Complements the overall argument to lower the British economy, showing how vertical specialization, horizontal competition and entrenched control work together to create incentives for management to adapt to changing international conditions, based on the traditional technologies. The main objective of teaching the case to demonstrate how organizational structures determine the choice of technique to clarify the differences between the low-bandwidth and high-throughput production strategies, and between foreign and domestic economy, and to show how the performance limits of low throughput strategies and difficulties that the company will be participating have to move away from this strategy. "Hide
by Thomas K. McCraw 18 pages. Publication Date: June 13, 1991. Prod. #: 391253-PDF-ENG
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