Publications
Publications
- April 2005 (Revised November 2005)
- HBS Case Collection
Information Technology at COSCO
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Guoqing Chen and David Lane
Abstract
Describes the current status of IT applications at the second largest container shipping company in the world: China-based COSCO. Describes the challenges the company has faced in dealing with its development and shows a series of organizational and application challenges it must select from in the future. Shows the growing IT sophistication of large, state-owned enterprises in China.
Keywords
Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Shipping Industry; China
Citation
McFarlan, F. Warren, Guoqing Chen, and David Lane. "Information Technology at COSCO." Harvard Business School Case 305-080, April 2005. (Revised November 2005.)