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IJOPM

28,6

Received 19 June 2007

Revised 3 February 2008

Accepted 19 February 2008

International Journal of Operations &

Production Management

Vol. 28 No. 6, 2008

pp. 562-583

q

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

DOI 10.1108/01443570810875368

A

systems

perspective

on

the

death

of

a

car

company

Nick Oliver

University of Edinburgh Business School, University of Edinburgh,

Edinburgh, UK

Matthias Holweg

Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, and

Mike Carver

Oxford, UK

Abstract

Purpose

– The aim of this paper is to understand how large and apparently successful organizations

enter spirals of decline that are very difficult to reverse. The paper examines the case of Rover, once

one of the largest car producers in the world, which collapsed in 2005. An......

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