Industry at the Crossroads Cole Paperback LUP – University of Michigan Press

Industry at the CrossroadsAuthor(s): Robert Cole\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan\nISBN-13: 9780939512126, 978-0939512126\nSynopsis\nThe mood of the first U of M [url] Auto conference in January 1981 could only be described as electric. People wanted to know what our problems were and how we could begin to solve them. Inherent in the latter issue was the questions, what could we learn from the Japanese? One left the conference with a sense that there was a call for action, a mandate to address the problems facing industry. The mood, about a year later, at the March 1982 [url] Auto Conference was far more subdued. While undoubtedly this reflected the stream of statistics confirming the continually depressed state of the industry, another dynamic was possibly operating as well. Whereas the 1981 conference was \""electric,\"" a state of mind which flowed from a certain frustration a.