Company Case Study 2: Novex AG—Frustration and the Great European Office Furniture Hunt

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If you live in Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Sweden, Finland, most of Germany and parts of Italy then you can return to your coffee, muesli and eggs. If you live in the UK, the US or any other country with a chronic record of shoddy building practices and poor workmanship, then read on.

Source: Tyler Brûlé, 2005, ‘Frustration and the great European office furniture hunt’, FT.com, 19th November. Used under licence from the Financial Times. All Rights Reserved.

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Brûlé, T. (2020). Company Case Study 2: Novex AG—Frustration and the Great European Office Furniture Hunt. In: Wehrmeyer, W., Looser, S., Del Baldo, M. (eds) Intrinsic CSR and Competition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21037-3_4

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