This article discusses theoretically why companies cooperate in carrying out their R&D, and doing so with several external agents. From a sample of original equipment manufacturers suppliers (OEMS) located in Catalonia, we checked if they incorporated products innovation, research, design,...

The aim of this paper is to determine the degree of implementation of certain work practices of reflexive production and lean production, individually and jointly, in Catalonia direct suppliers firms of OEM. We present the results of a survey, which examines various items about the degree of...

This paper makes an economic and financial analysis of car dealerships in Spain, using data from SABI database. Moreover, it analyses the economic and financial characteristics of firms that determinate that, in the same crisis context, some firms manage to have positive profit, while other ones...

Three periods could be found in the development of automobile industry in Uruguay since the seventieth: the first with the production oriented to the local market as result of import substitution policies; the second (since the nineties and regional integration) where automobile production was...

This article applies game theory in the company under study, in order to optimize the competitive strategy with respect to its main competitor in the bicycle and motorcycle market. Once the problem is defined, the zero-sum matrix between the competitors is established, then the model is...

El nivel de capacidades tecnológicas que logra desarrollar una organización es de gran relevancia para generar ventajas competitivas. El estudio de las capacidades tecnológicas se ha centrado en analizar su relación con el desempeño empresarial, el aprendizaje, la...

This paper analyzes the Mexican automobile and truck industries, and estimates the long run functional relationship between these industries and the automobile industry in the USA. The methodology consists of a cointegration analysis of the two series in the long run and the estimation of an...

This article discusses theoretically why companies cooperate in carrying out their R&D, and doing so with several external agents. From a sample of original equipment manufacturers suppliers (OEMS) located in Catalonia, we checked if they incorporated products innovation, research, design,...

Spanish Abstract: La industria automotriz argentina es uno de los sectores más estudiados por la historia económica. Sus límites se atribuyen a la mayor o menor intervención del Estado, al legado del neoliberalismo o a las estrategias de las multinacionales. A nuestro entender, estas...