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Books : The Future of the Automobile: The Report of MIT's International Automobile ProgramIn association with Amazon.com Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 338.476292 EAN: 9780262510387 ISBN: 0262510383 Label: The MIT Press Manufacturer: The MIT Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 332 Publication Date: October 09, 1986 Publisher: The MIT Press Studio: The MIT Press Sales Rank: 2061275 Related Items: Editorial Review: Product Description: A new shape for the world auto industry emerges from this far-ranging study, which reveals a path of development quite different from those widely forecast and leaves no doubt that the changes ahead will be dramatic. Cited by Business Week as one of 1984's ten best books on business and economics, The Future of the Automobile is the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted of the world's largest industry. It is a collaborative study by leading researchers and industry experts in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States that covers the industry at the firm level and at the global level. It projects the composition of the industry 20 years hence, estimates long-term demand for the product, focuses on the growing cooperation between producers on individual models even as overall competition in the industry intensifies, and reveals alternative paths for industrial relations. Alan Altshuler is Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University. Daniel Roos is Director of the Center for Transportation Studies and Professor of Civil Engineering at MIT where Martin Anderson and James Womack also teach. Daniel Jones teaches at the University of Sussex. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Thoroughly informativeWhen the average person thinks of the automobile industry, thefollowing names like Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota,Saab, etc. are likely to leap to mind. But what MIT's report points out is that the modern automobile industry is not represented just by these finished-product assemblers, but by suppliers and component craftsmen that constitute an extremely complex web that make up "the automobile industry." But the complexity of the automobile industry rests not only on the composition ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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