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Towards the factory 4.0? : convergence and divergence of lean models in Italian automotive plants
Moro, Angelo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2021
-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …
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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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...
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Energy tax and R&D competition : the case of energy efficient consumer durables
Conrad, Klaus - 1995
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Eine Branche unter Druck : die Bedeutung der Autoindustrie für Deutschland
Puls, Thomas; Fritsch, Manuel - 2020
innovation Germany. But the golden decade came to an end in 2018. In 2019 the global automotive market began to shrink. Added to …
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Automation, digitalization and decarbonization in the European automotive industry : a roadmap towards a just transition
Cetrulo, Armanda; Dosi, Giovanni; Moro, Angelo; Nelli, … - 2023
This position paper outlines the characteristics of the trends at stake in affecting the twin transition in the European automotive industry, and the political economy of the actors behind such transition. We first describe the automation and digitalization processes in the automotive sector and...
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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Innovation (and upgrading) in the automobile industry : the case of India
Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2016
This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particularly MNCs, and the extent to they have contributed to the development of the Indian automobile...
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The territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics in Baden-Württemberg : inter-organizational relations in the sectoral knowledge domain of the automotive industry
Strambach, Simone; Dieterich, Iris - 2011
The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation 'combinatorial knowledge … dynamics' gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge …
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Do exporting firms in the People's Republic of China innovate?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2012
innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC … using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovation proxy. Drawing on recent literature on innovation …
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