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Recently, the terms global company and globalization have appeared in the headings of numerous books. Global companies have to customize universal products to meet local needs, they have shared decision processes and cross- organizational communication, they are highly networked or virtual and they have to manage their core competencies well.
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Saaksjarvi, M. (1998). Product Platform and IT Infrastructure in Strategic Management of IT. In: Urban, S., Nanopoulos, C. (eds) Information and Management. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-86995-1_3
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