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Economic Recession and Hyundai Heavy Industries - Strategies to cope with the risk factors of heavy industry

Jinsoo Park1 · Youngseok Choi2

1 Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University, Park Jung Boo Professor of MIS, 2 College of Business Administration, Seoul National University, Ph. D

Published: November 2014 · Vol. 18 No. 4 · pp. 81-104
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Abstract

Hyundai Heavy Industry (HHI) is a world-class Korean company, which significantly relied on the shipbuilding industry that was suffering from a worldwide recession followed by the European debt crisis. HHI found that it cannot continue to depend only on the shipbuilding industry. In this case study, we analyze the crisis affecting HHI from various perspectives and propose solutions. We conduct interviews with HHI employees and analyze the company’s financial and sales data. Finally, we discuss how to address the issue of HHI’s high dependency on the shipbuilding industry by suggesting a diversification from its current business segments
Keywords: 현대중공업중공업 산업다각화 전략조선 산업