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Being Local Worldwide
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.
Mad For Glory
In October, 1812, as the 32-gun U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British enemy, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the longest, strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain David Porter, who had decided to run off with the navy's ship and its three hundred men to fight a separate Pacific war--one of privateering, pillaging, and orgies. Drawing on Porter's own writings and the accounts of eyewitnesses, the author memorably recounts the events of a dark and fatal voyage in which David Porter crosses the line from commander to cult-leader, from improbable fantasy to disastrous reality. In a tale so amazing that it reads like fiction, Por...
Intelligent Technologies: Design and Applications for Society
This book is oriented towards applications and perspectives on future developments connected to intelligent technologies. Specifying topics connected to industry, mobility, telecommunications, biomechanics, among others. The innovative character of the text allows relating technical experiences and advances that seek to improve the implication of new technologies at local, national and regional levels, demonstrating the advances towards the different fields of knowledge in the area of engineering. The potential readers of this work would be master and doctorate students, professors–researchers in the field of new technologies and companies connected to the development of engineering. The texts serve to illustrate new procedures, new cases and new techniques for the optimization of systems that optimize social progress.
The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, C.1860-1920
A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.
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