Financial crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis: the automotive industry is facing turbulent times like no other sector. Never before has it been so important for car manufacturers to use their resources purposefully and sparingly. The new edition of the international study "Sustainable Value in Automotive Production" was dedicated to this topic and assessed how efficiently 17 of the world's leading car manufacturers managed environmental resources, people and capital over the period from 1999 to 2007. A previous study had analysed industry data up to 2005.

The sustainable value approach on which this study is based was developed by the participating scientists Prof Dr Frank Figge (Queen's University Belfast) and Dr Tobias Hahn (Euromed Management School Marseille). The approach has since been applied in various studies. Clients have included the EU Commission, the Federal Ministry of Research and the Federal Ministry of Economics. To date, there has been no publicly funded international industry comparison. The BMW Group therefore commissioned the automotive study, including the present update, itself and financed it to a large extent. The differences in efficiency in automobile production were still considerable. This emphasised how important it was for manufacturers to regularly undergo a sustainability comparison.

 

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This study is the successor to a first study carried out on the initiative of the BMW Group in 2008 and was conducted in its third edition in 2013. The 2009 and 2013 updated editions are available for free download here.

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