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Browsing International Motor Vehicle Program by Issue Date
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(2002-09-16)Over the past decade, firms in auto industry have focused much of their attention on new auto product development performance. This paper reports on a follow-up study to Clark and Fujimoto's research on product development ...
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(2002-09-11)This paper traces the new product development of Hyundai Motor Company, Korea, which, since its foundation in 1967, has maintained the self reliance strategy, particularly in new product development. Business strategy ...
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(2002-09-11)The International Car Distribution Programme (ICDP) is the world’s largest research study into car distribution. Supported by 29 companies and organisations, ICDP will complete its first 2 year investigation into all ...
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(2002-09-11)This essay is divided into the following sections: in section 1.1, we briefly argue that the auto industry is a compelling case for studying regional economic development and economic geography precisely because it ...
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(2002-09-11)This essay addresses strategic technology sourcing -- the determination of what technologies are strategic to a firm (or nation) and the management of the policy options that follow from this determination. This work is ...
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(2002-09-11)Cyclicality is a well known and accepted fact of life in market-driven economies. Less well known or understood, however, is the phenomenon of amplification as one looks "upstream" in the industrial supply chain. This paper ...
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(2002-09-10)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 ...
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(2002-09-10)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 ...
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(2002-09-10)An opportunity to study the technical and organizational impact of management accounting system changes has emerged with companies' adoption of activity-based costing (ABC). This paper provides a structured account of ...
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(2002-09-04)This project analyzes the effects of the co-management arrangements built into the first line of supervision (module advisors) at the Saturn Corporation on first time quality (FTQ) performance and improvements in first ...
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(2002-09-04)The automobile market is growing at about 25% for the last three years. The number of persons per car is 200, which is very large compared to other emerging markets like Korea and Brazil which have about 12 persons per ...
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(2002-09-04)The automotive industry in Korea, Brazil, China and India is currently going through impressive growth. Governments have played a key role in the evolution of the industry in all these countries. The Korean industry has ...
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(2002-09-04)In anticipation of rapid growth, the passenger car market in India is crowded with 18 companies trying to establish themselves. Most companies have joint ventures with Indian partners and have entered the market in the ...
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(2002-09-04)This study examines the component sourcing strategy of the Japanese automobile manufacturers, focusing on the sourcing concentration and the sharing common suppliers with competitors. We have analyzed sourcing strategy ...
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(2002-09-04)This paper introduces our ongoing analysis of auto component development data obtained from Nishiguchi's research sponsored by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP). The main results of this paper can be found ...
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(2002-09-04)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 ...
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(2002-09-04)The Chrysler-UAW Modern Operating Agreement (MOA) is a prototype for the "new industrial relations," establishing (through collective bargaining) reduced job classifications, shopfloor work teams, a pay-for-skills compensation ...
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(2002-09-04)We recently undertook the largest in-depth evaluation ever of automobile assembly plants around the world. In the Second Round of the International Assembly Plant Study, we surveyed 88 automobile assembly plants representing ...
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(2002-09-04)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 ...
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