Indhold: Understanding Change and Difference in the Global Automotive Industry ; The Market for New Cars ; Understanding People and Cars ; Car Manufacturing ; Recent Trends in Manufacturing Innovation Policy for the Automotive Sector : a Survey of the United States, Mexico, European Union, Germany and Spain ; Labour Relations and Human Resource Management in the Automotive Industry : North American Perspectives ; Labour Relations and HRM in the Automotive Industry : Japanese Impacts ; The Rise of South Korean (or Korean) Automobile Industry ; China's Car Industry ; Forging Ahead or Stagnating? : an Analysis of Indian Automotive Industry ; From Factory to End-User : an Overview of Automotive Distribution and the Challenges of Disruptive Change ; Impacts of Automobility ; Regulating the Car ; Global versus Local : Regionalism in a Global Industry ; The Impact of Electric Automobility ; Alternatives to the Car ; New Business Models and the Automotive Industry ; Future Challenges for Product and Industry