This paper provides an extensive overview of the economic importance and evolution of the car manufacturing industry. In addition, it provides evidence that the car industry is still playing a vital role in process innovation. The currently widespread lean production method, under which...

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...

Die Produktionsmodernisierung durch den Einsatz von organisatorischen Konzepten im Bereich der Arbeits- und Produktionsorganisation und dem Personalmanagement stellt für Unternehmen einen wichtigen Stellhebel zur Verbesserung ihrer betrieblichen Leistungs- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit dar....