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Cars: Analysis, History, Cases

Williams, Karel; Williams, John; Haslam, Colin

 
9781571818508: Cars: Analysis, History, Cases
ISBN 10: 1571818502 ISBN 13: 9781571818508
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Car manufacturing involves the movement of large numbers of heavy, awkward objects incorporating some 20,000 parts, through a large number of short cycles. As to be expected the constant flow of the processes involved is disrupted by both the inherent complexities of production and those of market restrictions. This study, a unique blend of analysis, history and case studies, not only characterizes the essence of car manufacturing but also explains the links between production, market conditions and financial results and constraints. At the same time, it challenges fashionable views on the car industry and rejects the current preference for facile dichotomies (e.g. mass production vs. lean production; Japan vs. America; freedom vs. regulation). However, it also shows that the failure of BMC, the largest failure in the industry to date, cannot be attributed to its incomplete adoption of the best system. Ford and Toyota were exceptionally successful in their production organization but their solutions had more in common than is generally acknowledged, and those solutions also required exceptional market conditions for their successful implementation.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1571818502
ISBN 13 
9781571818508
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
274
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