In our era of "shareholder value", news of redundancies in leading global companies is good news for the stock market. The coincidence of this kind of news with growing unemployment creates the impression of a direct and simple relationship between the two developments. In this paper, we use...

In our era of "shareholder value", news of redundancies in leading global companies is good news for the stock market. The coincidence of this kind of news with growing unemployment creates the impression of a direct and simple relationship between the two developments. In this paper, we use...

In this paper we will, based on both quantitave and qualitative data, examine the following questions: On the inter-organisational level, which effects on inter-firm relations are to be expected? Given the lead role of procurement technologies in the automotive supplier industry, what effects...