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Managing Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: A Multiple-Case Study
van Echtelt, van Echtelt, F.E.A.; Wynstra, Wynstra, J.Y.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
Existing studies of supplier involvement in new product development have mainly focused on project-related short-term processes and success-factors. This study validates and extends an existing exploratory framework, which comprises both long-term strategic processes and short-term operational...
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Does Economic Crisis Spur Organizational Change? Evidence from Chilean Manufacturing Plants
Alvarez, Roberto; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo - 2006
Recent theoretical models have shown that when demand is slack, firms tend to introduce new management practices and/or reorganize their production methods; however, few micro econometric studies deal directly with the relationship between organizational change and economic crises. In this...
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Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the US Steel Industry
Collard-Wexler, Allan; Loecker, Jan De - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 1, pp. 131-71
We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel--the minimill--on industry-wide productivity in the US steel industry, using unique plant-level data between 1963 and 2002. The sharp increase in the industry's productivity is linked to this new technology through two...
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Automation technologies and employment at risk: The case of Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso; Heffner-Rodríguez, Aldo; Livas, René; … - 2020
Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation … assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the Mexican labor market. We find that almost two thirds of total … employment is at high risk of automation; slightly more than half if we only consider employment in the formal sector. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616397
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Digitalization and change in the global division of labor: Industrial work in transition
Krzywdzinski, Martin - In: RBEST: Revista Brasileira de Economia Social e do Trabalho 3 (Art. No.:) e021016 (2021), pp. --
the global division of labour and work. It proceeds by investigating the scope and character of automation and its impact … voiced in public discourse the author does not identify a major push in automation in manufacturing industries (that would … automation. The effects on the geographies of production of technological change, however, result in new strategies of …
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Automation technologies and employment at risk : the case of Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso; Heffner-Rodríguez, Aldo; Livas, René; … - 2020
Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation … assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the Mexican labor market. We find that almost two thirds of total … employment is at high risk of automation; slightly more than half if we only consider employment in the formal sector. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224000
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Quality and work organization with advanced automation in Portugal
Pereira, Zulema; Kovács, Ilona; Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
forms of advanced automation. Are characterised the existing quality control structures in the Portuguese industry, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616702
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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019
This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...
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The contextual effect of completion on the effectiveness of performance feedback
Nikiforow, Nicole; Wagener, Sebastian - In: Journal of Business Economics 91 (2020) 1, pp. 61-90
This study investigates the varying effect of performance feedback on performance, depending on the task context. Specifically, we analyze the state of completion (of a product or process) as an essential dimension of the task context. Using a laboratory experiment, we predict and find that...
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A Lean Six Sigma framework for the insurance industry: insights and lessons learned from a case study
Sandner, Kai; Sieber, Sebastian; Tellermann, Marleen; … - In: Journal of Business Economics 90 (2020) 5-6, pp. 845-878
It has long been recognized in the literature that the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies can complement each other fruitfully. So far, however, researchers have not been able to derive definitive conclusions on how to combine these methods; furthermore, there is little research on how to apply...
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