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The Nokia Revolution
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The Nokia Revolution

The Story of an Extraordinary Company That Transformed an Industry

AMACOM, 2001 más...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

Dan Steinbock gives you a riveting look at one of the most important companies of our time in an elegant, storytelling style. His text is rich in detail and seems to capture every conceivable perspective on every possible event in Nokia’s 140-year-old history. Writing almost at the level of a fictional narrative, Steinbock adroitly takes you through the company’s highs, lows and pivotal moments from its origins in the timber industry in the 1860s and the merger in the 1960s that first gave it an electronics division, to the suicide of its influential CEO in the 1980s. It’s all here, along with Nokia’s strategies and values. getabstract.com recommends this book to anyone who relishes well-written corporate adventures or who harbors a certain curiosity about events inside influential companies (or about corporate thought in Finland, for that matter).

Take-Aways

  • Far from being a fly-by-night dot-com, Nokia began 140 years ago.
  • Nokia survives and grows by adapting to change.
  • Several firms merged in the 1960s to form what we now call Nokia.

About the Author

Dan Steinbock  is an affiliate researcher at the Columbia Business School Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and a visiting virtual professor at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He is the author of The Birth of Internet Marketing Communications and Triumph and Erosion in the American Media and Entertainment Industries. He lives in New York City and Helsinki.


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