Die engen transatlantischen Handelsbeziehungen geraten durch die Zollpolitik von US-Präsident Trump stark unter Druck. Das spiegelt sich schon in der Exportentwicklung der deutschen Branchen der ersten drei Quartale 2025 wider. Im Durchschnitt über alle Branchen hinweg sind die deutschen...

Dieser Leitfaden beleuchtet mithilfe einer fiktiven KMU die Herausforderungen der Integration und Digitalisierung der Supply Chain. Er zeigt auf, wie diese Herausforderungen von KMU erfolgreich bewältigt werden können. Tauchen Sie ein in die Geschichte der Schäubli AG. Erfahren Sie, wie das...

I would like to thank Hong and Luparello (2024) for their effort in replicating, as well as partially extending, the results in Orr (2022). This replication report makes what I believe to be three key points: 1. The replication package of Orr (2022) is computationally reproducible (up to two...

Although Machine Learning (ML) in supply chain management (SCM) has become a popular topic, predictive uses of ML in SCM remain an understudied area. A specific area that needs further attention is the prediction of late deliveries by suppliers. Recent approaches showed promising results but...

Many governments struggle with how to efficiently, effectively, and equitably allocate medical supplies and equipment. Medical supplies and equipment can be expensive and prone to mismatches in use, context, and the level of expertise needed to operate them. Optimizing allocation is particularly...

The Holt and Laury (2002) task is arguably the most widely employed method for eliciting individual risk attitudes in economics. However, although around 15% of standard experimental subjects fail to complete the task consistently, this fraction increases to an alarming 60-70% in the case of...

The machinery industry is a very difficult sector to develop in the short term. It is also not easy to drastically shorten the developmental period. Therefore, it is necessary for developing countries to thoroughly review Korea’s policy trends when designing machinery industry policies. This...

The World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland in January this year raised a global issue by suggesting a new subject, “Mastering of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Compared to the previous subjects which were general economic issues such as low economic growth rate, interregional...

Systems thinking (ST) involves a holistic understanding of a problem in order to find sustainable solutions. While the technologies and tools of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) have been known to catalyze business efficiency improvement, a comprehensive understanding of the impact of...

Being technology and knowledge-intensive and high valued, the engineering industry enhances the competitiveness and productivity of related industries. Moreover, recent economic circumstances continue to raise the significance of the engineering realm, not only along with the spread of...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant impact on businesses and markets are a set of challenges for the engineering industry-problems that may worsen relying on the duration or severity of the critical situation in the United States and around the world. Ambiguity about the severity and...

A brief expert report by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy for the IMPULS Foundation analyzes the effects of the law on corporate due diligence in supply chains, which was passed by the German parliament in June 2021. Key findings are that suppliers from developing countries may be...

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (including 3D printing) and Advanced Materials are the advanced technologies with the highest innovation potential embedded in machinery. The use of online applications in the machinery industry has been increasingly growing, which opens an array of advantages...

Purpose of the study: To critically analyse the financial growth pattern and the overall performance efficiency of industrial machinery companies in India.Design/Methodology/Approach: The data collected from the financial statement of the companies for 10 years from 2007-2008 to 2016-17 were...

Purpose of the study: To critically analyse the financial growth pattern and the overall performance efficiency of industrial machinery companies in India.Design/Methodology/Approach: The data collected from the financial statement of the companies for 10 years from 2007-2008 to 2016-17 were...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital formation in both countries. A substantial amount of...

On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...

Die Studie untersucht die globale Umweltinanspruchnahme des deutschen Maschinenbausektors inkl. der gesamten vorgelagerten Lieferkette. Dies umfasst Treibhausgasemissionen, Luftschadstoffe, Wasserverbrauch sowie den Einsatz von ausgewählten Rohstoffen. Die Quantifizierung der Umweltbelastungen...

This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and 1966. The statistics are obtained from the payrolls of firms belonging to the Engineering Employers...

This paper compares labour productivity during the Great Depression (GD) and the Great Recession (GR) in engineering, metal working and allied industries. Throughout, it distinguishes between output per worker and output per hour. From the peak-to-trough of the GD cycle, hourly labour...

Ein Gutachten des IfW Kiel im Auftrag der IMPULS-Stiftung des VDMA zeigt: Deutschlands Wohlstand wird entscheidend von der internationalen Arbeitsteilung getragen. Erschwert Deutschland in Reaktion auf die Coronakrise die Kooperation mit ausländischen Lieferanten, etwa um Lieferketten durch das...