Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places...

Purpose – The study aims to examine the safety attitudes of workers, supervisors and managers in a UK‐based car manufacturing plant, and their relationship with unsafe behaviour and accidents. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire methodology is used to measure safety attitudes and...

Purpose – This article aims to provide a quantitative review of the range and effects of human resource management (HRM) practices in the North American automotive industry. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 14 studies provided data for an employee‐level meta‐analysis of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine antecedents of employee quality commitment at two Korean auto firms. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 644 employees at two auto plants; 331 at the high lean plant and 313 at the low lean plant. Hierarchical regression...

Purpose Recent legislation in Europe and North America encourages women’s participation in corporate boards based on the belief that gender-diversified boards contribute positively to firm performance and increased competitiveness. Contrary to the West, the women’s participation rate in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand consumer preferences for green vehicles with low fuel consumption and emission. It will examine six important vehicle attributes, including fuel efficiency and CO 2 emissions, and determine the impacts of increasing demand for green attributes...

Purpose Numerous firms in the automotive industry, to improve their competitiveness, have recently adopted mergers and acquisitions (M&As) strategies, particularly those in which a multinational enterprise from a developed country (DMNE) or a multinational enterprise from an emerging market...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for sustainable learning that can be used to target training resources more effectively. The focus is the automotive supplier chain where skills development is an urgent problem. Design/methodology/approach – A number of different...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide practitioners of management and information technology a sense of how the automobile industry uses the internet to market its products. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the applied literature on practices and actual examples of...

Purpose – To develop understanding of why the use of business information in new product development proves problematic in practice, and to show how obstacles and difficulties may be overcome by reference to the process of using business environmental scanning (BES) for the purpose in a real...