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Title: Being Local Worldwide : ABB and the Challenge of Global Management
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0801436508
ISBN 13: 9780801436505
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.34 pounds

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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.

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Jacques B�langer is Professor of Industrial Relations at Universit� Laval in Quebec. Christian Berggren is Professor of Industrial Management at Link�ping University in Sweden. Torsten Bj�rkman is Professor of Sociology at the National Defence College in Sweden. Christoph K�hler is Professor of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t in Jena, Germany.

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