Browsing International Motor Vehicle Program by Issue Date
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Management and Accounting Practices in the U.S. and Japan: Comparative Survey Findings and Research Implications
(1990-10-10)In recent years, the success of Japanese firms in the global market has prompted efforts to understand the sources of their competitive advantage. It has been suggested that one such source is the Japanese firms' management ... -
Current developments of the Brazilian automotive industry
(1995)In the context of the stabilization and economic growth that has followed the Real plan introduced in mid 1994, the latest effort to curb dramatically high inflation, the Brazilian automotive industry has continued to ... -
A Quality Policy for America
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Channel Coordination Mechanisms for Customer Satisfaction
(1995)We consider two broad categories of incentives by which a manufacturer can motivate its retailers to provide high customer satisfaction: 1) manufacturer assistance that reduces the retailer's cost of providing customer ... -
Product Development Performance in the Auto Industry: 1990s Update
(1995)Over the past decade, firms in the auto industry have focused much of their attention on new product development performance. This paper reports on a follow-up study to Clark and Fujimoto's research on product development ... -
Project Evolution, Activities and Research Summary
(1995-06)Project Evolution, Activities and Research Summary -
Learning to be Lean in an Emerging Economy: The Case of South Korea
(1995-06)Balance of payments considerations have driven the automobile industry strategies of many late-industrializing countries such as Thailand, Mexico, and Malaysia. These countries do not intend to become leading suppliers ... -
Incentive Effects of Promotions on Employee Participation: The Case of Korean Auto Workers
(1995-06)In the tournament games only the winner can advance to the next rounds of competition. The important feature of tournament is that the reward is based on the rank order among competitors rather than absolute level of their ... -
Layoffs and Worker Effort Theory and Evidence from the North American Automotive Supplier Industry
(1995-07-09)In this paper, we examine the effect of layoffs and layoff policies on three measures of worker effort. More specifically, we use data on first-tier automotive suppliers in the U.S. and Canada to test the proposition that ... -
International Trends in Work Organization in the Auto Industry: National-Level vs. Company-Level Perspectives
(1995-09)Changes in shop-floor work organization are a central part of broader changes in industrial relations in many industries around the world. In the automotive industry, the focus of this paper, international competition, ... -
Electronic New Media and the auto industry: New Dimension in "Market facing" Systems
(1995-10-01)Revolutions often start well before the first shots are fired. Deep social trends develop over time, waiting for some precipitating event, a new set of leaders, or a technology that allows organizations to behave ... -
Target Cost Management Strategy
(1996)Target cost management (TCM) is an innovation of Japanese management accounting system and by common sense has been considered with great interest by practitioners. Nowadays, TCM related dissertations, papers, articles ... -
From Fixed to Flexible: Automation and Work Organization Trends from the International Assembly Plant Survey
(1996)The paper is organized into seven sections. First, we define how we measure automation in the assembly plant study. Second, we describe the overall regional trends in the use of automation from 1989 to 1993/94. Third, ... -
The Empirical Determinants of Inventory Levels in High-Volume Manufacturing
(1996-02-06)This study uses survey data on several hundred automotive suppliers in North America to evaluate the determinants of inventory levels in high-volume discrete parts manufacturing. We assess the magnitude of raw materials, ... -
The Determinants of Interfirm Trust: Evidence from Supplier Automaker Relationships in the U.S., Japan and Korea
(1996-03-12)The determinants of interfirm trust are examined in 453 supplier automaker relationships in the U.S., Japan, and Korea. The findings indicate high supplier trust emerges when (1) suppliers receive assistance from the ... -
Competing in a Lean World: Responding to the Pressures of Free Trade and Lean Production
(1996-04-16)Much of the literature on free trade in North America as dealt with two issues: first, the details of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement(CAFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the processes through ... -
Inventory Reduction and Productivity Growth: A Comparison of Japanese and US Automotive Sectors
(1996-04-25)This study assesses the inventory and productivity performance of the Japanese and US automotive industries in recent decades. Within each country we distinguish between vehicle assemblers and parts suppliers. In Japan, ...