National Policy, Global Giants: How Australia Built and Lost Its Automotive Industry

ISBN-13: 9781108486064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 350 str.

John Wormald; Kim Rennick

Opis

Describing the lifecycle of an auto-industry - its birth, growth, functioning and death - and the shifting relationship it has with the government that supports it, this book will appeal to leaders and managers in the automotive industry and officials in the public sector who are responsible for this industry.

Recenzje

'A formidable command of the industry, its makeup and its history born of the authors' having lived and breathed it for decades. I discovered things I didn't know about the period I wrote a Ph.D. about.' Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economics and architect of the Button Plan

Spis treści

1. The triumph of the automobile – and its incipient decline; 2. From revolution to revolution: a changing automotive industry; 3. The vehicle manufacturers: a controlling global semi-oligarchy; 4. A highly-disciplined global partnership: the components suppliers; 5. Tense relationships: the automotive industry and government; 6. Enthusiastic adopters: growth and change in the Australian car market; 7. The end of a life cycle: the rise and fall of the Australian light vehicle industry; 8. Distant children: Australian vehicle manufacturers and their foreign parents; 9. The Australian component suppliers: doomed by being so sub-scale; 10. From consistency to contradiction: Australian government automotive policy; 11. Government support policy and sectoral analysis: lessons learned.