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While the Big Three automobile companies came to dominate the industry, its early history was characterized by an array of competing companies. Studebaker's story is the chronicle of the life and death of an American automobile company where managements concept of "tradition" played a fundamental role in modeling corporate culture, rhetoric, and strategy. Donald T. Critchlow focuses on how organizational philosophies, developed by successive managerial...

This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry, who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time when the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization. It provides a thorough and up-to-date mapping of the worldwide geography of the car industry, in the triad regions (Europe, North America and Japan), and in emerging countries and regions. -- Publisher's...

"The book covers the period from 1925, when Walter T. Chrysler founded the company, to 1998, when it merged with Daimler-Benz. Chrysler made a late entrance into the industry as an independent producer, but later absorbed (in whole or in part) Chalmers, Maxwell, Dodge Brothers, Hudson, Nash, and American Motors Corporation. The author traces this journey, explaining the company's leadership in automotive engineering, its styling successes and failures,...

"Ghosn is responsible for one of the most breath-taking business turnarounds of all time - taking the near-fatally wounded Japanese automaker Nissan from the brink of ruin back to profitability in just two years. His achievement is all the more astonishing because he did it as a Westerner operating in Japan's closed, tradition-bound business environment." "In Turnaround, business journalist David Magee presents the first behind-the-scenes look at...

In Wheels for the world, Douglas Brinkley reveals the riveting details of Ford Motor Company's epic achievements, chronicling the success of the Tin Lizzie to the beloved Model A through the glory days of the Thunderbird, Mustang, and Taurus, as well as the revolutionary plants where they were built-Highland Park and River Rouge. Brinkley tells of the amazing acquisitions of Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, and Mazda in the 1990s. His narrative also explores...

Compares and contrasts two companies, Ford and Nissan, from the founders and owners right down to the men on the assembly line.

This meticulously researched biography of Pierre S. du Pont, head of the Du Pont Company and later General Motors, describes how the Delaware scion took a loosely run, family gunpowder factory and turned it into a giant corporation. Moreover, by astute business management he transformed a faltering General Motors into one of the world's most profitable enterprises. Chandler and Salsbury, who had access to business and personal records rarely available...

"The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product life cycle - from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal."--Jacket.

As a participant observer at Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Laurie Graham conducted extensive covert research. Her findings will interest all those concerned about Japanese management strategies, the auto industry, and the American worker's experience of lean production.