 Technological systems and competent procurers--the transformation of Nokia and the Finnish telecom industry revisited?Christopher Palmberg Telecommunications Policy, vol. 26, issue 3-4, 129-148 Abstract: The contribution of Nokia to the recent rapid growth of the Finnish telecom industry is significant. A conventional explanation of Nokia's success, and the growth of the telecom industry, relies on aggregate studies in the Porterian framework that misses the dynamics of the underlying interactions between technologies, institutions, and organizations. The key proposition advanced in this article is that the role of the public telecom operator (PTO), as a competent technology procurer, has played a hitherto neglected, key role in this success and growth prior to the mid-1980s, after which Nokia achieved its international breakthrough. This proposition is advanced through the application of the Schumpeterian-Dahménian tradition of technological systems and 'competence blocs' to case studies in the development of Nokia's switching platform technology and equipment for the NMT-standard, the crucial competence areas underlying Nokia's success. Keywords: Nokia; Telecom; industry; Technological; systems; Procurement; Competence; blocs (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:telpol:v:26:y::i:3-4:p:129-148 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Telecommunications Policy is currently edited by Erik Bohlin More articles in Telecommunications Policy from Elsevier |
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