Housekeeping at Corporate Headquarters: International Trends in Optimizing the Size and Scope of Corporate Headquarters

Neue Studie des Profilbereichs RoCC (in Engl.)

Purpose: This international guide on changes at CHQ provides data
and insights on changes in CHQ design over a four-year time period
(2007–2010), as well as on the status quo of recent CHQ design and effectiveness
(2010).

Surveys: The guide is based on large-scale surveys of 761 of the largest
corporations in 21 countries in North America and Europe. The overall
company-level response rate accounting for 28.4 % of the sample indicates
a large interest in changes at CHQ.

Key findings: The surveys indicate an overall trend towards stronger
CHQ – in contrast to the more prominent cases of CHQ cutbacks frequently
published in the business press. Many companies have tightened
the reins of CHQ and increased CHQ influence over divisional decisions.

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