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The Global Automotive Industry
The automotive industry is still one of the world's largest manufacturing sectors, but it suffers from being very technology-focused as well as being relatively short-term focused. There is little emphasis within the industry and its consultancy and analyst supply network on the broader social and economic impacts of automobility and of the sector that provides it. The Global Automotive Industry addresses this need and is a first port of call for any academic, official or consultant wanting an overview of the state of the industry. An international team of specialist researchers, both from academia and business, review and analyse the key issues that make vehicle manufacturing still the worl...
Restructuring the Global Automobile Industry
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Motor vehicle manufacturing: the representative industry -- 2 The world automotive industry intransition -- 3 New horizons? The Third World motor vehicle industry in an international framework -- 4 The transformation of the Japanese motor vehicle industry and its role in the world: industrial restructuring and technical evolution -- 5 The impact of Japanese investment in the United States -- 6 Nothing new about Nissan? -- 7 Motor components: locational issues in an international industry -- 8 Vertical integration or disintegration? The case of the UK car parts industry -- 9 Restructuring the Swedish manufacturing industry - the case of the motor vehicle industry -- 10 Subcontracting in the motor industry: a case study in Coventry -- 11 Industrial restructuring and the labour force: the case of Austin Rover in Longbridge, Birmingham -- 12 Policy implications of trends and changes in the vehicle and components industries: the case of the West Midlands -- Bibliography -- Index
New Frontiers of the Automobile Industry
Analysing developments in digital technologies and institutional changes, this book provides an overview of the current frenetic state of transformation within the global automobile industry. An ongoing transition brought about by the relocation of marketing, design and production centres to emerging economies, and experimentation with new mobility systems such as electrical, autonomous vehicles, this process poses the question as to how original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and newcomers can remain competitive and ensure sustainability. With contributions from specialists in the automobile sector, this collection examines the shifts in power and geographical location occurring in the industry, and outlines the key role that public policy has in generating innovation in entrepreneurial states. Offering useful insights into the challenges facing emerging economies in their attempts to grow within the automobile industry, this book will provide valuable reading for those researching internationalization and emerging markets, business strategy and more specifically, the automotive industry.
The European Automobile Industry
Laux carefully examines how European factory owners emulated American success in production and sales between the wars, how the postwar market boom chipped away at American dominance of the industry, and how Japanese models in turn began to cut into the world market in the competitive 1980s. In this incisive overview, Laux determines that Europe's most successful automaking firms were generally those which identified a market and offered this market a product at a reasonable price.
Inside China's Automobile Factories
In Inside China's Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world's largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories in various regions of China, Zhang provides an inside look at the daily factory life of autoworkers and a deeper understanding of the roots of rising labor unrest in the auto industry. Combining original empirical data and sophisticated analysis that moves from the shop floor to national political economy and global industry dynamics, the book develops a multilayered framework for understanding how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.
Making and Selling Cars
The automobile has shaped nearly every aspect of modern American life. This text documents the story of the automotive industry, which, despite its power, is constantly struggling to assure its success.
The Automobile Industry Since 1945
Comprehensive study of the motor vehicle industry of the USA from 1945 to 1971 - covers planning, technology, mergers, costs, prices and pricing policy, demand structure, production, the wholesale trade and retail trade, sales, air pollution, safety issues, etc., and includes an evaluation of performance record and recommendations for government policy. Bibliography pp. 307 to 312, references and statistical tables.
