A compelling profile of an emerging Chinese competitor Chinese firms are reinventing their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the "world's best" companies.
A compelling profile of an emerging Chinese competitor Chinese firms are reinventing their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the "world's best" companies.
Bill Fischer is a professor of innovation management at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Formerly he was executive president and dean of the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai and the Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Professor of Business at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He writes The Ideas Business blog for Forbes.com. Umberto Lago is associate professor of Management at Bologna University in Italy. He has been, at different stages of his life (often simultaneously): a university professor, private and public manager, entrepreneur, and consultant. He is a member of UEFA Club Financial Control Body. Fang Liu is a research associate at IMD. Her research focuses on fields such as management innovation, marketing, and global business.
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Foreword ix Alexander Osterwalder
1. Moving a Company with the Times: What Makes Haier Unique? 1
2. The Battle field: The Home Appliance Industry in the West and China 17
3. The Story of Haier and the Evolution of Its Corporate Culture 43
4. Liberating Talent: Tapping the Entrepreneurial Spirit 81
5. Building a Corporate Culture for the Twenty-First Century 109
6. Haier as a High Performer 147
7. A True Hybrid: How to Fashion a Strategically Agile Organization 175
8. A True Disrupter: How Embracing Change Creates Value 211
