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.
..., and b) the "keiretsu" style automobile parts contracting system unique to the Japanese automobi...
... activities are interdependent with other parts of the MNE (Westney 1993). Correspondingly, Guler ... to climate change in the global automobile industry. In A. J. Hoffman & M. J. Ventresca (Eds....
... of automotive brake systems and parts. The licensed intangibles were registered as trad... German subsidiary sold primarily to automobile manufacturers, the lower court contended that the ...
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.
... tries to link the effects of the different parts of the Hoppmann model with behavior and overall ou... much lower, due to a downturn in the automobile business and stiffer competition from other car ma...
Firms still have great difficulty joint venturing successfully in China. The authors contend that the current understanding of environmental risk in China is incomplete. Specifically, the current conceptualization has three problems: 1. lack of integration of unique Chinese environmental characteristics, 2. incomplete distinction between different types of environmental risk, and 3. lack of a conceptualization of how the risk pattern changes as the economy transitions. They extend the current risk framework to include the unique features of the Chinese context. They offer guidelines for managing risk tradeoffs over time using two key structural decisions: Channel partner relationship and equity ownership. International joint ventures (IJV) continue to be one of the dominant entry modes ...
..., China's government has preserved parts of the socialist system, gradually evolving market..., launched its successful new Flyer automobile brand starting around U.S. $3,500 (Lynch 2004, Tie...
Over the past twenty years or so the German pension system has undergone an almost endless series of reforms. Both the time spans for the respective reform processes themselves and the time spans between the reforms have diminished progressively, and they seem to have been more easily carried out each time. While the 1992 reform, which introduced the net adjustment formula and some other changes, took about ten years of preparation, the most recent reforms have been much less problematic. These new politics of German pension reform have been marked by a change in policy style, creative opportunism on the part of the government, a deliberate strategy of experimental law-making and a striking strategy of blame avoidance. Eventually, the German pension reforms succeeded in transforming the...
... the general public, while the unions and parts of the Social Democratic Party, primarily the left..., but also in the iron, steel and automobile industries, and which was backed up by the social ...
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...The present volume is divided into three parts. The first part deals with internationally oriente... of differentiation in the automobile service sector are discussed as well as economic a...
Peter F. Drucker, who was often called the world's most influential business scholar and whose thinking transformed corporate management in the latter half of the 20th century, died Nov 11 at his home in Claremont, California. Drucker was born in Vienna on Nov 19, 1909. He started his career in Economics by working for several German banks and export companies, and, at the same time, as economic journalist for Austrian and German newspapers and international banks in London. Drucker pioneered the idea of privatization and the corporation as a social institution. He coined the terms "knowledge workers" and "management by objectives". Although he was not always right with his visions, in the world of management gurus, there is no debate. An interview taken with Drucker in 1997 when he was...
... big client, one of the world's biggest automobile manufacturers. And we spent several days to think ...Its main plants now make parts. They are being assembled in new and small shops c...
Outsourcing has gained much prominence in managerial practice and academic discussions in the last two decades or so. Yet, we still do not understand the full implications of outsourcing strategy for corporate performance. The authors longitudinally analyze three cases of major consumer electronics manufacturers, Emerson Radio from the US, Japan's Sony and Philips from the Netherlands to understand the dynamic process related to their sourcing strategies. They develop an evolutionary stage model that relates outsourcing to competence development inside the firm and shows that a vicious cycle may emerge. Results suggest that each of these firms had faced a loss of manufacturing competitiveness in its home country, to which it responded by offshoring and then outsourcing production. When ...
... that all three firms hail from different parts of the Triad, allows us to capture different devel... thought experiment is whether Chinese automobile and component suppliers are going to benefit from ...
... the general public, while the unions and parts of the Social Democratic Party, primarily the left..., but also in the iron, steel and automobile industries, and which was backed up by the social ...
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