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Success Through Consistent Strategy: How Does Scania’s Management Control Matter?

In: Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage

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  • Nils-Göran Olve

    (Linköping University
    Uppsala University)

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For a long time, Scania has remained remarkably consistent in its competitive positioning. Its origins date back to the early 1900s, and since 1924 it has produced trucks and busses in Södertälje, a town close to Stockholm. From 1969 until 1995 it formed part of Saab-Scania, which at that time was a major industrial group also producing passenger cars and aircraft, but Scania retained its strong identity. Business units within the group deployed very different management control practices. Hence, Saab-Scania was acting as a conglomerate, in spite of operating in industries where synergies would seem possible. Throughout this period, Scania was the most profitable part of the group. After more than a quarter-century it again became a separate company in 1995.

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  • Nils-Göran Olve, 2014. "Success Through Consistent Strategy: How Does Scania’s Management Control Matter?," Management for Professionals, in: Erik Jannesson & Fredrik Nilsson & Birger Rapp (ed.), Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage, edition 127, chapter 4, pages 85-105, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-642-39134-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39134-7_4
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