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上传日期:2005-4-11 0:00:00

SHELL SHOCK : THE SECRETS AND SPIN OF AN OIL GIANT

Book ID/图书代码: 08430005B00052

English Summary/英文概要: Royal Dutch/Shell is a multinational behemoth. Every four seconds of every day, 1,200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civil airliners are refuelled with Shell aviation spirit every ten seconds. The company has long been regarded as a world leader and a model for other corporations. That is, until January 2004. In a truly dramatic statement, the company told an incredulous world that estimates of Shell’s reserves had been inflated by a staggering 3.9 billion barrels. It was the first of a series of admissions that brought into question Shell’s reputation for rectitude and sent its share price tumbling. Shell Shock is an engrossing account which reveals details that have never been included in any company accounts. Prominent amongst these is the confirmation that one of the corporation’s two ’founding fathers’, Henri Deterding, was a passionate supporter of fascist dictators such as Gomez in Venezuela, Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany. Shell Shock then exposes the company’s appalling environmental record, notably in Nigeria and the United States, and reveals the possible ecological consequences of current plans to extract oil from Sakhalin Island, off Russia’s Pacific coast. As the company - threatened with multi-billion-dollar legal action in America and West Africa - struggles to recover from what amounts to self-immolation, this timely account of its history shows how an internal cultural revolution and an obsession with spin besmirched the company’s good name, the quality that mattered most to Shell’s founders.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 荷兰皇家壳牌石油公司是一家规模极大的跨国公司。每四秒钟全世界就会有1200辆汽车在壳牌公司散布全球各个角落的大大小小加油站里往自己的车箱里注入汽油,在分散在世界各地的机场里,每十秒钟就会有民航客机用壳牌民航机油加油。多年来,壳牌公司一直是公认的全球商业中的领导者,是无数公司的楷模。就像公司的口号说的一样,你完全可以信赖壳牌。但是当日历翻到2004年的一月的时候,一切都改变了。 壳牌公司突然发表了一篇极富戏剧性色彩的报告,在报告中他们向全世界宣布 该公司的实际石油储备与他们估计的数字之间的差距竟然高达三十亿桶,这一点很难让大家接受。公司还要进行进一步的核实,而核实的结果可能会把差距提高到四十四亿桶。当然这还只是壳牌公司对外公布的丑闻的开始,之后的一连串揭底事件让大家开始怀疑壳牌公司一贯的可信度,股票也连连下滑。这家蓝筹股中的翘楚企业耍了很多诡计和障眼法来蒙蔽世人的眼睛。壳牌伤害了自己也坑害了他们的股东。 《壳牌危机》讲述了全球最有威望的大企业的精彩故事,揭开了壳牌公司的层层内幕,披露了很多从未在企业帐户上显露过的惊人细节。 作品生动、形象、细腻地刻画了壳牌的两位奠基人:Marcus Samuel和Henri Deterding, Marcus是伦敦东区以贩卖海壳发家的商人,在雄心勃勃的政治野心的驱使下当上了伦敦市市长,Henri是荷兰的一位出纳,他曾是众多纳粹独裁者的忠实党徒,支持过委内瑞拉的Gomez,西班牙的Franco,意大利的墨索里尼和德国的希特勒,而且在他的葬礼上纳粹的统治者们还特别派遣了军官们踏着军步向他的墓地献花,并致了奉承的悼词。 《壳牌危机》以时间顺序完整地记录下了壳牌公司在世界各地的经营活动,披露了该公司触目惊心的环保记录:他们大肆掠夺了尼日利亚土族人的土地,破坏了美国各个社区的生活环境,也揭露了壳牌公司的最新计划:他们打算开发俄罗斯境内的太平洋沿岸上的库页岛上的石油,这一规划将进一步破坏生态环境。 正当壳牌,这家面临着美国和西非国家多起累积金额达上千亿美金的法律官司的公司挣扎着要从近乎自残的行径中恢复元气的时候,《壳牌危机》很适时的出现了,它阐述了壳牌公司因在惧怕自己会在重要的能源领域越来越被抛在其他强大的竞争对手的后头而愈加膨胀的恐惧感的驱使下引发的内部文化革命是如何玷污了壳牌的良好口碑,而这一品质对于壳牌的创始人来说是多么的重要啊。

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