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Being local worldwide : ABB and the challenge of global management
- Title
- Being local worldwide : ABB and the challenge of global management / edited by Jacques Bélanger [and others].
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Bélanger, Jacques.
- Description
- xi, 282 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Preface / Torsten Bjorkman -- Introduction: Between Globalization and Multidomestic Variation / Christian Berggren -- 1. ABB and the Restructuring of the Electrotechnical Industry / Torsten Bjorkman -- 2. Lean Management in Practice: The Headquarters Perspective / Torsten Bjorkman -- 3. Products, Processes, and Organizational Change in the Production of Power Transformers / Lars Bengtsson and Christoph Kohler -- 4. ABB in Scotland: Managing Tensions between Transnational Strategy, Market Decline, and Customer Focus / Graeme Martin and Philip B. Beaumont -- 5. ABB in Spain: The Leap from Early Taylorism to Post Taylorism / Christoph Kohler -- 6. ABB in Australia: Local Autonomy versus Globalization / Mark Bray and Russell D. Lansbury -- 7. ABB in Canada: Local Hero versus Lean Learner / Jacques Belanger, Anthony Giles and Jean-Noel Grenier -- 8. ABB in Sweden: A New Start at the Old Mecca / Lars Bengtsson --
- 9. ABB in Germany: Is Excellence Enough to Survive? / Rainer Schultz-Wild -- 10. Global Policies and the Dynamics of Local Variation / Christian Berggren and Christoph Kohler -- 11. Power Plant Production: Continuity and Innovation in a Core Business / Marhild von Behr -- 12. Distributed Development in a Multinational / Christian Berggren -- 13. The ABB Attempt to Reinvent the Multinational Corporation / Jacques Belanger and Torsten Bjorkman.
- ISBN
- 0801436508 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 99033981
- OCLC
- ocm41601213
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries