Endnotes

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¹ It is important to note that the case discussed here concerns the development of a car between 1986 and 1993/1994. Reports in the business press in late 2000 scrutinized Ford for the failure of its Ford 2000 program. This was an organizational change program started in 1995, which led to an overly centralized organization that failed to pay attention to local demands. While Ford Mondeo was a forerunner to Ford 2000, it is not a part of that program. Thus this article is not concerned with Ford 2000, but with the period preceding it. In fact Ford 2000 appears to be an illustration of a wrong balance between global and local, in particular the lack of functional integration across borders.

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