This paper explores the topic of supply chain management using case studies of companies from the automotive industry. Focus is given to the way supply chain strategies in the automotive industry are designed and implemented, and how automotive companies configure their supply chains through...

As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc along Global Value Systems (GVSs) and India's domestic economic crisis deepened, the already struggling Indian Automotive sector incurred huge losses owing to both demand and supply side factors. In fact, the sector has been under significant strain over...

The restrictive measures that have been imposed from March 2020 on business activities in several countries to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic can be interpreted as shocks to global supply chains. We propose some agent-based models to evaluate the economic effects of different...

Since Daniel Steele’s 1975 seminal publication on schedule nervousness, academic researchers and corporate operations alike have deepened and expanded related research, both with direct intent to examine schedule nervousness (a.k.a. variation, volatility, or instability) or tangentially in...

Background: Additive manufacturing (AM) applications in producing spare parts are increasing day by day. AM is bridging the digital and physical world as a 3D computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) method. The usage of AM has made the supply chain of the aviation spare parts industry simpler, more...

The Local Entrepreneurs show incredible potential as a financial improvement system for deteriorating or declining economies for regional networks. Nonetheless, early business visionaries frequently need information on ways of realizing their thoughts, and networks regularly come up short on the...

I use a novel approach and a rich set of firm- and transaction-level micro data to identify FDI spillovers on supplier-industry firms and to disentangle the potential channels of supplier-buyer links and labor flows. I take the case of a large FDI in Hungary, and use the method of triple...

This paper develops a model in which upstream network insiders' conduct relationship specific investment that induces the downstream firm to transact within networks. The scale of destination-country production and part-specific measures of the importance of network relationships and engineering...

Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...

The automotive sector is undergoing radical changes. New trends such as electrification, autonomous driving, connectivity, and car-sharing - to name a few - are disturbing the carmakers, which must satisfy their clients while meeting the increasingly strict environmental regulations. This...