Automotive assemblers and suppliers have used various strategies to deal with the external uncertainty. These strategies are developed relatively rapidly in recent years in part because of changes in the locus of innovation from OEM-suppliers, changes in market conditions, and future regulations of greenhouse gas emissions. This creates a unique challenge for the industry. Some car companies have been more effective in dealing with market and regulatory uncertainty due to the technology resource integration across platforms and integration between functions on the value chain from suppliers to retailers. "Hide
by Sandra Rothenberg Source: California Management Review 19 pages. Publication Date: November 11, 2011. Prod. #: CMR497-PDF-ENG