British Leyland Motor Corporation, 1969-2005. The story from inside
Details:
- Author(s) Carver, Mike, Nick Seale & Anne Youngson
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2015
- Pages 160pp; illus
- Publisher History Press
- Place Published Stroud
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by executives who worked in the business at senior level. Covers the period 1988-2005. Seeks to analyse the business through the eyes of those who worked in it. Chapters include: 'High expectations confounded, 1868-75'; 'The Ryder Report - two more years of failure, 1975-77'; 'The Edwardes era - the start of better things, 1977-82'; 'Edwardes acts on industrial relations, 1977-82'; 'Edwardes brings partnership with Honda, 1979-82'; 'China'; 'Privatisation and consolidation, 1982-86';'Graham Day, 1986-88'; 'British Aerospace ownership, 1988-94'; 'BMW, 1994-2000'; 'The final chapter, MG Rover, 2000-05'; 'The causes of the failure of BLMC in sequence'; 'The causes of failure - the underlying weaknesses'