Empirical work studying the industry life cycle highlights the role of knowledge in various forms on the durations firms survive in the industry. This research leaves open the influence of historical events, which are reflected in macroeconomic factors like income, inflation, exports and...

The theory predicts that spino s of successful parents are more successful than others. The success of the parents can be measured in two ways, either in terms of their survival duration or concerning their innovative activity. In this paper, the survival chances of spino s in the German...

This paper investigates how the survival of firms over the industry life cycle is affected by different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a statistical survival analysis is performed for the German...

Knowledge is one of the most important determinants in single-industry studies of firm survival over the life cycle. Different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity positively influence the survival chances of firms....

We apply various refinements of survival regression to assess the results of some basic specifications based on product life cycle theory for the case of a data set of the German automobile industry. The methods applied pay attention to biases in the coefficient estimates and the standard...

We apply various refinements of survival regression to assess the results of some basic specifications based on product life cycle theory for the case of a data set of the German automobile industry. The methods applied pay attention to biases in the coefficient estimates and the standard...

The paper opens by mapping the changes in the global auto industry in the 1990s, showing how the rapid growth in sales and production between 1990 and 1997 came largely from the emerging markets rather than the Triad regions (North America, the European Union and Japan). However, for some of...

We examine how the risk-return profiles of carmakers BMW and Porsche depend on whether car models are produced in the US or Europe. Using data from the US car market we combine a demand system for differentiated products with counterfactual paths to macroeconomic variables. We let prices and...

This paper suggests the importance and benefits that foreign direct investment (FDI) exerts in a host economy development, through the international transfer of technologies to an intermediate technological and economic developed country, with a significant technological gap. The importance of...

This paper examines the current status of the auto parts industry by creating the Auto Parts Imports Intensity Index. COMTRADE data from 2000 to 2017 was used for imports of automotive and auto parts to see how imports of finished car and auto parts have different interdependent relationships in...