Finland
One corporate story dominates: Nokia's rise, collapse and reconstruction, told once by the chairman who lived it. There is nothing comparable on Finland's own 1990s banking crisis in English.
6 books
Start here
- The Nokia RevolutionDan Steinbock, 2001
- The Decline and Fall of NokiaDavid J. Cord, 2014
- The Information Society and the Welfare StateManuel Castells, Pekka Himanen, 2002
Books 6
Manuel Castells, Pekka Himanen · 2002 · The Finnish model: how a welfare state produced a technology cluster.
Dan Steinbock · 2001 · How a conglomerate of rubber and cable became a mobile-phone monopoly.
Martti Häikiö · 2002 · Company-sanctioned history with access to the boardroom record.
Risto Siilasmaa · 2018 · Insider account by Nokia's chairman: the handset sale to Microsoft and the Alcatel-Lucent deal.
Dan Steinbock · 2010 · Nokia's emerging-market strategy, written just before the collapse.
David J. Cord · 2014 · Outside account of how a dominant market share evaporated in five years.