How to establish and manage a social business at the bottom of the pyramid : The case of OSRAM in Africa
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doi:10.4324/9781351287685-10

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How to establish and manage a social business at the bottom of the pyramid

ABSTRACT

Having its headquarters in Munich, Germany, OSRAM GmbH was already registered in 1906. Since then, it has developed into one of the two leading lighting manufacturers in the world being active in the fields of general lighting, automotive lighting, ballasts and luminaires, opto semiconductors, precision materials and components and display/optics (Exhibit 1).