Another analyst, Mark Oline of Fitch Ratings, cautioned that the damage caused by the walkout would have a ripple effect on suppliers that sell parts to G.M. "The U.A.W. strike has the potential for far-reaching, crippling repercussions throughout the industry," Mr. Oline said in a research report yesterday.
Three sets of experiments are designed and conducted to study the guidance effect on "suppliers" by the alteration of the design of the government procurement mechanism in three different situations.
However, the positive effect of supplier involvement on quality was observed only in the electronics industry.
In many cases, the Ford situation will probably have only minor effects on suppliers' stock prices.
To be sure, he says, companies need to be careful of liquidity, foreign-exchange exposure and effects on suppliers.
Several computational results are presented examining the effect of supplier correlation and inspection on supplier selection, transportation, and inspection strategies.
As tech industry giants have begun to adopt new ways to avoid contributing to the Congolese civil war, international trade experts say this will have a trickle-down effect on their suppliers and, in turn, the companies those suppliers work with.
BMW churns out premium vehicles for the American market from a factory in Spartanburg, S.C., and automaker bankruptcies "would have an effect on our suppliers," said a BMW spokesman, Marc Hassinger.
This paper examines the effects of supplier dependency and resource depth on the performance of telecommunications suppliers during an industry downturn.
