Amid the turmoil of the current economic crisis, the wild expectations for business-to-business electronic marketplaces or ‘e-hubs’ as transformative modes of exchange for all industries have subsided. However, e-hubs continue to elicit interest in industries such as car production. Yet, there is little research that investigates firms’ strategies for e-procurement in the automotive industry an...

In recent years, considerable debate has surrounded the issue of whether a fundamental transformation of employment relations is underway in both the industrialised and industrialising countries.1 Comparative studies at the national or macrolevel of employment relations have been conducted within both an OECD group of countries (see Locke et al. 1995) and newly industrialising economies (see Ve...

I estimate demand for auto insurance in the presence of two types of market frictions: search and switching costs. I develop an integrated utility-maximizing model in which consumers decide over which and how many companies to search and from which company to purchase. My modelling approach rationalizes observed consideration sets as being the outcomes of consumers’ search processes. I find sea...

In 2020 China displaced the United States as main country of origin cross-border M&A type investments and ranked fourth new greenfield projects. regional context, since 2010 Mexico appears second destination Chinese direct investment directed to manufacturing first in automotive auto parts industry (AAI). The article examines determinants from a perspective case study multinational Minth ba...