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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      04 November 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511488535
      9780521837156
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488535
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.765kg, 294 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Economics, Industrial Economics, Strategic Management, Management
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    The automotive industry ranks among the most significant business phenomena of the 20th century and remains vitally important today, accounting for almost 11% of the GDP of North America, Europe and Japan and one in nine jobs. In economic and social terms alike, its products have had a fundamental impact on modern society - for better and worse. Yet the industry has found it hard to adjust to recent challenges and is no longer much valued by the capital markets. It is riven with internal contradictions that inhibit reform, and faces a stark choice between years of strife or radical change. This book is a wake-up call for those who work in the automotive business. It highlights the challenges and opportunities that exist for managers, legislators, financial institutions and potential industry entrants. Most of all, it gives us all cause to reflect on the value of our mobility, today and tomorrow.

    Reviews

    ‘… a stimulating and thought-provoking read, especially for an industry insider.’

    John McCormack - Vice-President European Aftermarket, Federal-Mogul

    ‘A timely and important book. The authors have produced both a powerful diagnosis and an imaginative blueprint for reform. The industry and everyone who depends on it would do well to take notice.’

    Sir Geoffrey Owen - Senior Fellow at the Institute of Management at the London School of Economics and former editor of the Financial Times

    ‘Wormald and Maxton provide an iconoclastic analysis of the industry that is provocative, timely, and well-researched. The warnings they give to the leaders of this industry and the politicians seeking to regulate it need to be taken seriously.’

    Lee Branstetter - Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, New York

    'The authors have set out to persuade the industry that it needs to change its structure and stop making so many models. They raise important questions for motor executives and offer a mass of evidence in support of their case.'

    Source: Financial Times

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