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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
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Performance Measurement and Management Promotion through Non-Financial Measures : A Management Accounting Perspective
Eisenberg, Paul - 2018
accounting function of business organisations. The study is important because it shows how organisational focus on non … management accounting research over the last three decades is presented. The development in the academia is then contrasted with … the management accounting techniques used in practice. Among different techniques available, the Budgeting technique and …
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Assembling Toyota in Portugal
Machado, Tiago; Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
A lot has been written over the last decade with regard to Toyota and the productive model associated to it (toyota-ism). And more specifically concerning the "(…) best-seller that changed the... sociological world" (Castillo, 1998: 31). But the case of Salvador Caetano’s Ovar Industrial...
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Automotive Industry Response to its Global QMS Standard ISO/TS-16949
Singh, Neelam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
With increasing globalization, the intense competition and customer-pressure have spurred many producers from developing/ emerging countries to adopt the best management and organizational practices. The quality issues are paramount for automotive manufacturing. The multiplicity of Quality...
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The link between gasoline prices and vehicle sales:economic theory trumps conventional Detroit wisdom
McManus, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the link between fuel prices and sales of cars and trucks. U.S. automakers have long denied that such a link exists. One source of this false belief is an obsession with the crude count of units sold, equating Hummers with Minis. Another source is the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260256
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Futures of automobile industry and challenges on sustainable development and mobility
Moniz, António; Paulos, Margarida Ramires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
competence besides US, Japan or Germany in these topics. Special focus will be made in this paper on the topic 2. Public policy …
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Can proactive fuel economy strategies help automakers mitigate fuel price risk?
McManus, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Detroit automakers have opposed mandated improvements in fuel economy since legislation was first proposed in the 1970’s. Their opposition is based, among other considerations, on the assumption that their customers value fuel economy only when fuel prices are high. This paper presents the...
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Futuros da indústria automóvel: Qual a sua importância para a definição do produto, modelos de produção e estratégias de mobilidade?
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Some programs and research networks are dealing with topics associated to the automtive sector and they observe one of the most significative sectores of modern economies. Because of that is so interesting to forecast some possible changes in an horizon of 10 to 20 years. But this exercse must...
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Resultados provisórios do exercício Delphi WorTiS (1ª fase)
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
. The experts panel considered no other international competence besides US, Japan or Germany in these topics. Although the …
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Kompetenzaufteilung in konzerninternen Netzwerken der Automobilindustrie: Chance für Standort und Region?
Winter, Johannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework explaining the different options of corporate competency division and their regional effects in terms of peripheral acquisition of competencies. The framework is empirically based on an analysis of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles...
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