The purpose of this report is to assess the business operations of the General Motors Southeast Europe (GMSE) Representative Office in Bulgaria by putting them into the framework of contemporary economic circumstances (2008-2009) and consequently-provide strategic recommendations. Essentially,...

This paper presents the results of a grounded theory study on the automobile industry aimed at developing a concept of aging workforce management by identifying and constructing its constituting elements. Through an in-depth research investigation, it answers the question of how the challenge of...

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that firms...

Stellen Events eine Möglichkeit dar, nachhaltige Mobilität erlebnis-, ereignis- und letztendlich erfolgreicher zu kommunizieren? Anhand eines Vergleichs zwischen Unternehmen der Automobilindustrie und öffentlichen Nahverkehrsunternehmen werden Antworten auf diese Frage gesucht. Dabei wird das...

Globalization has led to exciting new business opportunities around the globe. Still, national and cultural boundaries have not evaporated into a "borderless world". Several studies have identified so-called liabilities of foreignness that arise from a lack of embeddedness and roots in the host...

This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...

In this paper we stress-test credit portfolios of 28 German banks based on a Mertontype multi-factor credit risk model. The ad-hoc stress scenario is an economic downturn in the automobile industry that constitutes an exceptional but plausible event suggested by historical data. Rather than on a...