Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Between Globalization and Multidomestic Variation 1
5. 1. ABB and the Restructuring of the Electrotechnical Industry 16
6. 2. Lean Management in Practice The Headquarters Perspective 36
7. 3. Products, Processes, and Organizational Change in the Production of Power Transformers 61
8. 4. ABB in Scotland Managing Tensions between Transnational Strategy, Market Decline, and Customer Focus 78
9. 5. ABB in Spain The Leap from Early Taylorism to Post Taylorism 97
10. 6 ABB in Australia Local Autonomy versus Globalization 119
11. 7. ABB in Canada Local Hero versus Lean Learner 131
12. 8. ABB in Sweden A New Start at the Old Mecca 156
13. 9. ABB in Germany Is Excellence Enough to Survive? 179
14. 10. Global Policies and the Dynamics of Local Variation 198
15. 11. Power Plant Production Continuity and Innovation in a Core Business 217
16. 12. Distributed Development in a Multinational 233
17. 13. The ABB Attempt to Reinvent the Multinational Corporation 248
18. References 269
19. Notes on Contributors 277
20. Index 279