Michael Smitka, Washington and Lee University [Lexington, VA]

Personal information

First Name

Michael

Name

Smitka

Nationality

US

Institution

Position

Professor Emeritus of Economics

Institution

Washington and Lee University [Lexington, VA]

Other positions

Judge, Automotive News PACE Awards

Main discipline

Économie

Secondary discipline

Sciences de gestion

Research subjects

Main subject

Automotive industry in general, primarily US, China and Japan. Within that a focus on suppliers and on various aspects of business history. Two current research topics are the applicability of "disruption" in the automotive industry, and the geography of suppliers in the Chinese market.

Secondary subjects

Have served for the past 24 years as a judge of the Automotive News PACE supplier innovation award.

History

Member for

8 years 29 weeks