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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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1999.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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