Factors influencing Japanese auto suppliers’ predictions about the future of new technologies – An exploratory study of electric vehicles

Ishida, Shuichi; Magnusson, Mats; Nagahira, Akio

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2017.03.009

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“…There is a stream of research about consumer preferences of EVs [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Vehicle price, fuel cost, driving range, battery replacement cost, charging time and maintenance cost are among the important attributes used in consumer choice modelling [29].…”

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Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Bigerna

Micheli

2018

Sustainability

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Sustainable mobility has received increasing attention in recent years. The transport sector contributes to almost a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. The development of electric vehicles (EVs) may help the shift toward sustainable mobility, reducing oil vulnerability and greenhouse gas emissions in road transport. Poor penetration of EVs might be explained, moreover, by consumer resistance to EVs. The aim of our paper is to determine consumers' attitude and preferences for EVs, investigating which conditions influence consumer decision-making to purchase an EV. Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 421 highly-educated individuals, involving students and faculty members, we identify several configurations of conditions of the variables which lead to the outcomes, supporting their equifinality and asymmetric nature. Our findings indicate attitudes related to EVs differ across age and groups. Our paper offers public decision makers new useful insights for understanding the importance of specific determinants, and for designing effective strategies for EVs' development worldwide.system, due to their high efficiency throughout the fuel supply chain and vehicle fuel consumption [7,8]. A number of positive impacts can be expected from the development of EVs. They are an alternative approach to contribute to a more sustainable mobility, reducing fuel consumption and GHG emissions [9]. EVs are the best way to tap into renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power [10], thus indicating that the deployment of EVs and renewable energy sources should take place concomitantly [11]. Moreover, EVs have the potential to make major contributions to the electric supply system, as storage or generation resources, or both [12]. Specifically, EVs can absorb excess energy production (for instance from wind power) that would be wasted or curtailed [13].However, the emerging EV "industry" still faces technological challenges in terms of vehicle and infrastructure design, and EVs are expensive to obtain. There are unresolved issues about the viability of the current generation of EVs, such as rapid charging, range, lack of infrastructure, and load of the grid. Also, off peak-load impacts may arise from the integration of EVs with electricity grids [14].Despite the fact that the Paris Declaration on Electro-Mobility and Climate Change and Call to Action has forecast a threshold of 100 million EVs by 2030 [15], it has to be recognized that large scale EV deployment is still not a reality. There were 2 million EVs in circulation worldwide in 2016, i.e., 1.4% of the total passenger car market.Transitions to green technologies such as EVs often require significant shifts not only in technology, but in political regulations, tariffs and pricing regimes, and the behavior of users and adopters [16]. Consumer resistance to EVs is an obstacle to the adoption of this technology. Potential EV purchasers identify the cost premium, range limitation and recharging time of EVs as disadvantages compared to conventiona...

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Bigerna

Micheli

2018

Sustainability

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“…The automobile industry in India is backboned by suppliers (Ibrahim and Vasudevan, 2018) (Kalogerakis et al, 2017). India practices suppliers and manufacturers relationship in product development (Mathivathanan et al, 2018) similar to Japan (Ishida et al, 2017), and Germany (Hertenstein and Williamson, 2018) supports a long-term relationship with suppliers. Thailand, once championed as the "Detroit of Asia" (Chamsuk et al, 2017;Ariffin and Sahid, 2017), hosts over 50 percent of the world's top OEM automotive parts suppliers (Tiengtavaj et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Volkswagen (VW) and General Motors (GM) focus on compact cars (Chen, 2017), and the market share of Ford and GM increased in China after collaboration with Chinese automakers in joint ventures (Choi et al, 2017). The next are strategies by Toyota, with hybrid car sales more than 700m in the world (Liu and Meng, 2017), lean manufacturing in Toyota way has been recognized as providing manufacturing management with a significant competitive advantage (Ishida et al, 2017;Fok-Yew, 2018). Toyota's overseas strategy is to set up R&D around the world, business model for new energy is fine workmanship, and Toyota develops the middle-and low-end market (Liu and Meng, 2017) besides providing client services as marketing strategies (Akafia et al, 2017).…”

Section: Competitive Strategies By Automakers Globallymentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of global automotive industry’s competitive strategies

Nazir

Shavarebi

2019

WJSTSD

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the latest global automotive industry’s competitive strategies comprehensively before being categorized into countries, automakers and other scholars. Design/methodology/approach In total, 54 most relevant articles have been chosen from various journals and databases between the years 2017 and 2018 with search items “Competitive” and “Automotive” for the most updated review. Based on findings, there are total 133 competitive strategies. Findings Based on the review and analysis of the literature, all of these three categories, countries, automakers and other scholars, are using new product development (NPD) as a competitive strategy. As a result, further research on NPD, specifically in the automotive industry area, is vital for industry’s competitiveness based on this study. Research limitations/implications Firms are advised to be ahead from the competitors in terms of business model or in their management in order to attain sustainability. However, to the authors’ best knowledge, there is no comprehensive review on competitive strategies for automotive globally by countries, automakers and other scholars. Practical implications The competitive strategies are reviewed comprehensively so that other than guiding the further research, they can help automakers, especially from developing countries, to improve the strategies suitable to the current trend. Social implications Automotive industry plays a key role in the day-to-day activity of human life by not only providing mobility but also having an enormous impact of the industry on economic, environmental and social activities throughout the globe. Originality/value Most of the articles reviewed related to certain country or comparison between the countries, and certain automaker or comparison between the automakers, but still no study about comprehensive review globally covered in the larger scope, divided into three categories; countries, automakers and other scholars even though the study is vital not only to academicians but also to practitioners.

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“…The automotive industry is characterized as "closed-integral," as shown in Fujimoto's product architecture matrix [22] in Figure 1, so parts makers are highly dependent on automakers. Conversely, automakers are also governed by a special path dependence based on their long history of doing business with component manufacturers and are highly dependent on specific component manufacturers even when other options are available [23]. In this sense, the auto industry's parts market was a "thin market," and global decentralized management with a strong dependence on specific foreign countries was widespread.…”

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Perspectives on Supply Chain Management in a Pandemic and the Post-COVID-19 Era

Ishida

2020

IEEE Eng. Manag. Rev.

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This article draws out some perspectives on the management of product supply chains in the event of a pandemic through cases specific to certain industries: automotive equipment, personal computers (PCs), and home furnishings. In particular, the discussion is based on "distributed management and centralized management of a single location" and the dynamic capability of organizational theory derived from supply chain risk assessment studies. Results show that the automotive industry is shifting to a centralized management model that takes advantage of its inherent closedintegral strengths by increasing proximity to the country of production, while the PC industry is shifting to a model that takes advantage of its global supply chain while maintaining transactions with local suppliers. For the home furnishings industry, results show that "tighter vertical integration" is required.

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Factors influencing Japanese auto suppliers’ predictions about the future of new technologies – An exploratory study of electric vehicles

Cited by 11 publications

References 112 publications

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

A review of global automotive industry’s competitive strategies

Perspectives on Supply Chain Management in a Pandemic and the Post-COVID-19 Era

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