Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Johnson Controls, Inc. - Automotive Systems Group The Georgetown, Kentucky Plant
Roberts J; Milgrom PCase SGSB-BE9-EEconomicsThis case focuses on the auto supply industry and especially the relations between Johnson Controls (JCI) Automotive Systems Group's Georgetown plant and its main customer, Toyota Motor Manufacturing. Toyota's U.S. assembly plant, for which JCI supplies seats on a just-in-time basis. It can be used to investigate the differing patterns of supplier relations that were traditional in the U.S. and Japanese auto industries, to examine the adaptations...Starting at €8.20
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Knights Apparel and the Alta Gracia Factory: Paying a Living Wage
Paul Brest, Debra SchifrinnCase SGSB-SM237-EStrategyIn 2014 The Alta Gracia clothing factory in the Dominican Republic was doing something quite unusual in the industry; it was paying its employees a living wage, which was 350 percent higher than the country’s minimum wage. Knights Apparel, which owned the four-year old factory, also provided benefits, health care, and allowed the workers to unionize. Most apparel factories paid employees a minimum wage, which in some places was not enough to pay...Starting at €8.20