Former Whirlpool CEO David Whitwam described his own staffs' resistance in the early 1990s after he had approved the acquisition of Royal Philips Electronics' European home appliance division

Management writers often use terms like silos, stovepipes, or chimneys to describe an organization in which autonomous business units operate with their own agendas and a minimum of horizontal interdependence

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Firms should design the highest performance level possible for their products

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