The Future of the automobile : the report of MIT's International Automobile Program / by Alan Altshuler ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Hermann Appel ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Altshuler, Alan A
| IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology [publisher.] | International Automobile Program.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c1984Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [1986]Description: 1 PDF (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262310642.Subject(s): Automobile industry and tradeGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 338.4/76292 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Summary: 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.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. )[301]-312.
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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.
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