The role of electric vehicles for supply chain sustainability in the automotive industry

Günther, Hans‐Otto; Kannegiesser, M.; Autenrieb, N.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.11.058

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“…Change in the automotive industry has been intensively investigated in past studies [9,14,15,16,17], focusing on changing geographies and challenges of the technological transformation, and on technical, environmental, and management implications. Moreover, network analysis has been applied in the field, mainly to understand Supply-Chain systems in the automotive industry [18,19].…”

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Mining the Automotive Industry: A Network Analysis of Corporate Positioning and Technological Trends

Stoehr

Braesemann

Frommelt

et al. 2020

Springer Proceedings in Complexity

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The digital transformation is driving revolutionary innovations and new market entrants threaten established sectors of the economy such as the automotive industry. Following the need for monitoring shifting industries, we present a network-centred analysis of car manufacturer web pages. Solely exploiting publicly-available information, we construct large networks from web pages and hyperlinks. The network properties disclose the internal corporate positioning of the three largest automotive manufacturers, Toyota, Volkswagen and Hyundai with respect to innovative trends and their international outlook. We tag web pages concerned with topics like e-mobility & environment or autonomous driving, and investigate their relevance in the network. Sentiment analysis on individual web pages uncovers a relationship between page linking and use of positive language, particularly with respect to innovative trends. Web pages of the same country domain form clusters of different size in the network that reveal strong correlations with sales market orientation. Our approach maintains the web content's hierarchical structure imposed by the web page networks. It, thus, presents a method to reveal hierarchical structures of unstructured text content obtained from web scraping. It is highly transparent, reproducible and data driven, and could be used to gain complementary insights into innovative strategies of firms and competitive landscapes, which would not be detectable by the analysis of web content alone.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Mining the Automotive Industry: A Network Analysis of Corporate Positioning and Technological Trends

Stoehr

Braesemann

Frommelt

et al. 2020

Springer Proceedings in Complexity

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“…Although automakers and their suppliers continued to improve electric vehicle technology throughout the twentieth century, it was not until the 1990s that they began to accelerate the development of electric vehicle innovations in response to new environmental regulations such as the California Zero Emission Regulation (Gunther et al, 2015). Research by Borgstedt et al (2017) has shown that improvements by automotive suppliers in electric motor efficiency, battery capacity, power transmission, and software have led to substantial improvements in the environmental performance of electric vehicles.…”

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Supplier involvement in eco-innovation: The co-development of electric, hybrid and fuel cell technologies within the Japanese automotive industry

Potter

Graham

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The co-development of electric, hybrid and fuel cell technologies within the Japanese automotive industry ABSTRACT: Recently, automakers have invested heavily in alternative fuel technologies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from vehicles. Yet we know comparatively little about how automakers work collaboratively with their suppliers to develop interorganizational eco-innovations. We address this research gap and contribute to the ecoinnovation literature by investigating whether suppliers' eco-innovation capabilities in electric, hybrid, and fuel cell technologies influence the degree of eco-innovation co-patenting between Toyota and its suppliers. We also expand research in the strategic alliance literature by exploring the moderating effects of alliance partner diversity. To test our research hypotheses we use data from firms in the Toyota supplier association together with negative binomial and zero-inflated negative binomial regression models. Our empirical results demonstrate that supplier electric capabilities and supplier hybrid capabilities are positively related to the occurrence of eco-innovation co-patents. However, supplier fuel cell capabilities have no effect on eco-innovation co-patenting, especially as firms often choose to develop this technology inhouse. Moreover, alliance partner diversity has a negative moderating effect on the relationships between supplier electric capabilities, supplier hybrid capabilities, and ecoinnovation co-patents. Finally, we evaluate how our findings from the Toyota supplier association compare to similar Japanese automakers and their supplier networks.

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“…(Golinska, 2014) The various legislative carbon regulations caused a new approach to regulate the trade-off between carbon emissions and key economic factors such as logistics, procurement, production cost. (Günther, 2015) When we focus on product, an automobile contains various types of ferrous and nonferrous metal, plastic, glass and rubber. These materials are subject to recycling process.…”

Section: Sustainability In Automotive Industrymentioning

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Lessons-Learned From Automotive Gri Sustainability Reports: Guidelines to Invest in Sustainable Practices

Cihan¹

2018

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This paper focuses on analysis of sustainability reports of automotive companies and benchmarks Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) in the automotive industry documented in the sustainability reports of selected companies. The investigation grounds on the main GRI initiatives taken by the world's 16 major automotive companies and benchmarks them against each other. With reference of GRI initiatives, also study outcomes will enable to help and draw a vision for the new Turkish National car in terms of sustainability practices. The first part of the paper is based on explanations of some basic questions such as what sustainability is, why sustainability important for automotive, what GRI is and what does GRI bring to automotive discipline. The second part relates to the roadmap and benchmarking of the selected automotive companies' initiatives based on GRI keywords analysis of sustainability in the automotive industry. The findings show that the world's major automotive companies are broadly endeavoring to realize sustainability practices. Companies' focus points based on GRI reporting format have been investigated and explained regardless of region, country, cultural differences, company size, and product type. This paper helps not only practitioners in the automotive industry to benchmarking themselves but also contribute to the new Turkish national car to create a new vision in terms of sustainability practices. Sustainability researchers and practitioners from other industries may follow how to develop sustainability practices from the comparative status report of the automotive industry.

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The role of electric vehicles for supply chain sustainability in the automotive industry

Cited by 111 publications

References 23 publications

Mining the Automotive Industry: A Network Analysis of Corporate Positioning and Technological Trends

Mining the Automotive Industry: A Network Analysis of Corporate Positioning and Technological Trends

Supplier involvement in eco-innovation: The co-development of electric, hybrid and fuel cell technologies within the Japanese automotive industry

Lessons-Learned From Automotive Gri Sustainability Reports: Guidelines to Invest in Sustainable Practices

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