Korea

The rise of Korea provides robust support for the proposition that strong institutions are necessary for intensive automotive development. By 2017, Korea had become the world’s sixth largest producer of passenger cars, and Korean components producers were among the few companies from outside Europe, Japan, and North America to feature in the world’s top 100 producers. Korea’s success built on a highly -educated workforce and the creation of automotive testing and research institutions. The origins of these institutions can be traced to the external threat faced by the country, and to its inability to earn revenue through exports of agricultural products or raw materials. As Hyundai-Kia grew into a global corporation, the research institutions became more important for medium-sized companies, and in promoting basic research. Hyundai-Kia’s success stands in marked contrast to the three subsidiaries of foreign automakers, which all struggled as Korean labor costs rose substantially above those of developing economies.

Aligning Sourcing and Compliance Inside a Global Corporation

This chapter focuses on a detailed investigation of a global retailer's attempt to integrate sourcing and compliance as a way to increase the coupling of private regulation and worker outcomes. The case study shows how this global retailer successfully aligned its sourcing and compliance activities and offers lessons for the rest of the industry. First, the case implies that it is highly unlikely large companies' compliance departments can establish the linkage between compliance and sourcing on their own. Second, it is worth noting that the linkage would not have been possible had it not been for a well-developed compliance system already operating for many years with a high profile in the corporate organization. Third, developing a software architecture that included comprehensive supplier scorecards facilitated linking compliance with sourcing. Fourth, the Pangia case highlights the transactional mentality that permeates sourcing operations in the apparel industry. Fifth, the case makes clear that changing the transactional mentality may well require a change of talent. Sixth, benchmarking with firms outside the industry was crucial for learning new lessons. And the final lesson is that vendors will respond to incentives to change their behavior.

Taxi Cooperatives as an Alternative to Uber

The advancement of technology and digitization has enabled the development of online platforms that represent the basis of the emerging sharing economy. Critics of the sharing economy argue that these online platforms do not serve the interests of their users, but mainly the interests of their owners and investors. That is why they propose fostering the development of an alternative to the currently predominant business model within the sharing economy, in the form of online platform cooperativism. The Uber global corporation and local taxi cooperatives are presented as model examples. To serve the interests of its investors and owners, Uber is changing the existing taxi industry, resorting to tax optimisation techniques and evading current regulations, while local taxi cooperatives act in the interests of their members and in compliance with cooperative principles, embodying a well-functioning alternative to Uber.

Brand aesthetics in visual communication – a Polish case study of Disney's anniversary event

In 2018 Mickey Mouse, an iconic brand hero of Disney, celebrated the 90th birthday anniversary in the National Film Archive – Audio-Visual Institute (Pol. FINA) in Warsaw, Poland. By this occasion, the global corporation positioned itself in the local public domain as a social agent through cooperation with the mentioned national institution. The glocalisation strategy has been reflected in the PR activities and has found its visual form in specific PR tools. The paper aims to analyse this case study as the exemplification of a successful implementation of organisational aesthetics in the public realm. The paper analyses the global organization’s visual communication practice in the local framework.