"This introductory chapter offers an overview of the entire book on the management transformation of Huawei. Huawei is now China's most prominent multinational company and a leader in 5G mobile telephone technology, which will be rolled out across the world in the next few years. What makes...

A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the US. This constitutes an important chapter in business, economic, and technological history because synthetic dyes - invented in 1857 - represent the first time that a scientific discovery quickly...

A survey across space and time reveals that leading firms operating in global industries often cluster in one or a few countries. The paper argues that nations differ in how successful they are in a particular industry because coevolutionary processes linking a particular industry and national...

A survey across space and time reveals that leading firms operating in global industries often cluster in one or a few countries. The paper argues that nations differ in how successful they are in a particular industry because coevolutionary processes linking a particular industry and national...

Scientific management is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of management devised by him. In this article we present our discovery of very different scientific management principles that were developed roughly concurrently with Taylorism by German physicist Ernst Abbe, then owner...