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...

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...

We investigate the effects of 2015 Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal in the Taiwanese new car market. Using a difference-in-differences empirical strategy and administrative data on new car registrations, we find that quarterly sales of Volkswagen fell by more than 20% in self-use market. But...

Three-dimensional printing (3DP) will lead to future changes in the structure and supply chain operation of businesses. While prevailing studies focus on qualitative assessments, this study quantitatively estimates 3DP impact on the maritime shipping volume and fleet type by (i) estimating the...

The Indian automobile industry has a pivotal role in the automobile market in the world, because the automobile industry in India is world’s fourth largest and seventh largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Automobile industry is largest sector which contribute the 45% manufacturing...

A data envelopment analysis (DEA) is presented to assess evolutions of firm efficiency and financial performance in automotive supply chains. A sample of 32 decision-making units (DMUs), 17 globally operating original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and 15 key suppliers from the automotive...

Supply chain failures and supply shortages have always been a matter of high risk. Especially when considering the scope and velocity of modern supply chains, small disturbances can cause immense damage. However, a framework for quantifying supply chain systemic risk is still missing.To address...

This paper studies the automotive supply chain in four European countries (Germany, France, UK and Italy). First, employing WIOD data (Timmer et al., 2015)processed via Trade-SCAN (Román et al., 2019), we decompose the domestic and imported inputs of production, focusing on the region and...

Under an onslaught of COVID-19, the automotive supply chain of a well-known manufacturer in Wuhan came to a screeching halt. We investigate the process of restarting a supply chain that had gone cold. There have been studies that looked at the process of ramping up new product lines, but to the...

In this paper we examine the main transformations that are affecting European automotive industry and which challenges, in particular due to the transition to new forms of propulsion, the industry is going to face. The automotive industry is central to the European economy and the nature of the...

The potential restructuring of global value chains (GVCs) is a widely discussed question in current debates. At the same time, a proper way of capturing these value chains is challenging. This paper focuses on the automotive industry, using detailed data on firm-to-firm transactions in Hungary,...

Over the last 20 years, the success of Japanese manufacturing firms has brought renewed attention to the importance of cost reduction on existing products as a source of productivity growth. This paper uses survey data and field interviews from the auto supply industry to explore the...

In the early stages of the corona virus pandemic, business environment was changing rapidly. The Moroccan automotive industry was one of the export sectors most affected negatively by the corona crisis; it collapsed during the three months of confinement and the pandemic has created immense...

Total Quality Management (TQM) is a holistic management philosophy of continuously improving the product / service / process quality by focusing on the customer needs and expectation to enhance customer satisfaction and organizational performance. Quality management is a systematic way of...

Purpose – This study is to investigate the determinants of suppliers' dependence on buyers in the home country by developing a theoretical model of innovative activities. The high dependence of auto parts suppliers on a single local buyer in South Korea due to firm ownership issues and...

Economic theory implies that research and development (R&D) efforts increase firm productivity and ultimately profits. In particular, R&D expenses lead to the development of intellectual property (IP) and IP commands a return that increases overall profits of the firm.This hypothesis is...

Die Auto- und Zulieferindustrie in Deutschland steht unter enormem Veränderungsdruck. Dabei zeichnet sich ab, dass Produktionsbedingungen und Arbeitsbeziehungen einen grundlegenden Wandel erfahren. Welche Richtung diese Transformation einschlägt, hängt jedoch auch vom Einfluss und der...

Ziel dieser Studie ist die Untersuchung, ob mobile Achtsamkeitsmeditationen eine Wirksamkeit auf die individuelle Achtsamkeit bei Führungskräften entfalten. Die Führungskräfte stammen aus einem Dienstleistungsunternehmen mit Konzernanbindung in Deutschland und verteilen sich auf die untere...

Die deutsche Autoindustrie kann auf ein goldenes Jahrzehnt zurückblicken. Zwischen den Jahren 2008 und 2018 erzielten die Unternehmen einen Absatzrekord nach dem anderen. Der Haupttreiber dieser Entwicklung war das starke Wachstum des chinesischen Marktes, von dem die deutschen Hersteller und...

Die Automobilbranche in Deutschland ist seit Jahrzehnten etabliert. Neue Anbieter spielten seit dem Markteintritt von Volkswagen nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg kaum eine Rolle. Dies wird gegenwärtig anders. Nicht nur Tesla baut in Brandenburg eine neue Fabrik für bis zu 2 Millionen Fahrzeuge...

Li-ion batteries are used in battery-powered vehicles, but also in power tools and consumer electronics. Due to the challenges posed by climate change and the increasing penalties for CO2 emissions, battery-powered electric vehicles are regarded as one of the solutions. Modern lithium-ion...

Public and academic attention towards sustainably managing companies and corresponding supply chains has been gaining significant momentum in recent years. While extensive literature is available on corporate sustainability and the original equipment manufacturers' (OEMs) downstream supply...

1. Introduction to Automotive Disruption and the Urban Mobility Revolution -- 2. Characterization of the Automotive Industry -- 3. Elements of the Automotive Disruption -- 4. Urban Mobility Revolution: A Quantitative Analysis -- 5. Business Model 2030: A Metamorphosis of the Automotive Landscape...

For over 20 years, the Brazilian economy has faced enormous challenges as a result of neoliberal structural reforms, economic stagnation and external crises, particularly after the Latin American crisis of the late 1990s to early 2000s and after 2014. Deep economic structural changes and...