This paper studies the within-model-year pricing and production of new automobiles. Using new monthly data on U.S. transaction prices, we document that for the typical new vehicle, prices typically fall over the model year at a 9.2 percent annual rate. Concurrently, both sales and inventories...

Recently, studies of industrial clusters and global production networks (GPNs) between large transnational corporations (TNCs) and smaller firms have focused on how power differentials shape, and sometimes undermine cluster innovation and governance. Such studies raise issues of how to...

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...

This paper proposes a different theory of the firm and demonstrates how it can be employed to yield hypotheses about differences in innovation and human resource strategy according to the shareholder/stakeholder and liberal/coordinated market dichotomies. The theory assumes that feasible...

Difficult conditions of functioning and the severity of forecasting possible changes in the conduct of business stimulate a search for new ways to improve economic security management for engineering enterprises. The purpose of our article is to develop a methodological framework for the...

The methodological approach to the application of anti-crisis management in the system of ensuring financial security of the enterprise, unlike the existing ones, summarizes and systematizes the theoretical and methodological features of determining the main stages of anti-crisis management,...

Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational “fitness” within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...

Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational "fitness" within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...

The goal of this research is to examine the relation between technology transfer, technical exchange, government role, and supplier performance of automotive industry in Jabodetabek, Indonesia. There are 99 companies in this study, consisting of 6 assembler companies, 59 tier-1 companies, and 34...