Book contents
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 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
- Index
8 - Distant Children: Australian Vehicle Manufacturers and Their Foreign Parents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2019
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 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
- Index
Summary
Identifies the emergence, growth, development and failure of the supplier sector in Australia, including much of it being taken over by the global giants of the sector. Responsible, as elsewhere, for 80 per cent of the content and value of the complete car, it was never able to achieve enough local scale and was perpetually threatened by competition from imports.
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- National Policy, Global GiantsHow Australia Built and Lost its Automotive Industry, pp. 211 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020