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e-Business in the chemical, rubber and plastics industry1.3 Study objectives and methodologyResearch objectivesThe CRP industries are a mature, capital-intensive sector with predictable demand andrelatively high barriers for market entry. Therefore, a basic assumption for this study wasthat ICT and e-business would not have a fundamental impact on industry structure as awhole (at least not as much as in tourism, banking and ICT services). However, theglobalisation of markets and the increasing rivalry in the market-place (see Section 2.3)should be strong drivers for companies to pro-actively exploit all opportunities forimproving their processes, internally and in exchanges with suppliers and customers. AsICT is a major enabler of process efficiency in manufacturing in general, 16 anotherassumption was that ICT would be increasingly used by CRP companies in all segmentsof the value chain, notably by the large players. Based on these general assumptions,and on findings in earlier studies conducted on the CRP industries, the study addressesthe following research questions:Dynamics of adoption: Has there been a dynamic adoption of ICT and e-business in the period since 2003/04?Drivers and barriers: What drives e-business adoption, what do companiesperceive as the main challenges and barriers?Impact on firm and sector level: What are the main impacts of ICT adoption onfirm performance and on the industry as a whole (notably in terms of productivityeffects and skills requirements)?Impact on international competition: Is there a link between e-businessdevelopments and the scenario for international competition?Policy implications: Do the findings on these research questions above haveimplications for policy, for example in the fields of economic, competition or R&Dand innovation policy?The methodological framework of the SeBW builds upon the methodology established forthe preceding "e-Business W@tch" programme. It has been adapted to the new focus ofactivity, enabling the progress from monitoring "e-readiness" and "e-activity" to theevidence-based analysis of "e-impact".Data collectionThe study is based on a mix of data sources and methodologies, including primary datacollection, desk research and case studies. More specifically, information was collectedfrom the following sources:Sectoral e-Business Watch Survey (2007): The CRP industries was one of threesectors (besides the furniture and the steel industries) covered by the SeBW Survey onmanufacturing industries. 911 interviews were conducted with decision-makers incompanies from 7 EU countries and in the USA in the CRP sector. The SeBW Surveywas the main source for analysing the state of play in ICT adoption, B2B processintegration and automation. Detailed information about this survey is available in Annex I.16This was confirmed by most e-Business Watch sector studies, e.g. on ICT manufacturing,consumer electronics and on the pulp and paper industry (2006).19
e-Business in the chemical, rubber and plastics industryCase studies: 10 case studies describing the e-business strategy of companies from thesector were conducted. They have been selected to match the topics in focus, and with aview to achieve a balanced coverage of countries, business activities (sub-sectors) andcompany size-bands.Interviews: interviews have been conducted with firm representatives as part of the casestudy work. In addition, further in-depth interviews with company representatives andindustry experts, including the Advisory Board members, have been held.Sources of industry federations: Annual reports and position papers of industryfederations were used, notably from the following federations:CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council (www.cefic.org), founded in 1972,representing, directly or indirectly, about 29,000 companies which employ about1.3 million people and account for nearly a third of the world chemical production;ETRMA, the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers' Association(www.etrma.org), representing about 4,200 companies with a direct employment ofabout 360,000 people, including the nine largest European tyre corporatecompanies;APME, the Association of plastic manufacturers Europe (www.plasticseurope.org),with more than 100 members that represent over 90% of all polymer producersacross the 27 EU Member States, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia and Turkey;EuPC, the EU-level Trade Association representing European plastics converters(www.plasticsconverters.eu), represents about 37,000 companies with more than1.5 million employees.EU-KLEMS: The EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts are the result of aresearch project, financed by the European Commission, to analyse productivity in theEuropean Union at the industry level. This project is meant to support the analysis of therelationship between skill formation, technological progress and innovation on the onehand, and productivity on the other. EU-KLEMS Growth Accounts include measures ofeconomic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technologicalchange at the industry level for 25 EU Member States as well as for the United States. Ingeneral, data for 1970-2005 are available for the former EU-15 EU MS and for the US,while data from 1995-2005 are available for 10 new MS that joined the EU in 2004. Thegrowth accounts are based on the growth accounting methodology as theoreticallyseminal contribution by Jorgenson and Griliches (1967) and put into a more generalinput-output framework by Jorgenson, Gollop and Fraumeni (1987). The data sourcesthat have been used to create the EU-KLEMS data series are large based on series fromthe national statistical institutes (e.g. investment series), but also from a variety ofnational sources, in cases where no international database or statistics from the NSIswere available (e.g. for hours worked by labour type). Various series were linked in orderto bridge different vintages of the national accounts according to a common methodology.Due to the broad range of sources used and data limitations in these sources, the level ofdetail in the EU-KLEMS database varies across countries, industries and variables. 1717For more information about the database, see: EU-KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts,Version 1.0, Part I Methodology. March 2007, prepared the Groningen Growth andDevelopment Centre and the National Institute of Economic Research on behalf of the EU-KLEMS consortium, available via www.euklems.net/.20
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