This paper presents the results of a grounded theory study on the automobile industry aimed at developing a concept of aging workforce management by identifying and constructing its constituting elements. Through an in-depth research investigation, it answers the question of how the challenge of an aging workforce can be defined, and the related broader managerial issues that arise in the context of one specific industry. Our findings suggest that the quest for 'competitiveness' is the major constituting element of the concept of aging workforce management. Interdependent with this are two secondary elements that encompass the actual challenge: measures that drive competitiveness and symptoms of the aging workforce. Three further 'residual elements' making up the six constituting elemen...
Resource dependence theory was used to develop hypotheses on whether keiretsu affiliation, mutual dependence between the automaker core and supplier firms, and internationalization level of the affiliate firm have an effect on its performance. The hypotheses were tested on archival data from the entire population of 470 first-tier automobile components suppliers in Japan. Results indicate that lower levels of supplier-firm dependencies on the automaker firm and higher levels of automaker firm dependencies on the supplier firm had a positive effect on the performance of the supplier firm. Interestingly, keiretsu affiliation was not found to have an impact on supplier firm performance.
... government, professional accounting and industry associations, and pressure groups in an MNE's home... to climate change in the global automobile industry. In A. J. Hoffman & M. J. Ventresca (Eds....
... for member states and especially their industry sectors is no news. But the phenomenon that the Eu... sector (few big companies like in the automobile industry or a lot of small businesses like in mech...
The authors examine the role of stakeholders as an influence in the practice of portfolio restructuring. They contend that with the presence and creation of new legal arrangements and regulations, portfolio restructuring achieved widespread usage, but only when the initiatives were consistent with the interests of the most powerful social actors in a firm. Building on a stakeholder power approach to corporate governance, they examine whether the interests of relational banks, managers, and business groups were consistent with the practices of portfolio restructuring they observed in Japanese firms in the 1998 to 2005 period. Regressions using data on 174 Japanese machinery firms lend support to predictions that portfolio restructuring increases in frequency with the extent to which busi...
...Sample. We started with an industry-specific sample that included all 230 machinery fi...-supplier relationships in the Japanese automobile industry. Control Variables. We used return on ass...
This article deals with a model of worker participation which was introduced in a German car dealership and repair shop in the 1960s and which goes far beyond the legal framework of German codetermination ("Mitbestimmung"). The model comprises full codetermination in economic affairs, substantial gain-sharing, participation through work teams on the shop floor, and the "neutralization of capital" (i.e., transfer of owner's property rights to a foundation). The significance of these four elements is described in theoretical terms. The development was evaluated by interviewing a representative sample of the company's employees. The economic and social success of the company leads to the question of how industrial democracy can be further advanced in the future.
... much lower, due to a downturn in the automobile business and stiffer competition from other car ma... large corporations in the coal and iron industry (Montan-Mitbestimmung) is chosen. These formal pro...
... a warehouse for a supplier to the automobile industry. The supplier subsequently terminated the...
... is a supplier for the international automobile and motorsports industries. The Austrian industriaal holding company Tyrol Equity AG, industry expert Udo Wendland and financial investor Lafayet...
Recent years have witnessed increasing state involvement in the Russian enterprise sector, which has been met with contradictory reactions from investors. In the current article, we discuss the development of privatisation and corporate governance in Russia in comparison to other CIS. We provide three company cases with subsequent discussion on ownership, control, and corporate governance in Russia, given the increasing state leverage in the country's industrial sector. Aimed at facilitating discussion among policy makers, investors, and academics alike, we finally offer an insight into strategic dimensions of the Russian enterprise sector by developing a matrix of strategic government policies within the Russian industry.
... The state's increasing interest in the automobile industry has raised some suspicion. At the end of ...
An opposition between social cooperation (stakeholderism) and Neoliberal market solutions paralyzes political and scientific debate on reform in Germany today. This essay rejects that opposition by recasting the way in which each of the categories is understood. Pressure to become more flexible in many areas of work and organizational life has not given rise to a blanket embrace of "the market" on a local level. Instead, it has induced widespread experimentation with alternative forms of workplace and firm governance that involve continual and collaborative recomposition of stakeholder roles in and among firms and social actors. In other words, stakeholder governance is not disintegrating or giving way to the market in Germany. It is being redefined. Experimentation with roles and rules...
... that form the core German economy (automobiles, machinery, electrical equipment etc). Manufacturi... emergence of these kinds of relations in industry has generated tremendous pressure for change on al...
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