This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases from foreign and domestic suppliers between 2006 and 2016. The effects...

We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...

Every organization's response to environmental challenges is to improve quality by adopting modern concepts and a new approach to quality. This includes, of course, the developed and implemented quality management systems. Ensuring quality and managing it today is an inevitability, so a great...