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Suppliers Involvement Strategies in Flex Fuel Vehicle Development

Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Title Suppliers Involvement Strategies in Flex Fuel Vehicle Development
 
Creator de Souza Nascimento, Paulo Tromboni; FEA/USP
Junior, Willian Gatti; FEA/USP
Oih Yu, Abraham Sin; FEA/USP
Baccaro Nigro, Francisco Nigro; USP
 
Subject bio fuel deployment, co-development, subsidiary innovation, supplier’s capabilities, sub systems innovations, ethanol, flex fuel.
 
Description The flex-fuel car is a commercial success in Brazil. This innovation illustrates two different strategies of supplier involvement in technology development: black-box and gray-box or co-design. This paper presents two cases studies of how two mature Brazilian automakers subsidiaries (Volkswagen and General Motors) undertook the development of flex-fuel technology. We also present the development's context, which led to the technology wide spread adoption. Then we discuss the possible impact of both involvement strategies on dependence relations between automakers and their module suppliers, suggesting they will not change large trends toward more, even if limited, dependence on complex high technology modules or "systemist" suppliers.
 
Publisher FGV EAESP
 
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Date 2012-12-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/joscm/article/view/9060
10.12660/joscmv5n2p1-12
 
Source Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management; Vol 5, No 2 (2012): July/December; 1-12
Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management; Vol 5, No 2 (2012): July/December; 1-12
1984-3046
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/joscm/article/view/9060/8192