This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success....

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical. It develops a more nuanced analytic model of private sector narrative and applies it to 63 recent narrative texts (movies, histories, biographies) produced in the US dealing with three...

Chapter 1. Introduction: What is Concession Bargaining? -- Chapter 2. The World of Concession Bargaining -- Chapter 3. The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Second Wave: The Ultra-Concession Bargaining of the Past Decade -- Chapter 5. The Message Behind the New...

This book is about the history of product variety in the US automotive industry from the black Ford-T to hot-rodders and easy-riders up to latest trends. It focuses on the dual structure of automotive industry in the United States: on one hand, relatively few and large companies producing cars...

Analyse der Eigenheiten von Geschäftsprozesspatenten (GPP) -- Corporate Foresight (CF) mittels Patenten: Methodenspektrum und Ableitung der eigenen Methodik -- Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und Auswertung des Vorgehensmodells zum CF mittels GPP.

This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials. To do so, it analyzes productivity at a Japanese car component plant and...

This book focuses on political connections in the United States. It contributes to the literature on the link between politics and business, and on the impact of political connections on firm value, by considering industry-level regulation as a discriminating factor in the investigation of firm...

Deregulation has introduced competition into traditionally monopolistic markets, particularly telecommunications and electric utilities. This book brings together ten essays that were presented at the Center for Research in Regulated Industries at Rutgers University and funded by several...