<p>The implementation of a new motor vehicle block exemption began in 2002, and affected the car dealer industry in Sweden. Before this new regulation, a general agent distributing cars to dealers had the ability to restrict car dealers’ behavior much more. Nowadays, dealers have the right to sell different brands from the same showroom, even if there are strict rules about how the different brands should be presented. The new block exemption have also given car dealers possibilities to establish in other places within EU were selective distribution is applied.</p><p>As the environment changed (by the block exemption), dealers faced new information that required interpretation. In this thesis we have focused on industrial wisdom; a reasonable and consistent, yet subjective, sense-making of reality in an industry. This sense-making is a way to understand and justify company behavior; resulting assumptions are considered so basic that they remain unquestioned by industry participants. However, interpretations depend on who makes them; different persons interpret things in different ways.</p><p>In the light of the car dealer industry and the motor vehicle block exemption 1400/2002, this thesis investigated if change due to institutional pressure can affect industrial wisdom. Further, what does this process look like.</p><p>To fulfill our purpose we conducted a qualitative research by interviewing 19 Chief Executive Officers from the car dealer industry in Sweden. The sample was designed by a maximum variation sampling technique, in which we as researchers used our own judgment to pick cases that were extra informative. Before we conducted the interviews, we reviewed literature to gain a general understanding of the industry and relevant issues.</p><p>From our research we know that industrial wisdom can change due to a shift in institutional pressure and we observed that the car dealer industrial wisdom was changing. There are some new perceptions and aspects of wisdom, which suggest that the industry has moved away from previous equilibrium. Nevertheless, perceptions are diverse in a number of areas and thoughts have not been translated into action, which leaves much potential for further change. Naturally, this is a slow and difficult process since cognitive maps are embedded in a mindset that relies on previous experience and automatic interpretations. If wisdom changes more depends<strong> </strong>a great deal on if/how dealers (continue to) act.</p><p>This thesis resulted in a model (The Loop of Wisdom) that explains how a change in institutional pressure affects industrial wisdom. New information enters the company, gets interpreted, acted upon and feeds back out to the environment, which affect other companies and the industry as a whole.</p>

The implementation of a new motor vehicle block exemption began in 2002, and affected the car dealer industry in Sweden. Before this new regulation, a general agent distributing cars to dealers had the ability to restrict car dealers’ behavior much more. Nowadays, dealers have the right to sell different brands from the same showroom, even if there are strict rules about how the different brands should be presented. The new block exemption have also given car dealers possibilities to establish in other places within EU were selective distribution is applied. As the environment changed (by the block exemption), dealers faced new information that required interpretation. In this thesis we have focused on industrial wisdom; a reasonable and consistent, yet subjective, sense-making of reality in an industry. This sense-making is a way to understand and justify company behavior; resulting assumptions are considered so basic that they remain unquestioned by industry participants. However, interpretations depend on who makes them; different persons interpret things in different ways. In the light of the car dealer industry and the motor vehicle block exemption 1400/2002, this thesis investigated if change due to institutional pressure can affect industrial wisdom. Further, what does this process look like. To fulfill our purpose we conducted a qualitative research by interviewing 19 Chief Executive Officers from the car dealer industry in Sweden. The sample was designed by a maximum variation sampling technique, in which we as researchers used our own judgment to pick cases that were extra informative. Before we conducted the interviews, we reviewed literature to gain a general understanding of the industry and relevant issues. From our research we know that industrial wisdom can change due to a shift in institutional pressure and we observed that the car dealer industrial wisdom was changing. There are some new perceptions and aspects of wisdom, which suggest that the industry has moved away from previous equilibrium. Nevertheless, perceptions are diverse in a number of areas and thoughts have not been translated into action, which leaves much potential for further change. Naturally, this is a slow and difficult process since cognitive maps are embedded in a mindset that relies on previous experience and automatic interpretations. If wisdom changes more depends a great deal on if/how dealers (continue to) act. This thesis resulted in a model (The Loop of Wisdom) that explains how a change in institutional pressure affects industrial wisdom. New information enters the company, gets interpreted, acted upon and feeds back out to the environment, which affect other companies and the industry as a whole.

The thesis is focused on the suggestion of using suitable tools of marketing mix for the car dealer and service Alcor Motors, s.r.o. It specifies concepts needed for understanding this issue. It analyzes recent situation on the market and in the surrounding of an organization. It evaluates an actual condition of Alcor Motors and present usage of marketing tools. Suggestions are also analyzed from the financial point of view.

Este documento presenta una Propuesta de Sistema de Gestión de Inventarios basado en la metodología DPOK, utilizada por Toyota en las operaciones de sus concesionarios, para la reducción y control del Stock sin Movimiento, problema identificado en un concesionario de autos ubicado en la ciudad de Tarapoto, Perú. Se realiza un análisis de causas que identifica a la reposición empírica y falta de control como causa principal y se plantea tomar acción en cuatro campos: Planeamiento de Inventarios, Almacenamiento, Gestión de Pedidos Especiales y Medición y Seguimiento de los procesos, abarcando de esta forma los diferentes factores que influyen en el problema identificado. Para cada campo de acción se plantea un procedimiento, se fijan metas, se establecen indicadores clave y puntos de evaluación, tomando como guía la metodología DPOK y los estándares de la marca Toyota. Luego de nueves meses de implementado el sistema se observan resultados preliminares positivos en los indicadores de Stock sin Movimiento y Meses de Stock. / This document presents a Proposal for an Inventory Management System based on the DPOK methodology, used by Toyota in the operations of its dealerships, for the reduction and control of Stock without Movement, a problem identified in a car dealership located in the city of Tarapoto, Peru. An analysis of causes is carried out that identifies the empirical restocking and lack of control as the main cause and considers acting in four fields: Inventory Planning, Storage, Management of Special Orders and Measurement and Monitoring of processes, encompassing the different factors that influence the identified problem. For each field of action, a procedure is proposed, goals are set, key indicators and evaluation points are established, taking the DPOK methodology and the Toyota brand standards as a guide. After nine months having the system implemented, positive preliminary results are observed in the Stock without Movement and Stock Months indicators. / Trabajo de investigación