Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Studiengang International Business Studies), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: In 1996, managers of U.S. based automaker Ford Corporation realized that they had been fooled: The decision to allocate the company's seat construction to the single supplier Lear Corporation had turned out to be a disaster. Lear had made unrealistic promises concerning their engineering talent in order to get into...