Globalization, Outsourcing and Modularity in the Auto Industry
Опубликовано на портале: 11-12-2002
2002
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The paper discusses the relationship between globalization and, modularization and
outsourcing in the
auto industry. It maintains that modularity is a broad concept, applicable and applied
to product
design, manufacturing and organization and that modularization is a strategy aimed
at reducing the
complexity stemming from globalization of products, markets and production. However,
modularity
has only recently moved its first steps in auto design and manufacturing and is a
vaguely defined
and ambiguously used concept in the auto industry.
The paper suggests that, in the auto industry, economic and institutional factors
related to
globalization represent key drivers of modularization as much as technology. Besides,
as the auto
industry globalize, modularization and outsourcing, though remaining conceptually
distinct, tend to
become, in practice, increasingly inseparable.
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