This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials. To do so, it analyzes productivity at a Japanese car component plant and...

Automobilhersteller konzentrieren sich zunehmend auf ihre Kernkompetenzen und verlagern Wertschöpfung auf die Zulieferer, deren Bedeutung für den Erfolg der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette damit steigt. Nils Asmussen untersucht erstmals empirisch den Einfluss von inter-organisationalen Balanced...

Die Marke ist der bedeutendste Vermögenswert vieler Unternehmen. Durch die Globalisierung der wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten muss sich die Marke zunehmend in heterogenen Märkten beweisen. Entscheidend für den nachhaltigen Markterfolg ist das von den Nachfragern in den Zielmärkten...

This book is about the history of product variety in the US automotive industry from the black Ford-T to hot-rodders and easy-riders up to latest trends. It focuses on the dual structure of automotive industry in the United States: on one hand, relatively few and large companies producing cars...

Analyse der Eigenheiten von Geschäftsprozesspatenten (GPP) -- Corporate Foresight (CF) mittels Patenten: Methodenspektrum und Ableitung der eigenen Methodik -- Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und Auswertung des Vorgehensmodells zum CF mittels GPP.

In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of short-run disequilibrium in this industry-variations'...

We examine the sensitivity of simple calibration models of trade in imperfectly competitive industries to changes in model specification, as well as to changes in the calibration parameters. We find that not just the magnitude, but also the sign of the optimal trade policies is very sensitive to...

Taking the early U.S. automobile industry as an example, we evaluate four competing hypotheses on regional industry agglomeration: intra-industry local externalities, inter-industry local externalities, employee spinouts, and location fixed-effects. Our findings suggest that inter-industry...

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical. It develops a more nuanced analytic model of private sector narrative and applies it to 63 recent narrative texts (movies, histories, biographies) produced in the US dealing with three...

During the summer of 2005, the Big Three U.S. automobile manufacturers offered a customer promotion that allowed customers to buy new cars at the discounted price formerly offered only to employees. The initial months of the promotion were record sales months for each of the Big Three firms,...