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
2 - From Revolution to Revolution: a Changing Automotive Industry
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
Relates the history of the production of automobiles: spectacular growth, the drive for scale accompanied by great waves of concentration among the vehicle builders, the emergence of new players, the globalization of the industry. A surprising result emerges: the unbroken dominance of an oligarchy of vehicle manufacturers, with no Chinese-owned firms in their ranks, despite China’s huge production volumes. Explains how the manufacturers control access to their end markets through their unique system of proprietary distribution channels.
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- National Policy, Global GiantsHow Australia Built and Lost its Automotive Industry, pp. 39 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020