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Publication date: 25 April 2013

Kalle Pajunen and Ville Airo

The identification of country-specific advantages for business activities is one of the most crucial issues of strategic management and international business literatures. We…

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The identification of country-specific advantages for business activities is one of the most crucial issues of strategic management and international business literatures. We address this issue by examining location-specific conditions for a successful generic medicines industry within 24 European countries. The findings of our fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis show that there are no necessary conditions for the high performance or absence of the high-performance industry. By revealing the causal complexity related to the issue, however, we show that the high performance or lack of it results from a configuration of conditions. Specifically, we identify two sufficient causal configurations to both outcomes. These findings provide clear implications for generic medicines industry firms who are planning location choices of their operations. In addition, this study provides a methodological advancement to explain and understand which country elements matter more, for what outcomes, and under what conditions.

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Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-778-8

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Publication date: 23 December 2005

Kalle Pajunen

The lack of systematic methods for reducing the complex reality has hampered many of the contributions that processual research might have produced. This paper presents a…

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The lack of systematic methods for reducing the complex reality has hampered many of the contributions that processual research might have produced. This paper presents a methodology for processual strategy research that offers a systematic approach for causal explanation across complex sequences of events and enables theorization about underlying causal mechanisms driving the processes. In addition, a comparative analysis of two organizational decline and turnaround processes is presented in order to illuminate how the methodology is able to generate a substantial advancement in knowledge by indicating the causal mechanisms underlying the decline and turnaround processes. The findings show that the turnaround is produced by four causal mechanisms that cumulatively and interdependently work against the mechanism of decline.

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Strategy Process
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-340-2

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Publication date: 25 April 2013

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Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-778-8

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Publication date: 23 December 2005

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Strategy Process
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-340-2

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Publication date: 23 December 2005

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Strategy Process
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-340-2

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