The reckoning
Compares and contrasts two companies, Ford and Nissan, from the founders and owners down to the men on the assembly line. The book provides a comparison of American and Japanese automobile industries and the implications for the two countries' economies.
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- Full title :The reckoning.
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Compares and contrasts two companies, Ford and Nissan, from the founders and owners down to the men on the assembly line. The book provides a comparison of American and Japanese automobile industries and the implications for the two countries' economies.
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- Publication Date:©1986.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1986.
The Physical Object
- Description:752 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0688048382, 9780688048389
- oclc:on1183383659
Table of Contents
Maxwell's warning -- Amaya surveys the oil age -- Detroit's bleak winter of 1982 -- The founder -- The destroyer -- The victor -- The banker -- The turning point -- The crushing of Masuda -- Tough little rich boy -- The whiz kids -- Ford goes public -- The quiet man -- The Gaijin teachers -- The engineer -- The first victory -- Deming finds an audience -- Henry Kaiser tries Detroit -- The organizer -- The Mustang -- The rivals -- The statue -- The boss -- The pioneer -- The liberation of Yukata Katayama -- The Emperor Shioji -- War and oil -- Henry Ford besieged -- The alienated -- Citizen Nader -- Datsun saves -- The struggle at the top -- Big cars again -- A vacancy at Chrysler -- The arrivistes -- Greathouse in Tokyo -- A man of the system -- Hard times come home -- The fall of a free trader -- Amaya ends an era -- The defection of Marvin Runyon -- The hammer and the nail -- A grateful worker -- Bonus time again -- The scion -- The new American hero -- The raiders -- OPEC unravels -- The upstarts -- The jobs depart -- Instant replay : the rise of Korea -- The venerables -- The reckoning -- The past becomes the future.
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