Cars: Analysis, History, Cases / Edition 1

by Karel Williams, John Williams, Colin Haslam

Overview

Through developing an original analytical framework that, for the first time, systematically relates productive, market and financial variables, the authors are able to rewrite the history of the car business since Henry Ford.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571818508
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	10/01/1994
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karel Williams teaches at the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Manchester.

John Williams is Professor at the Department of Economics and Agricultural Economics, University of Wales at Aberystwyth.

Colin Haslam and Sukhdev Johal direct the Business Policy Group at the East London Business School, University of East London.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Financial and Physical Characteristics
Chapter 2. Investment and Productive Intervention
Chapter 3. Better Flow or Lower Wages
Chapter 4. Market Characteristics and Volume Fluctuations
Chapter 5. Unbalanced International Trade
Chapter 6. Ford and Toyota: Myth, Romance and Illusion
Chapter 7. BMC/BLMC/BL: Market-led Failure
Chapter 8. Western Europe: The Weak Industry and the Irresolute Confederation
Chapter 9. America versus Japan: Bad Companies or Different Social Settlements

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"... an important study." - The Guardian

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