Finnish Business Review

Finnish Business Review is a peer-reviewed, open-access international forum for the publication of original research articles and cases on managerial issues in Finnish and international contexts. It was established by Jamk University of Applied Sciences in the year 2014, and it is included in the EBSCO Business Source Elite database.
Bank
16.9.2015

Pienten pankkien kannattavuus kiristyneessä taloustilanteessa tiukentuneen lainsäädännön alaisuudessa

16.9.2015
Articles

Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää, kuinka pieni maakunnassa toimiva pankki, kykenee toteuttamaan taloudellisesti kannattavaa pankkiliiketoimintaa tulevaisuudessa kiristyneessä taloustilanteessa ja tiukentuneiden lainsäädäntövaateiden vallitessa. Tiivistelmä: Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää, kuinka pieni...

Firm performance
21.5.2015

Economic Value Added (EVA), Agency Costs and Firm Performance: Theoretical Insights through the Value Based Management (VBM) Framework

21.5.2015
Articles

This paper reviews the literature on the Economic Value Added (EVA), a Value-Based Management (VBM) measure, and aims to reveal the interplay among the EVA, agency costs and firm performance....

Higher education
16.12.2014

Effects of project-based learning in education-enterprise collaboration to learning experience and student engagement

16.12.2014
Articles

This article focuses on the high tech management specialization programme at JAMK University of Applied Sciences and studies the impacts of project-based learning through enterprise collaboration.

IT
16.12.2014

Benchmarking competitiveness and innovation performances in two information technology clusters from Finland and Turkey

16.12.2014
Articles

The article benchmarks the competitiveness and innovation  performances of two information technology clusters from Finland and Turkey. It is interesting to observe that while the Finnish cluster is more competitive, the innovation performances of the clusters are the same.

Brand strategy
11.11.2014

Raising awareness of a brand strategy by a high tech SME manager: The effect of previous practice and felt needs

11.11.2014
Articles

The article richly describes how previous practice and felt needs affect a brand strategy adoption by high tech SME managers and suggests courses of action to be taken by stakeholders to promote competitiveness of high tech SME companies.

Digital disruption
8.9.2014

Challenges and success factors in pursuing disruptive innovations: A Finnish high-tech start-up case study

8.9.2014
Articles

This article addresses the main issues faced by Finnish start-ups  which pursue disruptive innovations and increases our understanding how the issues can be resolved through the experiences of a case company.