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Bibliographical references for books in English with titles beginning by E
Chapter 4: General works on motor vehicles, marques, companies, and automotive and transport industries, plus automotive accessories and components

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Tolliday, Steven, Enterprise and state in the West German wirtschaftswunder: Volkswagen and the automobile industry, 1939-1962 (Leeds, Yorkshire: University of Leeds, 1995). 88 p.

Black, Samuel Patton (1902- ) & John Paul Rossi, Entrepreneurship and innovation in automobile insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr and the rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961 (New York, NY: Routledge, 2001). [Studies in entrepreneurship]. xv, 358 p., illustrations (portraits), 24 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 319-333, index, ISBN: 0815329156 (hc).
NOTES ON CONTENTS: Biography of American insurance salesman, Samuel Patton Black jr (1902- ), and history of the insurance company he built, Erie Insurance, Pennsylvania, from 1925 and on.
St Clair, David James (1950- ), Entrepreneurship and the American automobile industry (Ph. D. thesis (economics): University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT), 1979). xii, 392 p., 28 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 390-392.
COMMENTS: This thesis has been published.
Newton, David & Michael Sedgwick, Era of motoring: the vehicles of a past age (An) (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1973). 96 p., illustrations (bw/c), 22 x 28 cm, ISBN: 0333154150 (hc, dj).
Laux, James Michael (1927- ), European automobile industry (The) (Farmington Hills, MI: Twayne Publishers, 1992). ix, 292 p., illustrations (12 p.), 23 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 269-273, index, ISBN: 0805738002 (hc) + 0805738010 (sc).
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The automobile is born; The French set the pattern; The industry begins elsewhere in Europe; Manufacturing; Automobiles in the Great War; Europe and the American model in the 1920s; New directions; Motor vehicles and the second world war; Recovery; The great boom: Britain and Germany; The Great Boom: France, Italy, and elsewhere; Communist cars; The industry's past and future.
Wysner, John, Every purse and purpose: General Motors and the automotive business (Davisburg, MI: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1994). 278 p., illustrations, 23 cm, index, ISBN: 0923568395 (sc).
Fujimoto, Takahiro, Evolution of a manufacturing system at Toyota (The) (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1999). x, 380 p., illustrations, 16 x 24 cm, bibliogr. ref. pp. 349-364, index, ISBN: 0195123204 (hc).
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1 - Emergence and functions of the total manufacturing system, 3: chap. 1, An evolutionary framework for manufacturing, 3; chap. 2, System emergence at Toyota: history, 25; chap. 3, System emergence at Toyota: reinterpretation, 57; chap. 4, The anatomy of manufacturing routines: an information view, 85; Part II - Emergence and functions of the three subsystems: supplier, development, and production, 129: chap. 5, Evolution the black box parts supplier system, 129; chap. 6, Evolution of product development routines, 173; chap. 7, Evolution of Toyota's new assembly system, 223; Conclusion: Toyota as a "prepared organization", 271; appendix A, The evolutionary framework: generic and specific, 279; appendix B, The basics of Toyota-style manufacturing, 287; Notes, 321; References, 349; Index, 365.
Wibbelink, R. P. & M. S. H. Heng, Evolution of organizational structure and strategy of the automobile industry (Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit, 2000). [Research memoranda]. 13 p.

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