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Customers in geographically dispersed, emerging and established global markets nowadays demand higher quality products in a greater variety and at lower cost in a shorter time. As a result, firms have been forced to reorganize their activities and realign their global strategies in order to provide the speed and flexibility necessary to respond to windows of market opportunity. Consequently, organizations have moved from centralized, vertically integrated, single-site manufacturing facilities to geographically dispersed networks of resources. Additionally, in order to acquire technological know-how and assets quickly, or to acquire a local presence in new and distant markets, strategic partners are increasingly part of the network structure. The changes require adaptations by companies to fit the characteristics of industrial networks in dynamic environments: * firstly, network configurations require a control structure and organizational structure that fits the actual demand, and companies have started to move away from the control paradigm of the monolithic company towards managing the emergent properties of networks; * secondly, with the move towards OEMs as network players ther
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- Author
- Rob Dekkers
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781848824683
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Management, Engineering
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