The Importance of Adjusting Production to Sales in the Early Automobile Industry

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-219

  O'Brien, Anthony Patrick ^a  

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AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; HIGH VOLUME PRODUCTION; HISTORICAL STUDY; INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

USA;

EID: 0031450895     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.1997.0670     Document Type: Article

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