What happened with the grandiose plans? Strategic plans and network realities in B2B interaction

Research concerned with business relationships and organizational levels, respectively, has addressed companies' difficulties in realizing their strategies. Studies of business relationships explain this through actions and reactions among business partners. Organizational studies note gaps between strategic and operational organizational levels in perceptions and goals. This paper combines these perspectives to obtain new insights into why company strategies may not materialize. The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss how actor bonds on various organizational levels in business relationships affect strategy realization. The paper shows that actors on similar organizational levels representing different companies may actually share more understandings and activities than actors within the same company. The paper contributes to research on dyadic business relationships by highlighting differences in perspectives on various organizational levels, adds insights into research studying organizations by including a business-relationship aspect, and increases understanding of why strategic plans sometimes fail to succeed.     

试论高校图书馆馆员素质

在图书馆工作的构成要素中,馆员的素质是关键要素,它直接决定着图书馆服务工作的质量高低,是图书馆事业的关键。本文通过分析高校图书馆馆员素质要求和现状,提出提高馆员素质的方法。     

Ambidexterity as a dynamic capability in the globalization of the multinational business enterprise (MBE): Case studies of AB Volvo and IKEA

Most current research argues that globalization of companies is a myth. In spite of this Swedish firms have managed to globalize successfully according to a study by Vahlne and Ivarsson (2014). On a general level this is because they managed to build strong advantages and learned to overcome barriers constituted by cultural, institutional and geographic distance. We elaborate on the expectation that organizational ambidexterity has explanatory power for profitable globalization. We perform case studies of IKEA and AB Volvo to motivate our expectation and illustrate how these firms have been able, or not able, to balance and manage the simultaneous processes of exploration and exploitation. Ambidexterity is included in the package of dynamic capabilities affecting the globalization process positively. We find that being proactive in exploration and improving on the effectiveness in exploitation may lead to successful globalization performance.     

The Internationalization of Chinese Firms and Negative Media Coverage: The Case of Geely's Acquisition of Volvo Cars

Chinese firms are internationalizing at an unprecedented speed. One profound phenomenon linked to this active Chinese firms internationalization process is that the process tends to be confronted with negative media coverage of China and Chinese firms in Western countries. How to understand and cope with the negative image of China and Chinese firms, as they are often seen in the Western media, emerges as a relevant and timely research topic in the study of the internationalization of Chinese firms. The purpose of this article is to stimulate ideas for further research on the relations between the internationalization of Chinese firms and the media coverage. We use the case of Geely's acquisition of Volvo Cars, which was to a large extent negatively reported in the Swedish media during 2008–2013, as inspiration to identify the interesting research themes and questions. Given the increasing anti‐globalization trend, we hypothesize that Chinese firms will have to face up to the reality of negative media coverage in many Western countries for the foreseeable future, at least in the firms’ initial establishment phases. We end our paper with the managerial implications. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

AB机床公司生产管理系统优化研究

以AB机床公司生产管理为研究背景,用MRPⅡ/ERP、JIT与TOC理论对现有生产管理系统进行优化,对典型的订单拉动式生产、小批量多品种制造、离散型机械制造加工企业的生产管理有一定的借鉴作用。     

The dynamics of business orientation: the case of the Volvo Car Corporation

The traditional marketing literature generally sees the adoption of business orientation either from a static, cross-sectional viewpoint or as a one-way evolutionary or catastrophic process from production to sales to marketing. An examination of the changes in business orientation in the Volvo Car Corporation suggests that the pattern has been rather more cyclical than linear: market-production-market. The rationales of this pattern are analyzed in the context of both the nature of the particular market context and the evidence available. Both the managerial and academic implications are discussed.     

我国企业海外并购提升了公司价值吗——以吉利并购沃尔沃为例

汽车企业海外并购有利于谋求市场和技术,实现全球资源配置和新的利润增长点。以吉利汽车并购沃尔沃汽车这一特有的"蛇吞象"式海外并购事件为例,从市场反应和财务绩效两方面来研究吉利并购沃尔沃能否提升公司价值:从市场反应发现其累积超常收益率并没有跑赢市场;从财务指标变动趋势发现,盈利能力并不稳健,成长能力逐年减弱,风险水平比较高,长期来看将会使股东的财富受到损失。最后从微观和宏观层面上对我国海外并购提出几点建议。     

Modeling fuel saving investments and fleet management in the trucking industry: The impact of shipment performance on GHG emissions

Much has been written about the potential of technologies to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of trucking, but much less on the determinants of these investments. The Trucking Sector Trip Segmentation Model (TSTS) predicts how firms make these investments in the context of operating heterogeneous truck fleets to service the spatially dispersed demand of shippers. This analysis suggests that improving the performance of trucking (speeding up shipments) could reduce significantly GHG emissions: investments in technologies are incentivized by fuel savings accruing sooner. This effect could be potentially large in the US as trucking firms often discount the future heavily.     

吉利并购沃尔沃的风险与并购后整合战略分析

文中分析了吉利并购沃尔沃后所面临的风险,提出了并购后的整合战略:在巩固沃尔沃欧美市场的同时,积极开拓中国市场,尽可能释放沃尔沃的产能;发挥沃尔沃的品牌溢出效应,提升吉利品牌价值;保持现有沃尔沃团队的稳定,维护沃尔沃品牌形象;通过交互安排吉利和沃尔沃的管理人员到对方组织中,逐步实现组织结构的调整和文化融合;将技术战略重点放在对沃尔沃的专利和特长技术的消化吸收上;在中国联合组建研发中心,降低吉利的研发成本。