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Jacque Belanger (Editor), Christian Berggren (Editor), Christoph Kohler (Editor)


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November 1999 ILR Press books
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.

Contributors P. B. Beaumont, University of Glasgow, Scotland Jacques Blanger, Universit Laval, Canada Lars Bengtsson, University College Gvle, Sweden Christian Berggren, Linkping University, Sweden Torsten Bjrkman, National Defence College, Sweden Mark Bray, University of Newcastle, Australia Anthony Giles, Universit Laval, Canada Jean-Nol Grenier, Universit Laval, Canada Christoph Khler, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitt, Jena, Germany Russell D. Lansbury, University of Sydney, Australia Graeme Martin, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland Marhild von Behr, Institut fr Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Germany Rainer Schultz-Wild, Institut fr Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Germany


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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press (November 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0801436508
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801436505
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,465,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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