A profile of the global auto industry : innovation and dynamics / Mike Smitka, Peter Warrian.
Smitka, Michael, author.; Warrian, Peter, author.
2017
HD9710.A2 S656 2017
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Title A profile of the global auto industry : innovation and dynamics / Mike Smitka, Peter Warrian.
Author Smitka, Michael, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781631572968 paperback
9781631572975 (electronic bk.)
Published New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 157 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number HD9710.A2 S656 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.476292
Summary This is the first book on the global auto industry viewed through the lens of technology. We start by tracing how innovation shaped the first century of its history. We then examine the industry's shifting footprint in Europe and North America, and the rise of new producers, particularly China. Succeeding chapters emphasize the role of suppliers in what is now a high-tech industry. We describe new forms of collaboration that challenge traditional supply chain relations, analyzing regulation as a driver of innovation, and the enabling role of the materials science revolution, such as the shift of steel from a commodity to a highly engineered product. We cover innovations in management, from computer-aided engineering, roadmapping, and just-in-time methods to the evolving role of workers and public policy. We finish with an overview of electric vehicles, shared mobility, and autonomous vehicles, concluding that they will not prove disruptive.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-152) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 13, 2017).
Added Author Warrian, Peter, author.
Series Industry profiles collection. 2331-0073
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1. Introduction: the global auto industry through the lens of technology
2. History 1: the rise of oligopoly
3. History 2: the collapse of oligopoly
4. Changing economic geography
5. China and the rise of new producers
6. Automotive innovation model and the supply chain: PACE awards
7. How companies innovate: intellectual property and roadmaps
8. CAFE standards and materials competition
9. The rise of digital manufacturing and the boundaries of the firm
10. New technologies: productions systems, management, and labor
11. New technologies: disruptive or evolutionary?
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