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Being local worldwide : ABB and the challenge of global management /

Fortune called Asea Brown Boveri, the giant multinational corporation created in 1987, "the most successful cross-border merger since Royal Dutch linked up with Britain's Shell in 1907." The coming together of two longtime national champions in the electrotechnical industry, Sweden�...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bélanger, Jacques
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Between Globalization and Multidomestic Variation / Berggren, Christian
  • 1. ABB and the Restructuring of the Electrotechnical Industry / Bjorkman, Torsten
  • 2. Lean Management in Practice The Headquarters Perspective / Bjorkman, Torsten
  • 3. Products, Processes, and Organizational Change in the Production of Power Transformers / Bengtsson, Lars / Kohler, Christoph
  • 4. ABB in Scotland Managing Tensions between Transnational Strategy, Market Decline, and Customer Focus / Martin, Graeme / Beaumont, Philip B.
  • 5. ABB in Spain The Leap from Early Taylorism to Post Taylorism / Kohler, Christoph
  • 6 ABB in Australia Local Autonomy versus Globalization / Bray, Mark / Lansbury, Russell D.
  • 7. ABB in Canada Local Hero versus Lean Learner / Belanger, Jacques / Giles, Anthony / Grenier, Jean-Noel
  • 8. ABB in Sweden A New Start at the Old Mecca / Bengtsson, Lars
  • 9. ABB in Germany Is Excellence Enough to Survive? / Schultz-Wild, Rainer
  • 10. Global Policies and the Dynamics of Local Variation / Berggren, Christian / Kohler, Christoph
  • 11. Power Plant Production Continuity and Innovation in a Core Business / Behr, Marhild von
  • 12. Distributed Development in a Multinational / Berggren, Christian
  • 13. The ABB Attempt to Reinvent the Multinational Corporation / Belanger, Jacques / Bjorkman, Torsten
  • References
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index