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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 7 charts and graphs, 10 tables, 3 drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501722103
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.8/8721314 21
LOC classification:
  • HD9697.T694 A233 1999
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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