis examines the case of Valio, the largest Finnish dairy company and its reconstruction effort due to Finland’s EU accession in 1995. After years of restructuring and changing its business model the company remains a major player in Finland and one of the most well-known brands in the region.
 
Publisher CentMA
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2012-12-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/321
10.18461/ijfsd.v3i2.321
 
Source International Journal on Food System Dynamics; Vol 3, No 2 (2012); 95 - 105
1869-6945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/321/254