Die Automobilindustrie befindet sich in einem umfassenden Technologiewandel, der die etablierten Wertschöpfungsketten infrage stellt. Den laufenden Wandel mit heimischer Forschung mitzugestalten, ist daher für die Automobilstandorte von großer Bedeutung. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird die...

Proactive regional policies to aide local transformation processes are in the limelight these days. This paper firstly discusses the big paradigm shift in mainstream economics towards this newly gained prominence of place-based policies. Afterwards, the paper introduces the most voluminous case...

This article applies game theory in the company under study, in order to optimize the competitive strategy with respect to its main competitor in the bicycle and motorcycle market. Once the problem is defined, the zero-sum matrix between the competitors is established, then the model is...

This paper investigates the impact of volatility in the upstream electric vehicles (EV) battery raw materials market on the downstream stock returns of individual EV producers. The study uses the daily stock returns of two lithium producers and the newly proposed EGARCH-EARJI model to capture...

Pervasive and ubiquitous oscillations, mapping the repetitive variation in time of a specific state, are well known as abundant phenomena in research and practice. Motivated by the success of oscillators in the modelling, analysis and control of dynamical systems, we developed a related approach...

In times of fast-growing stakeholder interest in sustainability, the ecological and social perspective of industrial companies and its products is gaining increasing importance. In particular, the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the automotive industry has come to the forefront of public...

Market share objectives are prominent in many industries, especially where man-agers pay much attention to league table rankings. This paper explores the strategicrationale for giving managers incentives based on market share in an oligopoly com-peting in strategic substitutes. Moreover, the...

Im Mittelpunkt der Serien- oder Sortenfertigung steht die Frage, wie häufig der Materialfluss unterbrochen werden muss und welche geschlossene Auftragsmenge eines Produktes jeweils hergestellt wird, es tritt also die Aufgabe auf, die kostenoptimierte Losgröße zu ermitteln. Lagerkosten,...

The focus of this paper is the empirical evaluation of the German Accelerated Vehicle Retirement program, that was implemented in January 2009 to stimulate automobile consumption. In order to adress this question a unique monthly dataset of new car registrations owned by private consumers from...

The paper addresses the dynamic-incentive effect of environmental policy instruments when innovation is uncertain and occurs in very complex industrial subsystems. The case of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) is considered focusing predominantly on the effects of the European Directive adopted in...