The paper studies the patterns of volatility in firm-specific growth rates and stock prices during the early phase of the life-cycle of an old economy industry, the US automobile industry from 1900-1930, and a new economy industry, the US PC industry from 1974-2000. Strikingly similar patterns of volatility are discovered in the early phases of the two industries. The comparison sheds light on ...

The research field in robotics has grown tremendously in the 80ís because of the technology push from automobile industry and from the space station program. While the automobile industry pushed for implementation of robots to perform repetitive tasks in the assembly line, the space station program pushed for development of either large-scale and light weight tele-operative robots, or intellige...

The paper studies the patterns of volatility in firm-specific growth rates and stock prices during the early phase of the life-cycle of an old economy industry, the US automobile industry from 1900–1930, and a new economy industry, the US PC industry from1974–2000. Strikingly similar patterns of volatility are discovered in the early phases of the two industries. The comparison sheds light on t...

Job shop scheduling problems occurs in automobile industry, aerospace industry, printing industry, and chemical industry. Job shop scheduling problems are real world and complex. The present work assesses the effect of change in setup times levels on make span, maximum flow time and maximum tardiness measures. The model of the job shop is developed in PROMODEL simulation software. Three levels ...

The various industries such as automobile industry, aerospace industry, printing industry, and chemical industry operate on job shop system. Job shop scheduling problems are complex and real world. The present work assesses the effect of change in shop utilizations levels on total setups and mean setup time measures. The simulation model of the job shop is developed for investigation purpose. T...

The quality of the used car market is, however, more than a laughing matter. It i s a $33 billion-a-year industry-as large as the new car market. It isalso an industry that i s relatively important to the well-being of the poorer of us. Next to housing, the automobile is the most expensive purchase most people make. And the poorer you are the more likely it is that you will have to make that pu...

Petrol powered traffic has replaced domestic heating and industry as the main causes for urban air pollution (Colvile, Hutchinson, Mindell, & Warren, 2001). Automobile combustion engines are responsible for the better part of a city’s CO2 and NOX pollutants. The amount of pollutants emitted by a vehicle largely depends on fuel consumption: the more fuel the vehicle consumes, the higher its emis...

The quality of the used car market is, however, more than a laughing matter. It i s a $33 billion-a-year industry-as large as the new car market. It isalso an industry that i s relatively important to the well-being of the poorer of us. Next to housing, the automobile is the most expensive purchase most people make. And the poorer you are the more likely it is that you will have to make that pu...

Sustainability risk for global production networks can be considered more important than ever due to its distributed nature. The automobile industry relies heavily on its global supply networks. Nevertheless, little is being done to improve the sustainability of complex production environments. In practice, there is a number of factors that regulate the sustainability risk in any industry, and ...

This paper considers the economics of digitalisation, defined as the digital coding of information and the growing productivity gains in processing and transmission it enables. It examines the effects of this process on existing models of the firm, industry structure and innovation. The diffusion and adoption of digital innovations are then illustrated by the example of the automobile industry....