TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beaumont,Philip B.
AU  - Behr,Marhild von
AU  - Belanger,Jacques
AU  - Bengtsson,Lars
AU  - Berggren,Christian
AU  - Bjorkman,Torsten
AU  - Björkman,Torsten
AU  - Bray,Mark
AU  - Bélanger,Jacques
AU  - Giles,Anthony
AU  - Grenier,Jean-Noel
AU  - Kohler,Christoph
AU  - Kähler,Christoph
AU  - Lansbury,Russell D.
AU  - Martin,Graeme
AU  - Schultz-Wild,Rainer
TI  - Being Local Worldwide: ABB and the Challenge of Global Management 
SN  - 9781501722103
AV  - HD9697.T694 A233 1999
U1  - 338.8/8721314 21
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Electric transformer industry
KW  - Management
KW  - Case studies
KW  - International business enterprises
KW  - General Economics
KW  - Labor History
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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's ASEA and Switzerland's Brown Boveri, marked the birth of a company with truly global aspirations, one whose apparent genius for combining strong central planning with local autonomy for its plants has made it a trendsetter.An international team of researchers assesses the dynamic interplay of the forces of convergence and diversity present in ABB. Together they examine the actual workings of this multinational—in order to learn to what degree the corporate strategies are achieved in its plants. Based on a multilevel organizational study, their book compares seven plants in six countries on three continents
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722103
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501722103
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501722103/original
ER  -