@inbook{75c387d068b941ba99017f12f080e424,
title = "Surviving the global economic crisis in the automotive industry through sustainable supplier management",
abstract = "This chapter looks at how the current global economic crisis has impacted upon the global automotive industry from an operations and supply chain perspective. It presents an empirical and theoretical background to help long and short term planning for organisations experiencing adverse trading conditions. The empirical research study (conducted between 2004-07 primarily in Germany) revealed that organisations are able to make short term improvements to performance by reducing costs and making process and structural improvements, but in the long term the deeper rooted causes of the industry can in part only be dealt with by improving interfirm R&D collaborations based upon competencies rather than cost related issues. A new approach known as Collaborative Enterprise Governance is presented which supports the design and management of competitive sustainable enterprises; it consists of a data capture tool, a body of knowledge and a dynamic reference grid to show how many part-to-part company relationships can exist simultaneously to make up productprocess focused enterprises. Examples from the German automotive industry are given, impact upon the overall product development lifecycle and the implications for organisational strategists are discussed. {\textcopyright} 2010 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.",
author = "Binder, {Mario J.} and Ben Clegg",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-60876-143-2",
series = "Transportation issues, policies and R&D",
publisher = "Nova science",
pages = "1--58",
editor = "Maxwell, {Gordan A.} and Drummond, {Stuart K.}",
booktitle = "Automotive industry",
}