From January 1, 2000, to August 31, 2001, a team of environmental health specialists from Public Health-Seattle & King County, a partner in King County's Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, made educational visits to 981 automotive repair shops. The purpose was to give the auto repair industry technical assistance on hazardous waste management without using enforcement action. Through sit...

This paper reports the findings of a longitudinal study into manufacturing performance, lean production principles and buyer supplier relations in the Japanese, US and UK automotive industries. A total of 26 first tier component makers in the three countries were subject to detailed benchmarking exercises in 1994 and in 1999-2001. In each exercise data on labour productivity and quality perform...

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...

Motivated by the growing importance of social media, this paper examines the relationship between new media, old media, and sales, in the context of the music industry. In particular, we study the interplay between blog buzz, radio play and music sales, at both the album and song levels of analysis. We employ the Panel Vector Auto-regression (PVAR) methodology, an extension of vector auto-regre...

Industry 5.0 follows the steps of 4.0 paradigm and seeks for revolutionizing way industries operate. In fact, focuses on research innovation to support industrial production sustainability place well-being workers at center process. Thus, relies three pillars: it is human-centric, encourages aimed developing resilience against disruptions. Such core aspects cannot be fully achieved without a tr...

We extend our warmest thanks to Jackson Nickerson and Brian Silverman for many stimulating conversations and much valuable advice. ABSTRACT Research on industry lifecycles demonstrates that competitive pressures are more severe during the shakeout stage, which could be associated with the emergence of a dominant design, than at other stages. Transaction cost theory, on the other hand, assumes g...

In the automotive industry the Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) is increasingly seen as the sustainable alternative to internal combustion engine (ICE)-based vehicles. The growing popularity of FC technology in the automotive industry provides an interesting case. Where one would expect the mature automotive industry to dismiss FC technology in order not to jeopardise its ICE technology, several billion...