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The German Automobile Paradox

Advances in Business Research

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Title The German Automobile Paradox
 
Creator Henley, James; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Cotter, Michael; Grand Valley State University
 
Subject Business;
Quality; Reliability; Automobile industry;
 
Description This study compares the performance and reliability of German vehicles sold in the US to those from the rest of the world. The examination uses Consumer Reports’ vehicle road-test performance and predicted reliability from 1994 through 2012. Statistical analysis reveals a contradiction in the two automobile dimensions. The German automobiles had better road-test performance than automobiles from the rest of the world, but the German vehicles’ predicted reliability was much worse.
 
Publisher Tarleton State University and the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
 
Contributor
 
Date 2012-12-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Articles
Quantitative/Archival;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.sfu.ca/abr/index.php/abr/article/view/89
 
Source Advances in Business Research; Vol 3, No 1 (2012); 90-98
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sfu.ca/abr/index.php/abr/article/view/89/63
 
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