Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production: The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency

by Leonard Waverman and Melvyn A. Fuss

Book Overview

Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and imports for Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States, and these trade flows are heavily influenced by the basic relative competitiveness of the production processes for automotive manufacturing. In this book the authors analyse in depth the factors that contributed to the comparative cost competitiveness of the four countries' auto industries over the period 1961-84, and disentangle the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521031753
• ISBN13: 9780521031752
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"