Alternative Business Models in Transport and Infrastructure

Dr Peter Wells, Dr Paul Nieuwenhuis.

One of the key projects in BRASS phase I involved the automotive Micro factory Retailing concept. In BRASS II the research focus was broadened to take a more global look at the move towards alternative business models in the automotive sector. It is informed by the notion that changing vehicle type or powertrain brings with it the need to change the production and consumption aspects of the car. This heading also covers CSR work as it applies to the automotive sector, an area that interfaces neatly with other CSR work within BRASS.

Outputs

  • Nieuwenhuis P & P Wells (2003), The Automotive Industry and the Environment – A technical, business and social future, Cambridge: Woodhead ISBN 1 85573 713 2 and Boca Raton FL: CRC Press ISBN 0-8493-2072-0
  • Nieuwenhuis, P and Walavalkar, S (2005) ‘ Corporate social responsibility – driving the tightrope’, paper presented at the conference ‘Constructing social and environmental issues: the interface between industry, government and civil society’, Open University, Milton Keynes, 3 June 2005.
  • Wells, P and Nieuwenhuis, P. (2006),The Global Automotive Industry – Profile and Prospects, prepared for OECD, Paris.
  • Nieuwenhuis P, Vergragt Ph & P Wells (eds., 2006) The Business of Sustainable Mobility, Sheffield: Greenleaf, ISBN 1-874719-80-2
  • Nieuwenhuis, P & Wells, P (2007) ‘The all-steel body as a cornerstone to the foundations of the mass production car industry’ Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 16, Nr. 2, 183-211, doi:10.1093/icc/dtm001
  • Nieuwenhuis, P (2008) ‘An ecosystem approach to the transition to new business models – an automotive industry case study’, chapter 8 in Session 5, Proceedings: Sustainable Consumption and Production: Framework for Action, 10-11 March, Brussels, Belgium, Conference of the FP6 SCORE! Network, 119-134; http://www.score-network.org/files//24119_CF2_session_5.pdf.
  • Orsato, R.; Wassenove, L. and Wells, P. (2008) Eco-entrepreneurship: TH!NK’s bumpy ride, CASE study. INSEAD Business School, France.
  • Wells, P. (2008) Alternative business models for a sustainable automotive industry, Chapter 5 pp 80-98, in Tukker, A. et al. (eds) System Innovation for Sustainability 1: perspectives on radical changes to sustainable consumption and production, Sheffield: Greenprint.
  • Orsato, R. and Wells, P. (2007) The automobile and sustainability, Journal of Cleaner Production, 15(11/12), 989-993.
  • Wells, P. (2006) Key drivers and alternative business models in the automotive industry, Presentation to Bosch Global Management Programme with Duke Corporate Education, London, 7th December

 

 

 
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