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The Indian automobile industry is currently experiencing an unprecedented boom in demand for all types of vehicles. This boom has been triggered primarily by two factors: (1) increase in disposable incomes and standards ...

Most studies on Japanese supplier-automaker relationships have focused on the nature of the dyadic inter-firm relationship and the performance of the assembler. We examine the relationship between a Japanese supplier's ...

In order to survive in today's business environment characterized by strong competition, it is no longer enough to be an efficient company. The efficiency in the entire value chain of a company is necessary to satisfy ...

During the past fiscal year, we have worked closely with a number of researchers from around the world to develop a questionnaire that will provide us with a fuller understanding of the value-chain issues that surround ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...