Reorienting electric mobility research focus on industrialisation issues

Alochet, Marc; Midler, Christophe

doi:10.1504/ijatm.2019.10021999

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“…For example, Chovan & Straka (2015) discuss how EVs and charging stations must be embraced by urban planning and city management. Similarly, Alochet & Midler (2019) point out that public implementation strategies, necessary for EV-markets to scale up have been neglected so far.…”

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Socio-Demographic Aspects Affecting Individual Stances towards Electric and Hybrid Vehicles in the Czech Republic

Formánek¹,

Tahal²

2020

CEBR

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The world's human population and its natural environment are currently facing many unfavourable effects from climate change. A significant proportion of this phenomenon is attributable to air pollution generated by combustion engines used in transportation (greenhouse gases, dust particles, etc.). Despite the inevitable need for decisive actions to reverse climate change, central authorities may face significant pushbacks when actually promoting or enforcing electric and hybrid-based mobility, if a wrong (ineffective) mix of restrictions and incentives is applied. Using primary data from the Czech Republic (surveyed in 2019), we use logistic regression and other means of quantitative analysis to provide detailed information on socio-demographic and lifestyle factors affecting individual stances towards different aspects involved with the upcoming transition towards clean personal transportation. In this paper, we focus on topics related to electric and hybrid vehicles. Based on our analysis, we provide actionable information to facilitate the complex process of turning combustion-based transportation into a sustainable feature of our modern society. We find important gender and age-related differences in opinions towards diverse aspects related to changes in personal mobility. Women and older individuals are significantly more in favour of environmentally responsible transportation means. Active car-drivers (individuals who perceive themselves as such) in lifestyle segmentation are distinctively less in favour of ecologically oriented changeshence such individuals ought be the primary targets for marketing and educational activities (perhaps even state-sponsored) aimed to shift vehicle (mobility in general) procurements towards environmentally responsible choices. Implications for Central European audience: Climate protection is a key subject embedded in multiple EU policies. In Central European countries, the forthcoming transitioning of individual mobility towards EVs and hybrids might be a bit more complicated as compared to "old" EU members: our purchasing power is weaker, our car markets are more price sensitive and they rely heavily on imported second-hand cars. Our insights may be used to alleviate possible complications and bottlenecks in the process of reducing environmental pollution produced by individual transportation.

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Socio-Demographic Aspects Affecting Individual Stances towards Electric and Hybrid Vehicles in the Czech Republic

Formánek¹,

Tahal²

2020

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“…The Gerpisa international colloquia host sessions dedicated to many dimensions characterising the complexity of the automotive sector, and in particular the past four editions (GERPISA 2018;2019; have debated contributions and cross-country analyses on sustainable mobility, state regulation, electrification of transport, changes in the supply chain, transition to greener cars, the battery value chain, mobility as a service, and the challenges and contradictions of the greening of the industry. As a specialised journal in the automotive analyses, IJATM has published several papers on specific issues, such as the scarcity of raw materials and the centrality of China (Jetin 2020); autonomous driving and driving on demand (Fournier et al 2020), connected autonomous vehicles (Nikitas, Njoya, and Dani 2019), the technical requirement of electromobility (Schindlbeck, Müller, and Störmer 2020), and the strategic investments needed to support the expansion of electric vehicle market (Alochet and Midler 2019). The policy dimension is also a relevant topic in the debate: from China (Alochet and Midler 2019) to European policy in the green new deal (Pardi 2021).…”

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“…As a specialised journal in the automotive analyses, IJATM has published several papers on specific issues, such as the scarcity of raw materials and the centrality of China (Jetin 2020); autonomous driving and driving on demand (Fournier et al 2020), connected autonomous vehicles (Nikitas, Njoya, and Dani 2019), the technical requirement of electromobility (Schindlbeck, Müller, and Störmer 2020), and the strategic investments needed to support the expansion of electric vehicle market (Alochet and Midler 2019). The policy dimension is also a relevant topic in the debate: from China (Alochet and Midler 2019) to European policy in the green new deal (Pardi 2021).…”

