Recent scandals have revealed how the European car industry struggles with environmental regulation and increasing global competition. Based on an in-depth case study this book explains how locked-in structures of private fossil-fuel based mobility could persist in an ever more integrated...

Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency -- Wide selection : a myth encountered -- Production malapropisms : the BMW-Rover group controversy -- Lean production : the dog that did not bark -- Back to the future : the reorganization of work at Toyota -- Rivalrous asymmetries and the Japanese...