TELCO's Small Car

Venugopal, R.

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“…40,000 (US $4,000 at the prevailing exchange rate). Propelled by the entry of Maruti, the Indian market grew at a compounded annual rate of 18.6 per cent from 1980-81 to 1989-90 (Venugopal 2001). Subsequently in 1993 the government de-regulated the automobile sector.…”

Section: The Indian Automobile Industry Contextmentioning

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India as the Global Outsourcing Destination

Mitra

2007

Global Business Review

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The Practice of outsourcing has been prevalent in the automobile industry for a very long time. Vehicle brand owners (VBO), also known as assemblers, have developed preferred relationships like Keiretsu with their suppliers to capture the complexities of outsourcing as also to reflect their regional idiosyncrasies. Against the backdrop of the Indian automobile industry becoming increasingly global, a field study conducted on suppliers of automobile components to vehicle manufacturers, captured patterns of outsourcing prevalent and provided interesting insights. Indian auto component suppliers, although aware of global opportunities, are left with little choice in transacting with their clients partly because of their own risk averse, status quo preferences and remaining for want of an efficient mechanism for horizontal cooperation among firms with complementary capabilities to form clusters/groups of globally competitive suppliers. On the other hand, such clusters often lack necessary institutional support leaving individual suppliers dependent on clients for business and growth. While this article investigates the existing relationship between auto assemblers and their suppliers to suggest a not so encouraging picture of global opportunity for the suppliers with pressures of global competition and sourcing, it also highlights areas in which to expect changes before the global opportunity can be leveraged.

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Section: The Indian Automobile Industry Contextmentioning

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India as the Global Outsourcing Destination

Mitra

2007

Global Business Review

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Co-evolution of policies and firm level technological capabilities in the Indian automobile industry

Kale

2011

2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy

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Innovation in form of new products, processes or forms of productive organisation brings growth to firms and development to economies and therefore it is important to understand sources of innovation and technological capabilities. In this context this paper explores sources of innovation and technological capability in the Indian automobile industry. In last decade Indian auto industry emerged as one of the fastest growing industry with increasing levels of technological sophistication in auto industries amongst emerging countries. This paper shows that industrial policy set up challenges for firm in form of constraint to develop products with higher local suppliers and helped development of auto component supplier industry. It also points out important role played by factors such as nature of demand and firm ownership in innovative capability development. Paper reveals key attributes of firm ownership which include managerial vision and diversified nature of businesses. The diversified nature of businesses has helped Indian auto firms in innovative capabilities by facilitating inter-sector learning.2

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Resource-based new product development: insights from the small car project of the Indian company TELCO

Venugopal¹

2005

IJATM

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TELCO's Small Car

Cited by 5 publications

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India as the Global Outsourcing Destination

India as the Global Outsourcing Destination

Co-evolution of policies and firm level technological capabilities in the Indian automobile industry

Resource-based new product development: insights from the small car project of the Indian company TELCO

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