The impressive and sustained growth of India's automobile industry in recent years has catapulted it into the league of the world's top-seven producers of four-wheelers. In the past decade, its exports have surged more than 25 percent a year on average. The turning point was arguably the 1991...

Faster developing cycles and economic developments created many emerging economies in the 20th century. For sustainable economic growth, however, the construction and constant preservation of a profound knowledge base and technological pool is crucial. Brazil, China, India and Russia,...

Die zentrale Fragestellung dieses Buches behandelt das Problem, wie neu erzeugtes Wissen aus dem System der Wissenschaft in das ?konomische System gelangen und dort wertsch?pfungsgenerierend appliziert werden kann. Der Handlungsspielraum bzw. die Nutzung neuen Wissens im Wirtschaftssystem sollte...

This thesis deals with three selected dimensions of strategic behavior, namely investment in R&D, mergers and acquisitions, and inventory decisions in dynamic oligopolies.The question the first essay addresses is how the market structure evolves due to innovative activities when firms' level of...

Global warming is becoming a big problem and carbon emissions from a variety of sources are the cause of it. To control emission, a number of carbon emission reduction policies and schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol & COP15 treaty have been reached and put in place. However, not all countries...

Customer service has become a crucial part of the integrated supply chain inthe ICT industry. Customer-facing activities are often outsourced to authorizedthird party companies who, in effect become the custodians of customersatisfaction.The need for good customer service management has become a...

There has been a recent trend toward the use of lifecycle analysis (LCA) as a decision-making tool for the automotive industry. However, the different practitioners` methods and assumptions vary widely, as do the interpretations put on the results. The lack of uniformity has been addressed by...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this research report is to identify the impact of the changes in retail pricing driving forces since the introduction of the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) in 1995, identify the shortcomings and develop an improved retail pricing principle model for...

Die Globalisierung und höhere Marktheterogenität haben zu einer drastischen Zunahme der Produktkomplexität in der Automobilindustrie geführt. Ursache hierfür sind kürzere Modell-Lebenszyklen, eine stark gestiegene Modellvielfalt und zunehmende landesspezifische Produktanpassungen. Die...

Forschungsfragen:- Welche Voraussetzungen bzw. Bedingungen sind im Menschen selbst und in seiner Umgebung vorhanden/müssen geschaffen und gefördert werden, damit er bereit ist, sich aktiv an Innovationsprozessen zu beteiligen?- Wie ist dies durch Maßnahmen zur konsequenten Förderung und...