Subject category:
Strategy and General Management
Published by:
Stanford Business School
Version: February 1998
Length: 24 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
An agreement signed in 1993 allowed AT&T to re-enter the Chinese telecommunications equipment market. Bill Warwick, the Chief Executive Officer of AT&T China, faces three interrelated challenges in building a business there. The first is how to compete with established, lower-cost rivals in a market with fierce price competition. Second is how to achieve co-ordination among AT&T's very independent business units to serve the Chinese market. Third is what role to take in the debate about linking renewal of China's most-favored-nation status to its human rights record. In the background is the issue of whether AT&T ought to be in China.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
312,000 employees, USD65 billion revenues
Other setting(s):
1993
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Abstract
An agreement signed in 1993 allowed AT&T to re-enter the Chinese telecommunications equipment market. Bill Warwick, the Chief Executive Officer of AT&T China, faces three interrelated challenges in building a business there. The first is how to compete with established, lower-cost rivals in a market with fierce price competition. Second is how to achieve co-ordination among AT&T's very independent business units to serve the Chinese market. Third is what role to take in the debate about linking renewal of China's most-favored-nation status to its human rights record. In the background is the issue of whether AT&T ought to be in China.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
312,000 employees, USD65 billion revenues
Other setting(s):
1993