Cars. Analysis, History, Cases
Details:
- Author(s) Williams, Karel, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal & Andy Adcroft
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 258pp
- Publisher Berghahn
- Place Published Providence
Topics:
- Name Comparative international studies
Countries:
- United States
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account dealing with the international industry in the 1980s with some perspective to the 1950s. Seeks to 'characterise the essence of car manufacturing but also explain the links between production, market conditions and financial results and constraints' using its analysis to 'challenge fashionable views on the car industry'. Considers in particular the failure of British Motor Corp / British Leyland which is not seen as the result of production organisation weakness. Organised in three parts: 1] 'Analysis'; 2] 'History - 'Ford and Toyota - myth, romance and illusion' and 'BMC/BLMC/BL - market led failure'; 'Cases' - 'Western Europe - the weak industry and the irresolute confederation' and 'America versus Japan - bad companies and different social settlements'