Automobiles and the Future : Competition, Cooperation, and Change
At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the industr...
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U of M Center For Japanese Studies
2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2584674&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: nlebk uiTerm: 2584674 longDbName: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: btl: Automobiles and the Future : Competition, Cooperation, and Change aug: au: Robert Cole sertl: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies isbn: 9780939512140 9780472880119 9780472902088 imageinfo: pubinfo: dt: @attributes: year: 2020 month: 01 day: 01 dtAvail: @attributes: year: 2020 month: 08 day: 29 pub: U of M Center For Japanese Studies pubContract: University of Michigan Press place: [N.p.] price: 0.01 limitsGroup: maxCheckoutDays: 1500 pda: N printPagesOffline: 100 printPagesOnline: 100 previewPages: 10000 prePubGroup: dewey: @attributes: class: 338.4762920973 item: 338 .4762920973 lc: @attributes: class: HD9710 item: HD 9710 artinfo: ui: 2584674 1229467648 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: EB doid: NL$2584674$PDF caption: PDF download: Y – @attributes: type: EK doid: NL$2584674$EPUB caption: EPUB download: Y tig: atl: Automobiles and the Future : Competition, Cooperation, and Change ptl: Automobiles and the Future aug: au: Robert Cole su: Automobile industry and trade--Japan--Congresses Automobile industry and trade--United States--Congresses Competition, International--Congresses Automobile industry and trade--International cooperation--Congresses sug: subj: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General Automobile industry and trade--Japan--Congresses Automobile industry and trade--United States--Congresses Competition, International--Congresses Automobile industry and trade--International cooperation--Congresses ab: At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the industry--some of whom are university professors. With Japanese import restrictions in place until March 1984 and drastically reduced break-even points for domestic manufactures, rising consumer demand holds great promise for the industry. The rapidly rising stock prices of the auto-makers captures well the sense of heightened optimism, as do the various forecasts for improved profits. While the news is certainly welcome, it nevertheless should be greeted with caution. As Mr. Perkins noted at the conference,'we have a tendency to forget things very quickly. If we have a boom market this year, there is a good chance that a lot of things we learned will be forgotten.'To put the matter differently and more bluntly, with growing prosperity there is the risk that management will fall back into old habits, making impossible the achievement of sustained quality and productivity improvement. Similarly, the commitment to develop cooperative relations with workers and suppliers will weaken. The union will be under membership pressure to retrieve concessions rather than to take the longer-term view. This longer-term view recognizes that'up-front increases'and adherence to existing work rules increasingly come at the sacrifice of future job security. Government policymakers will turn their attention away from the industry. This may not mean a great deal given how weakly focused their attentions has been during the last three years and how mixed and contradictory government auto policies have been for over a decade. pubtype: eBook doctype: Book ougenre: Book language: English copyright: @attributes: flag: N copyrightText: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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