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Agents and artefacts in the emerging electric vehicle space

Russo

Alboni

Bonifati

et al. 2022

IJATM

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This paper is part of the research project "Geopolitical and technological challenges for the automotive global value chains", PI Annamaria Simonazzi, funded by INET. The application on Mexico was developed under the complementary project "Digital transformation in the automotive supply chain in Mexico", PI Jorge Carreto Sanginés, funded by UNAM PAPIIT IN309620. We are indebted to Dr Johannes Kern for his suggestion to refer to the electrive.com newsletter for the daily update on the ongoing changes in the world of the electric industry and mobility, and for his comments on a preliminary version of this paper. The authors wish to thank Benedetta Acerbi and the team of internship students for their collaboration on entity disambiguation.

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“…First, the automotive sector is a typically masculine industry, where women have traditionally been less present, which is also true for the construction, manufacturing, mining and engineering sectors, as opposed to services or luxury goods (Arena et al, 2015;Galia et al, 2017;Zenou et al, 2017;Serfati and Sauviat, 2019). Second, the automotive sector is an aged and mature industry because, although it has been partially forced toward a renewal by Industry 4.0 and by the challenges of electric powertrains (Muniz et al, 2019;Clarke and Piterou, 2019), its main technological pillar remains the internal combustion engine (Vervaeke and Calabrese, 2015;Alochet and Midler, 2019;Lasmar et al, 2019). Third, the automotive sector is a glocal industry, characterized by the presence of global/local integration between buyers and suppliers (Castelli et al, 2011;Chanaron, 2013), high fragmentation of production (Manello and Calabrese, 2017;Schmitt and Van Biesebroeck, 2017;Akabane et al, 2017;Gurcaylilar-Yenidogan, 2014) and the strong need to balance foreign subsidiaries and local assets (Lee, 2018;Dal Ponte et al, 2017).…”

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Board diversity and performance in a masculine, aged and glocal supply chain: new empirical evidence

Calabrese

Manello

2021

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Purpose This study aims to contribute to the debate on the relationship between board diversity and performance, a hot topic for scholars and shareholders. A number of studies have found contrasting impacts of board diversity on firm performance and this paper adds new and original evidence in the context of the automotive supply chain focusing on gender, age and nationality diversity. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a triple stage empirical analysis. First, the authors use linear models according to different performance indexes for investigating diversity (gender, age and nationality) within the board of directors and executives. Second, the authors investigate the issue of diversity in different contexts such as position in the supply chain, nationality of the owner and family/corporate ownership. Finally, the authors use non-linear models to find a better combination of diversity in terms of gender and nationality for retrieving some managerial implications. Findings First, the authors demonstrate a robust positive effect of women in board representation on firm performance in terms of profitability and firm risk. In the case of, age and nationality the results are more equivocal in particular for the former. Second, the authors depict board diversity in different contexts as follows: positioning in the supply chain, type and nationality of the final owner. Again, gender heterogeneity is more adequate in the complex firm as Tier 1 suppliers, corporate and foreign company. Originality/value The authors focused the analysis on a specific industry, shedding light on the main specificities linked to operating in certain phases of the supply chain, a substantial novelty in this field. The empirical evidence is based on a very large data set containing quantitative and qualitative information on a representative sample of 1,538 firms operating in the Italian automotive supply chain, one of the most relevant in Europe.

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Reorienting electric mobility research focus on industrialisation issues

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Socio-Demographic Aspects Affecting Individual Stances towards Electric and Hybrid Vehicles in the Czech Republic

Socio-Demographic Aspects Affecting Individual Stances towards Electric and Hybrid Vehicles in the Czech Republic

Agents and artefacts in the emerging electric vehicle space

Board diversity and performance in a masculine, aged and glocal supply chain: new empirical evidence

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