IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/bushst/v61y2019i5p879-897.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Supplier relations within the German automobile industry. The case of Daimler-Benz, 1950–1980

Author

Listed:
  • Stephanie Tilly

Abstract

The German automobile industry is often described by the maintenance of stable relationships between automakers and their suppliers. According to the varieties of capitalism approach, many firms in coordinated market economies (CME) cultivated strong inter-company relations. The article incorporates this idea and reflects on the supply relationship in the German automobile industry from the 1950s to the 1980s. The rapid increase in automobile production during the phase of growth demanded increasing capacities in the supplier industries and had some conflict potential, but at the same time supply structures were characterised by great continuity. At the end of the boom the coordinating culture of relations came under pressure and the existing rules of the game were modified.

Suggested Citation

  • Stephanie Tilly, 2019. "Supplier relations within the German automobile industry. The case of Daimler-Benz, 1950–1980," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(5), pages 879-897, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:61:y:2019:i:5:p:879-897
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2016.1267143
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00076791.2016.1267143
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00076791.2016.1267143?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:61:y:2019:i:5:p:879-897. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/FBSH20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.