Title National policy, global giants : how Australia built and lost its automotive industry / John Wormald, Kim Rennick

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations Contents The triumph of the automobile : and its incipient decline -- From revolution to revolution : a changing automotive industry -- The vehicle manufacturers : a controlling global semi-oligarchy -- A highly-disciplined global partnership : the components suppliers -- Tense relationships : the automotive industry and government -- Enthusiastic adopters : growth and change in the Australian car market -- The end of a life cycle : the rise and fall of the Australian light vehicle industry -- Distant children : Australian vehicle manufacturers and their foreign parents -- The Australian component suppliers : doomed by being so sub-scale -- From consistency to contradiction : Australian government automotive policy -- Government support policy and sectoral analysis : lessons learned Summary What can we tell about the future of automobiles and the industries that make them by examining their past? Wormald and Rennick trace the history of powered land transport, the rise and fall of the railways, the spectacular rise of the automobile, and what might come next. Delving into the mighty and complex automotive industry, following the growth of the markets and production, this book illustrates the globalization of vehicle manufacturers and component suppliers, giving form to the development of the industry's business model. A key factor in an auto-industry's successes and failures is the often-difficult relationship it has with government, which varies in nature from country to country. As an illustrative case, Wormald and Rennick present and analyse the entire lifecycle of Australia's automotive history - including its birth, growth, functioning and death - and its shifting relationship with the government that supported it Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Automobile industry and trade -- Australia Automobile industry and trade -- Government policy -- Australia Automobile industry and trade Automobile industry and trade -- Government policy Australia Form Electronic book Author Rennick, Kim, author LC no. 2019027929 ISBN 9781108643948 1108643949 9781108627108 1108627102

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