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- KONNO, Y.
Suppliers' performance and parts transactions
with customers
This paper investigates the relationship between suppliers'
performance and their parts transactions with customers in Japanese automobile
industry. We generate a hypothesis focusing on supplier's learning processes,
and test it using Japanese auto parts transactions data set during the period
1993-99. Results show that suppliers who prove important to the main customer
at the same time maintaining business relationship with numbers of other
customers, tend to surpass other suppliers in their performance. In other
words, we find how important it is for suppliers to build stable business
tie with the main customer and broaden relationship with other various customers.
Keyword: Japanese automobile industry, parts transaction,
supplier's learning process
- MIYAZAKI, M.
Inferring competitors' intention: Using
content analysis and product concept trajectory
Content analysis proves to be very useful in inferring
the intention among competing firms. Content analysis is the systematic
and replicable examination of symbols of communication. Like individuals,
firms render messages outside of themselves. Their daily activities are,
so to speak, communications process. Therefore researchers are able to apply
content analysis to the exploration of firms' behavior. This paper will
take up, as one of these cases, new products news releases made by inkjet
printer makers. Through the analysis, the product concept trajectory is
developed. These depicted trajectories show us the intention of competing
firms.
Keyword: content analysis, news release, inference of intention
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