Carmakers by worldwide known expert in car engines Professor Cornel Stan is a fascinating novel about the conflicts and tension within the car manufacturing industry. Carmakers—men and women endowed with excellent imagination, creative power, perseverance, discipline, but also with passions, dreams and fears. They invent and develop the cars of the future, be they equipped with electric drive, with hydrogen fuel cells, with mixed engines or with turbojets as found in planes. Two giants on the car market come forward with two of the most risky car concepts. The process through which these concepts emerge takes us through factories, institutes and airports, over mountains, islands and oceans—from Berlin, Paris and Detroit to San Francisco and Sydney. This road is impregnated with a maximum of tension, dynamism, intrigue and love. "Books about cars there are many; but exciting literature? In the novel Carmakers, Professor Cornel Stan gives insider insights into the horsepower-led world of the vehicle industry." (Source: Haiko Prengel, www.welt.de) "I would like to pour gas—pardon, alcohol and hydrogen—on the fire and fuel the current debate on the mobility of the future." (Source: Cornel Stan, www.welt.de) These are Professor Cornel Stan’s novels: Automacher (in German); you will find this book here: http://amzn.to/2v7BqkjCarmakers (in English); you will find this book here: http://amzn.to/2vJrpxlCreatori de automobile (in Romanian); you will find this book here: http://amzn.to/2idi9wK (in print format) or here: http://ibooksquare.ro/Books/ISBN?p=978-606-996-013-4 (in digital format) Dracfried: Dracula versus Diesel (in German); you will find this book here: http://amzn.to/2vJpd9bDracfried: Dracula versus Diesel (in English); you will find this book here: http://amzn.to/2v7pXkFDracfried: Dracula versus Diesel (in Romanian); you will find this book here: http://amzn.to/2vP9eoi (in print format) or here: http://ibooksquare.ro/Books/ISBN?p=978-606-996-015-8 (in digital format)

This book offers a comprehensive look at an industry that plays a growing role in motor vehicle production in the United States.

First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses’ how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors.

Auto historians and readers interested in business history will enjoy Storied Independent Automakers.

This edited collection offers deeper understanding of the green and digital transition in the automotive industry. It explains how mobility products, services and business models are changing, the opportunities and threats correlated to this double transition as well as the competences and resources needed for firms in this fluid scenario. The book firstly provides an in-depth overview of the strategic and managerial implications for automotive and mobility incumbent firms. Chapters describe how sustainable technologies have been changing over time and identify the challenges of the shift imposed by the new competitive environment, such as the so-called servitization of the industry. The second section describes the new drivers of growth and profitability, such as open and collaborative innovation, and provides guidance on how incumbents can surf this turbulent landscape.