Restructuring the Global Automobile Industry
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry; Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Milton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781351663960
Subjects: Automobile industry and trade; Automobiles; Industrie et commerce; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Economics; Comparative; Economic History
Table of contents: title: 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?; title: 7 Motor components: locational issues in an international industry8 Vertical integration or disintegration? The case of the UK car parts industry; 9 Restructuring the Swedish manufacturing industry; title: 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.