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Supplier Innovation Strategy : Transactional Hazards and Innovation in the Automotive Supply Chain
Kuan, Jennifer W.; Snow, Daniel C.; Helper, Susan - 2015
Over the last few decades, innovation has doubled automobile performance at a time when outsourcing has increased. But outsourcing is subject to well-known contracting hazards that would also afflict outsourcing for innovation. In this paper, we examine how supplier firms generate innovation in...
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Managing the dependency of focal firms on innovative suppliers : a qualitative study of automotive manufacturers in South Africa
Agigi, Assilah; Mocke, Kelvinne; Carrim, Iman; Keen, Logan - In: Africa journal of management 7 (2021) 1, pp. 31-57
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Russia's experience of foresight implementation in global value chain research
Meshkova, Tatiana A.; Moiseichev, Evgenii IA. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-35
The objective of this paper is to analyse the scope for improving empirical and methodological foundation of global value chain (GVC) research and for making relevant political decisions, primarily through application of foresight methodology based on the latest trend to combine the approaches...
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The role of strategic supplier relationships in enhancing supply chain innovation : a qualitative study in the South African automotive manufacturing industry
Modungwa, Malente; Rinke, Melissa; Agigi, Assilah; … - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation and … 13 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14
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Trust, competition and innovation : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015
We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...
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When Does Auto-Parts Suppliers’ Innovation Reduce Their Dependence on the Automobile Assembler?
Kang, Jihoon - 2020
Purpose – This study is to investigate the determinants of suppliers' dependence on buyers in the home country by developing a theoretical model of innovative activities. The high dependence of auto parts suppliers on a single local buyer in South Korea due to firm ownership issues and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829342
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What Goes on Under the Hood? How Engineers Innovate in the Automotive Supply Chain
Helper, Susan; Kuan, Jennifer W. - 2015
This paper takes a detailed look at the automotive supply chain to gain insight into how engineers generate innovation. Using survey data and observations from dozens of site visits to manufacturers, we characterize the incremental improvements in processes and product quality that accumulate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036351
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The "resurrection" of industrial policy in the European Union and its impact on industrial policy in the new member countries
Török, Ádám; Csuka, Gyöngyi; Kovács, Bernadett; … - 2013
The aim of this study is to consider the main factors affecting the industrial policy in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The...
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Thailand’s Middle-Income Trap : Firms’ Technological Upgrading and Innovation and Government Policies
Intarakumnerd, Patarapong - 2019
Once recognized as a high-performing newly industrializing economy, Thailand is currently in the middle-income trap … relatively low technological learning of firms in Thailand. After a financial crisis in 1997, certain improvements transpired … sophisticated technological capabilities in product and process design, advanced engineering, and R&D. However, Thailand is still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891547
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Automotive enterprise transformation : build to order as a sustainable and innovative strategy for the automotive industry?
Parry, Glenn; Roehrich, Jens - In: Journal of enterprise transformation : a joint … 3 (2013) 1, pp. 33-52
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