Time for a Model Change: Re-engineering the Global Automotive Industry Graeme Maxton is director of AutoPolis, a firm that specializes in the structures and dynamics of the world automotive i.The automotive industry ranks among the most significant business phenomena of
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| Title | : | Time for a Model Change: Re-engineering the Global Automotive Industry |
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (441 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521837154 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2004-12-06 |
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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. Although its products have had a fundamental impact on modern society in economic and social terms, the industry has found it hard to adjust to contemporary conditions and is thus no longer esteemed in capital markets. Riven with internal contradictions that inhibit reform, it now faces a stark choice between years of strife or radical change. Highlighting the challenges and opportunities that exist for managers, legislators, financial institutions and potential industry entrants, this book is a wake-up call for those who work in the automotive industry. Most of all, it gives us all cause to reflect on the value of mobility, today and tomorrow. Graeme Maxton is director of AutoPolis, a firm that specializes in the structures and dynamics of the world automotive i
Editorial : "The automobile industry is so large and so important that it impacts global politics as well as the global economy. Wormald and Maxton provide an iconoclastic analysis of this 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, Daniel Stanton Associate Profesor of Business, Columbia Business School
"poses some fundamental questions about the continuing validity of the economic model that drives the automobile industry. No vehicle manufacturer can afford to ignore the issues that Wormald and Maxton identify." Anthony Millington, Director General, European Automobile Manufacturers Association, Tokyo Office
"a powerful diagnosis and an imaginative blueprint for reform. The industry and everyone who depends on it would do well to take notice." Professor Geoffrey Owen, London School of Economics
"A must read
But, then again, who knows? We do live in interesting times.. Instead, I received a collection of interviews and essays from characters within the straight edge scene. This book offers her instructions in such a simple, clear, easy to read & follow manner--that I could still hear her loving, merry voice ringing in my mind. I really wish Michael's book contained more of the soul in which he refers to several times within the book. He entertains us with details of his sexual exploits while still educating us with his knowledge of music and tales of his struggles at various radio stations. In addition there is a huge supplementary industry in the form of supplying oil, building highways, insuring, repairing, racing, and hundreds of other professions.
The problems forseen by the authors seem so obvious that you wonder why the automoile companies don't see it. Dispells the myth of everyone running to one side of the ship.. And no strategic plan to follow even if they had the mone
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