Program Summary: One of the key drivers of change in the automotive industry can be summed up by the word "globalization." Globalization is driving industry consolidation, the expanding role of suppliers, underbody ...

The Internet, a growing network of networks, is an often touted and often misunderstood technology. It has its own infrastructure complete with service providers, private networks, user communities, international links, ...

Peering and transit are two types of Internet interconnection among ISPs. Peering has been a core concept to sustain Internet industry. However, for the past several years, many ISPs broke their peering arrangement because ...

Using preliminary data from Arbitron, MeasureCast and Real Networks, this study evaluates the role of Internet radio broadcasters according to five criteria intended to gauge the level of diversity being delivered to ...

This study asseses 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, ...

The literature on JIT production suggests a causal link between work-in-process inventory and manufacturing productivity. Such a connection has been described in numerous case studies but never tested statistically. This ...

This paper traces the diffusion of “just-in-time” production in the Japanese automotive sector, as reflected by inventory reductions in a sample of 52 suppliers and assemblers. We show that most inventory reductions ...

Many of today's products are so complex that no single company has all the necessary knowledge about either the product or the required processes to completely design and manufacture them in-house. As a result, most companies ...