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Porter’s Five Forces To further examine the failure of GM in Korea from industrial perspective, four dimensions of the Porter’s five forces model, which are the threat of new entrants, the threat of substitute products or services, the bargaining power of buyers and the rivalry among the existing competitors, are utilised to evaluate the failure of the case from the industry aspect. (Porter 2008). According to MarkLines (2013), GM Korea sold 780,518 vehicles during the year 2013. 629,478 of the

Competitive Analysis Lauren Herter SIC Code: 3711 Motor vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies [1] NAICS Code: 336111a Car & Automotive Manufacturing in US Industry definition: "Companies in this industry manufacture cars and automobile chassis. These operations, which are referred to as automakers, typically produce cars, including electric cars, in assembly plants. The manufacture of light trucks (e.g. vans, pickups and SUVs), heavy trucks and motorcycles is excluded from this industry." [2]

Introduction Ford was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated in June 16, 1903. Ford is famously known for popularizing the assembly line with the production of the T-Model Ford. In addition to the Ford brand, the corporation also includes their luxury vehicle line Lincoln. From 1938-2011 Mercury was also a part of the Ford fleet of cars. During the financial crisis of 2009, Ford was one of the few American car companies that avoided bankruptcy. They have since grown to be the second largest

) The economic characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry are very complex. It takes a lot of effort and a lot of moving parts to ensure continued and successful grow. For a company to maintain good economic characteristics a company must continually set out to grow their business, they must have a defined buyers, number and scope of their direct and potential rivals, product development and innovation, supply/demand relationship, technological change, knowledge and experience of the vehicle

The American automotive industry has long enjoyed domestic sales supremacy, lasting through the greater part of the 20th century and driven by competition and innovation by the three largest automotive producers, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, and the various nameplates that each has had associated with them. However, the early to mid-1970’s saw a drastic change of position and reputation as the American economy was blasted by a fuel crisis in 1973, when OPEC nations engaged in an oil embargo

Since it’s inception in the 1900’s, the auto industry has become a global economic powerhouse and juggernaut of cultural influence. In recent decades, the industry has faced various crises and yet has remained one of the most powerful drivers of global economic activity. In the U.S. alone, 1 in every 22 jobs derives from the auto industry (Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., 2015, para 1). Generally speaking, industry analysts are optimistic about the U.S. market and less so in other markets (Strategy&, 2015

This progress report is being submitted to bring forth the work completed and the work that remains for my final report about how carbon fibre could replace some metal components in every day cars. The final product will show the reasons why using carbon fibre would be advantageous to the car industry and its customers. The project will focus on the advantages of using carbon fibre over the traditional heavy metals such as steel. This project began November 14th, 2015 and is scheduled to be completed

to the automotive industry. For the purposes of this paper, the automotive industry is defined quite narrowly to mean those vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers producing cars or parts thereof – the focus is very much on the final assembly of such cars and on the business model deployed by vehicle manufacturers. However car manufacturers are definitely the dominant features of the automotive industry landscape and the arguments presented here could be transferred to other automotive (non-car)

Background: General Motors (GM) is a major US-based automotive company based in Detroit founded on September 16, 1908 by William C. Durant and Charles Stewart Mott. It is one of the largest automotive manufacturers and vehicle parts in the world. Both US and International companies like Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Volvo, and BMW are the major competitors for General Motors (Wikipedia). General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker

BX3174: Management and Leadership CASE STUDY GENERAL MOTORS Lecturer: Mr Gerard Byrne Study Period: Townsville SP2, 2014 Group Members: Daniele Thompson – 12712121 Phuong Quynh Dao – 12750876   TABLE OF CONTENT BACKGROUND 3 A. INTRODUCTION 3 B. HISTORY 3 C. CURRENT SITUATION: 3 EXISTING LEADERSHIP 5 A. FROM A PERSONAL LENS: 5 B. FROM A PURPOSE LENS: 6 C. FROM A POSITION LENS: 6 D. FROM A PROCESS LENS: 7 CHALLENGES 9 IMPACTS OF THE CHALLENGES