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Abstract
The economic and social importance of the automotive industry explains the need for researching improved ways of organising and managing the diverse processes involved in the production of motor vehicles. Furthermore, the management of supply chains and inter-organisational relations has acquired strategic significance in recent years and has become a key area of research. At the interface between these two fields, this paper adopts a bibliometric viewpoint to analyse the scholarly literature that has addressed the study of supply chains within the specific sphere of the automotive industry. To do so, it has examined the 404 papers on this topic indexed through to 2011 in the Business Source Complete database. This has allowed identifying trends and opportunities related to the what, how and where of research into this matter.
Acknowledgements
This research was funded by the Spanish Government and FEDER funds through research project ECO2010-21078 and the “Cátedra de Empresa VW-Navarra Universidad de Navarra”. Aid was also received from the research project SA083A12-1 financed by the Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León (Regional Ministry of Education of Castile and Leon).
Notes
1. Founded in Paris in 1919 to defend the sector’s interests, it is referred to in English as the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers.
2. See the data on the global production of cars and commercial vehicles on the OICA website, http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/
3. Information available on the OICA website, http://oica.net/category/economic-contributions/auto-jobs/
4. Founded in 1996 to replace the Comité des Constructeurs du Marché Commun, with its remit being to defend the interests of European manufacturers, it is referred to in English as the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.
5. See figures for the global production of cars and commercial vehicles on the OICA website, http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/