Download or read book Surfing the Global Tide written by M. Wynn-Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car manufacturing epitomizes modern industry, yet the overall perspective has been lost in speculation and self-promotion. Based on six years of research, this book is the first in years to reassess the industry. The result is a paradigm that quantifies the fundamental economies of scale and firm organizational structure.