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Elon Musk’s dedicated EV maker is miles ahead, but Nissan has several advantages over its legacy rivals.
Ford’s electric F-150 pickup won’t roll off assembly lines until early 2022, but the company has received thousands of preorders already for a vehicle aimed at the mass market, not eco-buyers.
Ford is assembling ventilators, LVMH is making hand sanitizer, and Chanel is making masks. Here’s why these and dozens of other companies are doing it.
Major brands which suffer from high profile product recalls need to follow some basic rules to make sure they weather the storm.
The motorcycle maker angered Trump after it said it plans to move some production overseas to avoid EU tariffs – just a few months after the president praised the company for being a ‘true American icon.’
Rather than fret about how many jobs future technologies will destroy, we should focus on how to shape them so that they complement the workforce of tomorrow.
Volvo might be the first car company to go all-electric, but it’s far from the market leader and petrol will continue to be relied upon.
The level of corporate fines for anti-competitive conduct in Australia is woefully below international benchmarks.
The behavior of Ford South Africa around the fires that have engulfed its 1.6-litre EcoBoost Kugas model is a classic case of how not to handle a corporate crisis.
Australia can learn from the US where state governments have attracted foreign investment in manufacturing that contributes to local economies.
Auto manufacturing workers will face significant problems in finding new jobs after the closure of the Ford and Holden plants, a new survey has found.
There is enormous potential for long term and genuine change if universities change their approach to dissent – and reinvent themselves as more agile institutions.
From Ford’s Pinto problem to Takata’s defective airbags, sometimes it seems auto companies know how to do little more than mismanage product recalls.
If you were to choose one buzzword that, despite its vagueness, has dominated industrial relations debate over three decades, it would be “flexibility”. It has emerged again in rhetoric surrounding Toyota’s…
Unless you have been living under a rock, you couldn’t help but hear the dying wail of manufacturing here in Australia. Car manufacturing and food manufacturing being the most recent victims. There’s no…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is right when he describes Australia’s car industry workers as “highly skilled people, adaptable people”. He has also been saying this week that the departure of Toyota and Holden…
Now that the final nail has been hammered in to the car industry’s coffin, what does it mean for the Australian economy? As always, the data is a good place to start. Efficient manufacturing depends largely…
For the past 30 years, Australian automotive industry policies can be characterised as managed decline. Beginning in the 1980s with the Button Plan, the aim of policy was to consolidate the industry and…
People change jobs constantly, and the jobs lost in car manufacturing closures are insignificant in the context of total job changes - no different to everyday job changes. So say some commentators opining…
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future and Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, University of Technology Sydney
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Walter Jarvis is a Friend of The Conversation.
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