1 Governing Competitive Supplier Relations : New Auto - Industry

The Close but Adversarial Model of Supplier Relations in the Us Auto Industry

While cooperative buyer-supplier relations are an important source of sustainable competitive advantage, non-cooperative behavior persists widely. This paper tests a model incorporating non-cooperative behavior within a context of formal commitment, using data from the US auto industry. This ‘close, but adversarial’ model appears to be reasonably well supported by the data, suggesting that even...

SUPPLIER RELATIONS AND ADOPTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY: RESULTS OF SURVEY RESEARCH IN THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY Susan Helper SUPPLIER RELATIONS AND ADOPTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY: RESULTS OF SURVEY RESEARCH IN THE US AUTO 1NDUSTR%

PROVIDING A MODEL FOR THE SUPPLIER SELECTION PROCESS IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT WITH HYBRID MODEL OF DECISION MAKING

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PROVIDING A MODEL FOR THE SUPPLIER SELECTION PROCESS IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT WITH HYBRID MODEL OF DECISION MAKING

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Comparative Supplier Relations in the U.S. and Japanese Auto Industries: An Exit/Voice Approach

In 1980 Japan surpassed the United States as the world's leading producer of automobiles. Not only does Japan now produce the greatest number of cars of any country in the world [9], it introduces new models with the greatest frequency [7], makes them in factories with the highest productivity [19], and dominates surveys of customer satisfaction and frequency of repair [8, 19]. Observers have a...