Being Local Worldwide : ABB and the Challenge of Global Management /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Belanger, Jacques
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd > Gestion.
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. > Management.
Management.
International business enterprises > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
Entreprises multinationales > Gestion > Études de cas.
Transformateurs electriques > Industrie > Gestion > Études de cas.
Entreprises multinationales > Gestion > Cas, Études de.
Transformateurs electriques > Industrie > Gestion > Cas, Études de.
International business enterprises > Management > Case studies.
Electric transformer industry > Management > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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

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