If memory serves, the opening chap to "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is one long info-dump regarding the corporation. It was so boring, so "info-dumpy" that I could hardly believe the writer would have any kind of story I would enjoy.
Boy, was I wrong. Great story. Still hate that opening chapter. I would venture to guess that had the Scandinavian author tried getting published first in the US, rather than in Sweden, at best he would've been told to lose that intro on the corporation, and at worst, would have received a lot of rejections as a lot of readers wouldn't have gone beyond that first chap.
Parceling out necessary info over several scenes or several chaps works much better if you don't want to bring the story to a grinding halt... unless of course that info is so riveting and written so well that it keeps the reader engaged until the next plot point. Again, in "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" there were later chaps where scenes focused on FBs to show some of the horrors that the MC had endured. Not necessarily info-dumps, but they strayed from the original storyline. However they were so interesting and well written, and provided a lot of info regarding what shaped the MC that it was a breeze to read through and worked very well.