Format:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415004091
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9780203168707
Content:
This book investigates Britain's overall competitiveness and focuses particularly on UK manufacturers, thirty of whom were matched directly against rival companies in Germany, the USA and Japan
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and Abbreviations -- 1 Britain's Competitiveness: Background to the Issue -- The Historical Situation -- Britain's Post-War International Trade Situation -- Comparative Output Performance -- Profitability and Investment -- Productivity -- Cost Levels -- Industry Sectors -- Clarification of the Issue -- 2 Achieving Competitiveness: Fundamental Principles -- Business Principles -- Entrepreneurial Approaches -- Financial Analysis -- Marketing and Competitive Strategy -- Portfolio approaches and PIMS -- Porter's approach -- Production and Technology -- People and Organisation -- Conclusion and the Need for Research -- The Research Programme -- Conceptual Approach and the Reason for Single Industry Focus -- The More Detailed Research Strategy -- Choice of Product Sectors -- Examination of Product Sectors -- Checking for Generality -- 3 The Vehicle Industry -- Historical Perspective -- The Rise of Japan -- Internationalisation of Competition -- The UK Position -- The Relationship between Vehicle Production and Component Markets -- Sourcing Policies -- Domestic Content -- Structural Influences -- 4 The Vehicle Components Industry: Roots of Decline -- 4.1 The Position in Selected Product Sectors -- 4.1.1 Automotive Ball and Roller Bearings -- The UK Market for Bearings -- The Direction of Trade and Competition -- Competing Companies and Market Performance -- Key Issues -- Decline of Multinational Companies' Manufacturing Operations in the UK -- RHP's Overall Competitiveness -- RHP's Strategies in Automotive Bearing's -- Appraisal of RHP's Strategies -- Conclusion -- 4.1.2 Automotive Forgings -- The UK Market -- International Trade in Forgings -- The Structure of Competition -- Performance Analysis of Automotive Forgers
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Relationship Between Scale and Performance -- General Issues Related to Success -- The Erosion of Forgers' International Competitiveness -- GKN's Strategy in Automotive Forgings -- Conclusions -- 4.1.3 Automotive Instrumentation -- Market for Automotive Instrumentation -- Internationalisation of the Market and Competition -- Performance of UK Manufacturers -- The Lucas/Smiths Joint Operation -- The UK Business Environment -- Relations with Vehicle Manufacturers -- Technological and Manufacturing Developments -- Conclusion -- 4.1.4 Automotive Exhaust Systems -- The UK Market -- Company Performances -- The Changing Pattern of Competition -- Basic Manufacturing Issues -- Conclusion -- 4.2 The Vehicle Components Industry as a Whole -- 5 The Vehicle Components Industry Today: Seeds of Recovery? -- Is Britain's International Position Recovering? -- Has Corporate Performance Now Improved? -- Is the Relationship between Size and Performance Changing? -- Has Productivity Now Improved? -- British Manufacturers' Relative International Cost Position -- Non-price Aspects of Competitiveness -- Quality -- Technical Excellence -- Delivery -- Marketing Issues -- Why Rectifying the Competitive Position Still Represents a Race Against Time -- Conclusion -- 6 Britain's Competitiveness Today -- 7 Restoring Competitiveness -- Economic Choices -- Economic Policies -- Industrial Policies -- Business Level Strategies -- Finance -- Marketing -- Operations and Technology -- People and Organisational Issues -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Carr, Christopher Britain's Competitiveness Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1989 ISBN 9780415004091
Language:
English
Keywords:
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