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The paper takes its starting point in a longitudinal case study of Aalborg Industries — a large Danish industrial enterprise. Focus is on Aalborg Industries’ Strategic Outsourcing Programme, which is under construction and to be implemented in the entire organisation during 1999–2000. First, the overall ideas and contents of the programme are explained. Secondly, the strategic implications and challenges of implementing the programme in three business units situated in USA, Brasil, and Denmark and characterised by three different stages of development are highlighted. In conclusion, different software applications to facilitate the integration of primary suppliers into the Aalborg Industries global network are proposed. In order to substantiate the topicality of the empirical investigations, the paper compares the globalisation process faced by Aalborg Industries with related findings in key articles.
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Momme, J., Hvolby, HH. (1999). How to approach and implement strategic outsourcing programme in a global context — case study of Danish industrial enterprise. In: Mertins, K., Krause, O., Schallock, B. (eds) Global Production Management. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 24. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35569-6_41
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