Through comparison with the computer industry this paper examines whether government intervention has facilitated development in the Chinese automobile industry. Chinese computer firms operate in a largely laissez-faire market environment, with relatively free entry and exit, whilst the...

This paper considers the demand for job training and its interaction with organization adjustments through rotation within a team and relocation across teams in response to demand and supply shocks. The analysis includes estimations of determinants of on-thejob training, and of how much such...

Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...

We examine the effect of plant managers on productivity using unique matched manager-plant panel data on US auto assembly plants during 1993-2007. Our econometric approach is two-pronged. Our first approach relies on using the panel nature of our data to measure variation in productivity due to...

This paper considers the demand for job training and its interaction with organization adjustments through rotation within a team and relocation across teams in response to demand and supply shocks. The analysis includes estimations of determinants of on-the job training, and of how much such...

The relation between work organisation and technological practices in auto industry is analysed in this article. The concept of "technological practice" in this sector is used to describe the specific ways of embedding information and communication technology applications into the organizational...

Our goal in this article is to explain how South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company successfully transferred its production system to the United States. When a production system is transferred to another country, it is modified under the influences of different institutional environments. The key...

Es werden die langfristigen Veränderungen der aggregierten Tätigkeiten der Beschäftigten in der deutschen Automobilindustrie analysiert. Die zentrale Frage ist, ob die beobachteten Veränderungen der Tätigkeiten innerhalb der Berufe stattfi nden oder über die Reallokation der Beschäftigten...

Aufgrund des ökologischen und digitalen Wandels befinden sich weite Teile der deutschen Wirtschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt auf der Industrie derzeit in einer Transformation. So auch die Automobilindustrie, welche eine zentrale Rolle in der deutschen Volkswirtschaft einnimmt. Der Qualifizierung von...