The Automotive Industry and the Environment
The Automotive Industry and the Environment

Author: P Nieuwenhuis

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2003-07-25

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1855738600

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The automotive industry currently faces huge challenges. The fundamental technological paradigm it relies on, volume production, has become progressively more unprofitable in the face of increasingly segmented niche markets. At the same time it faces increasing regulatory and social pressures to improve both the sustainability of its products and methods of production. Building on a wealth of research, The automotive industry and the environment addresses those challenges and how they can be met in producing a sustainable and profitable industry for the future.The authors first discuss the development of the automotive industry and the problems it currently faces. They then consider the solutions the industry can adopt. The book reviews trends in more environmentally-friendly technologies such as the use of more sustainable fuel sources and new types of modular design with built-in recyclability. However, these technologies can only be fully exploited if methods of manufacture change. The book also describes models of decentralised production, particularly the micro factory retailing (MFR) model, which provide an alternative to volume production and promise to be both more sustainable and more profitable.The automotive industry and the environment provides both a cogent diagnosis of the environmental and other problems facing the industry and a blueprint for a better future. It will be widely welcomed by the industry, policy makers and all those concerned with sustainable transport. - Addresses the challenges facing the automotive industry, from the increasing unprofitability of volume production to regulatory and social pressures to improve environmental and product sustainability - Examines how the automotive industry can meet the current challenges in producing a sustainable and profitable industry for the future - Reviews trends in more environmentally-friendly technologies such as the use of more sustainable fuel sources and new types of modular design with built-in recyclability

Car-sharing
Car-sharing

Author: Adam Millard-Ball

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0309088380

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Successful Business Model Transformations in Disruptive Times
Successful Business Model Transformations in Disruptive Times

Author: Thomas Rudolph

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-06-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 3110772167

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The authors offer solutions for established corporations facing disruptive challenges. Based on extensive research and discussion, a unique management approach, the High 5 approach, has been developed to promote successful self-disruption in established corporations. At the center of this approach is the transformation of the core business. The book supports the idea of permanent self-disruption as the key to success for established players. Successful Business Model Transformations in Disruptive Times is aimed at the management of various industries. This book provides managers in established corporations with a theoretically sound and practical guide.

Sustainable Business Models
Sustainable Business Models

Author: Adam Jabłoński

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2019-01-25

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 3038975605

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainable Business Models" that was published in Sustainability

How Tesla changed the car industry. An innovation analysis
How Tesla changed the car industry. An innovation analysis

Author: Philipp Rothe

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 3346876861

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Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Economics - Innovation economics, grade: 1,7, , language: English, abstract: This Analysis will focus on how Tesla managed to enter the car industry (Porter ́s Five Forces), how they use the mentioned technologies to differentiate from other participants to disrupt the industry (Christensen Module I), and now enter the mass market (Crossing the Chasm). At the end future recommendations for Tesla are given. The automotive industry is changing fast and adopting new technologies which will play central roles in the future of the industry. First the megatrend within the industry is to shift from the classical petrol engine towards electric vehicles. Second, new technologies for the cars include artificial intelligence (AI), big data & analytics, internet of things (IOT) or autonomous driving.

Innovation Management
Innovation Management

Author: Prof. Dr. Katrin Stefan

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 398217743X

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This is the first volume of publications on recent developments in Innovation Management within the newly established series edited by Kempten University of Applied Science and published by Deutsches Institut für Ideen- und Innovationsmanagement, the German institute for idea and innovation management. The authors are Master students enrolled in the Master programme "Global Business Development". The papers cover a wide range of different approaches to highlight how management theory responds to the contingencies of an increasing complex and volatile business environment

Entrepreneurial Connectivity
Entrepreneurial Connectivity

Author: Vanessa Ratten

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-06

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9811655723

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This book explores how entrepreneurial networks provide the basis for individuals and firms to compete based on knowledge asymmetries. This book states that this is crucial in the increasingly interdependent world where social capital influences potential market performance. This edited book focuses on future trends regarding entrepreneurial networks in terms of social, cultural and market connections thereby bridging the entrepreneurship, strategy and network literature. This book provides a practical way to capture market changes as networks evolve to a more digital format. The impact of innovation and strategy on these market developments will be discussed in each chapter as a way to understand performance.

Materials for Automobile Bodies
Materials for Automobile Bodies

Author: Geoffrey Davies

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0080969798

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1 Introduction -- 2 Design and material utilization -- 3 Materials for consideration and use in automotive body structures -- 4 The role of demonstration, concept and competition cars -- 5 Component manufacture -- 6 Component assembly: materials joining technology -- 7 Corrosion and protection of the automotive structure -- 8 Environmental considerations -- 9 Future trends in automotive body materials.

The Mobility Revolution in the Automotive Industry
The Mobility Revolution in the Automotive Industry

Author: Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-29

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 3662477882

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The Internet of Things, cloud computing, connected vehicles, Big Data, analytics — what does this have to do with the automotive industry? This book provides information about the future of mobility trends resulting from digitisation, connectedness, personalisation and data insights. The automotive industry is on the verge of undergoing a fundamental transformation. Large, traditional companies in particular will have to adapt, develop new business models and implement flexibility with the aid of appropriate enterprise architectures. Transforming critical business competencies is the key concept. The vehicle of the digital future is already here — who will shape it?

Innovation Studies
Innovation Studies

Author: Jan Fagerberg

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 019150985X

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Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study. Firms are concerned about their innovation ability, particularly relative to their competitors. Politicians care about innovation, too, because of its presumed social and economic impact. However, to recognize that innovation is desirable is not sufficient. What is required is systematic and reliable knowledge about how best to influence innovation and to exploit its effects to the full. Gaining such knowledge is the aim of the field of innovation studies, which is now at least half a century old. Hence, it is an opportune time to ask what has been achieved and what we still need to know more about. This is what this book sets out to explore. Written by a number of central contributors to the field, it critically examines the current state of the art and identifies issues that merit greater attention. The focus is mainly on how society can derive the greatest benefit from innovation and what needs to done to achieve this. However, to learn more about how society can benefit more from innovation, one also needs to understand innovation processes in firms and how these interact with broader social, institutional and political factors. Such issues are therefore also central to the discussion here.