MARC details
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02494pab a2200205 454500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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140923b0 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai |
| Original cataloging agency |
Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
ENG |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
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| Item number |
Arr |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Arrunada Benito |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
When Your Contract Manufacturer Becomes Your Competitor |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
9 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Sep 2006 |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
0 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
135-145 Pp. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Volume/sequential designation |
84 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
PC maker Lenovo started out as a distributor of equipment made by IBM and other companies; now it has formed a joint venture with IBM and will eventually affix its own logo to its computers. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) started out manufacturing vehicles for Volkswagen and GM; now it's preparing to sell its own cars in China, Europe, and North America. Lenovo and SAIC represent a host of formerly anonymous makers of brand-name products that are breaking out of their defined roles and pushing the brands themselves aside. In this article, the authors explore the double-edged relationships original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) forge with their contract manufacturers (CMs). On the one hand, an OEM can reduce its labor costs, free up capital, and improve worker productivity by outsourcing all the manufacturing of a product. The company can then concentrate on value-adding activities--research and development, product design, and marketing, for instance. On the other hand, an OEM that retains a contract manufacturer may find itself immersed in a melodrama replete with promiscuity (the ambitious CM pursues liaisons with other OEMs), infidelity (the OEM's retailers and distributors shift their business to the upstart CM), and betrayal (the brazen CM transmits the OEM's intellectual property to the OEM's rivals or keeps it for itself when the contract is up). OEMs cannot simply terminate their outsourcing arrangements--they need contract manufacturers in order to keep specializing, adding value, and staying competitive. But OEMs can manage these relationships so that they don't become weak or the CMs too strong. Doing so requires modesty about revealing trade secrets; caution about whom one consorts with; and a judicious degree of intimacy, loyalty, and generosity toward partners and customers. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Contract Manufacturer, Competitor, |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://192.168.6.13/libsuite/mm_files/Articles/AR8865.pdf">http://192.168.6.13/libsuite/mm_files/Articles/AR8865.pdf</a> |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) |
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25729 |
