1 Motive, Zielsetzung und Struktur -- 2 Kundenzufriedenheit — ein Wettbewerbsfaktor mit steigender Bedeutung im Zuge der Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie -- 2.1 Wettbewerbsfaktor Kundenzufriedenheit -- 2.2 Quantifizierung der Kundenzufriedenheit -- 2.3 Einflussfaktor Liefertreue -- 3 Die...

This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of productive capacity in above industries between...

European shipyards face a rising competition in the global market. Christopher Sauerhoff investigates such aspects as a shipyard’s market expertise, its practical experiences, and its cooperative activities. He analyzes whether there is a relationship between each of these aspects and those...

Langfristfertigung und Einordnung in den wirtschaftlichen Kontext -- Auswirkungen der Gewinnermittlungsmethode auf die Gesundheit deutscher Schiffbauer -- Ausblick auf den neuen IFRS-Standard “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” .

Inventory Management in Multi-Echelon Networks presents methods to plan inventory in distribution networks. By holistically looking at the supply chain, it shows how safety stocks across all echelons can be optimized if inventory of all levels is taken into consideration. The gap between the...

This book identifies factors of information system (IS) integration that influence supply chain agility and illustrates how IS integration can achieve greater supply chain agility. Also considering the consequent operational impacts that arise from IS-enabled supply chain agility, the author...

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...

This book examines how the norms, culture, and practices of the socio-economic Nordic model give them a competitive edge in globalized production chains. Using the Norwegian automotive industry - one of the most globalized industries in the world - as the empirical foundation of the book, it...

This research focuses on the process of growth in the automobile industries in the ASEAN region. ASEAN is drawing attention both from the vantage point of its position as an automobile-producing region and as a potential automobile market. Thailand in particular has long treated automobile...