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...

A prevalent feature of the global economy is the relevance of trade in intermediates due to production fragmentation. This phenomenon has led to the revival and development of trade models that include inter-industry relations. A wide variety of Ricardian trade models cope with this feature. In...