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Co-operative Structures in Global Business

Communicating, Transferring Knowledge and Learning across the Corporate Frontier

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-415-21644-9
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 12.10.2000
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Using a series of twelve historical case-studies that are based on extensive archival research, this book explains why firms succeed or fail in communicating or transferring knowledge and discovering new expertise. By analysing how workable trade-offs between opposing forces have been achieved in the past, this study provides a set of guidelines for executives who embark upon inter-firm projects.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780415216449
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-21644-9
  • Verlag: Routledge
  • Erscheinungstermin: 12.10.2000
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2000
  • Serie: Routledge International Studies in Business History
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 558 g
  • Seiten: 272
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 19 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

1. Introduction2. Agency agreements in international business: a dynamic model of shipowner-agent relations, 1870-19393. A family-based network: the Holt-Swire-Scott connection, decision support systems and staff development4. A multinational joint-venture: Orient Paint, Varnish and Colour Co., 1932-495. A purchasing co-operative: the steel manufacturer's nickel syndicate, 1902-396. A licensing pyramid: the John Brown company and International Curtis Marine Turbine Inc. 1908-19297. A technology transfer agreement: Babcock and Wilcox, 1880-19708. Learning within an inter-organisational group: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and oil propulsion, 1912-19399. A joint exploration venture: WMC and Hanna/Homestake 1960-197210. Contracts based on knowledge: the J. Walter Thompson company and Unilever - compounding intangible assets, 1900-197011. An Australian supplier chain: the New South Wales Bottle Company, 1912-197012. Hollywood networks, 1970-1999Conclusion: inter-form relationships