On the ropes.
The article focuses on Itlay based-Olivetti SpA, one of the leading information technology company. The firm was restructuring, cutting its workforce by 40% and removing layers of management. But it was also refocusing, by trying to expand in selected businesses such as ink-jet printers. And it was...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 335; no. 7915; pp. 60 - 62 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
5/20/1995
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