KONE Corporation: An Experience of Internationalization

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  • Alexander V. Marschan KONE Corporation, Finland

Abstract

The author describes the history and current strategy of the Finnish corporation KONE. Starting from a small workshop, KONE has become one of the leaders in lift equipment production. KONE’s strategy is based on utilization of knowledge as assets. Knowledge assets made it possible for KONE to aquire a number of companies around the world since the late 1960es and obtain a significant market share in many countries (for instance, Japan, China, and Russia).

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Российский журнал менеджмента, Том 2, №1, 2004

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Published

2004-03-10

How to Cite

Marschan, A. V. (2004). KONE Corporation: An Experience of Internationalization. Russian Management Journal, 2(1), 151–161. Retrieved from https://rjm.spbu.ru/article/view/730

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2004)

Section

Practice of Management

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Articles of the Russian Management Journal are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.