“…Particularly, in the automotive industry, there is a large number of papers dealing with different management problems, for example, management and strategy, competition and performance, and planning and development of automotive industry (Herrmann, Henneberg, & Landwehr, 2010;Muruganantham et al, 2016). In recent decades, assessments of the performance have become an interesting topic in research and practical domain in a wide sense because it favours the effectiveness (Piotrowicz & Cuthbertson, 2015).…”