The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬–2050

1. Front Matter

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2. Research on Evolution and the Global History of Pulp and Paper Industry: An Introduction

   • Juha-Antti Lamberg, Jari Ojala, Mirva Peltoniemi, Timo Särkkä

   Pages 1-18

3. The Evolution of Pulp and Paper Industries in Finland, Sweden, and Norway, 1800–2005

   • Joonas Järvinen, Jari Ojala, Anders Melander, Juha-Antti Lamberg

   Pages 19-47

4. Waves of Technological Innovation: The Evolution of the US Pulp and Paper Industry, 1860–2000

   • Hannes Toivanen

   Pages 49-80

5. The Paper Industry in Germany, 1800–2000

   • Olli Turunen

   Pages 81-99

6. An Accomplished History, An Uncertain Future: Canada’s Pulp and Paper Industry Since the Early 1800s

   • Mark Kuhlberg

   Pages 101-133

7. From the Non-European Tradition to a Variation on the Japanese Competitiveness Model: The Modern Japanese Paper Industry Since the 1870s

   • Takafumi Kurosawa, Tomoko Hashino

   Pages 135-166

8. The British Paper Industry, 1800–2000

   • Timo Särkkä

   Pages 167-190

9. The Paper and Board Industry in the Netherlands, 1800–2000

   • Bram Bouwens

   Pages 191-209

10. Is There a Southern European Model? Development of the Pulp and Paper Industry in Italy, Spain and Portugal (1800–2010)

    • Miquel Gutiérrez-Poch

    Pages 211-242

11. The South American Pulp and Paper Industry: The Cases Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay

    • Maria Barbosa Lima-Toivanen

    Pages 243-283

12. The Pulp and Paper Industry Evolution in Russia: A Road of Many Transitions

    • Olga Mashkina

    Pages 285-306

13. Global Demand for Paper Products: 2006–2050

    • Joonas Järvinen, Juha-Antti Lamberg, Tomi Nokelainen, Henrikki Tikkanen

    Pages 307-343

14. The Evolution of the Global Paper Industry: Concluding Remarks

    • Jari Ojala, Miikka Voutilainen, Juha-Antti Lamberg

    Pages 345-363

15. Back Matter

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This book presents an historical analysis of the global paper industry evolution from a comparative perspective. At the centre are 16 producing countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Germany, Canada, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Russia). A comparative study of the paper industry evolution can achieve the following important research objectives. First, we can identify the country specific historical features of paper industry evolution and compare them to the general business trends explicable by existing theoretical knowledge. Second, we can identify and isolate the factors causing both the rise and fall of industrial populations. Third, a shared research agenda can produce an intensive analysis of global industry dynamics. Finally, an extended research period of 250 years can identify what is truly unique in the paper industry evolution and the extent to which it took the same path as other important manufacturing industries.

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• , Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

  Juha-Antti Lamberg, Jari Ojala, Timo Särkkä

• Aalto University School of Science, Aalto, Finland

  Mirva Peltoniemi

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