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- 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
7 - The End of a Life cycle the Rise and Fall of the Australian Light Vehicle 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
Tells the development of the vehicle manufacturers in Australia, focusing on their critical relationships with their parent groups. It describes the role each of the ultimate four survivors was allowed to play within these groups, and the consequences for their attempts to build volume and scale through exports.
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- National Policy, Global GiantsHow Australia Built and Lost its Automotive Industry, pp. 183 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020