The Timken Company (A1): Timken and Poland Case Solution
Abstract:
In 1995, at a turning point in the record of the bearings market, the Timken Company gets a high-volume bearings plant in Poland. Small distinctions from Timken's conventional innovation and items presume significant value as the acquisition is incorporated, resulting in basic shifts in the company's worth proposal and company.
Pedagogical Goals:
The cases highlight the development of business method not from the top, however from middle executive ranks. They likewise demonstrate how an acquisition might alter the moms and dad company (and not the reverse). The cases reveal how business discover from various and far-off locations, in specific when the knowing is tactical and disruptive.
This is just an excerpt. This case is about Strategy
published: 01 Jan 2003
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