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

Being Local Worldwide : : ABB and the Challenge of Global Management / / ed. by Torsten Björkman, Christian Berggren, Jacques Bélanger, Christoph Kähler.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Beaumont, Philip B.,
Behr, Marhild von,
Belanger, Jacques,
Bengtsson, Lars,
Berggren, Christian,
Bjorkman, Torsten,
Bray, Mark,
Giles, Anthony,
Grenier, Jean-Noel,
Kohler, Christoph,
Lansbury, Russell D.,
Martin, Graeme,
Schultz-Wild, Rainer,
HerausgeberIn:
Berggren, Christian,
Björkman, Torsten,
Bélanger, Jacques,
Kähler, Christoph,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 7 charts and graphs, 10 tables, 3 drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Between Globalization and Multidomestic Variation
  • 1. ABB and the Restructuring of the Electrotechnical Industry
  • 2. Lean Management in Practice The Headquarters Perspective
  • 3. Products, Processes, and Organizational Change in the Production of Power Transformers
  • 4. ABB in Scotland Managing Tensions between Transnational Strategy, Market Decline, and Customer Focus
  • 5. ABB in Spain The Leap from Early Taylorism to Post Taylorism
  • 6 ABB in Australia Local Autonomy versus Globalization
  • 7. ABB in Canada Local Hero versus Lean Learner
  • 8. ABB in Sweden A New Start at the Old Mecca
  • 9. ABB in Germany Is Excellence Enough to Survive?
  • 10. Global Policies and the Dynamics of Local Variation
  • 11. Power Plant Production Continuity and Innovation in a Core Business
  • 12. Distributed Development in a Multinational
  • 13. The ABB Attempt to Reinvent the Multinational Corporation
  • References
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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