Financial performance in Finnish large- and medium-sized sawmills: The effects of value-added creation and cost-efficiency seeking

Journal of Forest Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 289-305

  Lähtinen, Katja ^a   Toppinen, Anne ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Financial performance; Large and medium sized sawmills; Strategy; Value added

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); COMPETITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EFFICIENCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAWING; SAWMILLS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WOOD PRODUCTS;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS SUCCESS; COST EFFICIENCY; ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; SAWMILL INDUSTRY; STRATEGY; VALUE-ADDED;

COSTS;

COMPETITIVENESS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FIRM SIZE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 55549088194     PISSN: 11046899     EISSN: 16181530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfe.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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