Towards a new order in the global automotive industry.

Towards a new order in the global automotive industry.

The global automotive industry faces the most influential changes since the revolutionary introduction of mass production a century ago. Latecomer firms from Asia are challenging the western incumbents. They can change the rules of the game in the industry by leapfrogging several steps in their deve...

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Main Author: Wäldchen, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hamburg : Diplomica Verlag, 2014.
Subjects:
Automobile industry and trade > Environmental aspects.
Social responsibility of business.
Sustainable development.
sustainable development.
Automobile industry and trade > Environmental aspects
Social responsibility of business
Sustainable development
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Table of Contents:
  • Towards a new order in the global automotive industry; Content; 0. Introduction; 1. The automobile sector; 1.1. History of a mature industry; 1.2. Value system and fundamental considerations; 1.3. Incumbents as the catch up benchmark; 2. A conceptual framework of key catch up factors in the automobile industry; 2.1. Learning theories and their importance for catch up; 2.2. Core resources and capabilities in the automobile sector; 2.3. Catch up model for the automobile industry; 3. Hyundai: Insights from an early catch up case; 3.1. Initial institutional setting in Korea and its development
  • 3.2. The Hyundai Chaebol as a facilitator of catch up 3.3. Hyundai's catch up path; 3.4. Hyundai's strategic pattern of learning; 4. A longitudinal perspective on the selected automobile latecomers BYD, Chery, Geely, Tata Motors and Mahindra; 4.1. Institutional environment in China and India; 4.2. The influence of business groups; 4.3. Catch up path and current status of the five companies; 5. Strategic pathways for automobile latecomers; 5.1. Strategic group I: Follow the leaders; 5.2. Strategic group II: Incremental innovation and exhaustive absorption
  • 5.3. Strategic group III: Gambling on game changing developments 6. Limitations, further research and concluding remarks; List of sources; Glossary; List of figures; List of tables; Appendices

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