The Dynamics of the Diversified Corporation and the Role of Central Management of Technology

Jens Frøslev Christensen

No 98-4, DRUID Working Papers from DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

Abstract: This paper discusses 1) the generic forces that drive the evolution of diversified industrial corporations and their implications for the corporate technology base, 2) the changing role of the central R&D lab in the context of these forces, and 3) the role of management of technology in promoting dynamic coherence in diversified - and highly decentralized - corporations. The line of argument in the paper is illustrated by an indepth case-study of Danfoss, a Danish multi-divisional corporation operating within mechatronical markets.

Keywords: Corporate strategy; diversified corporations; management of technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L22 L64 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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