Global restructuring and the auto industry

Transforming the auto industry.

recent months, with public opinion running strongly against government fi nancial support for it. The industry fell into a trap of high costs, including unaffordable benefi ts and a morass of regulatory and contractual obligations that enabled foreign producers to take a growing share of the U.S. market. Worse, the Big Three (Chrysler, Ford and General Motors) continued to promote gas-guzzling ...

Restructuring and Global Strategy of the Japanese Automobile Industry and Its Perspective Professor

The global food regime : crisis and restructuring

It is well known that capitalist development depends on free wage labor and previously accumulated capital, as Marx (1967/1867, p. 166) claimed “the owner of money must meet in the market with the free labourer”. This claim, of course, implicitly assumes sufficient supply relatively affordable food for the proletariat in the capitalist sector, as both industrialization and urbanization greatly ...

Vertical Integration and the Restructuring of the U.s. Electricity Industry

industry are often about the degree to which market relationships should replace transactions that formerly took place within regulated, vertically integrated utilities. Markets for the purchase of energy by vertically unintegrated distribution utilities are clearly feasible, but vertical deintegration of existing systems may eliminate some operational and reliability benefits that are importan...

the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext

this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...