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Explaining Productivity Differences : Comparative Analysis of Automotive Plants in Japan, the United States, Thailand and China
Shibata, Hiromichi - 2016
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 its three offshoot plants located in the United States, Thailand …
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Achieving Supply Chain Agility : Information System Integration in the Chinese Automotive Industry
Wu, Yi - 2019
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...
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Automobile Industry Supply Chain in Thailand
Itō, Munehiko; Kato, Atsumi; Shimono, Yoshitaka; … - 2018
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...
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Achieving Brand Loyalty in China through After-Sales Services : With a Particular Focus on the Influences of Cultural Determinants
Fraß, Alexander - 2016
This paper provides a guideline for how the entire process chain of automotive after-sales services could be researched in China. In addition, Schwartz's individual level value theory is introduced as a beneficial operationalisation approach to cultural marketing. So, values are modelled as...
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Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe
Pavlínek, Petr - 2017
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....
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Automotive Recycling, Plastics, and Sustainability : The Recycling Renaissance
Schönmayr, David - 2017
This book provides transdisciplinary analyses of the automotive plastics production and recycling system, including prognoses, scenarios and solutions for corporate sustainability management. A book on plastics, not written by a plastics guy. But a sustainability guy. Plastics schizophrenia and...
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Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe : Shifting Locales in the Motor Vehicle Industry
Jacobs, A. J. - 2017
This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly plants in the former Socialist Central European (CE) nations of Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia from 1989 onwards. Enticed by relatively lower-wage labour and significant government incentives, the world’s...
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Wissensemission und -absorption : Boundary Management in F&E-Kooperationen
Schellenberger, Moritz - 2018
Moritz Schellenberger untersucht den Prozess der Wissensemission und -absorption in zwei Tiefenfallstudien in zwei namhaften deutschen Unternehmen der Pharma- und Automobilbranche mit dem interorganisationalen Austausch von Boundary Objects als Analysegegenstand. Das Ergebnis zeigt einen...
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Corporate Foresight-Akteure : eine empirische Analyse am Beispiel der Automobilindustrie
Schneider, Laura - 2018
Die Autorin analysiert die Bedeutung der beteiligten und betroffenen Akteure für den Erfolg von Corporate Foresight-Aktivitäten anhand einer Fallstudie aus der Automobilindustrie. Die empirische Untersuchung konzentriert sich auf die Ermittlung persönlicher und situativer Faktoren, die...
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Elektromobilität als disruptive Innovation : Herausforderungen und Implikationen für etablierte Automobilhersteller
Strathmann, Timo - 2019
Timo Strathmann untersucht in diesem Buch, inwiefern die Elektromobilität als eine „disruptive Innovation“ nach der Definition von Harvard-Professor Clayton Christensen eingestuft werden kann. Dabei zeigt er, welche Herausforderungen sich durch den Aufschwung der Elektromobilität für...
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