This article investigates the differences in the application and impact of digital technologies
between manufacturing subsidiaries and lead companies, the principal orchestrators of …

Drawing on interviews with ten Hungarian digital automotive technology providers, this
paper investigates how digital transformation can assist factory economy digital …

Digitized production technologies in terms of 'Industry 4.0'appear to herald the future of
industrial development especially in mature economies, such as Germany. It is expected that …

Global value chains (GVCs) have become a dominant feature of the post-Cold War industrial
production and trading system. Value chains, organized by global manufacturers and …

Digital transformation impacts firms' competitiveness mainly on innovation, efficiency, cost
reduction, and impacts global value chains on specialization, geographic scope …

Industry 4.0 has fused digitalisation with traditional industrial processes bridging the
physical and virtual worlds and opening unimagined possibilities for 21st century business …

Manufacturers face increased cost pressures and market volatility. Product life cycles are
getting shorter. Production has to be faster and increasingly local. The acceleration of «time …

This paper investigates whether advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) can modify
the patterns of upgrading in manufacturing subsidiaries operating in FDI hosting factory …

Research demonstrates that digital technologies stimulate industrial transformation by
enabling new interdependencies with firms outside and across firm and industry boundaries …

The implementation of Industry 4.0 is usually built around core technologies that integrate
different complementary hardware and software to coordinate activities within and across …