Spanish Abstract: La industria automotriz argentina es uno de los sectores más estudiados por la historia económica. Sus límites se atribuyen a la mayor o menor intervención del Estado, al legado del neoliberalismo o a las estrategias de las multinacionales. A nuestro entender, estas...

When we talk about the “governance” of business organizations, we usually refer to responsibility and regulatory compliance, and answering the question: “how should an organization be directed, monitored, and held more accountable?” In this paper, we take recent developments in the car...

Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie erstellt und im Oktober 2006 abgeschlossen. Gegenstand der Studie ist die Untersuchung des Globalisierungs- und Anpassungsprozesses sowie seiner Ergebnisse in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien,...

This study examines leadership dynamics in the regional jet manufacturing industry from the 1980s onwards. With the help of leading products aircraft or aircraft family, British Aerospace BAe, Fokker, Bombardier and Embraer consecutively took the leadership in terms of new deliveries. In order...

Based on evolutionist theories and project management knowledge, a connectionist model based on genetic algorithm is built to simulate innovation process in organizations. Transformation and selection produce micro dynamics to create macro behavior in the agents' population. Results clarify...

Through a study of the industrialization process in Queretaro, particularly in the case of the automotive industry, the intention is to contribute elements that will make it possible to corroborate the heterogeneity of the transition from Fordism to a new model. At the same time, by studying the...

This article analyses the location patterns of the US aerospace industry by comparing the spatial behaviour of manufacturing and R&D functions. We find that these two functions follow different logics as R&D activities tend to concentrate in the northeast whilst assembling is mostly accomplished...

The obsolescing bargain (OB) model analyzes bargaining between a host country (HC) government and a multinational enterprise (MNE) at time of entry and the circumstances under which the original bargain does or does not erode over time. The model has traditionally focused on the dyadic...

Transnational corporations are oligopolistic firms engaged in strategic games designed to enhance their market share at the expense of their rivals. They benefit from having governments see them as insiders within a regional market, and their rivals as outsiders. This article hypothesizes that...