industrielle Führerschaft

Yorkshireman Mar 6, 2014:

False friends Führerschaft as well. Here, this appears to be leadership in terms of management rather than excellence.

XY bears/holds leadership/management responsibility for the production side

philgoddard Mar 6, 2014:

Industriell is a false friend - the same is true of the French "industriel". It means production or manufacturing here, so I would say "is the production lead".

Yorkshireman Mar 6, 2014:

@vtimp tend to agree with you on your first suggestion.

Not sure about operations, operational or operative management - depends on how the venture defines it - could mean financial, human resources and strategy.

Trilogy Mar 6, 2014:

@Patricia Be careful: "operatives Management" includes "Produktion". To me it looks rather like Firma X = production, Firma Y = staff function.

vtimp Mar 6, 2014:

I would use a verb form plus noun such as to be in charge for, charged with , i.e. company X is in charge of manufacturing, company Y will be in charge of operations management.

BrigitteHilgner Mar 6, 2014:

operations management vs production http://mitsloan.mit.edu/omg/om-definition.php

Trilogy Mar 6, 2014:

@Patricia If you are sure about it, Brigitte Hilgner is right in her assumption. You could say: the leading role of firm X is manufacturing (or similar).

Patricia Will (asker) Mar 6, 2014:

No it is nothing to do with being an industrial leader. But I wonder what does having industrial control of a JV actually mean. There are some other references on the web to Firma X holding the controlling stake and appointing the CFO, this is why I wonder if they just mean they are the leading partner in the JV. I think being responsible for the manufacturing side would perhaps make sense, although how that is distinguished from operations I am not sure.

BrigitteHilgner Mar 6, 2014:

Wie Patricia ... habe ich bei dem Begriff spontan auch an "Branchenführer" gedacht, was angesichts des Satzes aber vermutlich keinen Sinn ergibt. Anhand eines Satzes ohne weiteren Kontext kann man jedoch nur raten - vielleicht soll ausgedrückt werden, dass X für die Fertigung und Y für den operativen Betrieb zuständig ist.

Trilogy Mar 6, 2014:

@Patricia Is Firma X an industry leader or does it have industrial control in the venture?