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Changing Managerial Competitive Practices in the Context of Growth and Decline in the Finnish Banking Sector

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In this chapter we examine changes in managerial competitive practices in Finnish banks during the period of deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s. ‘Deregulation’ here refers to the process of removing various institutional barriers, namely protective banking regulations.

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© 1997 Risto Tainio, Kari Lilja and Timo Santalainen

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Tainio, R., Lilja, K., Santalainen, T. (1997). Changing Managerial Competitive Practices in the Context of Growth and Decline in the Finnish Banking Sector. In: Morgan, G., Knights, D. (eds) Regulation and Deregulation in European Financial Services. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14000-8_10

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